What is this 1980's memory?

[Anonymous]

I don't know about TV, but in the early/mid 70's there were school books with bleak black and white photos of inner cities.

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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’

Thanks - I think this had to be it. Some of those are BLEAK.

I learned from YOU, Dad…I learned it by watching you!

LOL! I know exactly what you are referring to. Soooo needed a chuckle today!

[Anonymous]

Degrassi junior high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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’

Thanks - I think this had to be it. Some of those are BLEAK.

I learned from YOU, Dad…I learned it by watching you!

You’re worthless! I wish you were never born!

[Anonymous]

It was 100% not a TV show.

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Anonymous wrote:The Fresh Prince intro

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Anonymous wrote:It was 100% not a TV show.

Literally any clip of NYC in the early 80’s would look like what you described 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different Strokes?

LOL it wasn't until I was an adult and understood that they lived in NYC and what that apartment meant that I could truly appreciate how wealthy mr drummond was. As a kid I just liked the cool bunkbeds.

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Anonymous wrote:Sesame Street intro titles.

Yeesss‼️
I grew up in the eighties & this was the very first thing that popped in my head after reading this post.

This and electric company. There were lots of urban things on that felt very "other" to suburban kids. But then California (ET, ChiPs) was pretty out there too. TV was another world.

[Anonymous]

I was a kid in NYC in the 70s and all those opening sequences from cars and trains (like Welcome Back Kottee and Sesame Street) just looked normal. If I find a clip of that kind of stuff on YouTube it just makes me feel young. I remember when the subway was “colorful” . I think it’s why I often feel that most of DC has no,character.

[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.

Nike commercials used this in the 80s - selling basketball shoes bc that’s what kids in the hood wore and they got drafted to the NBA so all should buy them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope this works, OP. If not, it’s the intro and outdo of Welcome Back Kotter.

https://youtu.be/Mmm3KTa601s?si=-fwtkE6RlgXXyqBi

Could you be thinking of Sanford and Son? Good Times?

None of these shows were in black and white but all seemed gritty and depressing and stark for me as a young girl growing up in dcumlandia in the mid-70s. I’m now 55.

That welcome back kotter into was not at all gritty! God I loved that show. I think I wanted to marry Horshak. I still keep joking I’m going to sign notes from school as “Epstein’s mother” but my kids don’t think that’s funny.

I also loved Sanford and son. Anyone remember Barney Miller?

[Anonymous]

This thread made me go back and watch a Sanford and son—you gotta watch to the end of this clip. So funny:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=skMdejl_wxA&list=PLFAdtlxMl1uN6jgziRQqzgjbn_Tk5Tuya&index=2