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Having read most of Op post in the past, I already knew he's a senior man.
As at 79 I was already warming up in wherever universe I was then to come to the world the next year.
Most of the things op posted and wrote about were 90% of the time from medium class to rich parents back then.
In a whole full street I grew up in back then, it's not up to 5 families that has those gadgets op mentioned.
But truly live was sweet then where everyone is the parents of every child and we children the child of every parents.
No discrimination, just pure love.

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.

...Oga Naptu2 na Senior Citizen him be. Maximum Respect to Him.

naptu2:
Portable record player

This was a small record player that could be plugged in to mains electricity and could also be powered by batteries.

It also had a radio tuner with MW and SW bands and it had a telescopic antenna.

We would sometimes bring this record player outside when we had picnics. I remember that we also used it during the 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981 New Year's Eve celebrations.

The Indians, Americans and Ghanaians would come over and we'd have a huge feast on the lawn. Jollof rice, curry rice, meat pies and sausage rolls. We'd bring out the portable record player. There'd also be fireworks (7 colours, etc).
The feast would go on till around 10pm.

I remember that the NTA had a tradition of showing the Scarlet Pimpernel movie at night on New Year's Eve.

My dad had a joke he played on us (back in the 1970s), he would say that anyone that didn't have his bath before midnight would be dirty throughout the year.

The fire brigade was always way too early. Sometimes they'd be 5 or even 10 minutes too early. We'd hear the siren wail from the fire house at around 11:55.

The harbour master was always more reliable. On the stroke of midnight you would hear a massive foghorn - BOOO, followed by all the other foghorns. Then the fireworks would light up the night sky all the way from Marina to Falomo. The Lagos Yacht Club fired red stars into the sky from Five Cowrie Creek and the Lagos Harbour.

Then I would go in to watch President Shagari's speech. The NTA showed the President's new year speech at midnight (and then repeated it in the morning).

During the Military Era the new year speech was the same as the budget speech. There was no National Assembly to review the budget, so the president usually read the budget speech in the morning on New Year's Day. For that reason, the budget speech and the new year speech became intertwined in my mind.

This is not the exact same record player but it is very similar. The radio tuner was where you have the silver strip in the photo below and there was a telescopic antenna at the side of the device.

I'm teary-eyed right now. If our parents knew we would never have half the kind of life they had in Nigeria then, they'd have taken us far away from Nigeria

SisterAnn:
Give or take, 75yrs this year.

Ok my dear. How old are you

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

Canoe got howling 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love this thread

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!!!

he should be in his late 50s for someone who saw those things around 1979.

naptu2:
And the cassette surgeries, when you need to open the cassette to disentangle the tape.

Yes o!

With those small screwdrivers.

You needed a lot of patience and dexterity to perform those surgeries.


Remember the premium audio casettes brands and types?

Metal, chrome

Maxell, TDK

FYI Majority of APC/Tinubu supporters are older generation. They have nothing to lose

SisterAnn:
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.

Kalulu44:
Nope SisterAnn, are you sure read the whole article? It's not things in his (op) parlour but his father's own. There's a place he stated his father always call them to come change the TV channels while he's sitting close to it.
And as for being rich or not. I was born in 1980, majority or half of parents who owns those things are either ok financially or even rich.
In the street I grew up, I don't think we have up to 5 people that has tv in their homes.

I'm slightly older than you. We had all those things. We had a sanyo TV with wooden double cover. We had an igala car first and then a Datsun car later. I tell you, we were not rich. We lived in a two rooms rented apartment and later took a third room In same house before moving to a three bedroom flat somewhere around Okoya.

Btw, I didn't bother reading everything he wrote because they were not really important to me.

His heading was misleading though.

Whois:
FYI Majority of APC/Tinubu supporters are older generation. They have nothing to lose

Tor 😃

Sonofgod1990:
Ok my dear. How old are you

Old enough to have seen better days. Had a full sardine tin and bread 20kobo for lunch at school.

SisterAnn:
I'm slightly older than you. We had all those things. We had a sanyo TV with wooden double cover. We had an igala car first and then a Datsun car later. I tell you, we were not rich. We lived in a two rooms rented apartment and later took a third room In same house before moving to a three bedroom flat somewhere around Okoya.

Btw, I didn't bother reading everything he wrote because they were not really important to me.

His heading was misleading though.

Yes you guys may not be rich as in the word "rich" but you were ok compare to majority people back then.
To stay for two rooms or flat back then no be moi-moi o. I know what I am saying

bfire:
Yea, 60 or above

I had my own apartment in 1985 ( the whole house because it was a newly built story building then at Ketu, Lagos). I still prefer the Lagos Island, and hardly stays there until one fine babe made me

I was giving a Rowenta pressing iron, a color, round, Sony TV, and a double cassette grudng (not sure of the name now).

Those were good old days. I was having my industrial attachments (that's after OND, in those days) then at one of this big company in Ikeja

Grundig and Rowenta!

That's solid German engineering!

Those were the days of "decks." See images.

Sony, SANYO,AIWA. Panasonic, Sharp, and JVC were major Japanese brands.

The Koreans were not really in the global picture at the time.

They came up with Lucky Goldstar which later became LG much much later.

Samsung, which is now a global name, was not in the picture of household electronics at all.

Kalulu44:
Yes you guys may not be rich as in the word "rich" but you were ok compare to majority people back then.
To stay for two rooms or flat back then no be moi-moi o. I know what I am saying

Tor 😃

SisterAnn:
Old enough to have seen better days. Had a full sardine tin and bread 20kobo for lunch at school.

You should be 50 right¿. Check my signature

Sonofgod1990:
You should be 50 right¿. Check my signature

🤣

Mirasteel:
The good lovely old days

When Presido Aswiwaju Tinubu was still an Agbero tout in Lagos.

SisterAnn:
Tor 😃

Tor lolz! Are you from the north?

Remembered 25" sony tv being the largest color tv in the 80s with just 8 channels

Alaba boys no fit repair the tv

I remember all these from way back...if you has that video player, na big boy you be for compound then

naptu2:
Television

We had a huge black and white TV with retractable doors. I sometimes imagined that there was a city behind the screen and the retractable door was the railway.

The TV had VHF and UHF dials and a V-Hold to stabilise the picture. I was basically like my dad's tv operator and human remote control (can you imagine that my dad would sometimes call one of us from the rooms to come and change the channel for him? And he's sitting right in front of the TV!)

One Christmas, years later, we had damaged several colour TVs and my dad exclaimed, "Thank God"! when the last one got spoiled. He decided that we were going to spend the Christmas without TV. We had other ideas.

There were two things that we did, first, the big black and white TV still showed pictures, but the volume was very low. My dad ordered that we must not put it on because we would damage it even more. We put it on whenever he was in his room and someone would sit near the speaker and tell everybody what was happening. His door made a distinct sound, so we would switch off the TV when we heard it.

Secondly, we had a spare key to his room and he had a small TV in that room, so we would bring out the small TV whenever he was not at home. I would keep watch by the window to warn everybody when he was coming back.

The TV is similar to the TV in the picture below, but ours had UHF and VHF dials. I think it was a National TV, but I can't remember for sure.

This Open and Close TV is still in our parlour in the village till date and still working when plugged in. I refuse to discard it even though no one watches it. It reminds me of my late grandfather and father who watched it back in the day

SisterAnn:
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My siggy

Rapture4real:
I'm happy reading this price. Very educative and informative especially to the indomie generation.

Anybody who owned these gadgets in those days was a big man. We had to crowd around our landlord's parlour to watch small.black.amd white TV.

Things have changed now rapidly.

Even upto like 99 we boys from the neighborhood used to crowd in my Uncles room to watch late night movies on DBN and Clapperboard.

Before AIT, you could only watch TV at 4 pm in the evening when the stations open.

Osariemen12:
Don't know most of the things here. Some of them look like Iranian weapons.

Kid

Discountsempai:
Atari was founded in 1972.

VHS players came on steam in the mid 1970s.

Wrong. I played a trial version in 68'. The company wasn't known as Atari then.

For VHS, it came earlier. Let me even emphasize: the Chinese made knock-off versions of it earlier, circa early 70's.

The electronic calculators then, the Chinese made them first,but the Western world claimed it was theirs and even perceived them as counterfeit, but I know that was a lie. It was called "the electronic race".

johnie:
Grundig and Rowenta!

That's solid German engineering!

Those were the days of "decks." See images.

Sony, SANYO,AIWA. Panasonic, Sharp, and JVC were major Japanese brands.

The Koreans were not really in the global picture at the time.

They came up with Lucky Goldstar which later became LG much much later.

Samsung, which is now a global name, was not in the picture of household electronics at all.

Yea, they were bought in Germany by my older sister whose husband was posted to Germany for military courses, and gifted to me

I bought that AIWA double cassette in 1987 when the other one was stolen at my friend's party

SisterAnn:
🤣

Check siggi

naptu2:
Television

We had a huge black and white TV with retractable doors. I sometimes imagined that there was a city behind the screen and the retractable door was the railway.

The TV had VHF and UHF dials and a V-Hold to stabilise the picture. I was basically like my dad's tv operator and human remote control (can you imagine that my dad would sometimes call one of us from the rooms to come and change the channel for him? And he's sitting right in front of the TV!)

One Christmas, years later, we had damaged several colour TVs and my dad exclaimed, "Thank God"! when the last one got spoiled. He decided that we were going to spend the Christmas without TV. We had other ideas.

There were two things that we did, first, the big black and white TV still showed pictures, but the volume was very low. My dad ordered that we must not put it on because we would damage it even more. We put it on whenever he was in his room and someone would sit near the speaker and tell everybody what was happening. His door made a distinct sound, so we would switch off the TV when we heard it.

Secondly, we had a spare key to his room and he had a small TV in that room, so we would bring out the small TV whenever he was not at home. I would keep watch by the window to warn everybody when he was coming back.

The TV is similar to the TV in the picture below, but ours had UHF and VHF dials. I think it was a National TV, but I can't remember for sure.

Lol Back then do they always make the doors to the parents room to have that Loud distinct sounds or was it just our parents that purposely do it, coz my Dad's was the Early morning Alarm that wakes everyone up

God what a nostalgic feeling

Truly, the fashions of this world fadeth away. To think some people might have killed or done one evil to acquire these things all those years ago and now you wouldn't want them in your dustbin is baffling.
In the same way those latest iPhones and Android phones will eventually become a worthless piece of trash in a few decades time.
We are truly living in the future. But one thing has refused to change in Nigeria and that is the perpetual darkness that has remained in the country since all those years ago till date. In fact it's even worse.
Nepa performed far better than these useless discos that came after it.

bfire:
Yea, they were bought in Germany by my older sister whose husband was posted to Germany for military courses, and gifted to me

I bought that AIWA double cassette in 1987 when the other one was stolen at my friend's party

I forgot to mention Kenwood!

How could I?