21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff) (33 page)

BOOK: 21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)
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Telephone Boxes
Rag and Bone Men
Cars
Slam Door Trains
Milk Bottle Deliveries
Fizzy Pop Deliveries
Christmas Boxes

On the High Street

Petrol Pump Attendants
Green Shield Stamps
High Street Names
Woolworths
Midland Bank
C&A
Our Price
Athena
Television Rental Shops
Fish and Chips Wrapped in Newspaper
Keeping CDs Behind the Counter
Half-day Closing
Record Tokens

At School

Blackboards
Blackboard Rubbers
Antiseptic in the Playground
Calculator Watches
Satchels
Ice Cream Bricks
Corporal Punishment
Bulldog
Schools’ Programmes Countdown Clock

On Television and Radio

Answers on a Postcard
Buzby
Humphrey
Grandstand
World of Sport
Massive Viewing Figures
Closedown
Advertising Slogans
B-sides
Interludes
Green Cross Code Man
Television Stations
The Watershed
Analogue Television
Teletext

In the Cinema

National Anthem
Commissionaires
Usherettes
Newsreels
Smoking Sections
Intermissions
Waiting Ages for American Films to Come out
Local Cinema Adverts
Saturday Morning Cinema
Projectionists
B Movies

In the Newsagent

10p Mix-up Bag
Look-in
Sweet Tobacco
Mandy
Marathon
Opal Fruits
Playhour
Texan Bars
Bunty
Cheeky Weekly
Candy Cigarettes
Nestles
Nougat
Look and Learn
Smarties Tubes
Smash Hits
Spangles
Liquorice Pipes
Maverick Bar

All the Other Stuff

Post Office Tower Restaurant
Telegrams
Carbon Copy Paper
Concorde
Passing Back to the Goalie
Football Rattles
Typewriters
Penfriends
Tennent’s Lager Can Girls
Countries that No Longer Exist
English Counties that No Longer Exist
Telegrams from the Queen
Lighthouse-keepers
Pipe Smoking
Chest Expanders
Handwritten Letters
Football Pools
Spot the Ball
Imperial Measurements
Net Cord Judges
Car Chokes
Two Spaces after a Full Stop
The Word ‘Wireless’
Coins and Notes

The End?

Further Reading

Thanks

About the Author

Other Books by Steve Stack

Copyright

About the Publisher

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