80's Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:57 am
I graduated from high school in 1990. Unlike many other folks I've met, I really liked high school. In band, I played the French Horn and mellophone. In a pinch, I would fill in for a missing trumpet player. I was in the Honor Society, the Chess Club, theater...if it was nerdy, I was there.
I was a typical 80's southern girl with huge hair and probably too much make-up. I had "tiller" bangs going, just like all my friends, and hair plastered with Aqua Net and blow dried away from my temples. Kind of like crunchy bat wings. I loved my big hair! I worked hard to get it as huge as possible.
I wore shirts with big shoulder pads and jeans with high waists. I had tiny purses which I wore diagonally across my torso. The tinier the better.
Of course, I watched Brat Pack movies. I listened to the Cure, the Violent Femmes and Big Hair Bands, too. I had a crush on Axl from Guns-N-Roses. And Ian from The Cult. (I still have a crush on Ian! It's the skull on his black cowboy hat, I think...)
Blister in the Sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxXCGhJ ... re=related
Add it Up (Warning--It's Dirty!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLVufAfby0
Wild Flower (Still LOVE dancing to this one.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuHjMbJ5 ... re=related
A month after I got married, my mom and dad had a terrible house fire. It was a total loss. My former bedroom, where all my pics from high school were located, had probably the worst damage. All of my pictures burned. Even my wedding photos. I hadn't even seen them yet, as I'd moved to California immediately after my wedding. Until yesterday, I had only a few pictures of myself in band, and all in huge group shots.
Digging around in an old box of photos at Mom's, I found a single picture of me taken in 1989. Depending on exactly when the pic was taken, I was either sixteen or seventeen years old. I can't say how thrilled I am to have it! It's in bad shape. Something chewed the corner, and there are rust spots or something on my face and the corners of the picture. But, the amazing 80's hair is there! The bangs. The hair wings. And the shoulder pads.
I'm so dating myself, but here it is (Sorry about the poor condition.):
If anyone else is brave enough to post an old high school pic, that would be fun, no matter if it was taken in the 80's or not.
Lots of other folks on this board grew up in the 80's. Feel like sharing favorite songs from the decade? Or weird 80's oddities or favorite movies? It might be fun.
Still likes Frogger and Pac Man,
KA
I was a typical 80's southern girl with huge hair and probably too much make-up. I had "tiller" bangs going, just like all my friends, and hair plastered with Aqua Net and blow dried away from my temples. Kind of like crunchy bat wings. I loved my big hair! I worked hard to get it as huge as possible.
I wore shirts with big shoulder pads and jeans with high waists. I had tiny purses which I wore diagonally across my torso. The tinier the better.
Of course, I watched Brat Pack movies. I listened to the Cure, the Violent Femmes and Big Hair Bands, too. I had a crush on Axl from Guns-N-Roses. And Ian from The Cult. (I still have a crush on Ian! It's the skull on his black cowboy hat, I think...)
Blister in the Sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxXCGhJ ... re=related
Add it Up (Warning--It's Dirty!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLVufAfby0
Wild Flower (Still LOVE dancing to this one.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuHjMbJ5 ... re=related
A month after I got married, my mom and dad had a terrible house fire. It was a total loss. My former bedroom, where all my pics from high school were located, had probably the worst damage. All of my pictures burned. Even my wedding photos. I hadn't even seen them yet, as I'd moved to California immediately after my wedding. Until yesterday, I had only a few pictures of myself in band, and all in huge group shots.
Digging around in an old box of photos at Mom's, I found a single picture of me taken in 1989. Depending on exactly when the pic was taken, I was either sixteen or seventeen years old. I can't say how thrilled I am to have it! It's in bad shape. Something chewed the corner, and there are rust spots or something on my face and the corners of the picture. But, the amazing 80's hair is there! The bangs. The hair wings. And the shoulder pads.
I'm so dating myself, but here it is (Sorry about the poor condition.):
If anyone else is brave enough to post an old high school pic, that would be fun, no matter if it was taken in the 80's or not.
Lots of other folks on this board grew up in the 80's. Feel like sharing favorite songs from the decade? Or weird 80's oddities or favorite movies? It might be fun.
Still likes Frogger and Pac Man,
KA
