Spooky, I was just talking to Saz the other night about Coke in glass bottles.  I usually prefer Pepsi Max because ordinary Pepsi or Coke is too sweet for me but I love Coke in a glass bottle!

I swear it tastes different

You can get Coke in the retro glass bottles these days but they charge a lot for it.My mum used to buy a six pack of Coke in the glass bottles (greenish glass)as treat at Christmas.  This was the mid sixties,I swear just the anticipation of opening one and drinking it with a trendy straw made it taste even better.  I'm not keen on coke these days.Bet the recipe has changed since then.
Oh and I used to be really good at the hula hoop.

The weekly Fizzy drink (Corona?) delivery truck; Dandelion and Burdock, Creme soda, Cherryade... and a 10p discount on each returned bottle! LOL

I remember that well ,
I don't think any cherryade has ever tasted as good as Corona's.

Up here In Scotland "Barrs" still do returnable glass bottles..Irn bru etc Not sure what it is now 40p or 50p a return.Worth it if you collect a lot of bottles.The cleansing  dept  drivers always use our local mini mart shop,they bring in crates of empties.Folk still chuck them away.

Ahhh...happy memories...coke in glass bottles... and don't forget the paper straw

Corona was Welsh and made in my neck of the woods. My local park had a bronze bust of williams Evans, one of the blokes who invented it. And I remember the Corona factory in my town's square when I was little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(soft_drink)

In Northern Ireland, the local ( Belfast ) lemonade factory was Cantrell and Cochrane... C & C.
Their fizzy orange was to die for ... Fanta, take a hike!

Our pop delivery people were Lowcocks. Rinse and return

Corona cream soda was to die for. I've never tasted anything like it since. Mmmmmmm...

I remember the days when a finger of fudge was just enough to give the kids a treat WITHOUT raising eyebrows.

I'm glad they don't play conkers anymore. I was crap at it.

The old style non-electronic tills in Safeways that made clunky noises and the till used to shoot out and nearly wind the check out girl.

When Tesco was a tiny shop and hardly anyone went there.

Woolies!!!!!!

Oo-err Karma, thems were innocent days.... the fudge slogan.... it never occurred to us  
Ahhh to be innocent again...

Presto's! ... and Fine Fare! 

Our "ginger lorry" was Alpine ..loved it when they came round!

A record player on the stage for morning assembly each day at Primary school and an aged Headmaster introducing our impressionable minds to classical music such as Peter & the Wolf, The Trumpet Voluntary and The Nutcracker Suite. 

When I started Primary school i don't think our home album collection included any classical music - by the time I moved onto Secondary school we had 30 or more classical albums.

Woolworth's sale rail in the records section.

Proper record shops !

We still have this one

http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/

A few memories:
Three cinema's in town - two of which stood empty and derelict

The arrival of McDonald's - the demise of Wimpy and Golden Egg restaurants

Blakey's or Quarter Tips in shoes that you would outgrow long before outwear

Jealous of the kids with Grifter and Chopper bikes

Seeing the Ally Pally ablaze from a train on our way home from a school trip to the British museum.

When I thought Mrs Slowcombe's pussy was a reference to her cat.  Our Price records, Record Mirror and Sounds, Nick'o'teen trying to entice kids to smoke before a cartoon superman beat him up, 1/2p waffers, old ladies with hats and tartan shopping trollies, football pundits loud checked suits strobing on colour TV.  Scripture lessons, mostly of the Old Testament.  All things Bright and Beautiful. I vaguely remember Bread deliveries.  Mud flaps seemed more common.  British Leyland union militancy being the but of jokes, British Rail sandwiches being the butt of jokes.

I LOVED Nick'o'teen!

I remember Dickie Davies on Saturday Sport (is that what it was called?) there'd be sport on all Saturday afternoon. Oh and the wrestling used to be on too.

Old style darts with John Lowe and Jocky Wilson and their fags and their pints.

Runaround with Mike Reid.

Crackerjack

John Craven's Newsround

Chocky

Stig of the Dump

ooohhh.looks good! We have one left I think, but it's a bit mince

Bagpuss!

I remember Dickie Davies on Saturday Sport (is that what it was called?) there'd be sport on all Saturday afternoon. Oh and the wrestling used to be on too.


It was called World of Sport and the opening titles were ace! I remember my gran doing her chores in the morning, then sitting down to watch the wrestling with a bag of monkey nuts..

Ref Slinki - Our "ginger lorry" was Alpine ..loved it when they came round


Thanks Slinki - could I remember what the name of the ginger lorry up here was?  I knew it wasn't Corona


I loved Alpine limeade.


We also used to have the rag and bone man who would come round in the 70s - he used to give a balloon to every child in the street - guess that wouldn't be allowed now, eh?

Just like Arkwright's in Open All Hours - complete with lethal spring clip for the 10 bob notes.


Used to get the Corona van round on a Wednesday afternoon too like some of you have already mentioned,  and I still get my milk delivered by the milkman now.

You could only get Olive Oil in the chemists; it was kept under the counter and used for earache.

With Kent Walton doing the commentary...   Jackie Pallo and Mick McManus!

Oh Brisket..... memory lane , or what That top left hand picture could be any one of my school photos And I detest the upward inflection that so many non-antipodean's  seem to put at the end of their sentences nowadays.... it's one of my pet hates

Ohhh my!! !

I used to get Mick Mc Manus and Mick McGahey mixed up ( or micksed up)

I used to confuse Mick McManus and Mick McMichael. I always liked Kendo Nagasaki.

Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks

This is a good one
 Features loads of interviews of the old wrestlers from those days. Among other things, it reveals that Big Daddy had smelly armpits.

Saturday afternoon at nans with a pot of tea and a bag of sausage rolls watching Rollerball Rocco and Marty Jones knock lumps out of each other - happy days! LOL

I still have lots of 78 rpm records, and 45s.

Minute Man Service looks / sounds American. 

Green Shield stamps and Embassy coupons, anyone?

That was my favourite  I think Soda Streams were the death knell for the ginger lorry

Got no 78s, but a stack of singles and albums Still got a Dansette somewhere too

Going too the grandparents on a saturday afternoon too watch big daddy and giant haystacks  being babysat by grandparents and my nana making me dance round to the them tune of Juilet Bravdo (sp) they always used too bring a can of Bass shandy and me and my brother had too share it (tight or what)