What is this 1980's memory?

[Anonymous]

In elementary school, I remember either commercials or ads or perhaps even something in school that revolved around inner city imagery, for lack of a better way to explain it. Graffiti, basketball courts, public housing. Usually in black and white. Does anyone have similar memories? What was this? I grew up in a regular old middle class Midwest town, so this is baffling to me.

[Anonymous]

There's a lot of things. Did it make you feel happy? Sad? Music?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of things. Did it make you feel happy? Sad? Music?

Afraid. I was worried that was how adults lived. Can't remember music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In elementary school, I remember either commercials or ads or perhaps even something in school that revolved around inner city imagery, for lack of a better way to explain it. Graffiti, basketball courts, public housing. Usually in black and white. Does anyone have similar memories? What was this? I grew up in a regular old middle class Midwest town, so this is baffling to me.

Cereal commercials.

We were going to eat Apple Jacks in a graffitied alley in the 1980s for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Sesame Street intro titles.

[Anonymous]

The Fresh Prince intro

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking now it might have been posters. Could it have been Just Say No campaigns?

[Anonymous]

Snippets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sesame Street intro titles.

I lived in a dull Midwestern suburb and subconsciously longed for the city. When I had my first job in NYC and moved into a shared apartment in a poorly-maintained brownstone, it felt like coming home. I eventually realized that it was because I was living out my childhood dream of living on Sesame Street!

[Anonymous]

Intro to Good Times?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking now it might have been posters. Could it have been Just Say No campaigns?

Just Say No, afterschool specials, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”…it could be so many things.

[Anonymous]

Fat Albert?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking now it might have been posters. Could it have been Just Say No campaigns?

Agree it was probably anti drug related. Like the fried egg: ‘this is your brain on drugs’ or the ‘when I grow up’ ad.

Do a video search for ‘partnership for a drug free America’

[Anonymous]

Political ads?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sesame Street intro titles.

I lived in a dull Midwestern suburb and subconsciously longed for the city. When I had my first job in NYC and moved into a shared apartment in a poorly-maintained brownstone, it felt like coming home. I eventually realized that it was because I was living out my childhood dream of living on Sesame Street!

Peoria, by any chance?