Back to the 80s: Get thee to a DeLorean!!

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[Alkhin]

Since so many on here are 'pairing off' into their own generational groups...and I cannot join any of them because I a member of the loathed GenX group, *I* am going to start a thread of my own, featuring MY website. JimRob, if this is not suitable for your site, I understand if you take it off, but I cannot help myself. The others are having just too much fun!

So, my fellow 80s children, what was your fav music/event/fashion/movie from the decade that featured the best darn President of the 20th century, Ronaldus Magnus????

You'll have to go to my website to see mine!! *wink* *wink*!! LOL

Back to the 80s: Get thee to a DeLorean http://www.geocities.com/radthing/index.html

[Dan from Michigan]

They used laser discs back when I was in Grade School.

[green team 1999]

rambo, first blood!

[Fraulein]

What fun! I grew up in a large city so I was also able to see many acts, like the Ramones, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Dead Milkmen, Love N Rockets, OMD, New Order (at Six Flags!), Depeche Mode, Iggy Pop (Janes Addiction opened), The Church, Cocteau Twins, The Cramps, Pigface, Siouxie, Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, KMFDM, Concrete Blonde, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Peter Murphy,Einsturzende Neubauten, the Cure, Information Society, INXS,etc.

Anyone remember the Panama Jack and OP (Ocean Pacific) fads? Remember when microwaves were a new thing?

[operation clinton cleanup]

Night Flight ruled! What was that hostesses' name. Remeber the freaky animations and short flicks. Cant leave out the late 80's Head Bangers Ball... MTV has gone down hill ever since!

[Fraulein]

They are making a "Facts of Life" reunion movie. I saw an interview with the actress who played Blair, and she looked just the same! She is still very pretty, so perhaps you might want to check it out!

[operation clinton cleanup]

I had 3 Ocean Pacific shirts! I remember my first cable T.V. movie (on Showtime) "Over the Edge". Matt Dillon.. Kids smoking pot... Cheap Trick... This movie was outragious! Then again it was 1980 and MTV was a couple of months away!

[operation clinton cleanup]

I bought a Commodore 64 for 225 dollars. Took me two hours to program a stick bird flapping its wings! Got old when you had to start everything over after you turned the power off!

[Sabertooth]

I spent the Us Festival in Op shorts and black, horned rimmed RayBans.

I saw the Dead Kennedys open for the Cramps and the Clash in 1980 at the Kezar Pavillion in San Francisco.

Saw the Pretenders a couple of times in '81 and '82, before half the band OD'd.

Saw The Flirts, Modern English, The Ramones, Bow Wow Wow, The Stray Cats, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the X-Fest in San Diego in '83.

Modern English, Oingo Boingo, and The Police a few months later at SDSU.

It was a very good time.

[Timesink]

Who can forget the dawn of cable TV with only 13 channels?

That was 1973 for me, not the 80s. I was only three years old. I can barely remember what the available channels (the non-local ones) even were, except for HBO. I remember channel 2 was the local police scanner (!), while a B&W security camera was aimed constantly at a mechanical rotating lazy-susan with various PSA posters glued to it (wear your seat belt, stuff like that) flipped around.

Wow, I'm totally blanking on what else was available...

[Timesink]

Anyone remember the Panama Jack and OP (Ocean Pacific) fads?

I had a number of both, and just found some OP shirts in the basement last week! They still exist too, as some pale shadow of their former selves, trying to make themselves cool again amongst the brain-dead surfer/skater communities.

Remember when microwaves were a new thing?

God, I hope not. Microwaves have been around since the '50s.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Anybody still have a ....
BETAMAX!

[Fraulein]

Microwaves have been around since the '50s.

Ooops. I guess my family was behind.

[537 Votes]

Walter Mondale, Sandanistas, AIDS, Chernobyl, Challenger, the Cold War, KAL 007, PC jr., Michaal Jackson . . . shall I continue?

[The South Texan]

Beatmax. Oh yea and SONY didn't stop making it till the late 80's when they started making VHS's.

[The South Texan]

Scarry thing is that Micheal Jackson is still around. Only weirder. His sister Janet looks alot better though. She was chunky in the 80's.

[Fraulein]

2XL robot, Speak n Spell, Dirty Dancing, Menudo, New Kids on the Block, jelly bracelets

[primeval patriot]

Book of Love, ABC, MTV when it was 24 hours of non-stop video, Nite Flight, beautiful new wave girls. ahhhhhhh

[steelwheels]

Cabbage Patch Kids, mini vans, 1984 Mercury Zephre, yellow power ties, fajitas

[Fraulein]

E.T., Velcro sneakers, Culture Club, Hulk Hogan, Gremlins, Transformers, Return of the Jedi, MadMax, Mork and Mindy, Freddy Kreuger, and lest we forget...it’s our cat-eating friend from planet Melmac....

[Benrand]

Op...the only shorts I ever wore...

Totally forgot about that. I had some cool Vans too, checkboard/Spicoli colors, no laces. They didn't last too long, though. BMX was an 80's pehnomenon.