Before the likes of Amazon, huge shopping complexes like Meadowhall, we used to get the bus into the city centre for our shopping desires and to fulfil our retail kicks.
These photos will transport you back to the high streets of the 1960s and beyond in Sheffield, and the shops we had back then.
There were a lot more department stores in those days, but in this gallery we take a look at some of the smaller shops that had their very own following that is fondly remembered even to this day.
Do you remember shopping in any of these stores and smaller businesses over the years?
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1. Walsh's
Inside John Walsh and Son department store, High Street, Sheffield city centre, in November 1971 | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
2. Violet May Barkworth - ran record shops
Violet May Barkworth. She not only ran record shops, but she also had an incredibly encyclopaedic knowledge of music in general.
3. Controversial naming but a retail hit
Sheffield boutique Lift Up Your Skirts and Fly, December 1967. The name of the shop is actually is a line from the 1967 song "Desdemona" written by the late Marc Bolan, when he was a member of the English psychedelic pop/rock band John's Children. | Other 3rd Party Photo: JR James Archive, University of Sheffield.
4. The Music Man
An old view looking down Dixon Lane, Sheffield, showing Philip Cann "The Music Man" shop on the right. The shop later moved to Chapel Walk