When I was a teenager - another bygone era

[honey boy zimba]

trying to pull EF sweedish girls .capt submarines {pisses alover subways } surges in the north stand watching the players train in hove rec getting into the pictures mob handed via the exits the nicking corona bottles from back of local shops and getting the money back in another shop driving the milkmans float when he had gone in some old dears house for a cuppa tea oh happy days......!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Skateboards with Gull wing trucks and alligator wheels.

Having to pay to get on the Palace pier.

The West pier, boring maybe, but it was there.

Fag and milk vending machines outside shops.

Silk Albion scarves hanging from your wrists thinking you were well 'ard.

Dunlop green flash.

The glass animal man.

Dogs roaming freely around the streets.

Chatting up 15 year old girls without being arrested.

I think i had Independent stage 3's or something-loved skate boarding,even managed to knock a tooth out on a quarter pipe down the level once.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I used to work there in the early 80's

Loved their stuff. Bought a check greatcoat there in 1972 when they were de rigeur for a young bank clerk, with my second paycheck. Cost about half a month's pay in the Autumn and someone broke in to my first car in the Spring and stole it with all my cassettes!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Skateboards with Gull wing trucks and alligator wheels.

Having to pay to get on the Palace pier.

The West pier, boring maybe, but it was there.

Fag and milk vending machines outside shops.

Silk Albion scarves hanging from your wrists thinking you were well 'ard.

Dunlop green flash.

The glass animal man.

Dogs roaming freely around the streets.

Chatting up 15 year old girls without being arrested.

Still wear a current pair of Green Flash.

 

[upthealbion1970]

Top rank suite on a Tuesday

 

[upthealbion1970]

Orange number 50 "shuttle" buses for hollingdean

 

[NMH]

Top rank suite on a Tuesday

That was the night for young new bands touring the Top Rank circuit.
Pat Travers, Heavy Metal Kids, Scorpions, UFO, Racing Cars, Ultravox (with John Foxx), AC/DC, The Pirates with Mick Green, Ducks Deluxe etc..... and for 50 pence every week.

I believe The Dome gigs were around £3.50 by then - which is still small change to us now, but 7 times the cost of a Top Rank Tuesday

 

[The Spanish]

Ace Riders.

 

[Lady Gull]

Nicer summers - the beach opposite the Sackville Hotel (it's gone now) we used to call it the Clock beach where I spent the summer studying for my O'levels

YTS wages of £25.00 a week that you could buy so much with

 

[Pevenseagull]

collecting the deposit for returning bottles
1/2p sweets
The Dolphinarium

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Orange number 50 "shuttle" buses for hollingdean

What a thing to add to the list!!

I worked on the project to introduce the SHUTTLES. Routes 60 (Mile Oak), 50 (Hollingdean) and 99 (Brighton Station - Dyke Road).

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

The Basement on Friday nights
Virgin Records- Queens Road
ABC Cinema
The cafe at the bottom of Churchill square which I cant remember the name of but it began with an S.
And- (He probably deserves his own thread in honour)- The ten p man. For the younger ones out there the ten p man was legendary for his appearances around the East street area of Brighton. He was a homeless man who would stop you and ask for 10p. It was always this amount and what he did with all his 10ps was anyones guess. I seem to remember he had a beard. When I was at Brighton Uni someone started a comic strip about him- such was his high status in the 80's around Brighton. If only he had known.

 

[Lady Gull]

The Basement on Friday nights
Virgin Records- Queens Road
ABC Cinema
The cafe at the bottom of Churchill square which I cant remember the name of but it began with an S.
And- (He probably deserves his own thread in honour)- The ten p man. For the younger ones out there the ten p man was legendary for his appearances around the East street area of Brighton. He was a homeless man who would stop you and ask for 10p. It was always this amount and what he did with all his 10ps was anyones guess. I seem to remember he had a beard. When I was at Brighton Uni someone started a comic strip about him- such was his high status in the 80's around Brighton. If only he had known.

Slims I think x. Used to go there after school and chill out!

 

[eggshell blonde]

10P man.....LEGEND....I worked in an estate agents in East St when i left school and he used to come in every day, 10.15, "10pence for a cuppa Sir"....

Some good stuff on here, bringing back memories.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

1947 to1953......The filming of the original 'Brighton Rock' at the racecourse...my Dad had a part of the crowd when Pinky was slashed. Teddy boys(kept my suit down at my mates as my Dad would've killed me if he knew I dressed like that) The coffee bar in Queens road,can't remember the name but had an early American Jukebox with 'Blue Suede shoes,' Elvis and Rock around the Clock and Buddy Holly cost 3p piece for a play,they were the kings of music then. Yes the Glass Animal man was still on the Palace pier then.

 

[Cappers]

Skateboards with Gull wing trucks and alligator wheels.

...was more of an ACS 430 / 650 man with Road Riders (Henry Hesters?)
Trying to get money out the wishing well in Churchill Square
David Rose Sports up at the 7 dials
Gee2 clothes shop in Western Road
Boots, where MacDonalds and Argos is now in Western Road, then Vrigin

 

[ewe2]

"Dark side of the moon "at the Dome

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Slims I think x. Used to go there after school and chill out!

Thats it- Slims. Along from Tesco i think.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

10P man.....LEGEND....I worked in an estate agents in East St when i left school and he used to come in every day, 10.15, "10pence for a cuppa Sir"....

Some good stuff on here, bringing back memories.

You may also remember 'Bus Man' who would spend the day walking up and down Western Road saluting any bus that would come by. He always had a huge grin on his face and occassionally shouted out at the drivers. Grey haired. Always wore a jacket. Bus drivers seemed to know him.