1980's kids: this is your thread....

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From 1982 to 1989, I was in school...Kindergarten to Grade 8.

I wish I could go back in time to the 80s.

Early 80s pop music was Nu Shooz, Wang Chung, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Bananarama
also the easy listening they always played in the mall, like Anita Baker and Sade and Luther Vandross.

I remember I loved the song " A Love Bazaar " by Sheila E.

By the late 80s, songs in regular rotation on mainstream radio were " Just between you and me " by Lou Gramm
and "That's Just The Way It Is, Baby" by the Rembrandts, and "Love with Never Do Without You" by Janet Jackson
and "Trouble Me" by 10,000 Maniacs.

I remember Reagan on TV, I remember the Oliver North trial,
I remember David Foster's theme for the 1988 Calgary Olympics,
I remember seeing Katarina Witt and Elizabeth Manley skating.

I remember Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

I remember seeing Christopher Reeve, Crystal Gayle and Debbie Harry, on the Muppet Show.

I remember that the theme music for "L.A. Law" meant it was bedtime.

I remember playing Indiana Jones on my Atari and being awestruck at how evocative the video game was, of the movie (lol kids imagination).

The first movie I ever saw in theatres was E.T.

I also saw "The Secret of My Success" at the theater and it made me want to live in New York.

The movies that most make me think of the 80s are "Working Girl" and "Crocodile Dundee", also both set in NYC.

I saw "Mannequin" at the theater and I was stunned, years later, to realize that the 'mannequin' had been played by Kim Cattrall, of Sex and the City,
and that she had also been the girl in "Porky's".

I remember when "Goonies" and "Gremlins" both came out, and was advertised on the side of the Cheerios box, and little 'Gizmo' dolls were everywhere.

I collected stickers and kept them in photo albums. I have no idea what we thought we were accomplishing.

I also wore jelly shoes, and jelly bracelets.

I owned a crimping iron. And used it. For a side-ponytail. With a fluorescent scarf.

I owned an inflatable globe made of clear PVC which I hung from my ceiling. Yugoslavia was on it.

I remember little animated shorts on TV between programs, called "La Linea". Look it up on youtube. I bet you know it.