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FernieBee Star Player
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:13 pm Post subject: 1980's |
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Zima
Leg Warmers
Bartles & Jaymes
John Hughes Movies
MTV
12-inch Singles
Dianetics
K-tel
AYDS
Jim Bakker & Tammy Faye
Reagan
Happy Days
Three's Company
Fernando Valenzuela (Fernandomania)
LA Thunderbirds
Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos
There's lots more, but that's what I remember, for now.
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C M B Franchise Player
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 19853 Location: Prarie & Manchester, high above the western sideline
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: 1980's |
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I have some bad news for you, mi Nandito. _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
Sister Golden Hair wrote: | LAMAR ODOM is an anagram for ... DOOM ALARM
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FernieBee Star Player
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Zima was 90's.
Thanks, Monty. _________________ Garvey, Lopes, Cey, Russell |
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C M B Franchise Player
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 19853 Location: Prarie & Manchester, high above the western sideline
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FernieBee wrote: | Zima was 90's.
Thanks, Monty. |
great list, bruv _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
Sister Golden Hair wrote: | LAMAR ODOM is an anagram for ... DOOM ALARM
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ChickenStu Retired Number
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New York Seltzers! |
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jonnybravo Retired Number
Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 30619
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Oooh, how about defunct 80s stores (at least the ones that didn't make it much further than the early 90sJ.
Gemco
Federated Stereo - The commercials with Shadoe Stevens were the best.
KB Toys (doesn't fit my criteria but it was basically dead by the 90s)
Best Products - I remember getting those huge catalogs. I think this jump-started my consumerism. We were dirt poor back in the day and I know a lot of peeps front like they were dirt poor but I'm talking about knowing what powdered milk tastes like and the abomination that was government cheese (no, it doesn't slice...it crumbles). I would pore over those catalogs as a kid imaging what it'd be like to have some of the things in there. My little sister and I were the youngest in our clan of 9 siblings and we'd play a game where we'd turn the page and quickly point at the thing we wanted most. Yep lame. And thus a consumer whore was born.
NPZ I'm going to need your help on this one brother. There was a membership store that was off the 60. I want to say it was close to Chino or maybe even further east. I think there was more than just that store. Boy, I remember walking in that store in the mid 80s and walking into the electronics section. It was teh only place that had the full Nintendo setup with the Power Glove to boot. My mind was blown. I can't remember the name of it. I'm almost certain there was more than one.
B-Daltons and Waldenbooks - First summer job was at the B-Daltons at the Chino Town square. Damn, I can't remember if it was a Waldenbooks or not. Growing old sucks. _________________ KOBE |
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:19 am Post subject: |
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FernieBee wrote: | Zima was 90's.
Thanks, Monty. |
And it was awesome.
Haha at AYDS. That product was resurrected into collective consciousness only a few years ago on the internets. It was a vitamin/medicine chew to lose appetite. Probably the same drug as in Dexatrim pills. Still not as bad for human consumption as Dianetics.
New Coke gotta be in there. Cherry 7up was also a big one. Crystal Pepsi was 90s tho. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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EDDIE DONX!
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:24 am Post subject: |
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jonnybravo wrote: |
NPZ I'm going to need your help on this one brother. There was a membership store that was off the 60. I want to say it was close to Chino or maybe even further east. I think there was more than just that store. Boy, I remember walking in that store in the mid 80s and walking into the electronics section. It was teh only place that had the full Nintendo setup with the Power Glove to boot. My mind was blown. I can't remember the name of it. I'm almost certain there was more than one.
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There was a big ass membership store in Chino in the late 80s called Pace. There was also Price Club, which was further off towards San Berdoo area. You could be thinking of either. Or FedCo off the 60 FW (which was known in smaller form as GemCo before that). Now that I re-read you, I'll bet you mean FedCo. I bought Nintendo cartridges there before. It closed circa 94/5 and became a police compound or somethin. You went in a circular path from entrance all the way to the registers and there was a knife shop by the exit that sold Swiss Army knives etc. That FedCo had a lot of merch, it was a fun trek on a Sat afternoon. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:54 am Post subject: |
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SONY yellow walkman
caller ID
Laser Disc
Voltus V
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angrypuppy Retired Number
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:07 am Post subject: |
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Granada
Manuel Noriega
Oliver North
Ed Koch
AIDS
Junk Bonds
Black Monday
Blue Monday (Montreal)
Joe Montana
Punk Rock/Power Pop/New Wave
Crack
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Showtime
49ers football
80's hair bands
Wally George
Nintendo
976 phone calls |
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:50 am Post subject: |
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Coke was cheap as hell and there was a (bleep) ton of it. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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angrypuppy Retired Number
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:09 am Post subject: |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | Coke was cheap as hell and there was a (bleep) ton of it. |
And coke whores were aplenty, having sex in parking lots adjoining clubs and bars. |
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XTC Star Player
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:12 am Post subject: |
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Thanks NPZ, that FedCo off Archibald and the 60 sure brought back some memories. Spent most of the time checking out the boom box display at the front of the store and/or the Atari set up elsewhere. |
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FernieBee Star Player
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Same here JB, those BEST catalogs were a favorite. Once in a blue moon, we’d actually get to go inside one of their locations. There was one on Central and the 10 near the Montclair Plaza, for electronic items, they’d send your order up via a pneumatic tube and after a long wait, the item emerges from a chute on a conveyor belt. |
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trmiv Franchise Player
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:01 am Post subject: |
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I keep reading these lists posted like I’m Billy Joel singing “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. There’s another (late) 80s one for you. |
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FernieBee Star Player
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:20 am Post subject: |
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These are video game systems we had as kids, my brother and me, right before and well into the 80's...
Atari 2600
Intellivision
ColecoVision
Nintendo NES
We weren't rich, but my father had a very good job working at a shipyard.
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The era of the ugliest cars. The one's on the road today have wheels and rims valued more then the car
Show Time era and Lakergirls
Pussycat theathers closed |
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Pussycat theaters? I once took a date to a Pussycat Theater. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:44 am Post subject: |
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easybreeze wrote: | The era of the ugliest cars. The one's on the road today have wheels and rims valued more then the car
Show Time era and Lakergirls
Pussycat theathers closed |
C'mon man . . . the Fairmont had gorgeous lines! _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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lakersken80 wrote: | Showtime
49ers football
80's hair bands
Wally George
Nintendo
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Lol at Wally George. SICK! SICK! SICK! His crowd was what the Jerry Springer format copied. Wally was Rebecca DeMornay's father, which was amazing if you look at Wally's visage. Also, Morton Downey, Jr. One of those dudes who were popular in the 80s and fizzled away at the start of the 90s. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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angrypuppy wrote: | Pussycat theaters? I once took a date to a Pussycat Theater. |
Travis Bicklesque. Strong choice. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL
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