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Spring Break: Totally Rad Photos from the '80s
weather.com ^ | n/a | Camille Mann

Posted on 07/04/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by FlJoePa

Some great photos.



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: fl; springbreak
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Yes - it's a slide show. It's 70 pictures long.


1 posted on 07/04/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

A lot fewer tattoos, I’d guess.


2 posted on 07/04/2014 10:14:26 AM PDT by greene66
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To: FlJoePa

Summers in the 80s were just pure magic.

You could actually relax and party, because the only thing you really had to worry about were Soviets on the other side of the world, not operating out of the White House.


3 posted on 07/04/2014 10:15:26 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: greene66

And the people in their 20s look 20 years older than 20-somethings today.


4 posted on 07/04/2014 10:17:10 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: FlJoePa

Reagan was what was great about the 1980s. The music, fashions were not.


5 posted on 07/04/2014 10:20:15 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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music was way better in the 80s than that 70s crap that passed for music.


6 posted on 07/04/2014 10:21:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: greene66

A dearth of over weight people.


7 posted on 07/04/2014 10:22:29 AM PDT by upchuck (Everyday, Joe Wilson becomes more correct!)
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To: truth_seeker
The 80's were all good. Recent song about summers in the 80's...

...We didn't have no internet, but man I never will forget the way the moonlight shined upon her hair...

8 posted on 07/04/2014 10:23:10 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: VanDeKoik

“And the people in their 20s look 20 years older than 20-somethings today.”

Holy Krap...you are right, half of those “20’s” look like they are well into their 40’s.


9 posted on 07/04/2014 10:26:02 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: FlJoePa

Cool. That looks like a long time ago. Another world.

I wish I was old enough to remember the 80s.

Oh wait. I do.


10 posted on 07/04/2014 10:34:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: greene66

I thought they had color film by then?


11 posted on 07/04/2014 10:34:54 AM PDT by BobL
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people in their 20s looks older...

You are so right. Startlingly so in fact.

Wonder what accounts for that?

The kids also look healthier and happier, beer and "dangerous behaviors" notwithstanding (riding around in the back of a pickup---can't even do that in Montana anymore!).

No electronics. Cops trying to keep the kids reasonable without shooting people or animals. Beer and some booze instead of meth, oxy, bath salts...

Better times in many, many ways.

12 posted on 07/04/2014 10:37:34 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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This slideshow sort of shocked me into realizing that it really WAS a long time ago. Different and better times as well.


13 posted on 07/04/2014 10:40:30 AM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Secret Agent Man
music was way better in the 80s than that 70s crap that passed for music.

Oh ya, disco was awesome! /snark

14 posted on 07/04/2014 10:41:52 AM PDT by MileHi
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To: FlJoePa

I remember color film being the norm in the 70s, let alone the 80s. What’s up with all the B&W pics?


15 posted on 07/04/2014 10:46:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I don’t know. I didn’t take them.


16 posted on 07/04/2014 10:47:32 AM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Secret Agent Man

You wouldn’t say that if you had listened to Zeppelin, the Stones, Aerosmith and BTO instead of spending so much time with disco.


17 posted on 07/04/2014 10:49:03 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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And the people in their 20s look 20 years older than 20-somethings today.

At first, I thought that it was due to all of the moustaches being worn then.

Then I remembered that the eighties were still a time when moving out of your parents' home was considered a priority once you graduated.

18 posted on 07/04/2014 10:51:02 AM PDT by CASchack
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The 80’s was what Don McClean was prophesying about when he said “the day the music died”.


19 posted on 07/04/2014 10:52:33 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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I think it was a matter of these guys living in an time where you were allowed to be more physically active, more physical, and take more risks. It wasn’t considered bad to grow real facial hair, have some muscles, and be a dude.

I think that it was also more attractive to be an adult and get some freedom than it is with 20 year olds today. Many of whom actually buy superhero under wear, spend all day playing video games, argue over comic book characters, and want to look more like an androgynous teenager.


20 posted on 07/04/2014 10:54:59 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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