Kids with broken specs held together by Elastoplast.Kids wearing patches on their specs as treatment for lazy eye.
They certainly existed in the UK - when i bought my first house in 1991 it had an old phone and duplex line that British Telecom changed to a modern twin line arrangement before i moved in. The neighbour told me you had to lift the phone to your ear before use to see if the neighbour was talking to anyone !!the "duplex" telephone line my grandparents shared with neighbours living next door. One phone line for 2 families. Not sure it existed in UK, it was quite normal in Italy in the '80s.
And that was the telephone set:
They had a small padlock to block the dial, and I had no access to the key.
in a call box, you rang the operator and said your 10p had gone in, but you didnt get a dial tone and they would give you a dial tone ...... so i am told .......With the old loop disconnect dialling you could dial out just by rapidly pressing the 'hang up' buttons on the cradle the correct number of times for the relevant digit, with a short pause in between to simulate the dial returning to rest. I found this out at Scouts where the phone was "incoming calls only". It took a bit of practice to get your morse code hand movement 'dialled in' but it did mean that you could then spend the 10p your parents gave you to ring them on cigarettes instead.
In less politically-correct days, they were nick-named "Handbag Hooks" and it was always a challenge to get the choke back in as soon as possible, because it was costing you a fortune in petrolManual chokes in cars.
I remember ice keys. Not the heated ones, but orange rubber things with a metal 'key' that was supposed to stop water or ice getting in and freezing your lock.
Was going to say Krookloks, but I did see one recently.
KrookLoks and the like are back in, in a big way.Was going to say Krookloks, but I did see one recently.
Yup - my last one of that type - in retrospect, they were shit but that's all you had? - before I upgraded to the led ones - I swapped with a falcon hunter in the NWFP of Pakistan - I even gave him my spare battery. I got in return - a wedding standard shalwar khamiz - for me, a cashmere blanket - one for me - plain, one for her - highly decorated and my first Afghan hat - of the muj type - made from the finest mountain goat hair - shaved from their baw-bags - carefully. Torch-wise they had nothing of the like there at the time and were prepared to trade well for a Petzl. The falcons were taken alive for sale in the Gulf States - a fascinating process - how you get them out of the sky without damaging them? I know the answer to this question. They were taken 'on the wing,' I've seen it. Pretty much impossible to photograph - until they landed on their backs and were held. Un-damaged - unlike my legs, illegally walking in and out and across the Afghan border. The Russian era mine-fields - if it isn't packed down earth - don't fucking walk on it. Don't go for a piss in the bushes - seriously. European? get over it - you wander off to hide your vanity - you run the risk of losing an arm and a leg - squat down and wear local dress - covers your modesty. It never happened to me - but others told me - you hear the click - you have just triggered a mine - take the pressure off - it will blow up - forcing earth into your wound and stump - lean back - so your face isn't hit - not nice. Back to the falcon hunters - they reckoned on a minimum of $20,000 a bird - that was mid-nineties - probably fair enough, it took them weeks to find the things and catch them. - I.Petzl Zoom head torches with the flat 4.5V battery.