1985 Argos catalogue.

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1985 Argos catalogue.
tang
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593465768/
Blimey, brings back some memories. Was a particularly tough year as a kid, many hours of distraction were spent in the Argos catalogue (and the littlewoods, but I wont go into that).

Posted 12 years ago

Drac
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Brilliant find, so many thing in there have hardly changed in price.

Posted 12 years ago

neilsonwheels
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Cracking stuff.

Posted 12 years ago

andyl
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Look how much optimus prime is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592674735/in/photostream/

I used to have that Optimus and the decepticon plane (wings kept falling off)

What is the current one? £60-70?

Posted 12 years ago

ohnohesback
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so many thing in there have hardly changed in price.

You’ve not seen the new one then…

Posted 12 years ago

Drac
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You’ve not seen the new one then..

The one sitting next to me that I looked at? Yes I’ve seen it.

Posted 12 years ago

Kevevs
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wow, that’s a great find, cheers 🙂

Posted 12 years ago

pjt201
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andyl – Member
Look how much optimus prime is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592674735/in/photostream/

I used to have that Optimus and the decepticon plane (wings kept falling off)

What is the current one? £60-70?

ha ha, my brother had the pneumatic excavator! I think it’s still in my parents loft somewhere.

Posted 12 years ago

DezB
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Racing bike for £50! 🙂

Posted 12 years ago

Pieface
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No Sony Walkman 😐

Posted 12 years ago

mrblobby
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Racing bike for £50!

How long are those cables?!

Posted 12 years ago

binners
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Cliff hadn’t popularised them by that point pieface

Posted 12 years ago

Cougar
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Wired for Sound.

*kills self*

Posted 12 years ago

zokes
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Racing bike for £50!

A mate had that, and killed it trying to huck off curbs following me on my Raleigh BMX with plastic wheels and battery-powered siren etc.

Posted 12 years ago

flyingmonkeycorps
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I had half the Star Wars and He Man stuff at various points in my childhood… Still have some of it, in a well played with state.

And STARSHIP EXPLORER! Awesome.

Posted 12 years ago

Cougar
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And STARSHIP EXPLORER! Awesome.

The “Galaxy Commander.” Uh, 6980? I wanted that set so badly, it was the coolest Lego I’d ever seen. Got it for Christmas one year. Ace.

Posted 12 years ago

jon1973
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That brings back memories. I love those VHS video boxes thay you had to try and fool people in to thinking you had a full set of leather-bound encyclopeadias on your shelf in the living room.

Posted 12 years ago

zilog6128
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Look how much optimus prime is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592674735/in/photostream/

£15.95. Bargain! In mint condition they go for over £200 now!

Posted 12 years ago

brakes
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errr, apparently, so I’m told by a friend of mine…
err… you can, errr… I’m told that Argos catalogues of that era sold showers and there may have been pictures of people using those showers…
no idea whether, errr, whether it’s true. ahem.

Posted 12 years ago

dabble
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i was told, by a friend, that the old index catalogues had pictures of ladies in bras?!
told by my, ahem, friend, like i said.

Posted 12 years ago

DezB
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*giggles*

Posted 12 years ago

brakes
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oooh, I forgot about the sunbeds, errrr….
I mean I wasn’t told about the sunbeds. yup. no idea if it’s true.

Posted 12 years ago

duckman
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A far more innocent age, teenagers now view hardcore porn in much the same light as (other)teenage boys of the 80’s viewed the sheer collection in the littlewoods catalogue. (that is with one hand….)

Posted 12 years ago

binners
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Does hedge-porn still exist?

The newsagents still seem to sell jazz periodicals, but I wonder if the nations hedgerows still rustle to the sound of soggy copies of Razzle?

Posted 12 years ago

Trimix
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Binners – at the start point of one of our normal night rides we found the modern equivelant of hedge pron – it was in the form of a DVD.

Sadly we didnt have a DVD to hand.

With the advent of modern phones just who does buy printed material these days ?

Posted 12 years ago

dogbert
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Cliff hadn’t popularised them by that point pieface

Wired for Sound was 1981, catalogue 1985……clearly Cliff was light years ahead of his time

Posted 12 years ago

derekrides
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Return of the Jedi! Ha quality find this…[/url]

Posted 12 years ago

DezB
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.clearly Cliff was light years ahead of his time

Either that or he killed the idea cos people didn’t want to look like a complete CLINTFF

Posted 12 years ago

nasher
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Its amazing how much more stuff there is now in the argos catalouge for sale…or in face generally for consumers

Posted 12 years ago