My generation is the last to ride chopper bikes, the last to be able to climb tree's before health and safety stepped in. We are the last to remember the power cuts during the 1970s when suddenly during the evenings in Salisbury, the lights in houses would go out without warning plunging us all into total darkness. this was down to the electricity board going on strike, we never knew when the lights were going to go out. My parents had lots of candles lit which made it quite eerie,! don't think I'd do very in the days before electricity was discovered. I might because I wouldn't know anything else.
We are the last to wear flared trousers (bell-bottomed jeans) and platform shoes.
Are we known as generation X? That played cassette music on huge radio's and ran the risk of the tape tangling up inside the radio. I remember this happening a couple of times, I had to use a pencil stuck in one of the holes to reel it back; that's if it hadn't tangled around the inside of the radio.
I remember the first Atari video game console my dad brought home one evening, it was a game called Pong. A bit like the electronic game of table tennis, I thought it was such fun. They used to be sold at Argos at some ridiculous price, it's long gone now (the consol, not Argos)
Landlines were a luxury in most homes, my parents could never afford one so they never had one. They just went to the phone box at the corner of Clifton Road, dad had to rush to one on the junction of Clifton Road and Avon Terrace when I started coming Thursday evening.
It must have been terrifying for mum to be left on her own while he had to make that call using 10p's which never lasted long. Phones in those days had a rotary wheel, not a touch screen or buttons like they are today. The cord could only be stretched so far on private phones, people used to queue outside the public phone box and some people were so impatient they would bang on the door!
I remember kate Bush songs being played on the radio, mum said her voice sounded like an air raid siren; then Madonna came along with a squeakier voice. It was said that most houses began to have microwaves, well we didn't have one until we moved to Bemerton heath.
I still remember the metal dustbins, the dustmen wore blue boiler suits in Salisbury. It's all fluorescent uniform today and wheelie bins, a load of rubbish I know...
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