Flashback Friday: I luv the 80's

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

My 17 year old daughter LOVED them - and now we have season one on DVD , supposedly for my 4 and 5 year old boys. Riiiiggghhhtttt. . .
I am so sick of that song! Gummi Beaaaaaaarrrrrrrsssss . . .

i wanted a bottle of that gummi berry juice sooo bad...

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

i wanted a bottle of that gummi berry juice sooo bad...

Granted but when you.....oooohhh.....this isnt the corrupt a wish thread...hehehe

Sayings: Where's the Beef

TV: Miami Vice...who here wore the clothes? shark grey suits and shoes with no socks...lol

and can't forget Knight Rider and V

Shoes: Shellhead (or toe depending how far up north you were) addidas

[OneTimeSBX]

^^daemon don't start with me lol!!

i should market a liquor under that name! gummi berry flavored and smurfberries...

[TSteven]

FYI: In the 1980's, I was neither a kid nor a teen.

Fashion - "Collar up or collar down?"

Entertainment - "A Flock of Seagulls" (see fashion)

Politics - Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's pas de duex

Pop Culture Sayings - "Gag me with a spoon, totally."

Science - They Blinded me with it.

Toys - DeLorean or Lamborghini

Fad - New Coke

Sports - San Francisco 49ers

School - Nancy "Mommie" Regan's "Just Say No" campaign.

[ThetaPrincess24]

Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids. My mom was one of the many nutjobs that stood in line for hours to get them for my sister and I. I also had Popples, Baby Bubbles, Baby Talk, my sister had Cricket. We both had Madame Alexander dolls.


Politics: I remember the Berlin Wall coming down and my elementary school's version of the election between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Bush won by a landslide. Only 24 people in the entire school voted for Dukakis because word got out that he wanted to make year round school.

Slogan/Commercial: Head for the mountains with Busch Beer. Anyone else remember Bruce Willis doing the wine cooler commercial?


Music: The Scorpions song , "Wind of Change" became the Cold War anthem.


TV: I remember the shows: Fame, Rags to Riches, Growing Pains, Golden Girls, My Two Dad's, Saved by the Bell, and the Cosby Show. I remember watching reruns of The Monkees and the original Charlie's Angels. I also remember the old Nickelodeon shows: You Cant Do that On Television, Hey Dude, Fifteen, Maple Town, Pinwheel, and Maya the Bee.

[alum]

Fashion: Coordinated ribbon belts, ribbon watchbands, ribbon hairbands. Shell-shaped gold belt buckles that coordinated with the gold shell earrings. De rigeur strand of pearls. Izod Lacoste polos and cardigans, FairIsle yoked sweaters. Bermuda bags with multiple covers. Sperrys.

Entertainment: J Geils, Billy Joel, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. The advent of the Sony Walkman. Towards the end of college, music CDs.

Politics: Reagan! My parents' US Rep who happened to be a priest was not allowed to run for re-election due to the Vatican edict. Much to my extended family's dismay, the seat was filled by Barney Frank who unfortunately is still in office.

Anti-nuclear clubs in hs led by the girl whose pediatrician mother had become a national figure in this movement.

South Africa divestment-Even my apathetic, apolitical school had one of those apartheid shanties on the Cut.

Science: Challenger Explosion. One of the astronauts was a CMU graduate so the whole campus was in mourning.

The day a fellow hs student's father was announced as a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.

Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids in college and the retirement of the skinny ie chokable Fisher-Price people when I was a new mother

Fad: Rubik's Cube, CPK, gourmet jelly beans

Sports: Celtics championships

School: Intense pressure cooker both in hs and in college.


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Who remembers People Express Airlines? This was a great carrier for students!

[Sister Havana]

Fashion: Neon clothes, wearing two pairs of socks in two different colors, Swatches, Frankie Say and Choose Life T-shirts, OP shorts, friendship pins you wore on your shoes, friendship bracelets, charm bracelets, ribbon barrettes

Entertainment: MTV showing VIDEOS!, Silver Spoons, Diff'rent Strokes, Cheers, E.T., Live Aid, Duran Duran, Prince, Degrassi Junior High, Miami Vice, Head of the Class, Goonies, INXS, U2 became HUGE, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany (the Britney and Christina of their day), Menudo, New Kids on the Block, the Brat Pack, the novels of Bret Easton Ellis and Jim Carroll, New Wave, hair metal, Vanna-mania, the Bangles, the Go-Gos, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, Back To The Future, Max Headroom, and a low-rated local morning talk show in Chicago becomes the hottest show in the city thanks to its new host...some woman named Oprah Winfrey.

Politics: Ronald Reagan: "My fellow Americans, I have signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes," George H.W. Bush: "Read my lips: No new taxes!" supply-side economics, No Nukes, ACT-UP, Harold Washington and Council Wars (in Chicago), Lloyd Bentsen: "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

Pop Culture Sayings: Frankie Say Relax, Grody To The Max, Like Omigod!

Science: Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64, the Challenger explosion (Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, was on that mission), AIDS is given a name, Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space,

Toys: Barbie (of course!), Cabbage Patch Kids, Dolly Pops, Glamour Gals, Dazzle Dolls, Pound Puppies

Fad: Garbage Pail Kids, Cabbage Patch Kids, Sticker collections, Pac-Man, break dancing, Deely Boppers, calling 867-5309 to see if Jenny picked up

Sports: The 1985 Bears: The Fridge, Walter Payton, Jim "the punky QB" McMahon, and the Super Bowl Shuffle, Mary Lou Retton, Greg Louganis, the Miracle on Ice, Flo-Jo, Bob Knight throws a chair, Phi Slamma Jamma

School: DITTOS! It is sad that there is an entire generation that will not know the joy of smelling fresh ditto ink.

[EtaPhiZTA]

While I was cleaning out my closet this week-end, I came across my 80's keepsake box. I found my Bermuda bag with twenty different covers (at least half of them were monogrammed) as well as a box of button covers. I had totally forgotten about that crazy fad until I saw them again.

[OneTimeSBX]

i did some cleaning this weekend too, and found my old Trapper Keeper with scratch and sniff stickers on it...some of them still smelled!-