Condom machines “Buy me and stop one”. 
Every time I visited Devon, I made sure I also visited Todd’s kitchenware shop in Tavistock. I reckon that all of our kitchenware and cutlery originated from Todd’s 
Police stations. Now we have these smaller ‘sub’ stations that are manned during business hours only.
Oh yes, I remember that 
Just towns. Hugh streets I mean. They are diminishing. You have out of town supermarkets. Even that is decreasing. We now have many more people getting their groceries on line and delivered to their door.
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We don’t have those anymore - just the main Police HQ - out of town!
Is that where the cops are hanging out?
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Drive in theaters. 
@tedc - a friend over there was bemoaning the demise of woolworths - has the whole franchise gone/ We have a grocery/fruit /meats and sundries WW but not any other sort like clothing?
Who do you imagine owns Big W?
When I lived in Brixton in the early 1970s my friend was a road sweeper for the LCC (I think) and his patch was Trafalgar Square of all places.
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Gawd I miss them. My local drive in is now an over 50s estate. My kids loved going, used to reverse the station wagon up the ramp and drop the tailgate so the kids could lie in the back to watch the movie. Actually I think that is also where at least one of them was conceived.
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no idea who?
No, not Dr Who, guess again.
Buy two and be one jump ahead!!
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They’re, pretty much, all long gone in the UK!
but why they were an institution ? I wish they wouldn’t keep changing things?
Our town , like many others, was re-fashioned, which meant that the usual group of highly expensive, big names, appeared…
That meant that there was a bigger price to pay if you wanted to lease an area for your own outlet.
Dare I say that we followed the USA, again, as we started to all have “Malls” with all of the big boys in the same places, next to the other big boys.
The Councils were going for the big money. No room for the cheaper shops.
So the cheaper shops became Charity shops, and then closed.
The Big Boys were in the very visible Malls, and Bob’s your uncle!
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The grocery and butchers shop delivery bikes. I cant remember the last time I saw one of those being loaded up and ridden.
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Before I started working I used to deliver meat on one of those for the local butcher in 1962
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