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Post by MrsOldManBalls on Mar 21, 2005 14:58:39 GMT -4
...the biger your hair /the more solid your wall of bangs was, the cooler you were.
..zinc pink lipstick was the coolest shade of lipstick(even if you had no business wearing it).
...pants were so tight you needed help getting into them. ...Bruce Willis was supposedly second fiddle to Cybil Shepard on Moonlighting.
...people stayed home on Friday nights to watch Miami Vice.
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ldhenson
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Post by ldhenson on Mar 21, 2005 15:57:13 GMT -4
I remember the "no VCRs" thing, although in my house this went on for slightly longer than average because my parents resisted buying one for a couple of years. I resorted to putting a tape recorder in front of the TV just to get the audio--and hoping that no one interrupted me or that the phone didn't ring or that the pet bird didn't screech--which I didn't get away with often.
And yeah, those $90 movies on video. Though I think that was only in the first few weeks of its release, then it would start to come down in price. Whatever, I just couldn't wait until Back to the Future (all one of 'em) came out on video, because Michael J. Fox was Just. So. Cuuuute!
I remember you couldn't be cool in school unless you wore, at various times as the fads hit: snap bracelets, friendship bracelets (macrame'd from thread, though I never learned the trick myself), or friendship pins (beads on safety pins attached to your shoelaces, the more pins the better). This was true for both boys and girls. The biggest was those thin "jelly" bracelets (when they were popular the first time); super-cool girls wore up to 40 per arm, or wore them looped in pairs, or traded with each other for certain colors. Scented pencils and scratch-n-sniff stickers were also, at different times, hot trading items.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2005 16:54:39 GMT -4
I never got the hang of it, either. When I was in fifth grade, this girl would make them and sell them for 25 cents on the playground.
I still have my old jelly bracelets and I even wore them for fun last weekend.
I got two WIWYAs, mostly directed towards the tweens:
- eight year olds didn't have to sit in car seats
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- parents still drove their cars after having kids rather than getting bigger vehicles.
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tmi
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Post by tmi on Mar 21, 2005 17:00:04 GMT -4
"I remember you couldn't be cool in school unless you wore, at various times as the fads hit": Certain barrettes of my youth (which combined with the wannabe feathered hair how? I can't quite remember, but it can't have been anything good). The wholesome barrettes: the ones your friend had braided with very skinny silken ribbons which hung down with little beads on the end (?) IIRC? One on each side of your head. Or perhaps more daringly, only ONE side pulled up for a sort of early eighties Veronica-lake look, with feathered bangs. The bad-girl barretes: fashioned from roach clips, with leather thongs and dyed feathers. Later, barrettes went away, and girls began experimenting with that revolutionary new hair care product: mousse. ETA: The first line is ld's, but the quote box didn't work for some reason-- want to give due credit.
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Post by roseland on Mar 21, 2005 17:33:36 GMT -4
When I Was Your Age:
There was no Ticketmaster. If you wanted tickets to a concert, you had to go to the venue to get them. And, if it was a popular act, you brought your sleeping bag, your cooler and your drug of choice and camped out.
I listened to music on albums or 8-track cassettes. And the coolest thing ever was having an 8-track player in your car.
Most rock bands were as stoned as I was when they played a concert.
There were no music videos. If you wanted to see your favorite rock group play your favorite song, you stayed up until midnight on Friday and watched Don Kirschner's "Midnight Hour."
Everyone in a position of power was white and male. (So somethings do get better)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2005 19:10:59 GMT -4
Oh, yeah, we also wore banana clips. If you had a cheapy banana clip and your hair was too thick, you'd spend the day reclipping it to the top of your head, yanking out random hairs at the nape of your neck in the process.
Having a Hollywood actor is a political office was a new thing (we've always had actors, but not all of them have come from Hollywood).
This was a bit later, but guys would shave their heads all the way around, but leave the top long. Then they would actually shave words and sport team logos into the head stubble (Vanilla Ice started this, I think, w/ the stripey eyebrows).
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missmsry
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Post by missmsry on Mar 21, 2005 19:13:36 GMT -4
When I was your age. . .
My Dad made us go to the matinee of the Beatles concert because he didn't think we were old enough to be out after dark.
...little Ricky and I were born the same year. This is so painful.
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Post by Brookie on Mar 21, 2005 19:30:25 GMT -4
I love this thread already@!@!@!@! WIWYA: - The Beatles became popular and performed on the "Ed Sullivan Show", which I watched on my own black & white television set in my bedroom. The folks were shocked at their radical "long" hair and oddball suits & "Beatle Boots". (10)
- Watched JFK's funeral on same B&W TV. (10)
- "We had to walk 26 miles to school, rain, snow or shine, uphill both ways with no boots....." (sorry I had to add that one)
- Kids walked to school in the rain. We walked to school in the snow. Nobody shut down the schools for a couple of flakes.
- The Mickey Mouseketeers had Annette Funicello (NOT Britney Spears) as the girl everybody wanted to be.
- You actually had to get up off the couch to change the TV channel MANUALLY!
- "Records" (yes, records - I have 'em too) came in two versions - stereo and mono, mono being the cheaper version. Horrible sound compared to stereo, but I have the entire Beatles collection in MONO and some day, I'll be able to sell them and probably buy "Neverland" from Crazy Mikey. And every once in a while, you had to pull out the needle in the arm of the record player and push a new one in.
- Gas was 25 cents a gallon. I used to drive my dad's Cadillac and volunteered to fill it up every time (hell, two bucks would do it).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2005 20:30:21 GMT -4
WIWYA:
NKOTB, not Nsync, were the boy band of choice.
McDonald's was a treat. (Any fast food was, actually...)
Lot's of 80s kids have already covered the rest.
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Post by Karrit on Mar 21, 2005 20:41:00 GMT -4
WIWYA-
David Letterman was on in the Morning...
and I had to rent a VCR to watch the movies....
(This thread reminds me of my dad, who used to ask my friends how old they were and then when they said "Twelve," he would say ""When I was your age I was 15!")
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