The 1980's

demarpaint · Mar 21, 2015

Originally Posted By: Turk
Originally Posted By: Trav
It was my favorite decade, unfortunately i don't remember much of the details, it was a decade long booze fueled non stop party and i lived it to excess.
Everything after that sucks and today is worse than i could have ever imagined.

You & me both, Trav................

You guys are in good company, and spot on. My good times started in the mid to late 70's and ran right through the 80's. Those were the days. LOL

Turk · Mar 21, 2015

Originally Posted By: demarpaint

You guys are in good company, and spot on. My good times started in the mid to late 70's and ran right through the 80's. Those were the days. LOL

Yea, it started crawling out of my basement bedroom window, walking up to my friends house & then pushing his Mom's '72 Ford Maverick, 3-on-the-tree, out of the driveway, down the street to start it, and going driving all night. THEN, we would run low on gas and have a hard time finding a gas station open!

We were out when Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed. We were devastated and "Free Bird" was playing all night.....

We stopped doing it when it was a cold night and his Mom got into it to warm it up. It blew heat right away and she said to her Husband "Gee Kenny, I got a great car; it blows heat right away!"

Chris142 · Mar 21, 2015

Anybody posted 867-5309 yet?

53' Stude · Mar 21, 2015

no, but I remember Rick Springfield!!

rjundi · Mar 21, 2015

Originally Posted By: Brian Barnhart
Fletch

Its all ball bearing these days.....

rjundi · Mar 21, 2015

I graduated in 1990 so remember high school well.

Beastie Boys, RUN DMC, Tone-loc played at high school dances and slow songs. Kids break dancing in jr high. My parents getting a junk mobile 1984 Amc/jeep Wagoneer(fancy cherokee with wood tacky paper on sides).

Driving randomly in my mums Saab 900 turbo convertible and the girls who loved to cruise about to no where.

Learning Logo and basic on Apple computers. Fortran programming on unix with VT100 dumb terminals in high school. Interestingly those computer skills I learned I still remember now when I have to go into AIX or linux server remotely and use the vi editor still.

Paying $1/gallon for gas.

Putting cassette adapters into 8 tracks.

GSCJR · Mar 21, 2015

Originally Posted By: Chris142
Anybody posted 867-5309 yet?

In my jukebox too!

Tommy Tutone

"For a good time call...."

97tbird · Mar 21, 2015

80's:
Some very good British music and some very bad British music.

demarpaint · Mar 21, 2015

Originally Posted By: Turk
Originally Posted By: demarpaint

You guys are in good company, and spot on. My good times started in the mid to late 70's and ran right through the 80's. Those were the days. LOL

Yea, it started crawling out of my basement bedroom window, walking up to my friends house & then pushing his Mom's '72 Ford Maverick, 3-on-the-tree, out of the driveway, down the street to start it, and going driving all night. THEN, we would run low on gas and have a hard time finding a gas station open!

We were out when Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed. We were devastated and "Free Bird" was playing all night.....

We stopped doing it when it was a cold night and his Mom got into it to warm it up. It blew heat right away and she said to her Husband "Gee Kenny, I got a great car; it blows heat right away!"

I had a 70 Maverick, LOL. It was an in between car, in between a good car I sold hoping to step up, I had it longer than I wanted. I stepped backwards on that one.

Now I wish I could have all the money I spent on beer back. I would have retired long ago. I often wonder how many Olympic pools my friends and I could have filled with it.

andrewg · Mar 21, 2015

I think back to the 80's often. I am 52 years old now....but back then I was feeling young, vital, ALIVE...and ready to have fun!

I DID have lots of fun. Fun with the ladies...fun being on my own for the first time...and fun just living my life as everything was fresh and new.

I was proud of our president and my country.

The music was happier and more varied.

Race was not a huge issue....at least not in the same context as today.

Attitudes between people seemed friendlier....more accepting of one another.

TV? Most of it rather corny compared to today. But I greatly enjoyed Magnum, PI among a few others.

artificialist · Mar 22, 2015

I was born in 1984, so I don't remember the 80s well.

I do remember one thing, wireframe graphics were cool. I loved them.

The other thing I remember was the cars my parents drove. Mom had a 1985 Nissan Maxima and dad had a 1987 Hyundai Excel. I had a few friends with 1986 and 1987 Maximas, and they all suffered the same problems. I remember the Hyundai Excel because it moved at a snail's pace.

eljefino · Mar 23, 2015

Shannow · Mar 23, 2015

Year 10 closing dance, hottest girl in the school dragged me out for this one...think it was a pi$$take.

All the good 60s and 70s pre-emissions cars were available for tens of hundreds of dollars...had my first fulltime job, and as long as I drove it to work on Monday morning, weekend engine rebuilds weren't unheard of.

javacontour · Mar 23, 2015

Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit

The INF treaty
The end of the cold war/fall of the Berlin Wall

Lived these two personally.

Was in Berlin, Christmas Eve 1989 when the section of the wall at the Brandenburg gate was opened.

I was in Germany because I was serving with an Army unit impacted by the INF treaty. We had Soviet inspectors who would call up and announce they wanted to see the missiles. Which meant a few minutes of looking at missiles, then some quality time at the PX to fill up empty suitcases to take western merch to the Rodina (motherland.)

Benzadmiral · Mar 23, 2015

Ghostbusters ("Ray! If someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!!!")

The Terminator ("That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. And it absolutely will not stop until you are dead!")

Playboy Playmates Karen Price and Kimberly MacArthur; and Dorothy Stratten in Galaxina ("The Blue Star!")

My wife No. 2 (think Jan Smithers, Bailey on WKRP in Cincinnati)

Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok," Laura Brannigan's "Self Control," Ray Parker's "Ghostbusters," Huey Lewis & the News and "Heart of Rock 'n' Roll," Kenny Loggins's "Danger Zone"

My first VCR and recording the first reruns of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." since 1968

Bennigan's and Halloween costume contests

$1.10/gallon gas

Cristobal · Mar 23, 2015

Jane Badler.

I was in a traffic jam in Venice, CA, in 1983. There was a stalled Mercedes convertible that caused it, stuck in an intersection. So when I came up on it, I laid on the horn for about a minute non-stop.

There were two gorgeous women in it, and one was Jane Badler.

I still treasure the memory of her giving me "the bird."

Tempest · Mar 23, 2015

Heather Thomas, Robotech, Heather Locklear, Max Headroom...

hotwheels · Mar 23, 2015

Originally Posted By: Tempest
Heather Thomas, Robotech, Heather Locklear, Max Headroom...

You just reminded me of the movie Heathers - when Winona Ryder was not yet a klepto and Slater wasn't an addict. Also remember Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts, before her niece Emma Stone was born, and Vincent D'Onofrio who had not yet achieved the size of a baby whale.

hotwheels

aquariuscsm · Mar 23, 2015

Don't know if this was mentioned,did anyone have a Swatch or wear Jams?

Spazdog · Mar 24, 2015

The 1985 Honda CMX250 Rebel was $1295. (about $2700 in today's dollars. The current price for the Rebel is $4199.)

The only significant difference is the side cover.

National speed limit was 55mph. You could go anywhere in the nation on a Rebel. The only limitations were the rider and the distance between gas stations

The EX500 was $2899. - in the ballpark of the CB500 today.

You could still buy small pickups. Almost every manufacturer had one.

I had an Emerson knockoff of a Walkman. It was huge for a personal cassette player but it had an FM receiver. Run forever on the AA batteries as long as you just used the radio. Cassette would kill them quickly. On one particularly long ride, the cassette player started dragging so I stopped, switched to radio, and took off again. The station was playing a set of 4 songs over and over again. The Hooters' "All you Zombies", Tears for Fears' "Shout", Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F", and Phil Collin's "Sussudio". I should have stopped and changed the channel but I wanted to see how many times they would repeat. I still hate those songs to this day.

The 1980's

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