I remember watching Dick Clark on New Years Eve 1979 going in to a new decade of the 80's. The Village People performed this song that night. I loved and miss the 80's. Graduated from high school in '83. What a great time to be alive!
Any 80s kids around here?
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These things could probably go in the 90's thread as well, but since they were invented in the 80's I'm going to put it here.
Dang that brings back some memories! I thought I was the Shiite when I got my first Birdwell’s. Mine were blue though. Also had some yellow ones. Burned through several pairs over the years.I count myself as 70's AND 80's... Seightie's. I probably remember more of the 70's because from about 84-88 I was too intoxicated to remember squat. Then, it's been stone-cold sober ever since.
I grew up in both decades.
I agree with you, I hit the teenage years in the early 80’s and was in college in the late 80’s so there is a lot I barely remember from this decade!
OMG our bass player worked at Record Bar. That and Kinko's used to employ a lot of musicians back in the day.
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It was similar for me. We were in HS French class and a friend who had study hall came in from the library and was whispering to us that the space shuttle had exploded on launch. The teacher heard us talking and we told him what had happened. He turned on the TV (yeah, the old tube kind on a cart--with a VCR below!) and we watched the recap the rest of class.
We were in the cafeteria when one of my friends told me. I didn't believe him. My teacher overheard our conversation and got angry that I didn't think it had actually happened (which of course is silly, because it truly was an unbelievable event). We all went to our next class where the teacher wheeled out the TV cart and we all watched the replays in stunned silence for a half hour.
lol
The overhead projector
The overhead projector
For the win!lol
The overhead projector
My high school World History teacher was also the head coach of the football team. He basically phoned in his academic responsibilities. Since the class included the same content every year, he created a series of daily slides for the overhead projector. He'd slap them up there at the start of class and we'd copy them in our notebooks. That was pretty much it. But, I'll never forget...
Norman Invasion - 1066
Defeat of the Spanish Armada - 1588
These were the extra credit questions on every single exam. Lulz.
Back when kids got a real education! None this wussified “individual learning” crap. Back then, you learned how everybody else learned or you didn’t learn at all, goddamnit!
When you were copying notes, you didn't want to be the one who raises your hand and says you weren't done copying yet when the teacher changes projector sheets.
Here's a list of videos I used to routinely wait for eagerly... I coveted the guitars in all these videos. Some are guilty pleasure songs to this day. I was obsessed with guitars then... still am.
Anybody else remember TripTiks from AAA? Back before online maps, you'd tell AAA where you wanted to go and a few days later they would have a customized, step-by-step guide for you with your route marked in highlighter.
In the spirit of this 80s thread, I contracted AIDS today and threw some styrofoam out of my car window. You know, for nostalgia purposes. It really took me back.
I never knew you could get AIDS from shower soap. Thanks for the heads up.
Now you just steal money from your children.
If you were unaware of that, then we probably need to have a discussion about tree stumps too.
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