What was the best thing about being a teenager in the 80's
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California-rolled, acid-washed jeans
Hanging out at the mall
MTV actually showed music videos - ALL DAY (Actually, I remember before MTV, we had to watch Friday Night Videos - only on Friday nights! LOL)
Prince, Madonna, Bon Jovi, GnR.... too many bands to mention...
And I like what someone said about no cell phones and no GPS and staying up talking on the phone - my sister and I shared a "teen line." I tried to explain to my 15yo daughter what a teen line was - and she was freaked out that we had to talk on a phone that was actually tethered to the wall with a cord..... ROFL!0 -
Who shot JR0
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The music, the hair, the movies (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles, etc), the overall FUN. It was a great decade. I graduated high school in 1987 when I was 17 so I got to have some fantastic 80s moments.0
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I wasnt a teenager yet.... but i was envious of the teenagers that could afford Nintendos.. and the 18yr old down the street with a Yamaha YSR..
for thoes of you who dont know what that is, its a mini sportbike...
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Folding over the bottom of your jeans and then rolling them up. Of course the jeans really needed to be acid washed for maximum coolness.0
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I actually worked in a small music store at the age of 17-18 in a smaller town, back when music stores were MUSIC stores and not huge over-run, corporate profit holes (of which I worked for in the 90's, I must admit). LOVE 80's music, all of it - the hard rock/metal, rap and the introduction of (I remember buying my first Ice-T tape in '86), Culture Club and Wham!, new wave...and driving around to all of this in my '72 Pinto. LMAO!0
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My '86 Olds 442 with the T roof off and the tunes cranked everywhere it went.
The music was pretty cool and people seemed more friendly. Girls used to start dancing in the street when the car went by.0 -
The music!0
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The music, the hair, the movies (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles, etc), the overall FUN. It was a great decade. I graduated high school in 1987 when I was 17 so I got to have some fantastic 80s moments.
I graduated in 1986. i was 16. The 80's we a LOT of fun. I still love the music and movies. I never did have mall hair, but I did perms!0 -
Vans shoes, my 67 GTO, Van Halen rockin the speakers and some herbs....
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Fewer, and easier-to-clear-up, venereal diseases!0
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since I wasn't a teen in the 80's my guess would be skateboarding while holding on to the back of a truck..... and/or traveling back in time with an old man 3x my age.0
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I couldactually go out on a Saturday morning and ride my bike all day til the sun went down. No beeper, cellphone or anything....parents just didn't worry. Try that **** now and I will report my kids missing.......such a safer and easier time then.....DISCO IS NOT DEAD, DISCO IS ALIVE!!!!!0
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Hair metal, mini skirts, concert tshirts and cowboy boots! LOVED THE 80's0
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Slap Bands0
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The music, the hair, the movies (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles, etc), the overall FUN. It was a great decade. I graduated high school in 1987 when I was 17 so I got to have some fantastic 80s moments.
^^^This. I was class of '88. I loved high school. In my senior ball picture, my hair is wider than my shoulders! And seeing Billy Idol in concert at the Seattle Coliseum ..... mmmm hmmm!0 -
Aquanet and hair metal! lol...I loved it!
I still love the hair metal...not so much the Aquanet0 -
shoulder pads, neon, 80's music, and the big hair!0
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I wasnt a teenager yet.... but i was envious of the teenagers that could afford Nintendos.. and the 18yr old down the street with a Yamaha YSR..
for thoes of you who dont know what that is, its a mini sportbike...0 -
The music, the hair, the movies (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles, etc), the overall FUN. It was a great decade. I graduated high school in 1987 when I was 17 so I got to have some fantastic 80s moments.
Graduated in 1988 but otherwise, THIS.0
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