Posted on 04/14/2013 11:05:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Enter Our Matrix of Milestones, Music, and Memories
Ditto, some of the best times and some of the worst times. To bad I could not get my mulett back and still be as cool as I am now. Oh High School, those were the days. Oh and of course Heather Thomas, Mrs Fawcet, Dana Delaney and many other crutches for my teen years.
Add Rock Hudson to that also. Who knew? I saw WHO KNEW? /Sarc
Hands off she’s mine.
I’d be hard-pressed to find something about the ‘80s I hate. Mostly the idiotic anti-America anti-nuke protests in Europe.
The best stuff:
Kung-fu Theater on the USA Network on Sundays.
Women with big hair.
A real President, who actually acted like one.
Metallica, Motorhead, and Slayer.
Quality TV: The A-Team, Fall Guy, Dukes of Hazzard, Crime Story, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Police Squad, The Greatest American Hero, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Airwolf, Blue Thunder, and Star Blazers.
Quality Toys: GI Joe and Transformers.
You could still get a ‘60s musclecar on a high school kid’s budget.
Bad stuff:
Flat-chested was in with the big hair.
The variety of firearms was nowhere near what it is today.
The Cold War- wondering if you were going to disappear in a haze of nuclear dust really doesn’t make life better.
The appearance of rap “music”....
TV: The Equalizer, Max Headroom, Amazing Stories, George Burns’s Comedy Week.
Food: Pizza Hut Priazzo (stuffed pizza — whoah), Tab soda.
He was a leftist, but I thought he had a few good tunes.
Way to go momtothree!
If the nobama chronics were around in the 80’s I hated them.
I was “reborn’ in the 80’s as well. The 70’s were not good for me. I got a draft lottery number of 308 which did allow me to stay in college thats the good news. I was going to school to go into the military through the Navy’s Officer Candidate Program. When I graduated in 1977, opportinities were gone due to Carter’s military drawdown. I went to work for Fluor Corporation in their Petrochemical Division as a field engineer. We finished a job we were doing for Mobil in Lousiana in August 1980, and the company laid us all off. I returned to my home in Tucson and did odd jobs to support myself. At that time, Reagan’s Presidential candidacy was starting to get going. I spent countless hours walking the neighborhoods of Tucson and Phoenix handing out Reagan Presidential literature since I had a lot of time on my hands. The rest is history.
XTC was great.
Like an 80’s ver of the Beatles
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