Popular Nostalgia

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RETURN OF THE CATS A 1980s favourite is set to become this year’s Christmas ‘must-have’ as retailer demand outstrips supply of the new Thundercats action figures and vehicles. The retro cartoon – with celebrity fans including Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and Paulo Nutini – has been updated and recently released on British TV screens. The […]

Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed […]

Look at these old fashioned sweets online. Nipits were around after the war. Now their is an old classic. The choice of sweets is great and some great memories to be had. From kola cubes to buttered brazils. This post was submitted by Glen Neilson.

Some people chew it, some people smoke it, but no-one seems to sniff tobacco anymore. In our local pub (very oldy worldy CAMRA type), there’s a rack by the door filled with little metal pots. They have funny flavours written in old school lettering on the lids. This is snuff and you won’t find many […]

Spare a thought for personal CD players. In the age of the Ipod, these clunky old pals have gone the way of the Walkman… and walked. Does anyone still use them? Does anyone still sell them? I don’t know. One thing I do know, however, is that I still have one. All reasonable offers accepted

All the little girls had Quiddity perfume. It was pink, after all. I remember doing a media advertising project on it and over-analysing the word “Quiddity”. It means “the essence of the thing” but the advert said energy, pazazz and female empowerment. There you go: a full market analysis. It was also fairly cheap.

Featured on the start of “Could It be Magic?” by Take That in 1992, large plastic dummies were very cool in the early nineties. I had a one made out of sugar -a kind of boiled sweet. Originating in the clubbing scene of large yellow smily faces, the large plastic dummies were worn on string […]

Tapes were once the main form of music storage. People bought singles on tape because they were cheaper than records. The only problem was that if you loved a song too much, the tape would stretch and eventually warp leaving you with a melted, slow-motion version of your tune. I remember watching the TV and […]

Everyone was jealous of those hallow’d few who had a Soda Stream maker. Make you own lemonade! Amazing. My next door neighbour had one with a pump action. They’ve come quite some way since then. Inordinately expensive when compared with the price of just buying a bottle of lemonade from the shop, but infinitely more […]

I used to live about 300 metres from a Safeway’s store and most of the teenage population of my town worked there. In addition to picking up the groceries I could obtain the entire month’s gossip in the time it took to scan the bread and vegetables. However, when Morrisons took over, not only did […]

The game time forgot, Top Trumps was great playground entertainment – there were so many different types of Top Trumps to get. The basic idea of Top Trumps is to collect all of the cards by “trumping” your opponents card. You take the next card out, and try to guess which of the statistics will […]

No, not the down-market drugs, but the stripper style buttoned up tracksuit bottoms that adorned many a wardrobe in the 1990’s. Sporty Spice acted as ambassador for this ground-breaking attire which saw parents throughout the country forking out for Adidas trackies or worse, skimping on the poppers and buying the socially inferior “Abidas” or “Addidas” […]

Fights in the playground, swizzed out of pocket money, Pogs were the currency of the 90’s playground. Players would gamble their cardboard discs to try and win a more valuable addition to their collection. As competitive and addictive as football card trading, Pogs were banned in many schools after fall-outs and tears relating to the […]

Jelly Shoes were a hit in the late 80’s and early 90’s. A must have for any school disco, the glitter and jelly rubber combo were chic additions for any 9 year old girl. The see-through variety could be matched to any outfit. For many girls, jelly shoes would signal their first foray into wearing […]