What was best about the 1980s?

[Anonymous]

Freaky freezy gloves
Double slouchy socks in boots
Happy face tshirts with those circular “belts” that gathered it at the side
Spandex with stirrups
Jaw/ banana clips

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ronald Reagan

+1

[Anonymous]

Joe Gibbs Redskins!!

[Anonymous]

Acid-washed jeans and Gotcha shirts

[Anonymous]

That they ended.


Or all the terrible cocaine driven music.

Also bomb popsicles.

[Anonymous]

Birdwell Beach Britches

[Anonymous]

Malls - I can still smell Mrs Fields cookies with the wood panel mall decor in the background

Hair

It’s 10pm do you know where your children are?

We were free, we felt free — the late 90s things changed and that freedom because fear. Kids were outside less, there seemed to be more awareness of crimes.

[Anonymous]

Best:
no social media; no internet; no phones
dance parties and dinner parties
going out to the movies

Worst:
HIV/AIDS
Reagan and the rise of the Republican bullshit attack on government

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Early 80s in Cambridge MA:
Date nights at Orson Welles Theater. Wursthouse or Athenian Taverna midweek dinners.
Roku or YenChing dinners.
Walking through Harvard Square. Getting DH his first and only tweed jacket and knit tie at Stonestreet's.
All the independent bookstores.
Getting our used 1976 Rabbit and driving to Concord and Lexington to see leaves. Getting pumpkins at a stand on Rt 2. Once even a fresh turkey. We were adventurous drivers, going to Sturbridge or Stockbridge even on icy roads for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. The Willow Pond Kitchen for lunches.

My Cambridge in the early '80s --
Passim
Grendel's
the Hong Kong
Pappagallo
Steve's

[Anonymous]

Man...I graduated HS in 93, so I was a younger kid during much of the 80s, but it was a fun time for sure...

We spent our summer vacation in OCMD every year and got to know folks who came the same week as us...fun exchanging letters with them as we built up to our week at the beach. Walking the boardwalk, Thrasher's fries, the Purple Moose, The Brass Balls Saloon. I still can't believe my folks actually bought me a "Bearded Clam" t-shirt!

Road my bike everywhere and thought I was cool because I saved up to buy an early Cannondale mountain bike - thought my college age cousin was the coolest and he had one. He even took me to the bike shop to make the purchase!

The acid wash jeans - I had an acid wash jean jacket in 7th grade along with the matching jeans - that was a lot. Movies in the 80s - Back to the Future, Top Gun! We had a local theater that we could walk to - we'd stop at the local pharmacy and buy cheap snacks that we'd sneak in. LOL.

Yeah. It was simpler then, but was it better? Maybe.