Where were you 33 years ago?

[dot.haukes]

Do you miss then? (Other questions are available if this does not apply, see below)

[Sandy-Wroe]

Political stuff. Ancient history now.

[caththecrazy]

^

err?

[craft1948]

I was also working at BT or it may at that time have been Post Office Telephones. I had a marvellous job in the telephone accounts office.......it comprised mainly of cutting bad payers' phones off.....and then taking abuse for it.....wonderful days. Oh and I was still married to the first husband then......

[imhotep]

Well,I might as well tell you all that I was a wee lad of just 11 years old (33 years ago from now -1976),and loving every day of my sweet innocent life.
I absolutely adored my childhood life,and would love to go back to those years again to relive them all.
Lets out a very big sigh!!
Those were the good old days,when there were cheaper products in the shops,petrol at a reasonable price,cheaper houses,and maybe less swearing.I didn't hear much of the F word then.I had two brothers older than me,but no sisters!! Oh yes,we also had a playing field at the back of our house then,and kids loved playing there.No swings or anything,just a grassy field. It's still there today!!
!976 was the year we had a very long hot summer wasn't it?

[Kelvin]

I'd been married less than a year, I was thin and fit, just landed a dream job, the summer was tropical and I saw the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd at Knebworth! Now made redundant, ageing and waistline expanding (although still happily married).... Do I miss then? Um, yes!

[swanko]

at primary school,

[Sachs]

I was 17 & very shy!

[dot.haukes]

I spent that year with the love of my life, he was a concert promoter and I met some of the biggest acts of the 70's it was hot and he had a XJ6 (white with black leather upholstery) and the 8 track played The Miracles Love Machine cartridge all summer. City of Angels and all that.
i remember telling the lead singer of Mud, (Les he was called) not to panic when the fans tried to push through the door, he was white as a sheet but I told him it would be fine. And it was. Discoteques and His Sexolex had to fend for themselves I was smitten.

[Sachs]

What happened to him dot?

[dot.haukes]

Les grey? he's dead now, and as it goes, so is the love of my life, he committed suicide in his club in Ibiza in 2003 ( I think, or 2004)
I remember sitting in the dressing room and The Real Thing were being right nowty beggars but they went on stage and were superb., it was the dry ice machine, it wasn't working at rehersal.

[imhotep]

Do you remember the band Flintlock dot??

[China Doll]

I was 17 and in college 13 years ago Dot... Making some wonderful friends, probably just about to lose touch with another set who I won't be reunited with until I'm 30. I was probably full of promise and beauty... But unfortunately was deeply cynical and probably writing bad poetry... I was undoubtably worrid about what I looked liked and wondering if boys fancied me and probably convinced I was fat... As opposed to now when I'm about two stone heavier, know boys fancy me and haven't brushed my hair since thursday evening as I didn't want to brush out the waves... I tell ya, teenage youth is wasted on teenagers! :c)

[dot.haukes]

Flintlock??????????????????????????????? I errr oh my gawd................. ***** fire that's a blast from the past!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh bloody hell, ever had one of those moments when you remeber something you had totaklly forgotten??????????????? what the hell was his name???

[dot.haukes]

Are you from Lancashire inhotep???? Oh my god!!! bloody hell , i had a list but you just reminded me i need to add to it flippin eck.

[dot.haukes]

was his surname Williams???

[tiggerblue10]

I was 5 and in the process of moving from Commercial Way in Peckham to Norbury (both South London). Had no choice as all the houses on Commercial Way were about to be bull-dozed so we were evicted.

[jno]

1976 was the last time Britain had a proper summer, wasn't it? Obviously younger people won't miss what they never knew, older ones might. I know where I was working that year and where I was living but I can't actually remember a single thing about it.

Thirteen years ago, that's different, I was really enjoying myself, travelling round the world a lot. I went to Australia, Libya, St Barth's, and the Taj Mahal for Christmas, among other places. I miss all that.

[Lil O'lady]

On an archaeological excavation, in the baking hot summer in the north-east of England, where the future Mr O'lady made his first appearance. We recently had our 30th wedding anniversary.
I am fascinated by the past but have always believed the best of all times is here and now.
The world was such a different place in 1976. The Cold War was still gooing on - a dead Russian was found floating in the river near our dig. No internet or mobile phones. Computers were weird things only accessed and understood by a very few, very strange young men. I think we could write books about the changes we have witnessed.
What kind of forums will we be using in another 33 years time?

[tiggerblue10]

13 years ago I was 25 and started working in a new department. The same year I started a guy jumped from the 18th floor of the building I work in. They cordoned the area off and a helicopter landed in the road. The poor guy had been dumped by his girlfriend and he couldn't take it anymore.

[Lil O'lady]

Digging on an Anglo-Saxon site, meeting the first Mr O'lady, wonderful times. A very hot dry summer, although Lancashire simply got less muddy that year.
How did we manage without mobile phones and the internet?
Well we seemed to manage very well as I recall.
Different times and good times.