80's Baby....

well not quite a baby in the 80's but it's when I was a kid and growing up... only thing I got out of being born in the 70's was a pic of me wearing brown and yellow plaid... hello?!? WTF... even in the late 70's that had to be tacky... wait, my gran had the funky orange shag, and a moss green couch set....maybe it was in style

anyhow in searching for strange things, like the canned sandwich, I stumbled onto an 80's page and it got me remembering all the really cool stuff I played with back then

Just a sperm not even in my daddies balls yet ! Yay for the 80's !

lol how sweet

Crimped hair! I still have my first crimp iron! WOOT!


Also, I remember watching Live Aid with my aunt on TV. It was amazing.

British Knights tennis shoes! I saved up my allowance and bought a pair, although I could only afford the plain white ones. The ones I really wanted were the black lace pair seen at second 16 in this commercial:



(even though the commercial says 1990, I am pretty sure I was sporting the shoes in the late 80's)

Hawwwttt!!!

Swatch Watches!!

Cabbage Patch craze.

Tapes! My first tape was Madonna True Blue that I bought with birthday money to play in my brand NEW Boom Box!! I was SOO excited.

Does anyone remember Hypercolor Tee-shirts? I had one. It was pretty fantastic.

The video at that link reminded me of THE hottest dance move: The Running Man!

Last but not least, BIG bangs! The bigger, the better.
Note: this is not me. I will not permit photos of me from the 80's to see the light of day. Plus, I was just a kid then.


Doesn't it make you cringe when you see the 80's fashions coming back in style?? Why???

The Asian girl in the Toys R Us commercial, I've seen her on a few TV shows since, all grown up.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697010/

I do not miss shoulder pads.

They forgot my Glamour Gals!

Not only did I have the collector's case, but I had the cruise ship too.

And Lady Lovely Locks!



And Gloworm!

I remember my crimping iron, it was pink and had 4 different plates with it... also got a pink phone for my 12th birthday I felt so cool.

Of course a nintendo when I was in grade 8, and like 15 games... one of them being Zelda.... my favorite game ever, that I never ever finished. But having 15 games for a nintendo did make me a pretty popular girl lol

Nightmare on Elm Street.... omg I loved that series, I remember watching I think it was #4 like 6 times in a row at a slumber party... a slumber party that included me (and yes Jill this is when it all started) dancing on my best friends coffee table, all decked out in a horrid makeover that included HUGE HUGE hair, and gawd awful electric blue eyeshadow, to samantha fox's touch me

They video taped it...thankfully someone accidentally taped over it as my best friends mom saved it for 8 years... hoping to play it at my wedding

I used to go to the arcade and play games lke Street Fighter, Pacman and The Simpsons. But I remember my first personal game was Tetris for original Gameboy. And someone at school stole it. So as soon as I started using the net, I had a Tetris playing obsession.

My Little Ponies? That might have been very early 80's. I remember getting Michael Jackson and Laura Brannigan tapes with my very first boom box. And when I was old enough (in my mind, not my mom's ) to wear makeup I remember getting blue mascara and Wet 'n Wild eyeshadows at the drugstore.

I had the pony castle, and the she ra castle...and of course the coolest bike ever for my 6th birthday, a strawberry shortcake one, with the banana seat (I was such a spoiled kid)... oh yea, and one of the very first run of cabbage patch kids. you know the whole beat someone up in the store for the last one craze? my dad was almost punched by some psyco mom cuz he picked up the last one in the store as she argued with her daughter if she wanted it or a barbie more dizzy now has her