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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17. Record shops everywhere
Music lovers had many more options when it came to record shops back in the 70s. Woolworths, WHSmith, Boots and HMV were the big established names, with Virgin Records and Our Price the newcomers. There were lots of independent record stores too, like Violet May's shop on Sheffield's Matilda Street, pictured here in 1978 | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers
18. Do get shirty
Castle Market, Sheffield The shirt department of Harrington's - 17th June 1987 | Johnston Press
19. Chapel Walk
Chapel Walk, Sheffield city centre, in 1977, showing R. Whitehead Handicrafts, George France hair salon, Finlay and Co tobacconists, and Lewis's The Jewellers | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers
20. It's a bit of a squeeze
Shoppers on Chapel Walk, Sheffield city centre, in 1977 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd