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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5. Queuing for tickets
A long queue outside Wilson Peck on the corner of Barkers Pool and Leopold Street - 10th April 1973 | Johnston Press
6. Him: "Records are always a sound purchase"
Sheffield Shopping Festival - 3rd-11th November 1961 Miss Celia Lane, Festival Shopping Queen, pictured at Wilson Peck Ltd. this morning where she saw and heard an old phonograph working. Pictured with her is Mr. F.T. Fair - 8th November 1961 | Johnston Press
7. Sexy Rexy
Sexy Rexy's clothes shop on Pinstone Street in Sheffield city centre was synonymous with style in the 1970s. Two models posing outside the store in this photo were showing off the latest fashions of the day
8. High Street
High Street, Sheffield, in 1976, with shops including the shoe seller Freeman Hardy Willis, tailors Hector Powe, and Saxone Shoes | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd