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June 12, 2015 at 10:43 am
Anyone else remember walkmans?
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June 12, 2015 at 10:50 am
Who could forget the Walkman? It let you take poor quality music everywhere.
I can't believe I ever listened to cassettes.
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June 12, 2015 at 10:57 am
Can't forget the casette players. I saw an 8-track tape once. Also floppy disks for computers.
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June 12, 2015 at 10:57 am
Does anyone remember the series, The Day After about nuclear attack?
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June 12, 2015 at 10:58 am
I didn't watch many movies back then. I missed out on some classics like The Terminator, Alien, and The Princess Bride.
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June 12, 2015 at 10:59 am
(June 11, 2015 at 9:05 pm)Beccs Wrote: I was born in 84 so have vague recollections of the 80s.
Love much of the music, though.
That's was the year I left school.......feeling old now.
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June 12, 2015 at 1:53 pm
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I was born in 1974, so I was 6 through 16 in the 80's. I remember Guess Jeans (I never had any, but everyone else seemed to), and Back to the Future movies,
Music I liked included Duran Duran, Huey Lewis and the News, George Micheal, Billy Joel and Billy Idol, The Pet Shop Boys, and as I got older, Metallica, Ozzy, Motley Crue and Guns 'n Roses.
I didn't get a ton of access to the TV (my mom hogged it, lol), but I remember watching ALF, Family Ties, Night Court (Loved this show), Cagney and Lacey (My mom always loved a cop dramas) and The Golden Girls. I still love the Golden Girls.
I never had giant hair, but I feathered it. I remember being at a horsemanship camp, and the cabin reeked of RAIN hairspray. Gack. The smell of that hairspray triggers some wacky emotional response for me to this day.
My little brother was obsessed with Transformers, so I remember those, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, too. I also remember falling in love with the Phantom of the Opera at about age 13 (Rock Opera, YEAH!!!). My mom even took me to see it Live in Victoria Canada when I was 14, one of the greatest times of my young life. I became obsessed with Sarah Brightman, and that obsession lasted until about 7 or 8 years ago. I still love her, but I not longer obsess over her.
There's more of course, but those are some highlight I guess.
