- 3-cent bus tickets
- ‘AC Kermans’ and as teenagers we used to be embarrassed to go in!
- Airline bags to carry your books in
- Annuals
- Autograph books
- Bay City Rollers
- Beano
- Bessie Bunter
- Bioscope
- BM Cotton
- Body Fashions
- Book Exchanges
- Bonanza (especially Little Joe)
- Braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet – the advert
- Cadbury’s Kiddies Club at the movies
- Cake mascara
- Carlos coffee shop (forbidden to HRC girls but oh so attractive)
- Cassette tape decks
- Charles of the Ritz beauty products
- Ché jeans and tops
- Cheesecloth
- Chopper bicycles
- Collecting the insides of cold drink bottom lids and filling albums with them
- Colleen coloured pencils
- Coppertone QT QuikTan
- Coppertone suntan lotion
- Crocodiles
- Curly Wurlies
- Cuthberts on Main Street
- Dallas
- Darling magazine
- David Bowie
- David Cassidy
- David Essex
- David Gresham
- Dingbats
- Donny Osmond
- Dr White’s Sanitary Belts
- Elastic games in the playground
- Espadrilles
- Fingerlik Steak House
- Galoobs
- Gap
- Garlicks and the way the perfume hall smelled
- Getting your first bra at Body Fashions in Newton Park
- Glooks
- Goya Aqua Manda perfume
- Grannies with blue rinses
- Grease sandals
- Greatermans
- Greatermans’ Rose Room
- Groovy cooldrink
- Hamburger Hut
- Heatherbank
- Heatherbank Discos
- Hifra fountain pens
- Home made sherbert at school cake sales
- Iodine
- Jackie magazine
- Jet Jungle on the radio
- June magazine
- Knickerbockers
- Kolnicks
- Le Sabot leather sandals with wooden platforms
- Life Magazine
- Louise photo comics
- Lucky dips
- Maths tins as pencil cases with pictures tapes onto them
- Men from the Ministry on the radio
- Mercurochrome
- Michael’s record bar
- My Fair Lady Talc by Cussons
- Nail Polish called Copper Penny
- Naturama
- Nick Nack Knockers
- On The Go Show
- Pantie and hemline inspections at HRC
- Paper Dolls
- Personality magazine
- Photo comics like Louise
- Pikkies
- Pink magazine
- Pip Freedman
- Popshop
- Princess Tina magazine
- Purdy from The Avengers
- Rabbitt
- Rainbow skates
- Roll O’ Gloss lipgloss
- Sanitary towels with loops
- Sarah Moon paintings
- Saucy Cat boutique at OK Bazaars
- Scope magazine
- Screwball icecreams with bubble gum at the bottom
- See magazine
- Shane
- Shelly Shop
- Shipwreck in gym class
- Skipping games
- Spectrum
- Springbok Hits
- Sister Bernard at HRC
- String games on hands
- Sugarbush
- Sylvia’s mother by Dr Hook (my mother hated that song)
- Squad cars (they prowl the empty streets at night, in cars and on foot. These are the men of….Squad Cars!)
- T Rex
- Tammy magazine
- Teddy Bear annuals
- Tennisette
- The 55 bus on the way home
- The flood of 1968
- The clipcard for the bus
- The ice rink
- The lift operator at OK Bazaars
- The Mutual Arcade
- The old roneo machine the nuns used to use to make copies. And how they smelled.
- The periscope on the double decker buses
- The Pick n Mix carousel at OK Bazaars in main street
- The smell of furniture polish on the last day of the school term
- The Stage Door
- The Sugarbush
- The Sweet
- The Tempting Tray at OK Bazaars
- The thrill of getting into over-18 movies
- The TV test pattern
- Thick multicoloured slip slops in blue or brown
- Toff O Luxe
- Tramp perfume by L’Entheric
- Two hours of TV a day
- Up and Down the Stairs Boutique
- Using baby oil or Brylcreem as tanning lotion
- Waffles at Greatermans
- Waiting for the bus in Russell Road
- Valderma and Clearasil
- Wearing hats to school
- Viewmaster
- Village Gate
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