RETRO DUNDEE

That's me done. My wee offbeat look back at what life was like for my generation growing up in Dundee d...

Many of you will have had a Viewmaster as a kid, the plastic toy binoculars you put card discs into to view 3D images. Probably not so ma...

A couple of publications I'd have been lost without during the course of doing Retro, were the old Dundee Directories and old stre...

I've put dozens & dozens of local ads up on Retro over the years which have been really useful when referring to a place I don...

1978 saw Dundee University win TV's "University Challenge". The winning team above for the 77/78 series were - Tom McGhee...

3 shots here that'll make you want to snuggle up in front of a coal fire - all from the 70's, and maybe even the same winter....

So the coal lorry on yesterdays photo got me raking around for a few related items, because many of us who were brought up in the...

Here's 5 local ads offering a variety of tasty grub from the East that I'm sure many of you will be familiar with. Star...

Another group of photos from the early 70's showing the demolition around Victoria Road. Top picture is of the upper area of ...

One of the well known shops in the city arcade in Shore Terrace was McLeish Brothers, who were a fishmonger/wee grocer. This used to be the...

A scary tale for Hallowe'en... I was told this story in the 70's from the girl it happened to, but to be fair, she was tripping on ...

Here we have 3 shots taken in the early 70's showing the area around Charles Street. Top image is the upper stretch of the Wellg...

 The top Johnalan ad is from 1979 and lets you know the whereabouts of their salons. You also may have noticed that the image i...

[THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ART OBJECT 1977 - punk exploded in the Scottish cultural landscape Pete Horobin and Harry Nelson hitch-...

This picture of Cliff Richard on stage at the Caird Hall, probably dates from around the 1972-74 period, judging by the clothing being worn ...

List-D cropped up on the local music scene in the late 70's. The band kinda started off as teenage punks music-wise, and as a result...

The advert from December 1977 is one that cropped up in the Tele on a regular basis back then. It was for local soulsters, Susan Childe...

Before he became the well known cartoonist he is today, Frank Boyle spent a short time working in Dundee. He was a student at Duncan ...

Some of you may remember this wee fella who used to crop up in the Tele regularly - it's Louie. This was a syndicated cartoon and his...

Youngsters do like to get their grubby mitts on free stuff. Here's how us school kids got some of ours ...