hey, we all like boomboxes, Walkman, vintage hifi-gear, vinyl etc. etc., everybody with a different attitude, very often the same - for me it's a general passion for what they today call "retro", well, i am retro myself... so for me it's not only the vintage hifi-gear or the boomboxes and walkmen, i also have a few other - so called "retro" - things in daily use, it would be interesting what you are using ? i start first with my one of my three daily bicycles, it's from 1988 and was given to me by a dear friend: ...and now show your "retro" daily-use gear, NO AUDIO please !
OK here goes (with no special tidying ) The fire and surround (which never gets used) was in the bungalow when I bought it. I actually tried to give it away on Freecycle when I moved in but no one was interested and since then I have become quite attached to it. I would like to replace it with something with modern safety standards and flame effect etc but with in a similar style, but I haven't found anything. The bungalow I live in was built in 1974 and I feel that buildings should be furnished in the era in which they were built. I recently read that 1970s décor is now the most hated style. I think that is because it is easily one of the most distinctive. If you were setting a TV program in the 1970s it would be very easy to pick the right style; everything fake wood including the TV and Radio. The 1980s wouldn't be difficult either; Black Ash Furniture with a black stereo and TV and diagonal lines on the soft furnishings. Beyond having a flat screen TV I don't know how you would do the Noughties and beyond. The style seems to be anonymous these days. As for retro items on the fireplace (my gripe with modern fires is that they have no places for nick nacks etc) here are the two Mathmos Lamps. These have a local connection, in that they were invented, and are still made in Poole about 10 miles from here. For people more familiar with the Lava Brand lamps those were originally made under licence in the USA. I actually have quite a few more Mathmos and Crestworth lamps including fibre optic ones that I don't have room to display. Here are a couple more that were easy to find to photograph. Like many things that people collect, I admired these in shops like BHS when I was a child, so started to buying them when there was a revival and I had spare cash to buy them.
Hmm i guess some of these count as retro, the more i looked around the more i saw. My original Casio watch My wifes AEG hoover, bought brand new in 1986 she thinks and still our main hoover to this day, bloody thing just will not break down.... Our clock on the mantle Our main home phone:
You might win with that phone. We had the mustard colour one from 1968. I once sold one to Storm Model Management who presumably were doing a retro shoot.
yeah, that telephone surely will reach a high rank, as well as that lovely fire-place !!! Northerner, c'mon matey, get your camera started !
Nice jukeboxes Retro wall clock in my sitting room, these sunburst clocks were very popular in the 70's Here's one of my display cabinets full of very retro stuff
Perhaps you always wanted to be "A young executive with a pocket calculator". Does anyone remember which UK TV series that was from? It must have been before Bread where the on going joke was that "unemployed" Joey could afford a mobile phone. This advert sums up the appeal of calculators
...here two clocks I've got in use, as well as my beloved MAXIMAL wall-radio in the kitchen (...I know, I said: NO AUDIO, but it is declared on the back as "sound-picture"):
Here's one of my display cabinets full of very retro stuff View attachment 5499 [/QUOTE] Damn Dave thats a nice cabinet, what are those radios in there?
Well I can't really compete against you guys but these are on the bookcase behind me........and yes, even 37 years after I first started playing with one- I still can't do those f*ing Rubiks Cubes!!!!
