Perception vs Reality- growing up in the 80s
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That looks like a girls room...mine was covered in car posters.
Big difference between the family hallway, and my personal bedroom...
Big difference between the family hallway, and my personal bedroom...
GON
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I had to google her. Guess I am from a bit older time, we had Suzanne Summers and Farah Faucett posters.
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I have a @AutoMechanic poster in my room now.
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I thought this was the poster to have.
Actually, it was this one...
During the late '60s and early '70s I had a map like this on my wall. Kept reading about a country there and wondered if my future included a free all expenses paid trip to it.
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Singapore is on that map and Singapore was founded in 1965..... so I think you likely had an older map on your wall.......During the late '60s and early '70s I had a map like this on my wall. Kept reading about a country there and wondered if my future included a free all expenses paid trip to it.
In 1985-86 I visited 10 countries on this map. I did a brief 5 minute visit to Laos by swimming across the Mekong River from Thailand. Aw, to be young again. Thanks for posting it.During the late '60s and early '70s I had a map like this on my wall. Kept reading about a country there and wondered if my future included a free all expenses paid trip to it.
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Ugh that paneling. The house I grew up in had it. Terrible!
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SS,
Looking at homes across the US on a daily basis that are for sale, plenty of the paneling still in place today!
I don’t mind the paneling, but then again I like a lot of things 1950-80. Maybe, it’s a nostalgic thing because it was in the house I grew up in. It was an 1800 SF farmhouse built in 1877. My great-grandfather bought it in 1943, jacked it up, and had my two great-uncles hand-dig the basement, two wheelbarrow loads, each day after school. Great grandpa put a 13-course cinder block basement down there, but there were some house resettlement cracks in the plaster. When he remodeled the house around 1965, about 90% of it got wood paneling to cover the cracks. Now, I’d say only 60% is wood-paneled.
I happened to see two '80s music videos last night. Just like back in the day, I wondered where (outside pop videos) people actually dressed like Prince in "When Doves Cry." Certainly not in my one-stoplight town, and I never saw it in Chicago or Denver, the two biggest cities I visited back then.
As a video, "You Might Think" by The Cars held up strangely well.
Posters: Heather Thomas for the win. And '80s metalheads will recall that "FTW" had a different meaning back then.
As a video, "You Might Think" by The Cars held up strangely well.
Posters: Heather Thomas for the win. And '80s metalheads will recall that "FTW" had a different meaning back then.
Same here.During the late '60s and early '70s I had a map like this on my wall. Kept reading about a country there and wondered if my future included a free all expenses paid trip to it.
"Paneling: A Surprisingly Easy Way To Make Any Room Less Attractive"
- Dave Barry
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