OK - I'm tired of thinking about the 80's. I was a kid of the 70's!
what do I remember?
Satin pants - everyone had to have a pair
Rainbow suspenders - just like MORK!
Nanu, nanu (to follow a theme)
Making out to Earth Wind and Fire's "Reasons" when it had just come out.
Chicago - the original group - and "color my world"
having to learn how to use a sliderule
being amazed by the first Texas Instruments calculator.
having no: answering machine, cordless phones, call waiting
having 3 (sometimes 4) TV stations, and because I was the only kid in the house, being the one who had to get up and change the TV by hand.
8 tracks
Being so cool that I had one of those black cassette players in my room.
AM radio
The very first time that frozen yogurt came out. It tasted like....yogurt. No one remembers that real taste anymore. Not even yogurt tastes like yogurt anymore.
When the first Burger King came to my town. Up until then, it was either McDonalds or Jack in the Box.
Eating every meal at home. Going out came around once or twice a month.
Being shocked and amazed that ANYONE would pay $20 to mail something overnight. FedEx had made their appearence.
Dungeons and Dragons were played by the weirdos.
Using a computer meant punch cards, and who the heck would want to mess with that when you had a slide rule at hand!
Seeing Saturday Night Fever in the theater and dying to take Hustle lessons.
Later, competing in Hustle contests on lighted floors, in platforms, satin pants and glittery tube tops.
blue eye shadow.
Lip smakers
Trolls
Pet rocks.
"You got chocolate in my peanut butter!"
"You got peanut butter in my chocolate!"
Going to the skating rink and skating to disco. (I hated disco, though.)
String art!
I saved all my lawn-mowing money all summer for one of those Texas Instrument calculators. I was so pissed when the price dropped drastically a year or so later.
Scholastic Book Club. Do they still have that? I used to get so many books from them.
Blacklights
Mood lights
Disco Balls
Velvet Elvis
Funky carpets in your home
Beanbag chairs
Platform boots
Bell Bottoms
Leisure Suits
Having no: microwave or vcr
How about having to cram a matchbook underneath your 8 track in the machine so that it wouldn't drag?
The Shure V15 Type 4 cartridge, and how it made any turntable suddenly explode to life?
Billy Jack. "An Indian isn't afraid to die. Don't ever expect the white man to understand that".
Pong. How many weeks were spent swatting that electronic blip back and forth?
The Honda CB750 motorcycle, the baddest thing on two wheels.
Cars had 140 on the speedometer and they MEANT it.
16mm movies and those projectors with the sliding screen on a stand.
The Midnight Special.
Lee Majors running at 65 mph.
"Book him, Danno. Murder One"
Rock shows with 3 or 4 big bands, festival seating, and tickets for around $9 or $10.
Oh, yeah -- shag carpet on the *walls*.
Coca-Cola's : "I'd like to teach the world to sing.. in perfect harmony" on that grassy hilltop.
Love American Style
M*A*S*H in it's original airing ( not reruns )
designer jeans with the stiching on the back pockets
Logan's Run
Star Wars !
Corvette Summer
Charlie's Angels (the first time around)
Farrah's hair
Tube socks
Sweat bands
The beginning of the jogging craze
pot, incense, black-lite posters
oh, yes, macrame... lots and lots of macrame
fondue pots
everything was "burnt orange" "avocado" or "harvest gold"
Oh man.. how could I forget... I have to wonder how many 12 to 15 yr old boys did NOT have that (in)famous Farrah Fawcett "red swimsuit" poster back then.
Speaking of that... the amount of dances where Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven was the last song of the night.
Stubby Beer bottles
mood rings...army jackets...beer can collections...smiley faces
punk rock
Oh, oh. Remember the public service announcements about littering, with the crying Indian? Keep America Beautiful? The teary actor was Iron Eyes Cody, and though he claimed to be Native American, he was actually Italian.
chico and the man
Didn't it seem like everything on TV was made by Ronco?
And I couldn't get the Dr. Pepper song outta my head if I tried.
"I'm a pepper, he's a pepper, she's a pepper, we're a pepper, wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?"
I remember playing kick the can after dark. Sometimes we didn't lock the doors.
Happy Days
I had all of the Kiss and Charlie's Angels bubble gum cards. Wish I still had them today.
A loaf of bread was like $.40. (mom used to send me to the corner store)
And at that corner store they had $.02, $.05, and $.10 candy. I filled up a paper bag for $1.
Bad Co. was my favorite when they first came out. Zep were gods and nothing got me jumping more than Sabbath.
i remember the popeil pocket fisherman and that thing that put studs all over your clothes, and i had a record player with the needle in the top that would only play when you closed the lid...i thought it was the coolest
and who can forget "billy don't be a hero"
Sea Monkeys!
Starsky and Hutch
All in the Family
Roller Disco
Chopper Bicycles.
Space Dust. Sweets/Candy that you put on your tongue and it fizzed, in the late 90's they bought out a Wonka bar that did the same thing.
Skateboards (the first time round) and the cheap plastic versions you could buy.
Curly straws - wound round themselves about two feet long in total.
Roller Derby!
The family car was a Gran Torino wagon
What the heck was a seatbelt used for?
Cork walls
Brown - everything was brown
Don't forget the lovely colors of appliances - Harvest Gold, Avocado, whatever that brown was called.
John Denver
Easy Bake Ovens
Shrinky Dinks!
Legos first came out
Nike's were invented
the BiCentennial
Grease, the movie
Drive-In Movies were on their last leg.
I could go on and on - anyone want to join me?
