Anonymous
09/04/2025 13:42
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
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.
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.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 08:30
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
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
09/04/2025 08:28
Subject: Re:What was best about the 1980s?
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
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
09/04/2025 07:31
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
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.
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
09/04/2025 07:08
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
Birdwell Beach Britches
Anonymous
09/04/2025 00:13
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
That they ended.
Or all the terrible cocaine driven music.
Also bomb popsicles.
Or all the terrible cocaine driven music.
Also bomb popsicles.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 22:55
Subject: Re:What was best about the 1980s?
Acid-washed jeans and Gotcha shirts
Anonymous
09/03/2025 22:36
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
Joe Gibbs Redskins!!
Anonymous
09/03/2025 22:29
Subject: Re:What was best about the 1980s?
Anonymous wrote:Ronald Reagan
+1
Anonymous
09/03/2025 22:27
Subject: What was best about the 1980s?
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
Double slouchy socks in boots
Happy face tshirts with those circular “belts” that gathered it at the side
Spandex with stirrups
Jaw/ banana clips