Soho in the '70s

CiB

Ben6899 wrote:

They had obviously ‘cleared the set’ or gathered on set at 7am for the purposes of shooting a clean scene. Maybe this is what happened with “Randall and Hopkirk” or “The Sweeney”?

Fully agree that it's more likely they'd shoot out of office hours but equally there are generic street scenes in side streets and shots of Oxford Circus etc where it's quite clearly not 7am on a Sunday morning and the volume of traffic is much much lower. And parking restrictions were pretty much non-existent regardless of time of day.

As for the 60s being washed out colour & even monochrome, who caught the Italian Job on C4HD on Saturday? I nearly wrote in to congratulate them - the colour was so vibrant, natural & bright that some of it looked like live HD TV from a source other than the BBC. And anyway. 60s, 70s? I was there. It was a truly gloriously colourful place as noted when I want to my first ever proper football game at Cov City and was astonished at the green of the pitch after years of muddy brown farm fields & grey pitches on Star Soccer + occasional MoTD if Leicester were on or FA Cup Finals & England v Scotland matches. That was your lot in terms of football on TV then, and where I lived foreigners hadn't been invented so we didn't have a clue about racialists. Wind forward a few years; one word out of place means I am one apparently.

optimisticbiker

"and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."

"For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip"

Mr_Cellophane

Headhuunter wrote:

Yeah I noticed that when watching 70s dramas.... The Sweeney's another one like that. 1 episode of Randall I watched a while back showed the Barbican being built!

Useless fact
Barbican, last major construction project to be built with imperial measurements.

rjsterry

Mr_Cellophane wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

Yeah I noticed that when watching 70s dramas.... The Sweeney's another one like that. 1 episode of Randall I watched a while back showed the Barbican being built!

Useless fact
Barbican, last major construction project to be built with imperial measurements.

Also, that rough-hewn texture you see on the exterior, was formed by casting the concrete, then getting a man to bush hammer the entire surface with a pneumatic hammer :shock:

rolf_f

Programmes like Life on Mars and films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy have a lot to answer for. FWIW, not everything was painted grey or brown in the 70s and there were lightbulbs available with more than 40w to them!

TBH, the biggest difference between the 70s and now for me is that there weren't home computers and the internet and it was generally a bit less ugly than it is now. Obviously, if you lived up North you'd notice the absence of industry but there never was much of that where I lived anyway. My old home town is much scabbier than it was in the 70s.

rjsterry

Here's some more pictures of London
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/london-summer-1976/

And from the same site
http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/mens-jump-suits-1970s/ :shock:

byke68

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Bang on about terrible fashion choices though.

I call that '60s. :P

I'd go with the 60's on this one, not that I was there, my childhood was in the dreary unfashionable 70's.

Shishman

rjsterry wrote:

Here's some more pictures of London
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/london-summer-1976/

And from the same site
http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/mens-jump-suits-1970s/ :shock:

and this 1976 Argos catalogue extract featuring Hugh Porter