Nostalgia
 

So this morning I was thinking about how much I used to enjoy going to blockbuster on a Friday night and being able to choose 3 videos to watch for the weekend. It used to be so much fun choosing and so annoying when the film you wanted to watch all the videos had been taken

Did anyone used to do the thing of choosing 3 videos choing which one you wanted to watch the most and which one you weren't bothered about if you had to miss it

The videos always had a distinct smell aswell I don't know if it was the box it was in or what but I can still remember the smell

It was just good to go as a family to choose the films and watch them as a family

Yes watching films is a hell of a lot easier now but I do feel it's lost the nostalgia of film watching

So it's got me thinking... What are you nostalgic about what do you still wish was still around or done a certain way that today's technology has 'improved' but you preferred the way it was done before?

Books. A kindle does nothing for me.

We used to be able to hire 4 videos for 3 days for £2.50.

Our video store was called Pharaohs.

We could spend hours choosing

Our videostore was called Blockbusters and sold really gorgeous popcorn much cheaper than the cinema.

We did have a Blockbusters later, but I'm talking about the 1980s and early 90s.

They didn't sell popcorn either back then, just videos.

Me and my mate were counting how many shops on the main road near us where we live and grew up are still the same from when we were kids. We counted about 2 or 3. And we were trying to remember what shops they used to be.

We also used to have a man in a van come round the streets with a boot full of videos for rent.

I bet a lot of older men were regular customers, for under the counter Blueies?

Have you seen "The Ice cream man cometh" from "That Peter Kay thing"? He was an Ice cream man who sold Blue movies under the counter to the dads.

Yes I have seen that

Clubbing at London Astoria. What a venue

Sounds good. We have no nightclubs in my town now . Just bars.

I used to rent all the popsicle videos..basically anything with nudity when I was 15 or 16ish....got to know the bloke behind the counter...the owner.....

3 years later my latest girlfriend took me home to meet her folks....yes you guessed it...Mr blockbuster himself.

Wow snap Jake ! we were having a right old chat with mates about Blockbusters up the rd and how we used to spend ages looking at vids and deciding what to pick , we used to hire games as well . Also getting fined for being late ! oh and getting there and every film you wanted was already out rented so ya had to put your name on the list , deffo paid to get to know the staff for a bit of queue jumping :laugh:
We just found our sega multi mega and 10 games so got all the new connections ready to revisit some old favourite games , then we gonna sell the lot for loadsa money :laugh:

Loved blockbuster. When that died out I used LoveFilm - essentially similar. You’d make a film wish list and each week they’d mail you three random films from your wish list. That died out too eventually :(

Oh yeah I used to hire games every school holiday

I was playing on my brothers in laws Sega mega drive the other day good classic sonic and road rash!

Did anyone else tape the UK top 40 on a cassette tape haha and try and cut it off before the radio dj spoke...

Something else that we can't do anymore but I enjoyed is popping down to woolworths and buying myself a pick and mix and buying a couple of cd singles. I still have them all. One of them was misteeq one night stand which I don't understand how my mum let me buy it I was like 8!
Most of the singles are S club 7 ones though

I also miss looking through the amazon catalogue way before the Internet version got running properly and ordering a cd which would take at least 2 weeks to come and would come in really nice cardboard packaging(edit: realised it wasn't amazon it was Brittania music magazine! Is that even still a thing??)

Yes! I used to do that all the time and I would also record myself introducing the songs like a dj.

My sister did it religiously every Sunday 5pm till 7pm (I think) with Bruno Brookes. I did it sometimes.

Ha ha, you nutter Kate.

:joker:

I miss going into my local HMV and browsing around before streaming sites such as Netflix took over.

Blockbuster :love:

yes :love: and we used to have a guy who used to come around in his car every Thursday who we rented videos off :joker:

There was literally a Blockbuster at the end of our street, down some steps :love: used to go what felt like every weekend to rent a game for the PS2 for the weekend and return it (obviously)... I don't know if I used it for many films but I'm sure we used it enough since we had a membership card.

Was a bit more of a family "event" really, going to get the popcorn and drinks deal that'd be placed conveniently near the check-out :tongue:

Towards the end of its life I just used it to buy second-hand stuff, think I stopped 'renting' stuff from there around 2005.

I definitely miss Woolworths more though... again, lived pretty much right in the centre of town and could just wander down every Saturday to get a pick-n-mix, magazine, football stickers or - if I'd just had a birthday or Easter or something :tongue: - a CD I wanted.

I really miss Panda Pops too. Those and those mini Coke cans that used to be really cheap (like, 4 for a £1).

I miss Woolworths. I used to buy all my WWE action figures from there, get a pick & mix all that kinda stuff.

I used to always buy these on the way home from school and those ‘big time’ cup drinks with the straw :laugh: