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Off licences.
Italian run fish n chip shops.
The George Cinema
Portobello Power Station
Running for a Bus and jumping on the back as it pulled away.
Jumping off a bus before it stopped.
Bus tokens
Bazooka Joes
Heading down to Peebles or Hawick for a few drinks on a Sunday to watch the live Sunday game on ITV Borders or BBC England (pre Sky).
Cinderella Rockerfellas
Mister Mustards
Lord Toms
Styx
Biancos
The Rutland
You can probably tell I was in my prime in the late 80s 😎
Fairbairns in Albert Street. You paid at the booth by the door. It was run like a military operation.
The Eldorado for the wrestling
The scabby la la in its final years a dirty coat brigade sort of establishment
The Penguin Cafe
The Burnt Post
Bull n Bush
Henry J Beans
Platform One
Banks Shop in Corstorphine
Raleigh Budgie, Chipper, Tomahawk, Chopper
Grifter
"Raving Bonkers" boxing robots.
Auf weidersehn pet on the telly. Hogmanay up at the Tron
Evel Knievel (both the real thing jumping buses at Wembley live on the TV as well as the toy).
Eddie Kidd (went to see him at Saughton enclosure)
Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki.
Blue Peter or Magpie?
Guiders/bogies
Homemade skateboards (made with a roller skate).
Catching bees and wasps on flowers in a used jam or coffee jar 😳
Special discretion required, I think was the tagline for those movies.
Gambit Chocolate bar
KP Sky divers
Texan bar
"Good afternoon grapple fans" (My que to go out)
Jigsaw (With Bigum the large tartan or some design socked foot)
Friday Night Live with Ben Elton
The Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby
Sportsnight: With Harry Carpenter. Waiting to watch the highlights of a match played in England midweek only to find out it had been cancelled due to waterlogged pitch and they were going to instead show you figure skating from Helsinki.
The Chart Show hoping that the pish song did not get the "play" icon appear.
Norman Collier
Taking photos on holiday and having to wait a week to get them developed and the disappointment on how bad most are usually a finger in the way of lens etc.
Waiting several minutes for games to load on various computer systems.
Fine Fare
Tudor crisps
Various yellow pages advert " I were right about that saddle though"
Brooke Bond Orange Label
Games....
Crossfire
Rebound
Best man falls
Japs and commandos
Aplogies if some of these have already been used.
The Rag and Bone man playing a tune on a trumpet.
Opening cans of beer with those wee metal tools we needed.
Woods the Baker on Albert Street.
Salvation Army Bands singing outside somebodies House.
One standard hairstyle for boys, (no wax/gel) :-0
Chippy suppers wrapped in newspaper
Old style door bells in tenement buildings, and when your bell was rung you went out onto the landing pulled up a lever that lifted the latch inside the stair door to let whoever rang the bell in. Our stair got renovated in the 80s so the bell, the wires, and the pulleys was there in place and working for 90 years until it got replaced by a intercom
Playing outside (without an adult)
Uncontactable (all day) by your mum and dad
Getting a row for using the phone
No central heating
Icicles hanging from gutters
Frozen windows in your house
The store horse & cart delivering milk and I can confirm it wasn’t Sean Connery
The number 1 and number 6 buses doing full circulars, same with the 32 and 52. Sitting on them all day with your mates because you were bored.