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why not 14 children?

Kayblaqq:
Normally person born that year suppose to don get like 7 children 🏃

The moment i saw the Atari console, i knew the house was complete. No aquarium? Telephone?

Chummynoni:
You must be ajebutter living in a flat . From those of us in face me and slap you , na from window we de peep . Na only 2 peoplw get tv for our house that year .

I didn't live in a flat.

Axis313:
So oga naptu2 na my elder for this forum.
By those years you mentioned,I was still in another world making my preparation to visit this world.
But I met black and white TV, portable radio,video cassette player.
May your day be long sir.

I know he's not young but never knew he's this old.
This should be and elderly man of my father's agemate.

Don't know most of the things here. Some of them look like Iranian weapons.

Baba you too much

@Op: you cannot be less than 45 years of age. This is because all these were typical of a middle class home circa 1969 to 1994. If your living room was like this or had any of these, your family was not poor. If we press further, you'd probably say your folks had either a Peugeot, a Datsun, a Passat/Santana, Volkswagen Beetle, Benz 200 etc; that one if not both folks was employed and the other had a grocery shop; that you either went to FGC, Command or Missionary School etc Oh! how things have changed!!!

Deep 🤔

Naptu2 is definitely in his 50s and born with a silver spoon. Rich kids of those days had it good.

tollyboy5:
I know he's not young but never knew he's this old.
This should be and elderly man of my father's agemate.

Me wey think say I be elder on this forum,I no know say I get some oga.

So no TikTok?

naptu2:
Radiogram

We had a radiogram. It consisted of a radio (the radio dial was across the front side face of the cabinet) and a record player (which was inside the cabinet) there was space inside the cabinet to keep your record collection.

Our radiogram also had the radio dial on the side (like the radiogram in the first picture below). The record player was also inside the cabinet like the one in the picture. The space beside the record player was for your stack of records.

Our radiogram was so big that I could hide in the space for the records.

If I remember correctly, the radiogram had medium wave (MW), shortwave (SW) and long wave (LW) bands.

See original MBF wood that year.no be all this fake dusty MBF, HDF woods dey sell these days. After few year, the furniture don bend like canoe .
There was trully a country

Educated parents fairly comfortable. Myself I met radiogram with 4 powerful speakers and Panasonic colored tv with remote.

We had record players - Handel, nwokolobia agu singers father of that boy that sing Onyinye you came in and stole my heart away!

Cassettes from Christmas - gunterkallman... My dad was a pure Londoner anyways

amstamon:
See original MBF wood that year.no be all this fake dusty MBF, HDF woods dey sell these days. After few year, the furniture don bend like canoe .
There was trully a country

depends on the quality and cost of MBF oh abi!

Things in ur dad's parlor. Welcome old man. Ur childhood was great

U be rich kid sir, Omo u be senior citizens

Honestly there was truly a country but from Gérard road to Glover to Berkley and Awolowo road, ur parents com go Japan plus UK, na ajebutter pikins u b then (they should be staffs of the FGN),cos we na de flat (Festac) but na 1985-1990 my papa begin arrange dis gadgets.
Kudos to U..good info

amstamon:
See original MBF wood that year.no be all this fake dusty MBF, HDF woods dey sell these days. After few year, the furniture don bend like canoe .
There was trully a country

He's above 50, if not 60.

Ojady:
@Op: you cannot be less than 45 years of age. This is because all these were typical of a middle class home circa 1969 to 1994. If your living room was like this or had any of these, your family was not poor. If we press further, you'd probably say your folks had either a Peugeot, a Datsun, a Passat/Santana, Volkswagen Beetle, Benz 200 etc; that one if not both folks was employed and the other had a grocery shop; that you either went to FGC, Command or Missionary School etc Oh! how things have changed!!!

Flangelo12:
So no TikTok?

No. Just Orkut, Twitter and Insta. Insta was my mom's favourite medium of sending me messages at Boys Model School.

Rich kid

Do you see how solid older appliances were becos back in the days, thing were made to last almosr forever but now, capitalism has turned the mindset to making things which would last briefly then come back to buy again all just to have an endless stream of profits.

JuanDeDios:
No. Just Orkut, Twitter and Insta. Insta was my mom's favourite medium of sending me messages at Boys Model School.

And you used to receive money on your phone ?

naptu2:
Things that were in my parlour in the 1970s and 1980s.

We had a major redecoration in 1979 and these were the things that were in the sitting room just before and just after the redecoration.

These are things that were in the sitting room before the redecoration.

Bought by you personally?
Or your parents?

Flangelo12:
And you used to receive money on your phone ?

Of course. Moniepoint sounds like a joke to you?

JuanDeDios:
Of course. Moniepoint sounds like a joke to you?

But those dialup phones don't have screens.

How did you receive alert?

These electronics have a certain timeless "this-is-a-big-deal" feeling to them.

naptu2:
Colour TV

In 1979 we got a colour TV in addition to the black and white TV. I remember that we got that TV set in 1979, but I don't remember what happened to it afterwards. The body was wood brown and it had push buttons instead of the usual VHF and UHF dials. It's not exactly the same, but it was kind of simar to the TV in the first picture.


We later got an Orion colour TV. It was silver and had UHF and VHF dials. It kind of looks like the TV in the second picture, but it's not exactly the same.

In 1985 my dad went to Japan and came back with a futuristic TV set. I had never seen anything like it. It was my favourite. It was a Panasonic. It was completely different from the other TV sets in the house. This TV set had numerous buttons, could get 100 channels and had 25 spaces to store channels. No other TV set in the house had that. It also had a cordless remote control! It kind of looks like the TV in the third pucture, but it was slightly different. Ours had a panel with a door that easily blended into the rest of the TV. The many buttons were behind the door.

There was a time that we damaged all the TVs around a week or two before Christmas. My dad was very happy. At last there would be peace. He refused to repair the TVs. There was no TV on Christmas Day. We had to wait for my dad to go to sleep, then we would put on the old black and white TV (which had volume problems) and then someone would sit close to the TV (to hear what was being said) and that person would tell everyone else what was happening on Another Life or whatever series we didn't want to miss.

My dad eventually fixed the TVs before New Year's Day.

How old are you

naptu2:
Things that were in my parlour in the 1970s and 1980s.

We had a major redecoration in 1979 and these were the things that were in the sitting room just before and just after the redecoration.

These are things that were in the sitting room before the redecoration.

Beeron:
You were a privileged kid from a rich home.

The title said things he had in his palour then and you are talking about been a kid.

Having those things didn't qualify as well to do then because my dad had all those things and even Datsun car but was not anywhere called rich.

The only take from this thread is that dude is as old as Methuselah now for him to have owned these properties.

But probably because he's an APC supporter and a tribal bigot, sense became far from him.

Sonofgod1990:
How old are you

Give or take, 75yrs this year.

naptu2:
Video cassette recorder (VCR)

We got our very first VCR in 1979. It was a top loading VHS VCR. The video cassette was loaded into the VCR from the top.

I've just remembered something funny. We sometimes banged the top of the VCR when the picture was not clear and it would become clear.

I thought our situation was bad, but I didn't know anything.

I spent my holiday with family friends in Ikeja in 1985 and you needed to see the way that they banged their VCR. In fact, someone suggested that they should take their VCR outside and ride their bikes on it.

Of course I knew how to use methylated spirit and tissue to clean the video head when it was dirty (although we sometimes had video head cleaning cassettes).


The VCR in the first picture looks very much like the type that we bought in 1979, but I can also see some differences (the socket for the remote control is not there). It was a top loading VCR and although we got other more modern VCRs, this one lasted until 1993.


That VCR had a remote control, but it came with a cord that you had to attach to the VCR before it could function.

Here is a picture of that exact type of remote control (second picture).


I made that remote my microphone.

Remote get cord, I hail you grandpa in the house.

naptu2:
Things that were in my parlour in the 1970s and 1980s.

We had a major redecoration in 1979 and these were the things that were in the sitting room just before and just after the redecoration.

These are things that were in the sitting room before the redecoration.

Wow, sir, you really did enjoy your childhood. No offence, but you must have been rich.

Growing up, my poor family could boast of a Sanyo AM/MW/SW radio, a Sanyo black and white tv set (replaced by color in 1988), no VCR till 1991, and as for computer games...that was expensive. (We did have neighbours and friends who had some computer games though..but not an Atari...Atari collapsed when I was still a child)

Sonofgod1990:
How old are you

If he had an Atari console, then he must have been at least eleven years old by 1982. Atari ...which was one of the OG computer gaming companies...collapsed in 1983.