remember the 80s?
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Kids today LOL 
. You left out Magnum PI. Fyi I turn 67 in 28 days hah!
. You left out Magnum PI. Fyi I turn 67 in 28 days hah!
RobertJ.
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Kids today LOL
I'll be 64 on the 30th!
It's my "Beatles birthday"...
By todays standards, 5 years ago are the good old days lol!
Geez, you are making me feel really old. My "Good Old Days" are late 60's early 70's.
Hell, I was there. I stole that one.
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I was born in the 80s, so I didn't have the experiences a lot of other guys did. But what a time to grow up.
Not sure I'd agree.
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Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Donald Trump and Joe Biden were punchlines for Johnny Carson. S&W models 39 & 59 were high tech and Glock was a misspelling of a timepiece that hung on the wall and had hands. A communications monopoly was broken up by DOJ. We cautiously began using RICO against drug cartels, because after all the law was meant for the Mafia. Jim Rockford had the only answering machine and Sonny Crockett the only car phone.
As I prepared to start a trip last week my bride said "I suppose you'll leave at the crack of dawn" and I shot back "Might as well, I was there for the dawn of crack". Ah, the 80s.
As I prepared to start a trip last week my bride said "I suppose you'll leave at the crack of dawn" and I shot back "Might as well, I was there for the dawn of crack". Ah, the 80s.
Ivan the Butcher
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When I watched George Jetson, I thought the flying cars would be here before now! I wonder what happens when you text and drive a flying car? Clip a skyscraper?
Ivan
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I had a marvelous time.
I spent half of the 80s overseas, so I didn't see a lot of the crazes. We got a single satellite channel in Japan just as I was leaving in Jan 87, so AFRTS/FEN wasn't the only channel there any more.
When I got to Scotland, there were some US shows that were imported and shown on BBC2.
We had theaters on base in Japan and Scotland, but I worked rotating shifts, so seeing a movie for the short time it was there was really hit or miss.
When I got to Scotland, there were some US shows that were imported and shown on BBC2.
We had theaters on base in Japan and Scotland, but I worked rotating shifts, so seeing a movie for the short time it was there was really hit or miss.
LVSteve
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Ahh the 80s. Too many memories and pictures I cannot post on this forum. 
I graduated high school in '86, so, I remember the first half, not so much the second half.
I believe the 80s was the worse decade of my life. Thank goodness for lawyers. It's all in what you like, but I think we had better music in the 60s & some of the 70s. (Disco doesn't count as music.) I demolished my van and bought a utility pole at the same time around '83. Married & divorced twice in the 80s. Learned all about Domestic Relations. Steel mill shut down & I lost my house (which led to 2nd divorce...beauty isn't everything!) End of the 80s I started my final career. Life got good; much better in the 90s.
coltle6920
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When you're as old as some of us here it is a rollercoaster ride starting in the sixties.
We've managed to survive in spite of ourselves.
We've managed to survive in spite of ourselves.
Just off the top of my head...1980ish memories where "change" affected me.
Got an Amana Radar Range (microwave) oven. Huge too.
Got a Motorola pager from work.
Got a Sprint phone credit card also from work.
Got a Casio watch with a calculator and an alarm.
Purchased a Savage double-barreled shotgun for $80.
Purchased a 6" Model 19 for $250.
Bought a Honda Civic that averaged 44 mpg, cost $5,500.
Purchased ceiling fans for the house.
Bought an Izod sweater for church.
Bought Duckhead pants for church.
Gave a Rubiks Cube a try, with the church kids.
Work purchased me a new Nissan Hardbody truck that cost $5,000. What happened to Datsun?
Saw the movie Top Gun. Wow! Those dogfight scenes!
Bought a $7 used book at the bookstore and taught myself how to write database programs on an IBM AT personal computer.
Went to the local college math department to see their experimental Sun computer that would web connect to MIT.
Remember getting excited over Word Perfect, then Lotus 123.
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Called my boss "Hey, Reagan just got shot!"
Eating breakfast at Jimbos. Saw the news and the ice sickles hanging off the Saturn 5 rocket, on their black and white counter TV. "Hey, that thing ain't built to launch in freezing temperatures. That's why they pick Florida in the first place" I said to the customer beside me.
Minutes later, we witnessed the Challenger explode, mid air.
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Got an Amana Radar Range (microwave) oven. Huge too.
Got a Motorola pager from work.
Got a Sprint phone credit card also from work.
Got a Casio watch with a calculator and an alarm.
Purchased a Savage double-barreled shotgun for $80.
Purchased a 6" Model 19 for $250.
Bought a Honda Civic that averaged 44 mpg, cost $5,500.
Purchased ceiling fans for the house.
Bought an Izod sweater for church.
Bought Duckhead pants for church.
Gave a Rubiks Cube a try, with the church kids.
Work purchased me a new Nissan Hardbody truck that cost $5,000. What happened to Datsun?
Saw the movie Top Gun. Wow! Those dogfight scenes!
Bought a $7 used book at the bookstore and taught myself how to write database programs on an IBM AT personal computer.
Went to the local college math department to see their experimental Sun computer that would web connect to MIT.
Remember getting excited over Word Perfect, then Lotus 123.
More...
Called my boss "Hey, Reagan just got shot!"
Eating breakfast at Jimbos. Saw the news and the ice sickles hanging off the Saturn 5 rocket, on their black and white counter TV. "Hey, that thing ain't built to launch in freezing temperatures. That's why they pick Florida in the first place" I said to the customer beside me.
Minutes later, we witnessed the Challenger explode, mid air.
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Ahhh yes the good ole days, Tet 1968.
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