I'm 35 yrs. old, in the 80's I was in my teens and of course there are always special memories during your teenage-years.
I certainly DO remember some of the 70's but I guess the 80's where just the decade ALL the 'unforgettable' stuff happened.

Have you ever seen the movie "Stand by me' where a writer remembers his 'youth' and writes about his teenage memories - great movie and I guess that's what I have been experiencing ever since that 80's radio station came on the air and brought back a bunch of old memories during that decade !

Better hold on to those 'Star Wars' collectibles and Atari games - this stuff really gets hard to find and some of that 'original' Star wars collectible stuff is worth a little fortune today !

Wasn't that great ? Everybody wanted to know - everybody was talking about it - I remember a 'trucker' talking on the CB radio about a wreck a couple of miles ahead and another one said: "I don't care - tell me who shot J.R."
awesome - and by the way - Dallas airs every day on 'SoapNet' I know, I know - 'SoapNet'

Hey it's DALLAS baby

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DUSTI - Prowler crazy

posted 04-19-2004 11:42 PM         

The solution to the crime problem is somehow related to David Hasselhof and a sentient car with a "Cylon" eye in the grill.

People born and raised in Hazzard County are dumb: "What's Roscoe after us for this time?" Well, Bo and Luke, maybe it's because you're doing 110 mph in a 45 mph zone and Roscoe's a law enforcement officer.

If you stuff William Shatner into a cop uniform two sizes too small, women in their early 20s will swoon over him for some reason.

Millions of people will willingly watch Bronson Pinchot tell Mark Linn-Baker "Don't be ridiculous!" in a strange pseudo-European accent every week for years on end.

Based on the appearance of Night Court's Judge Harry T. Stone, I guess the average age for judges in New York is around 23.

posted 04-23-2004 10:48 PM         

Not to go off-topic, but I drove my Prowler out on the open road for the first time tonight. Drove great. Had a guy come up to me in the parking lot of a local restaurant and ask me about the thing. I don't know what turned more heads, the sight of the Prowler or the fact that after driving with the top down my hair looked like this:

So, how was your first 'big' drive ? Did you enjoy the ride, the feel of it ? Was it comfortable ?
Told you so, that you will be the topic of conversation at the gas station or anywhere you will stop - get used to it !

posted 04-24-2004 10:07 PM         

Getting back on topic, what about the bad aspects of the '80s?

New Coke. Hey, let's change the taste of Coke! For God sake, people, get out of the corporate board rooms and walk around in the daylight. What were you thinking?

Al Capone's Vault. Empty. There wasn't even a chair in there the camera man could throw at Geraldo's face.

The Ropers. Yeah, let's not pidgeonhole these characters in the dramatic straightjacket that was Three's Company. They needed their own show. Their's was such a rich story.

The TRS-80 Computer. One of the few computers Commodore VIC 20 owners were allowed to make fun of.

Chernobyl. Soviet nuclear reactor. There's a phrase that inspires confidence.

posted 04-25-2004 10:50 PM         

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Originally posted by Black Tie 161:
Oooops, I remember one great thing about the 80's...Standing 5 feet away from Stevie Ray Vaughn as he played his *** of in a college gym!

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posted 04-27-2004 11:35 PM         

Captain Lou Albano

Maybe you remember him as Cyndi Lauper's father in her "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and "She Bop" videos. Perhaps you recall him as the man at the forefront of the 1980s pro-wrestling craze. You may just recognize him as that strange, overweight guy with the rubber bands on his face.

Albano was one of the most controversial and hated wrestling managers in the history of the sport with a career going back to the late 1950s. He rose to national prominence in the 1980s by occupying that bizarre 1980s nexus between the theatrical schlock of pro-wrestling and the MTV-lead music video revolution.

posted 04-28-2004 11:42 PM         

AUTOMAN

December 1983 - April 1984, ABC

Walter Nebicher (Dezi Arnaz, Jr.) is the police department's resident computer expert, although his immediate superior gives no respect as to his contribution to the force. To fix that, he creates a special program that creates Automan (Chuck Wagner), an artificially intelligent computer construct that looks real, sounds reals and, given enough power, can have an actual physical presence outside the computer that feels real. Together, Walter and Automan along with Cursor, a small floating droid that can create any object Automan needs, battle the criminal elements of the city.

In the early 1980s, computers had begun moving out of the data labs of industry and academia, but had yet to transition to the Internet-connected household appliances that they would become in the 1990s. Enter Glen A. Larson, creator of 100,000 television shows, all of which have some combination of about 4 or 5 different character types and maybe 3 different storylines.

Focusing on the "pre-teen boys who won't recognize one-dimensional characters and hack writing if you throw in some cool (by '83-'84 standards) visual effects" demographic -- of which I was a loyal member -- Larson brought this now-forgotten example of the virtual-reality subgenre, the granddaddy of movies like The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity, to the small screen.

Except for the memorable gimmick of having Automan's angular car make turns by abruptly "jumping" to a perpendicular position, resulting in Dezi Arnaz, Jr.'s face being plastered against the passenger side window, this rarely seen TV show has been discarded like an old '80s vintage Trapper Keeper.

How in the world did you remember THAT ?? No, serious - HOW in Pete's sake did you remember that show ?

UNBELIEVABLE this guy ?