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re: Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:41 am to biglego
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:41 am to biglego
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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.
Childhood is definitely a lot different now. We live in a pretty big neighborhood and it wasn't until Covid that I realized how many kids live here. I'd have known almost every kid in the neighborhood in a month 35 years ago. We've been here 7-8 years and I think my daughter knows 2 or 3 kids who live within 4-5 houses of us.
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Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:45 am to kciDAtaE
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Could you watch porn on your phone in the 80’s?
No, but there were these things called vcrs....
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:46 am to fallguy_1978
Exactly… I grew up in Midland Michigan. Zero crime no railroad (except for Dow Chemical ) which is where it was created, no bus stations, just a modern day Mayberry back in the 70’s. True story, I was like 4 years old and I took my play push mower over 3 miles to go mow the grass at the Country Club golf course…. Some woman picked me up and put me on dashboard scrolling certain ares where I may live and my folks were standing in the street while she drove up with me…. That was like 1964……. But still… the world was safer back then.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:50 am to SquatchDawg
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We have a trailing end of the 70s bands plus REM, Prince, Madonna, Metallica, van Halen, Guns N’ Roses etc.
Michael Jackson out sold all the the artists you mentioned.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:55 am to dukke v
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Exactly… I grew up in Midland Michigan. Zero crime no railroad (except for Dow Chemical ) which is where it was created, no bus stations, just a modern day Mayberry back in the 70’s.
I grew up in Central and there was virtually zero crime there back then.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:56 am to loogaroo
I blame Lollapalooza and the 25th anniversary of Woodstock for starting up all the weird shite
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:59 am to fallguy_1978
Good times…… I went Central intermediate which was a school for 7-9 grades… It was bigger than almost any High school I’ve seen down here… not sure if you know how big Denham HS is or the new Walker High is but they are small in comparison.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:03 am to Zappas Stache
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Negative
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Brilliant retort
Negative, Ghost Rider ??
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:13 am to SquatchDawg
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Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
Hard to know having not been born in any other era, but being born in 1970 meant that I got to experience a little 70's and all of the 80's, turning 18 in 1988. I got the true beginnings of the computer age next to tube TV's with knobs I was made to go turn as the live remote control. We went from 4 channels to cable, and we bought a Betamax instead of a VHS...but was ok with it because it recorded at a much better quality.
We were the first generation of kids with home gaming systems and computers, but still played outside until after dark.
We played sports all year long, had All Star teams at the end of each season, and no one had heard of Travel Ball or AAU.
I owned albums, cassettes, and eventually CD's as a teenager.
As you said, we grew up with great 70's bands still making an impact, plus all of the stuff that came out in the 80's...some great, some shitty but all that felt like it fit that time frame. And an extra bonus, we got to experience the early 90's Grunge music that came out at exactly the right age.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:13 am to dukke v
I went to Central Private K-10th and we had like 30 kids per grade. The stories about kids having hunting rifles in their vehicles in the parking lot was pretty accurate at that place back then.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:13 am to fallguy_1978
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My childhood was like this in the 80s. I guess it depends on where you lived.
Yea it was definitely this way in Central. The pits were walking distance from my house on Wax Rd. Hell I was driving my stepmom’s Celica all over Central at 13 by myself. I still can’t believe my daddy let me take the car at 13. And when I was 15 2010/The Zoo was the GOAT.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:18 am to GeauxTigerTM
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I owned albums, cassettes, and eventually CD's as a teenager.
Being born in 73 we still had a lot of 8 tracks and were phasing them out with cassettes.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:18 am to LSUAngelHere1
I started driving way before I got my license at 15. My dad used to send me to the grocery store or to Cracker Barrell on Hooper when I was like 12 to get him a 6 pack of Old Milwaukee's tall boys and a can of Copenhagen
I'm assuming you remember Central AG and May's AG? I used to ride my bike to May's AG for slush puppies in the 80s.
I'm assuming you remember Central AG and May's AG? I used to ride my bike to May's AG for slush puppies in the 80s.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:21 am to dukke v
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Good times…… I went Central intermediate which was a school for 7-9 grades… It was bigger than almost any High school I’ve seen down here… not sure if you know how big Denham HS is or the new Walker High is but they are small in comparison.
What town? I went to St Alphonsus and Redemptorist but started at Central High my sophomore year. Central Middle was 6-8 and high school was 9-12.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:22 am to fallguy_1978
Hey man… I will tell you this…. Growing up in Michigan was way different than Louisiana…. Y’all had it going on…. Michigan sucked…. I have found that out later in life. I moved to Louisiana back in 1980. Talk about culture shock… I was barely 20 years old and we were staying at the holiday Inn in Morgan city waiting for our shite to get here… I was sitting by the pool and no shite this like 10 year old kid came to me and said the girl that was bsbysitting him wanted to meet me… I was like WTF…. So I said heck with it and went to that hotel room and she was all over me as soon as I walked in…. shite like that didn’t happen in Michigan.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:27 am to fallguy_1978
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I'm assuming you remember Central AG and May's AG? I used to ride my bike to May's AG was slush puppies in the 80a.
Absolutely. Central AG used to be our property. I was around 2-3 when my parents sold the property to the Leaders and we built our house on Wax across from the dentist office. My uncles and my PawPaw developed both Biltmore subdivisions. My daddy’s business was on Sullivan so he wanted to be closer to his office.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 11:29 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:27 am to dukke v
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I was barely 20 years old and we were staying at the holiday Inn in Morgan city waiting for our shite to get here
True story...our 11-12 baseball All-Star team stayed at that exact Holiday in in 1982 because we were playing in a district tourney in Berwick.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:27 am to dukke v
LA was a pretty decent state in the 80s. Hell the vast majority of BR was pretty safe then too.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:29 am to Odinson
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This post brings back good memories.
This and the one about Astroworld in H-town and both were this week. I guess I never realized just how many people my age are on TD and how many posters basically grew up the same way I did, even down to how we vacationed.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:30 am to fallguy_1978
Was May’s AG on Joor at Lovett?
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