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Refugee
Since I was born in 1973 and stuff (and am fast approaching the tender age of 29), I thought I'd make a list of all the things I remember of the 80's. Everybody else is doing it.
OK. I know there's a helluva lot more, but I'll stop.
Moonie
- The Challenger exploding (I was one of the unfortunate school children who were watching it live)
- Cerritos Air Disaster (Air Mexico and another small plane crashed mid-air over Cerritos, CA and barely missed the mall my mom and my grandma were in by three miles)
- My Buddy/Kid Sister dolls
- Kids Incorporated! K...I....D....S Yeah!
- Pretty in Pink/Sixteen Candles
- Weird Science was da bomb movie
- Using words like "rad" and "gnarly" were part of every day speak.
- Aquanet to make my hair BIG.
- Folding the bottoms of my pants. I still remember how to do it, too.
- Baby-doll shirts matched with leggings. (sent my Christian high school into conniptions - we weren't allowed to wear them because if the pants weren't worn with the shirt, the shirt would be considered obscene. I didn't care 'cause I wouldn't be caught dead in that.
- Converse hi-tops. I was one of the only girls in my school who wore them. I had an average of 3 pairs.
- VANS!
- Stirrup leggings
- Guess jeans
- Jordache jeans and the commercials
- Miller's Outpost dudes - remember them? The two cowboys?
- stirrups for my pants.
- Rubber bracelets (and what scares me is they're BACK!)
- Robo-tech
- Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man
- Pound Puppies - came with their own little dog houses and everything!
- Lite-Brite (many a Saturday morning was spent with numb fingers, creating those designs)
- Shrinky-Dinks - baking plastic! What could be better for the environment?!
- National Lampoon's Vacation - WallyWorld. The first rated-R movie I ever saw.
- All 3 Indiana Jones movies: 1981, 1984, and 1989.
- Return of the Jedi was *the* best Star Wars movie.
- Who's the Boss?, Silver Spoons (RICKY SHROEDER!), Diff'rent Strokes, and Punky Brewster
- I want my MTV.
- Gremlins - terrified me.
- That absolutely horrid commercial... "This will be our little secret." - I absolutely hated that commercial. The image of that man putting that little girl's dress down and then saying "This will be our little secret" has been burned into my brain. Make it go away!
- This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
- The A-Team - where no one every got hurt.
- MacGuyver - where he could stop a bomb with a pair of hockey tickets, make a bomb with a paperclip and some gum, and generally be one cool mofo.
- 21 Jump Street rocked my socks.
- Charlie's Angels
- headbands - a-la Olivia Newton John in her "Heart Attack" video
- Mullets - the cool boy in my 8th grade class had one. I kid you not.
- Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
- Salt-N-Peppa - Push It
- Michael Jackson wasn't a freakazoid
- Madonna - Borderline. I remember when that song came out
- The Bangles! First record I ever bought. Walk Like an Egyptian
- U2 performing live on top of a liquor store in Downtown LA - and I wasn't able to go.
- President Reagan getting shot.
- That's Incredible! TV show with that Fran guy.
- Who could ever forget the MUPPETS?!?
- The Goonies - Hey you GUUUUUUUUUYS!
- Lean on Me (both the movie and the re-made song)
OK. I know there's a helluva lot more, but I'll stop.
Moonie
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