Dial a disc memories

[poppet2 13]

Did anyone used to dial 160 each night, either from a phone box or their home phone?

[Interlaken 10]

Yes, from a payphone and try to guess the tune before having g to put the money in!

 

Can't believe I'm posting this from Saigon whilst waiting for a flight.

[Dreb48 35]

Yes remember it like it was only 50 years ago.

3 or 4 of us crammed in a phone box on Baslow Rd passing the handset between us.

Groundbreaking technology in those days.

[poppet2 13]

If you by pressed the coin half way in the slot, you could listen for free.

[Interlaken 10]

Now you tell me!

 

3 of us used to do this 'listen' thing regularly crammed in a box - too young to go into pubs and nowt else to do. It was all part of the evenings entertainment - er well that was it:rolleyes:

[allwednesday 11]

Yes I remember dial a disc and also the speaking clock

[Cycleracer 10]

Yes I remember dial a disc and also the speaking clock

 

It was 16 for dial a disc and 18 for the speaking clock,,good times had for a tanner

[40summat 10]

Mississippi by Pussycat and Lost in France by Bonnie Tyler were two i can remember hearing on Dial a Disc,

if i remember right they were just random songs from the pop charts, you couldn't choose, is that correct?

[Dreb48 35]

As far as I remember it was totally random and you'd no idea what you'd get till you phoned.

I googled it earlier and it said it started in 66, though I thought it was earlier than that, and ran till 91.

How could that have run 25 years? That's amazing

[poppet2 13]

The record for the night was printed in the Evening News. You could listen from 6pm.

But it always sounded so tinny.

Could you imagine kids of today standing for that sort of technology?

[Sheff2006 10]

I remember this but in its final days (mid-80s?) wasn't it called Woolworths Disc-Line? There was a jingle heard on it which went something like 'this line is the Woolworths Disc-Line'.

 

Sh2006.