Anonymous wrote:The ironic part of the 80s was having a Hollywood cowboy as a President. American politics amaze me.

Hollywood manufactures reality.

Jordache jeans with the horse head on the pocket
Add-a-bead necklaces
Schoolhouse Rock

Michael J Fox and Back to the Future

The Great Space Coaster

The ironic part of the 80s was having a Hollywood cowboy as a President. American politics amaze me.

Land of the Lost

Will was hot.

anyone remember party lines? You'd dial a number and other kids would get on? We'd connect with guys using this line and then we'd meet at the mall!

omg

Let me pop my collar here . . . .

-- Erasermate pens. Pens that erase?!?!? To a 5th grader, this was genius. That the ink smudged and faded within hours was of no consequence. Pure genius.

-- Speaking of the 5th grade, that was 1980-81. Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th President of these United States. My Western Nassau County, Long Island elementary school marked his ascension to the highest office in the land with duck-and-cover drills in the hallway that spring. We actually filed in the hallway, crouched against the wall, and covered our head with our windbreaker jacket.

-- I read "1984" in 1984. Scared witless.

-- Paper routes. I had one for Long Island's Newsday. Kids don't have paper routes anymore; grown-ups do.

-- Video arcades as a teen destination in every mall in America. Video game machines in the most random places. Hey, there's one at the grocery store. Hey, there's one at the gas station. Hey, there's one at church. (Not mine, but the Catholic church had one. God Bless the Catholics!)

-- Carrying dimes for the payphone to call my mother to pick up me from the mall.

-- I had a birthday party at the roller skating rink when I turned eight, and a party at the bowling alley when I turned ten. There were video game machines there, too.

-- We were an Intellivision family, and we pitied Atari 2600 families.

-- Dot-matrix printers and looooooong banners on perforated printer paper.

-- Max Headroom. I have no explanation for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember "the magic garden"? Carol and Paula were hippy chicks singing children's songs, puppets. Based out of Long Island, I think

No, but I remember Wonderama.

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Romper room ?

Wow, was just about to post about Romper Room! Also, Today's Special.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember "the magic garden"? Carol and Paula were hippy chicks singing children's songs, puppets. Based out of Long Island, I think

No, but I remember Wonderama.

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Romper room ?

Wow, was just about to post about Romper Room! Also, Today's Special.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember "the magic garden"? Carol and Paula were hippy chicks singing children's songs, puppets. Based out of Long Island, I think

No, but I remember Wonderama.

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Romper room ?

yup!

H.R. Pufnstuf? totally written by dudes on LSD - How else do you explain that?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember "the magic garden"? Carol and Paula were hippy chicks singing children's songs, puppets. Based out of Long Island, I think

No, but I remember Wonderama.

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Romper room ?

Anonymous wrote:If you had "cool" parents, you knew about cool 60s and 70s music too. While my mom listened to Joan Baez and other folk music, my dad had a ton of cool old records like Cream, Led Zeppelin, Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, even some early Bowie. And Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. I loved going through his record collection and of course we had a huge cabinet stereo. We also knew a ton about disco and somehow had a ton of disco 8 tracks.

I'm an older Xer, and we had to learn the Hustle in PE class.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember "the magic garden"? Carol and Paula were hippy chicks singing children's songs, puppets. Based out of Long Island, I think

No, but I remember Wonderama.

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