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9 Things You Probably Don't miss About the 60s if You Grew Up Back Then (U.K.)
Scotsman ^ | 2nd Aug 2025 | Robert Cumber

Posted on 08/02/2025 8:59:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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You can see that for the most part Yanks had it a lot better than UKasians.

Coin operated TV? How many shows are even worth paying for?

1 posted on 08/02/2025 8:59:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I rather liked my paisley shirts.


2 posted on 08/02/2025 9:09:54 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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I don’t mind them. Better than British boiled cabbage.


3 posted on 08/02/2025 9:11:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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In 1963 you could buy Haggis on a bun and a coke for only 20 pence.


4 posted on 08/02/2025 9:12:02 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Of course no one did.


5 posted on 08/02/2025 9:23:11 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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I agree with “party lines”.

I would add:
_black and white TV.
_floor furnaces.


6 posted on 08/02/2025 9:23:56 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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We shared a party line in the 1950s, and when we got our first private line in 1960, we rejoiced. However, I don’t know which is worse—the party lines of the 50s or the voicemail of today.


7 posted on 08/02/2025 9:24:12 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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> Coin operated TV? How many shows are even worth paying for? <

That might have something to do with the UK’s idiotic TV licensing fee. Even today you’ve got buy a license if you want to watch TV. It’s £174.50 per year for a color TV and £58.50 for a black and white TV.

And they actually have detection vans driving around, trying to catch naughty unlicensed TV watchers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van


8 posted on 08/02/2025 9:25:32 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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We had central heat as most people did. However our house was extremely drafty. And my father kept the thermostat at 60. No wonder we all dreaded taking a bath all winter.

And my cousins’ family farm house had central heat on the main floor, but only an opening in the main floor ceiling with a grate on the floor above. The heat was supposed to eek its way through to the bedrooms above. I recall staying over several times when there was frost on the inside of the windows. They eventually got electric blankets for everyone to make it bearable.

This was in rural Iowa in the 60s


9 posted on 08/02/2025 9:35:55 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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This is in the UK; however, 1960s T.V. in the UK was GREAT and most shows were well worth watching!

They left out many things, such as THE TEDDY BOYS (okay, that was a late '50s thing, but was also very much around in the early 1960s there! ) and "THE SWINGING '60S" was a mid to late 1960's thing.

But this paper is from Scotland, NOT England, so some things were probably a bit different there, even though both are in the UK.

10 posted on 08/02/2025 9:36:42 PM PDT by nopardons
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That’s just to watch programs on the BBC, which is no longer a channel wort a bucket or warm spit even.


11 posted on 08/02/2025 9:38:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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LOL...”Ghastly paisley shirts”

I had a gorgeous green paisley shirt I really liked. I met a young lass in Chile when I was working there in 1977 and she invited me to visit her in Zermatt, Switzerland where her parents lived. I managed to go there after a job in Sardinia. They treated me to a wonderful home-cooked mean and I dressed up for the occasion with — you guess it — my gorgeous green paisley shirt.

It was so bad that she made fun of me wearing it! I’m still scarred to this day by that fashion faux pas. Ah the same dinner, I also cut the big chunk of salad lettuce with my knife and fork. I got upbraided for doing that, too. She showed me how you do it the Swiss way — you just cram the huge chunk of lettuce into your mouth.

That relationship died that evening!


12 posted on 08/02/2025 9:40:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Love Alton Brown’s recipe for haggis in the Food Network site. The last line: “Serve it with mashed potatoes, if you serve it at all”
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/haggis-recipe-1911083.amp


13 posted on 08/02/2025 9:49:02 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Did you have a ducktail hairdo?


14 posted on 08/02/2025 9:52:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Lettuce no speak of it again.

I had a nice purple/blue paisley shirt, but some wackoo ripped it.

15 posted on 08/02/2025 9:53:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Must be some limey thing?


16 posted on 08/02/2025 9:57:14 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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My folks still kvetch about the threat of nuclear annihilation, and the Viet Nam war. Apparently everything else was ideal.


17 posted on 08/02/2025 10:00:23 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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Remember the 70’s?

Those 6” wide collared wild patterned polyester weave disco shirts with the 3” solid colored stretch fabric bottom?

That ended just above the belly button?

For Men?

Nothing in the 60s was nearly as horrible as that!


18 posted on 08/02/2025 10:01:38 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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He’ll no; I was a Preppy, not a greaser! 😂


19 posted on 08/02/2025 10:05:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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black and white TV.

Heck, I still watch b&w shows: Burns and Allen, The Fugitive, I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, Twilight Zone, etc
20 posted on 08/02/2025 10:13:41 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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