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 Tue 31 Dec 13 17:56 
 Another "look at life" - Zero
Good selection of 1960s cars in this rank shortie about traffic issues in cities in 1968.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMamOIdcS9A
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 Tue 31 Dec 13 18:01 
 Another "look at life" - No FM2R
Good clip. There goes the next hour of my life as one clip leads to another...
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 Tue 31 Dec 13 18:39 
 Another "look at life" - Armel Coussine
Nostalgic for me that, I was raised in Bath from 1939 to 47 and know it well.

1968 eh... no parking meters to mention, but the apogee of urban planner/architect megalomania: multi-storey car parks to be placed everywhere and enormous town centre underpasses constructed... the first happened, the second didn't.

They hadn't thought of bus lanes yet. Or parking for four quid an hour, with clamps and huge fines for getting it wrong. It was another world.

Look at Life had a dated, stilted feel even then. That lady presenter looks pretty fifties actually. Part of its charm now, but modernizing hipsters like me used to despise it back then. One does mellow a bit with age (only a bit though).
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 31 Dec 13 at 18:40
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 Tue 31 Dec 13 18:42 
 Another "look at life" - Runfer D'Hills
Great clip Z.

Lots of things going on for me there. I used to live in Bath ( '89-'92 ) in a flat just behind the Royal Crescent. ( ie not nearly as posh, but still Georgian in its defence ) Don't think, may be wrong, that they ever did the tunnel mentioned.

Great to see it as it was. Then there is the lady presenter who is as close to a caricature of my late mum as could be !

Thirdly, my first ( proper ) job was with a company based in Norwich.

Alarmingly, that didn't look too different but of course my memories date from 1979 or thereabouts so it wasn't that much later !

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 Tue 31 Dec 13 20:15 
 Another "look at life" - Dog
It sickens me to watch films like that, to see what once Great Britain has become in the 21st century.

Ralph Miliband's bones must be rattling with laughter to see what successive governments of both cheeks have turned this country into.

Perhaps I need to be locked up and heavily sedated but, I feel damn sure it's a Zionist agenda, and not just in this country either.
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 Tue 31 Dec 13 22:20 
 Another "look at life" - MD
Thanks Zeddo.
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 Wed 1 Jan 14 01:01 
 Another "look at life" - Armel Coussine
I reckon you've been eating chocolate Perro. Too late for any sort of recovery. The Israelis are after you! Quick, dematerialize! It's your only chance man!
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 Wed 1 Jan 14 08:34 
 Another "look at life" - Dog
>> Quick, dematerialize! It's your only chance man!

I have in a way Sire - farre from the madding worldlings hoarse discords.
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 Wed 1 Jan 14 09:56 
 Another "look at life" - Focusless
I was going to ask how far they got with the tunnel under the city, but as ever Google has the answer:
www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Bath_Tunnel
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 Wed 1 Jan 14 13:48 
 Another "look at life" - Cliff Pope
It struck me as curiously modern in some ways. Double yellow lines, large lorries trying to get round corners, pavement parking.

On the other hand, note the sophisticated cafe ambience - plain circular metal tables with an umbrella stuck in the middle, customers gentilely holding tumblers of coloured drinks sticking their little fingers out.
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 Wed 1 Jan 14 16:06 
 Another "look at life" - Ambo
A nostalgic view of Norwich's once-pretty market, since "concretised".
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