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re: Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:04 am to Tall Tiger
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:04 am to Tall Tiger
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was a child of the 80s and it was great, but I wonder if it would have been better to be a child of the 70s and then been a young adult in the 80s.
This was me. Was exciting to get an Atari. Remember when cable was coming down our street. Thought it was awesome to rent movies at a store. We had a movie theater that only cost a buck. Concert tickets were 10 dollars. And of course having all that great music from the 70's and 80's.
Growing up, my parents had a grocery and bait store on a lake. We were the first to have old school jet ski's. Country group Alabama came to our store in their tour bus and wanted to go fishing. I fished with them and they were cool as hell. They laughed when I was not in awe. I was into Motley Crue at the time.
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Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:12 am to dukke v
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The only thing on the down side were cars……
You think so? Maybe it’s bc I was young and dumb but I remember my Momma getting the 25th Anniversary Corvette and my daddy getting one of the first IROC Z28s in BR area and thinking that was one badass ride. I remember him racing every 84’ Vette (The year the new body style came out) we saw on the interstate bt Destin and BR. I’d have to jump off that middle area of the back seat or my arse would burn like hell.
Those were their fun cars but had a Buick Park Avenue for the family car. That car was pure luxury for the times. This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 9:18 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:35 am to USMEagles
The world's fair is my earliest memory. I remeber the kiddie wash and the Marta very well. I remember giant naked statues too. I was 3.
Everything else is hazy. But that's the furthest back I can think.
Everything else is hazy. But that's the furthest back I can think.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:45 am to SquatchDawg
Freshman year at LSU was 1980 - great time!!
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:48 am to SquatchDawg
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Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
I'm all in!!
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:07 am to rsbd
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Through about 95, then boom straight to shite
This is so accurate. The first thing that I noticed was that music was really starting to suck...and it's only gotten worse since then. I was 25 at the time, so it wasn't a "these kids and their crazy rock and roll" moment.
The 21st Century really sucks, compared to the last few decades of the 20th.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:12 am to SquatchDawg
I think we can all agree that no matter when you came up, pre-internet > post-internet for kids.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:13 am to SquatchDawg
There was a cataclysmic shift on this planet after 9/11. America has been in rapid decline since. It’s like we are living in an alternate reality, Biff’s 1985.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:13 am to tigerbait3488
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Born in 70 and being a teenager in the 80’s was so great. We had the best sitcom’s as well. I am lucky to have been a kid in that decade. Was fricking amazing
Being born in 70, I'm old enough to remember getting cable in the late 70s. It's amazing how, at least until stations went off the air for the night at around 2 am, it never seemed like a challenge to find something worth watching.
Now, we have 200+ channels and there is hardly ever anything worth watching on them.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:15 am to SquatchDawg
Not only was it accepted but it was widely adopted throughout all of society to be patriotic and proud of America. I'm talking blacks, whites, Hispanic, Indian, etc. Completely different times now.
Nobody walked around on pins and needles scared to death that you were going to offend somebody. Comedians could truly go all out in their routine and that shite was funny.
Don't even get me started on the movies and music that came out over that era. Instead of trying to reboot everything with a diverse cast, they were busy making movies. Music was actually a band, and not an artist paired up with a bunch of supporting musicians.
Nobody walked around on pins and needles scared to death that you were going to offend somebody. Comedians could truly go all out in their routine and that shite was funny.
Don't even get me started on the movies and music that came out over that era. Instead of trying to reboot everything with a diverse cast, they were busy making movies. Music was actually a band, and not an artist paired up with a bunch of supporting musicians.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:16 am to raineysky
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I was born in 1960 so all my teens were in the 70's
I bought my first house around 75, fixed it up and sold it in 78 to get my second house. Interest rates were insane back then for home loans----like double digit interest. I got lucky and assumed a loan at a decent rate and had enough cash to offset the balance. If not, I could not have moved up at that time.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:16 am to RealityTiger
What Reality said.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:17 am to TejasHorn
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Helicopter parenting became a thing.
Did it? My friends and I seemed to have plenty of freedom to do whatever we wanted. I've always thought of it as the latch key kid generation.
You might have had a certain time to be home. But most of the time, our parents didn't know where we were or what we were doing.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:22 am to Zappas Stache
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Every geezer since time immemorial thinks when they grew up was the best. Kids today, in 40 years will be starting shitty threads lime this.
You need to spend more time observing children if you really think tha...
Scratch that. Leftist wackjobs and children don't mix.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:25 am to TejasHorn
quote:I don't think that really started till the 90's, to be honest.
Helicopter parenting became a thing
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:25 am to RealityTiger
I feel for the future…..
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:26 am to SquatchDawg
Totally agree. This post brings back good memories.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:27 am to SquatchDawg
50-60’s were the best for me. No worries of being mugged, leave bikes, sports items all over the yard at any times and at night. Nothing got stolen. Arguments settled by wrestling around a few punches and no head stomping when someone was down. Happy music and lots of friends to play with. Awesome time.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:36 am to SquatchDawg
I enjoyed being a kid in the 80s.
I think the key was being a kid, not the 80s. For anyone with a reasonably happy upbringing it doesn’t matter what decade you grew up in bc being a kid is/was awesome. Unless your childhood was in the Great Depression or something like that.
I think the key was being a kid, not the 80s. For anyone with a reasonably happy upbringing it doesn’t matter what decade you grew up in bc being a kid is/was awesome. Unless your childhood was in the Great Depression or something like that.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:38 am to Yewkindewit
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50-60’s were the best for me. No worries of being mugged, leave bikes, sports items all over the yard at any times and at night. Nothing got stolen. Arguments settled by wrestling around a few punches and no head stomping when someone was down
My childhood was like this in the 80s. I guess it depends on where you lived.
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