I missed the music, Duran Duran, Go-Gos, Tears for Fears, Simple Mind, and all the pop music.

I missed the freedom of being a teenager. No worries and no cares.

Oh, yeah those were the good old days.


But I will never missed the Geri Curl

Re: Blast to the Past
 

Since I was in high school during this very time, I can give you the lowdown of what was up:

Outfits:
Kangols, British Knights, Troop jeans and jackets, Adidas and Fila sweatshirts, posse badges (amulets with Africa in the middle), blue jean jackets with heavy metal groups sewn in a square hole in the back, blue jean overall shorts with only one strap attached, cardigan sweaters (boys and girls), "in" colors being in "hot" colors of pink, purple, and green, Cross Colors, African American College Alliance outfits representing your favorite HBCU.

TV Shows:
Yo! MTV Raps, Rap City, Headbangers Ball, In Living Color, The Party Machine with Nia Peeples, Married with Children, Knots Landing, LA Law, Night Court, The Cosby Show, A Different World, Cheers, The Simpsons, Americas Funniest Home Videos.

Game Shows:
WOF, Jeopardy! (and Super Jeopardy! aired for 13 weeks on Saturday night on ABC in the summer of 1990), The Price is Right, To Tell The Truth, Trump Card, $100K Pyramid w/John Davidson, Match Game '90, Scrabble, Super Password, Now You See It, Monopoly, Tic Tac Dough, The Jokers Wild

Hairstyles:
box and slope haircuts for the guys, assymetrical hairdos for the girls, big hair for the girls, mullets for the guys,

Does anyone remember the sitcom "small wonder" with the girl who was the robot, I think her name was Vicky or something like that.

LOL!!! Yes!! One of my girls and I were talking about this show a couple of weeks ago.

Dang, I miss the 80's..........I miss my sit and spin, my big wheel, my Strawberry Shortcake banana seat bike, my Simon Sez and my Rubix Cube............those where the days.......

Do any of you remember the Alphabet People in kindergarden? Mr. M with the munchie mouth? Miss A that always went Ah-Ah-Choo? (maybe that was just an Ohio thing...)

Ahhhh, good ol' sit n spin. :)

Do they still make that?

Yes....my son received one for Christmas. It plays music as you spin. :D

Remember those old Barbie houses that had the furniture painted on the background and the elevator only worked when you pulled the string.

How many of you had a Glo worm? I had 2 of them.......loved those too!

Are you referring to The Letter People?

If so, I remember watching it as a kid on public TV on sick days/holidays after the game shows went off.

And yes, it was just an Ohio thing (produced by the Ohio Department of Education).

Speaking of the 80s, did anyone else spend their days off from school watching educational programming on TV? The majority was produced by the Agency for Instructional TV/Technology (AIT)

The shows I liked were:

Wordsmith
Write On
Well, Well, Well (w/Slim Goodbody)
Roomnastics
Studio M (produced by the Ohio Dept. of Education)
It Happened Here (another ODE show)
I Need to Read (ODE) To this day I still sing the theme song.
It Figures
Turnabout (loved the psychedelic opening and theme song)
Inside Out

Just to name a few...

Yeah I meant the Letter People. I loved that show.

I used to watch 321 Contact and Reading Rainbow on my off days.

Wow! This thread took me back! I had a Smurfette party when I turned 10! I owned the Barbie remote control car....man. The 80's were off the chain!

Okay, I haven't posted out here in a long time, but I COULDN'T pass this one up...

Ahh...the 80's...

http://www.toonarific.com/l/littles5.jpg <----The Littles (y'all don't know nuthin' bout that) http://mysmilies.ipbfree.com/s/contr...etz/wiggle.gif

http://www.80schildren.com/images/ca...em/jemlogo.gif

http://www.endlessworld.com/images/d...hodefinset.jpg <---yeah, I was a NERD, so what !!!http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/...ai/rainfro.gif

...and you can't leave this one out...

http://animatedvd.zaphebergeur.net/a...perfriends.jpg:D

Popples!!!

1. 21 Jump Street-When Johnny Depp still looked good!
2. Degrassi High- The original one that used to come on PSB.
3. 80's Hip Hop- No hoes and guns (or at least very little).
4. Cherelle/Pebbles/Tina Marie-Still my favorite female singers
5. She's Gotta Have It- the first Spike Lee joint!
6. The Jackson 5 cartoon-did this come out in the 80's??? Don't think so, maybe they were just repeats, but I loved that cartoon.
7. Crappy, low-budget music videos-Michael Jackson "Rock With You". . .but at least he was still cute in that one.
8. Speaking of Micheal, pleather pants and pleather red jackets like the one he wore in "Beat It":p
9. Oh, I almost forgot. . .Garbage Pail Kids!!!!!!! My mom hated the one with the booty face. hehehehehehehehehe:D

Okay, I have gone way back when you said GEM!!! I had all her dolls and dressed up like her for halloween. I was the first BLACK GEM!!! Well at least in the bronx.

And I do remember those hats. My aunt still has mine with my name on it.

Am I crazy?
 

Does anyone else remember Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, or am I just making it up? :confused:

Re: Am I crazy?
 

I remember them, I had them all ! You're not alone.:D
________
Ford Duratec Engine

Good! I'm not crazy then. I had all of them too and my mother just hated them. She thought they were sick, but she bought them for me anyway since they were so popular and all of my friends had them. Needless to say, once the booty faced girl (or guy, i can't remember) came out, she stopped buying them.:D

My brother loved them. I remember he had the Shoprits toy truck and plastered all on top of them. And hid the rest inside with his GI Joes. I think my mom stopped buying them when the Garbage Pail movie came out. And the little sexual play was done. ( the crossed her nipple in front of a "twelve" year old actor.) Needless to say, I was happy with my cabbage patches and my little pony.

Steve Harvey had me reminiscing this morning on 2 things:

play clothes

and denim iron on patches (when you got a hole in your jeans, knees for me, and mom would get a patch and iron that mug right on, somewhat good as new, lol)

Does anyone remember Apple Slice soda? and Apple flavored kool aid? The soda looked like beer but it did have an artifical apple taste to it I kinda liked. I was mad when they stopped selling it. :mad:

I had the Barbie remote controlled car too! I also had the Barbie Plaza (older toy that i saw a commercial for it in B/W so that should tell you how old it was)

Did anyone get a doll called Pretty Curls? She came with setting lottion and you could put these teeny rollers in her thick hair (that never stayed). She was my second fave (and last doll) next to baby that away....they were so cute.

Speaking of the 80's...
 

Why did my Employer give all of us Company Slinkies(sp) and I have been playing with this thing all day?

What was the slinky theme song, my co-worker and I were trying to figure that out?

Re: Speaker of the 80's...
 

Part of it goes


a slinky a slinky it's such a wonderful toy
Fun for a girl or a boy!


or something close to that.

Correction re: The Letter People
 

My error (albeit WAY after the fact).

The Letter People was not produced by the Ohio Dept. of Education, but actually produced by KETC TV 9 in St. Louis, MO (and Abrams & Co. Publishers).

For more info on The Letter People, please click HERE

For more info on any of those instructional TV shows we used to watch in class on filmstrips or at home on sick days, click HERE

Re: Correction re: The Letter People
 

The Letter People!!! See... you don messed up and took me back!
:D :D

Come and meet the letter people
Come and meet the family
Words are made of the letter people
ABCD, follow me

OMG, Remember those Saturday morning ABC PSAs?
 

How many of you remember watching cartoons on ABC and saw those 60 second clips for:

The Bod Squad
Time for Timer
The Chopper
Dough Nuts
O.G. Readmore (in today's lingo sounds like a gangsta for literacy)
H.E.L.P (Dr. Henry's Emergency Lessons for People/Hip Harry Etiquette Lessons for People/High Class Hudson's Earning Lessons for People)

Well now you can see them again and reminisce away.

Here's the link:

Education, 80s style

More Saturday Morning treats!!!
 

I found a link that has virtually EVERY cartoon theme song, past and present, Saturday morning or weekday for your enjoyment.

I mean, after 25 years I could finally sing again the theme to the "Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam" which I thought was one of the BEST Saturday morning cartoons out there.

So here is the link. Sing along and enjoy!

Toon Tracker Wave Themes

Here is the front page of the site:

ToonTracker.com

Re: OMG, Remember those Saturday morning ABC PSAs?
 

THANK YOU!!!!! You don't know how happy you made me!! I was up until about 3 am over the weekend listening and watching those clips!! It took me back to my childhood!!! Thanks sooooo much!!

Re: Re: OMG, Remember those Saturday morning ABC PSAs?
 

You're quite welcome 9dstpm, and I was glad to do it.

BTW, did you check out the ToonTracker.com site for all the Saturday (and weekday) morning cartoon theme songs? If not, you should (see above link). ABC PSAs without the Saturday morning theme songs would be like cornflakes without the milk. ;)