Life in 1960s and 1970s

[lordstanher]

TV in 70s?!!! I don't remember to have heard of it even!!

Which is y I reckon my parents wud've been among the 1st ppl. to buy a TV- atleast in Hyd.! I think Dynora was the 1st (& only) brand then......later, apart from Solidaire, there was also one called ECTV, made by ECIL (Elec. corn. of India) at Hyd. I hardly even hear abt it now, not sure if it still exists.......!
Oh yea, one more thing- does the "Casino" theatre at Madras still exist?? My granpa (mum's father) used to go see movies there........

[lordstanher]

Hey Stan,
Vijay Super ... Is it a product of Scooters India .. from Lucknow ??

Yes Balaji, tats the one....... but it was originally an Italian Lambretta model, the design having been sold to Scooters India in the '70s after Lambretta wound up in Italy.......as I mentioned earlier- twas also known as Vijai Deluxe/Falcon........also had a twin named Allwyn Pushpak, altho not sure if tat was also made by SI.....
I'm told tat in AP, there used to be big queues to buy this scooter back then! Prob. bcos it was made famous by yesteryears Telugu actor N T Rama Rao, who drives one of these in a song in a '70s Tel. film......!
I believe these scooters were made until as late as the early '90s b4 SI wound up as well!
Btw, did u know tat many of these r now being exported from India, bought by lambretta enthusiasts abroad?
Found out from this website: http://www.mbdevelopments.co.uk/lamb...a_forsale.html

Its sad 'cos if too many of them go out, we'll be losing a part of our history!

Incidentally, does ne-one know this scooter called Narmada 150, looks like a combo of the LML Vespa & Chetak in its design! Made in Gujarat.....in the late '80s/early '90s I think? 'actually forgot abt this scooter until I saw one y'day.......

[lordstanher]

Lord,

I hope you are alright! Drive safely

Tks Anoushka! Managed to get a better grip on it today!

Speaking of TV serials, um.....hasn't ne-one mentioned this Hindi one called "Hum panchi ek daal ke" so far??
It was shown in the late '80s every sunday on DD.......featured the lives of 4 urchin kids (Madhav, Ram, Gopal, Kunti if I'm not wrong) living in an automobile scrapyard.......and I think they even had a pet monkey.......
I wud look forward to watching this serial on sundays mainly to look at all those old vehicles in it! & I do miss it now.......!

[S.Balaji]

TV in 70s?!!! I don't remember to have heard of it even!!

Which is y I reckon my parents wud've been among the 1st ppl. to buy a TV- atleast in Hyd.! I think Dynora was the 1st (& only) brand then......later, apart from Solidaire, there was also one called ECTV, made by ECIL (Elec. corn. of India) at Hyd. I hardly even hear abt it now, not sure if it still exists.......!
Oh yea, one more thing- does the "Casino" theatre at Madras still exist?? My granpa (mum's father) used to go see movies there........

Stan,

We had EC TV in 1976 ( black and white ofcourse ) with wooden doors ... Dyanora, EC , Telerama were popular brands those days... Later Solidaire became a popular brand.

EC also had a mfg unit in Chennai ..

[Anoushka]

Incidentally, does ne-one know this scooter called Narmada 150, looks like a combo of the LML Vespa & Chetak in its design! Made in Gujarat.....in the late '80s/early '90s I think? 'actually forgot abt this scooter until I saw one y'day.......

Lord,

Our neigbhour had one of those Narmadas. I am not sure if it is early '80s or late '70s though.... I definetly wasn't early '90s if I remember right!

[Anoushka]

Lord,

I do remember Hum panchi ek daal ke But that again would be a lunch time program on Sundays and we were more keen on eating than watching TV

Also anyone remember Shashi pal who used to do the news for hearing impaired?

H3W,

I remember Kappalotiya tamizhan as the Sunday lunch time movie on Delhi DD because of Sadhana Shrivastav (used to absolutely adore her), pronouncing it as KABALOTTIYA TAMIZAN

And if I am right the famous Meendum oru kathal kathai (Ulagam urundai, ladduvum urundai) was another one of those lunch time movies

[S.Balaji]

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Also anyone remember Shashi pal who used to do the news for hearing impaired?

Anoushka,

Yes, I recollect the news for hearing impaired. I think it will come in the afternoon session on Sundays......
I distinctly recollect her expression on .. somebody is killed or has passed away...

[hehehewalrus]

Anoushka
u brought me out of my retirement with this post but it will be one of the last ones for sure as my retirement begins officially on monday

Lord,

I do remember Hum panchi ek daal ke But that again would be a lunch time program on Sundays and we were more keen on eating than watching TV

Also anyone remember Shashi pal who used to do the news for hearing impaired?

H3W,

I remember Kappalotiya tamizhan as the Sunday lunch time movie on Delhi DD because of Sadhana Shrivastav (used to absolutely adore her), pronouncing it as KABALOTTIYA TAMIZAN

And if I am right the famous Meendum oru kathal kathai (Ulagam urundai, ladduvum urundai) was another one of those lunch time movies

HPEDK was of course a 11-1130 program as 900 had He Man, 930 had something else and 1000 had Mahabharat, 11 had HPEDK, 1130 had Bharat Ek Khoj, 1200 had a Quiz, 1230 had Indradhanush. Lovely program. I once remember I had to get my parents signature for getting 0/5 in a test(about chemical formulae, I never used to get the valencies right) and I waited after HPEDK to break the news.

News Mag for hearing impaired is from 130 to 200 just before the regional movie.

I distinctly remember Sadhana Srivastav but I am a bit unclear about the face - there were 2 lady announcers in bobcut, one fair and one brownish and sadhana i think was the latter.
(Others newsreaders - Neethi Ravindran, Minu, Rini Khanna, Sukanya balakrishnan, Sangeetha Bedi, Komal GB Singh, Salma Sultana, Manjari Jothi, Raman, Ved Prakash, Tejeshwar Singh, Uday Bir Saran Das, Nirmal Andrews, Bhaskar Bhattacharjee, CM Mathews, Pankaj Mohan, Preet KS Bedi)

I think Kappalotiya Tamizhan was on Oct 2 1986 coz same day we had Gandhi and we sat through 6 hours of movies. My dad was very upset over it and I had a headache as I didnt watch more than 2-3 hours on sunday.

Meendum oru kaathal kadhai was in Feb 1989. There is one great song in it - Adhikaalai Neramey(now removed from coolgoose).

The Monday after we went to school and one of the vaal-payyans from C section came running to our class during the 1030 interval, grabbed a history book, pointed to the picture of Giuseppe Garibaldi from the chapter on italian renaissance and exclaimed "Here is Jujju Thatha".

Here are the long lost twins:

http://www.ascasonline.org/garibaldi.jpg

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/200...3000180101.jpg

[tvsankar]

Hi Balaji,

Nichayam indha vishayathai sollanam.

1. What about the fear of ghosts? They were introduced by my friend in my 2nd std.
Balaji, neenga sonna slate and pencil.Adhil dhan en friend enaku draw panni ghost story niraya solli irukal.

Idhai veetil solli kondadhillai.Anal veetil irukum darkness parthu ghost enru bayandhu poi irukaen.Then en amma kettu en friend sonna ghost story solli, en amma ennai dhariyam seidhal.
Indha feelings en son kitayum avanudiaya 3rd std la parthaen.
Avanukum en amma madhiri euquiry panni vittu, en amma sonna madhiriyae avanukum dhariyam sonnaen.
Inru varai ethanaiyo type ghost film parkiraen, in all languaes.

Anlalum en friend enaku slate la padam varaindhu sonna ghost story ku bayandha madhiri oru bayam idhu varai varavillai

With LOve,
Usha Sankar.

[Cinefan]

Talking about book shops... I used to hunt for used books in a road-side book shop in Luz Corner. There was this old guy... who used to stack books in the middle of the pavement and had an impressive collection... This guy was not that literate in English... but if you mention the name of the book - he would be able to pinpoint the location or the stack in which one might find the book.

Maybe S. Balaji from Mylapore area might recognize this character. I think this shop disappeared sometime in the mid 80's.

Hey,that is 'Alwar'-white hair,white beard,wearing only a white veshti.he has not changed since the first time I saw him in the middle eighties.

BTW,his book shop still exists,I saw it when i visited Chennai in November last year.