12 everyday items from the past

[Oldfellah]

When I worked for the post office, back in the 1970s, there were still manual telephone exchanges - in fact, when we moved north in the early 1980s the house we rented in a small town had a phone on a 12 party line - you cranked the handle to call up the exchange to make a call. There was a fisherman on the line who would get calls at 4am...

We lived in a small village which had a party line. There was one woman who everyone else was sure listened in to everyone's conversations, but there was no way to prove it.

Until one day someone having a phone call heard the distinctive sound of a chiming clock in the background. There was only one person in the village who had a chiming clock so she proceeded to tear strips off this woman for being so damn nosey.

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Bell-bottoms , yes I used to wear them.
Lava lamps , had one in the lounge.
Miniskirts , good to look at.

I used to wear mini skirts (not so very mini then) & bell bottoms (never again, bloody things got in the way) but never had a lava lamp. Had a corduroy suit though at one point & boots.

Lilith, I have to ask what did bell bottoms get in the way of