70's/80's

[Blynn]

Hi folks,


What are some of your favorite memories from these decades? (If you are old enough to remember)


Do you remember pet rocks? I still have mine. :o How about mood rings?



Anyone else have any??


God Bless,
Roberta

 

[StogusMaximus]

Evil Knievel
Star Wars
Atari
Rubik's Cube
Switchblade Combs
Lava Lamps
Viewmaster
Slip n Slide
Clackers
Rock'em Sock'em Robots
Slime

 

[ZiSunka]

Bell bottoms
long straight hair
hot combs
uniperms
disco (ugh!)
smilie faces
hair brush/hair dryer combinations
crocheted vests
earth shoes
mopeds

oops. I might be showing my age here.

 

[Wolseley]

Return of the POWs from Vietnam.

Fall of Saigon, the Mayaguez incident.

Nixon's resignation.

Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

The Bicentennial.

Jim Jones and his band of fruitcakes offing themselves.

The Iranian Revolution and the hostage situation.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

214 Marines killed in Beirut.

The Challenger explosion.

The U.S. attack on Libya.

Tiananmen Square.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

[ZiSunka]

Wow Woolseley! Those are almost all negative things. Do you have any happy memeories from that time?

 

[ZiSunka]

Pong!
wristwatches the size of manhole covers
blacklights
Kent State
"Give Peace A Chance"

 

[HisPeculiarTreasure]

I don't have any solid memories, but I must say that I just liked the fact that I was born

 

[Wolseley]

Wow Woolseley! Those are almost all negative things. Do you have any happy memeories from that time?

It's the College History Major Syndrome coming out in me.

Dark Shadows.

Linda Ronstadt and Billy Joel.

The 1972 Buick model year, any make.

The Bicentennial.

The Eagles.

Wide leather belts with big round buckles.

Girls with ironed hair.

Karen Carpenter (Man, did I have a thing for her....!!)

My high school principal falling on his keester during an assembly because he couldn't walk on his groovy stack shoes on the polished gym floor. I never laughed so hard in my life.

 

[Blynn]

How about pop rocks? They were painful.


Captain and Tennille

The Love Boat

Fantasy Island

The Donny and Marie Show

Spiral perms

Good memories guys.


God Bless,
Roberta

 

[ZiSunka]

Bobby Sherman
Mark Spitz
Starsky and Hutch

 

[Blynn]

Charlie's Angels
Mary Lou Retton
The Bee Gee's
Bo Derek and her beaded hair



[move] [/move]

 

[WayneH]

Wow......... not sure I can remember that far back....

Graduation in mid 70's
Joining Marine Corps
Getting Married in late 70's
Two Daughters in 80's

Nixon
Watergate
Vietnam ending
first car

 

[suzanne]

Memories...

It's funny, some of the things on others lists are what my girls have today..bellbottoms, lava lamps, long straight hair, mood rings
Don't remember too much of the 80's...busy changing diapers and getting some sleep

suzanne

 

[Hannah]

The Bee-Gees oh, yeah, the memories. The Eagles, man those were the songs. Does anyone remember CCR. I liked them too. Oh, I remember the 70's and 80's, REO SPEEDWAGON, AIR SUPPLY, BLONDIE. Does this mean I am getting old??????

 

[HisLamb]

Love Boat
Fantasy Island (de plane! de plane!!!)
All In The Family
The Jeffersons
M*A*S*H
Pac Man
Space Invaders
Music Videos
Madonna
Cindy Lauper
Weird Al Yankovich
Reagan getting shot

 

[ZiSunka]

Frogger
pinball
peace marches
space food sticks

 

[solo66 man]

Self-indulgance and disco

 

[Redeemed1]

Those were my drug years. It's all a big blur, altho much of what you guys remember is familiar to me. I was in the Army for the early 80's. I remember Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, especially the song "Sylvia's Mother" for some dumb reason. By mid-80's I was done with drugs and had my daughter. Things become a little clearer after that. But not much!

 

[TheBear]

The Cars
Devo
U2
Modern English
Talking Heads
KC & the Sunshine Band
Hall & Oats
Aerosmith
Cheap Trick
Air supply
Wang Chung
.......to name a few.

Oh! Don't forget...
Maranatha
Andre Crouche....
(racking my brain to find more Christian music of that era)

John

 

[amie]

oh I love 80's music!!! I have good memories...high school, i graduated in 1989...I remember my hair....it was sooo curly and so BIG! I look at pictures now and laugh! I remember my Junior Prom in 1988...so fun! I wore a green dress that I loved, it was that shiny metallic material..remember? and I went with my first love....he was so cute! his name was Sean...we ate blueberry muffins on the beach together..oh memories!