Items not see in the shops now

[donna]

can you think of some items in the shops from years ago that you never ever see now





Rinso and Omo

[batman]

Records, cassettes and 8-tracks.

[Windthrop]

Marathon bars - transmuted into Snickers



Spartan Chocolates (dark chocolates with hard centres)



Tudor Crisps



Video 2000 - could have been a winner if it came out earlier



PYE electrical items (subsumed by Philips them dropped)



ITT electical items



Ecko electrical items



Dennis Wheatley and Edgar Wallace novels - some activity in small reprint houses but dead as a dodo on the open market



Dick Emery Old Granny False Teeth - but could still be seem in the joke shop in Whitby years after DE's death and went very yellow and decayed until were removed in the early 90s



Du Maurier & Olivier cigarettes

[Windthrop]

Dynatron HiFi and TV equipment



Ferrograph tap recorders - still have mine and still getting static shots off it

[ShirlGirl]

name='Windthrop']Marathon bars - transmuted into Snickers



Dennis Wheatley and Edgar Wallace novels - some activity in small reprint houses but dead as a dodo on the open market

Oh, Dennis Wheatley... taught me how to astral travel! (The Ka of Gifford Hillary.)

[John Llewellyn Moxey]

Force, or does it still exist?

[batman]

name='John Llewellyn Moxey']Force, or does it still exist?

None of the major supermarkets appear to sell Force .... but we buy it from a health food shop in nearby North Walsham.

[Windthrop]

Terry's Devon Milk Chocolate bars



Churchman's Cigarettes

[hankoler]

powdered egg!

[Windthrop]

Novels by the most prolific writer of all time - John Creasey



Not much evidence of James Hadley Chase on the book shelves either. Used to have bikini clad beauties on the covers

[Windthrop]

Aertex Shirts

[Windthrop]

Spam



Fry's Jersey Cream



Terry's Chocolate Burnt Almonds



Terry's Walnut Milk Chocolate

[Windthrop]

Clarnico Mixed Fruit Drops



Pascall Weekly Assortment



Comic Cuts



The Rainbow

[CaptainWaggett]

Laudanum

[Windthrop]

Photoplay

[Dame Starry]

name='Windthrop']Photoplay

I used to buy that - 'Photoplay and Film Monthly'.



Playgirl

Spangles

Frys Five-Centres

Zam-Buk

Guards Cigarettes

Phyllosan

Bel Cream Makers



DS x.

[billy bentley]

In New York you can't seem to buy anything that isn't Made In China !

[orpheum]

You think of the old photographic shops.Hardly any item shown in their windows say 20 years ago would be available now.Cine cameras and projectors.8 & 16mm films and all of the apparatus that relates to paper based photographic films.In fact such shops barely exist anymore.I remember going into Wallace Heaton in New Bond Street,with its royal warrant,what a grand shop that was.I would look at the expensive 16mm equipment in the window and wish i could afford it.Bolex equipment in particular was highly regarded.Now it,and the shop ,is all gone.Today it is all digital but maybe not so much fun.I know how much i used to enjoy lacing up my 16mm Bell & Howell with some rare 30s film and showing it in my bedroom.Nowdays just putting a DVD of the same fil;m in the machine isnt quite the same.Thats progress.

[Carmel]

Tudor crisps, i used to love them, and do you remember cococabana chocolate bars.

[Windthrop]

Monk and Glass Custard



John Bull Magazine (perhaps a good thing)



Bristol Cigarettes



Blue Boy Cigarettes



Players Bachelor Cork Tips