Eunös ✈
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Apr 8, 2022 17:02:30 GMT -5
There was a lack of chairs.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 8, 2022 17:42:44 GMT -5
Cable TV was a big deal.
It was long enough ago that some people still had rotary phones or even black and white TVs.
Vinyl records were still very much a thing.
A lot of stuff had faux wood paneling on it. TVs, Ataris, cars, etc. There was a lot of houses with wood paneling on the walls too.
Most people's sofas had ugly floral pattern on it.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast actually showed the parade and wasn't just an endless commercial for Broadway productions.
Cartoon specials during prime time were a big deal.
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Post by Hurbster on Apr 8, 2022 18:55:15 GMT -5
Many things were acceptable.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Apr 8, 2022 19:37:37 GMT -5
Old Satellite TV was so fascinating. Had a buddy with ultra rich parents and we'd get on the dish (an actual big ass satellite dish that would actually move around) and we'd explore for channels. You could find the craziest shit from all over the place. This really makes me want to track down the John Ritter movie Stay Tuned. |
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 8, 2022 20:09:25 GMT -5
It was long enough ago that some people still had rotary phones or even black and white TVs. I remember rotary phones being a thing well into the 90’s. Hell, my grandmother still had one in 2007 but not the desk style ones. It was a wall hanger that the handset had the rotary dial on it I much prefer the general aesthetic of the 80’s to the 90’s, a living room designed and outfitted in 1986 is much cosier to me then 90’s shit. And I was born in ‘86, didn’t truly grow up in the 80’s. But living in rural Manitoba, the 80’s didn’t really end until like 1994 here. It was weird |
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Post by Larryhausen on Apr 8, 2022 20:22:12 GMT -5
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 8, 2022 22:33:32 GMT -5
No one knew what rap was, but they knew it was fascinating. Like this: That show existed! I thought I dreamt that nightmare!!! |
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Post by bibboid on Apr 8, 2022 22:44:59 GMT -5
Movies- Everything by John Hughes, the National Lampoon movies that were actually funny, the best action heroes (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, mid career Clint Eastwood),Star Wars V and VI, Robocop, Aliens, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and the start of Bill & Ted. The beginning of Eddie Murphy, Bruce Campbell, and Tom Hanks’ careers.
Music - spandex clad hair metal bands competed with post punk new wavers to rule the airwaves. If you preferred pop, you could have Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, or Madonna.
Television- NBC ruled the comedy scene (Cheers, Wings, Cosby, night Court). Animation had a boom (Transformers, Thundercats, He Man, Star Blazers, Inhumanoids)
Fashion - Big hair ruled. Color was king and the brighter the better. Pink Lacoste polo shirts were all the preppy rage. There was lace and spandex and metallics and latex and all sorts of colors and textures. And best of all was the birth of Zubaz.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 9, 2022 0:35:34 GMT -5
If you wanted to play a video game, you had to go to an arcade, and you had to pay a quarter to start the game. If it was a popular game, you had to wait in line and be big enough so that other players wouldn't push you out of the way or steal your money. If you were bad at the game, you went through a lot of quarters. If you were good, you'd have other players standing around you and either asking questions about how you figured out how to play, or jackasses trying to sabotage you so you couldn't beat their top scores.
Unless you had an Atari, an Intellivision, or a ColecoVision. But those games paled in comparision to the arcade games.
Video stores existed, but VCRs were expensive.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Apr 9, 2022 2:17:07 GMT -5
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Apr 9, 2022 8:05:11 GMT -5
Cartoons were cool
It was fun picking out a cereal while grocery shopping
You had to wait for your favorite tv show to be on
Buying cassette tapes was great, but you normally bought them for one song and the rest of the cassette sucked. But you were 10 and that $8.99 was almost two weeks allowance
Watching sports was more fun because you didn’t have a hundred thousand other things to watch
Everybody wasnt videotaping one another, you could hide and not have one mistake haunt you for all eternity
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Post by ERON on Apr 9, 2022 8:32:48 GMT -5
Aside from the "Satanic panic," and the "boys will be boys" attitude taken by parents and teachers toward bullying and sexual harassment, it was a great time to be a kid. Malls, arcades, and Toys R Us stores were magical places to visit. Cartoons were better than they had ever been (though they would get even better in the '90s). Video games were in their golden age, and toys were in a renaissance. The music was great, and Hollywood was putting out gem after gem. The NBA was rising to new heights. And we were too young to understand what was really going on in places like Russia, Afghanistan, Libya, Colombia, Ireland, Ethiopia, etc.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 9, 2022 10:43:58 GMT -5
I was a small child born halfway through, but I remember we had the best cartoon/toy commercials.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 9, 2022 13:13:17 GMT -5
It was long enough ago that some people still had rotary phones or even black and white TVs. I remember rotary phones being a thing well into the 90’s. Hell, my grandmother still had one in 2007 but not the desk style ones. It was a wall hanger that the handset had the rotary dial on it I much prefer the general aesthetic of the 80’s to the 90’s, a living room designed and outfitted in 1986 is much cosier to me then 90’s shit. And I was born in ‘86, didn’t truly grow up in the 80’s. But living in rural Manitoba, the 80’s didn’t really end until like 1994 here. It was weird We had a black, wall mounted rotary phone in our house well into the mid-90s. I remember when we first got a modem we had to use some sort of special setting to make it work since the phone line was set up for rotary. |
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 9, 2022 13:20:31 GMT -5
Cartoons were cool It was fun picking out a cereal while grocery shopping You had to wait for your favorite tv show to be on Buying cassette tapes was great, but you normally bought them for one song and the rest of the cassette sucked. But you were 10 and that $8.99 was almost two weeks allowance Watching sports was more fun because you didn’t have a hundred thousand other things to watch Everybody wasnt videotaping one another, you could hide and not have one mistake haunt you for all eternity You could afford a cassette tape from 2 weeks allowance? Lucky f***er haha. I grew up in the 90’s and only got $2 a week for allowance, Canadian no less when it was at its weakest, it was like $15 for a cassette tape and close to $20 for most CD’s |
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Post by wankah on Apr 9, 2022 13:47:24 GMT -5
Too many drum machines and them synths. New romantics, new spazzers more like.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Apr 9, 2022 15:30:40 GMT -5
The cartoons were epic and manly. Masters of the universe, Thundercats, Transformers. And they all had kick ass theme tunes. |
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Post by chrom on Apr 9, 2022 15:33:59 GMT -5
Cartoons were cool It was fun picking out a cereal while grocery shopping You had to wait for your favorite tv show to be on Buying cassette tapes was great, but you normally bought them for one song and the rest of the cassette sucked. But you were 10 and that $8.99 was almost two weeks allowance Watching sports was more fun because you didn’t have a hundred thousand other things to watch Everybody wasnt videotaping one another, you could hide and not have one mistake haunt you for all eternity You could afford a cassette tape from 2 weeks allowance? Lucky f***er haha. I grew up in the 90’s and only got $2 a week for allowance, Canadian no less when it was at its weakest, it was like $15 for a cassette tape and close to $20 for most CD’s Two bucks a week for allowance? Your father wouldn't happen to be Scrooge McDuck? |
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Post by Gremlin on Apr 9, 2022 15:40:07 GMT -5
The 80s were radical to the max.
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 9, 2022 15:42:24 GMT -5
You could afford a cassette tape from 2 weeks allowance? Lucky f***er haha. I grew up in the 90’s and only got $2 a week for allowance, Canadian no less when it was at its weakest, it was like $15 for a cassette tape and close to $20 for most CD’s Two bucks a week for allowance? Your father wouldn't happen to be Scrooge McDuck? I don’t want to make my parents sound bad at all, they’re amazing and we lived a very comfortable middle class life, but they only gave me the $2 a week so I’d have to really appreciate it, save up for something I wanted and wouldn’t be tempted to spend it on a candy bar or something. There were plenty of opportunities to earn extra money, be it helping dad in the shop, babysitting my sister, hell I ran my own lemonade stand and toy/card sale multiple times growing up, the $2 was basically my minimum wage. But yes, my father is cheap as f***. To paraphrase a sentence my friend once used to describe my dad, “if your dad sat down at the bar with a bunch of Scrooge McDuck’s, your dad would be the dude who managed to to walk out with money” |
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