If this stuff looks familiar, you were definitely born after 1970!
Looking at the pics displayed you can feel goosebumps allover your body comparing life THEN and NOW. This generation may not understand how much they miss: fun and peace of mind is not in DStv and Shoprite (that didn’t exist back then), but in the real JOY we felt in those epic times.
1. Basket sandals
Lots of us used to wear it in a secondary school.
2. Suwe or Hopscotch
It is a game based on the principle of not treading on lines. The diagram is drawn in sand, and a stone or a ball of crushed leaves is used as a marker. In suwe, if the player’s stone is tossed on a line, he/she is out of the game. At the end of the game, the players make drawings in each of the squares.
3. Old-fashioned TV
4. These plastic dolls
5. Okin biscuits
6. Cabin biscuits (similar to crackers)
7. Bata shoes
8. Tree top
Parents used it as a bribe (to stop kids from crying after being stung by an injection, for example).
8. Blue Band margarine that used to come in tin cans
9. Whistling pop – the stick sweet with whistle
10. These exercise books
The rhyme for the letters of ONWARD notebook back in the day:
O – Ole
N – Ni
W – Wale
A – Aji
R – Ruler
D – Dada
E – Ede
X – times
E – Ede
R – Rashidi
C – Coni
I – Iya
S – Segun
E – Elere
B – Boolu
O – Odabo
O – Odabo
K – Kayode
11. Nacet Razor Blade
12. Owu dudu (or owu ikorun) that women used for platting there hair styles mostly shuku style.
13. Stella pomade
14. Oko oko (farm vehicle)
This type of vehicle used to ply/shuttle between villages & towns,bringing farm products to the hinterland.
15. Okoto (combination of BIC pen cover and the the cap of Berec battery)
16. Jenka bubble gum
17. These drinks
18. Pacesetters books
19. This board
20. Jet cream
21. Soap opera’s like:
Lady of the rose
No one but you
Rich also cry
Wild rose
22. Nulec stabilizers that were ball shaped like basketball
Source: Naij