FUNNY FADS FROM OUR CHILDHOOD

FASHION

Wearing leg warmers 

Jelly bracelets & shoes

Turning our collars up on Polo shirts 

Wearing layered multi-colored slouch socks with Tretorns 

Swatch Watches (and a Swatch Guard)

 

 

Thin black leather ties 

Jordache and Guess jeans 

Aqua Net hairspray 

Crimping irons

Carrying a big colored comb in your back pocket

Big hair

Banana Clip for girls’ hair

The "day glo" clothing

Coca-cola and Pepsi shirts

Spandex pants 

Parachute pants

Bermuda shorts

Rolling up jeans and shirt sleaves

Ripping up brand new pants (much to our parents’ chagrin)  

TECHNOLOGY

Atari, IntelliVision, Commodore 64s, Nintendo 

Listening to a cassettes tape in a walkman

Betamax was at the cutting edge of technology 

Using a rotary phone 

ENTERTAINMENT

Dungeons & Dragons 

Spending hours in the arcade playing Pac-Man

Couple skating at the roller skating rink 

Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away 

Making shrinky dinks in our oven 

Successfully doing a Rubik’s Cube 

(or taking it apart and putting it back together to make it look like you did)

MEMORABLE MOVIES

Star Wars

Breakfast Club

Children of the Corn 

Top Gun

Back to the Future

Dirty Dancing

Airplane

Adventures in Babysitting

Footloose

Crocodile Dundee

Diehard

E.T.

Goonies

Big

Christmas Vacation

16 Candles 

TELEVISION

California Raisins

The Dukes of Hazard

Miami Vice

The Cosby Show

ABC After School Special

Gummy Bears Cartoon

The Smurfs

The Brady Bunch Reruns

GI Joe

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles   

Alf

Cheers!

The Love Boat

PeeWee’s Playhouse

Terminator

MUSIC

McDonald's Big Mac, Filet-o-fish, Quarter Pounder, French fry song 

Break Dancing

Doing the Moonwalk! 

Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in learning the English language 

Night Tracks and Friday Night Videos featuring Michael Jackson, 

Duran Duran, Madonna, Prince and Cyndi Lauper 

The good years of MTV

The Bangles

PHRASES

"Where's the beef?" 

Inserting the word "like" into, like, every sentence

Using phrases "sike" and "not!" 

Being gagged with a spoon

“You deserve a break today.”

SCHOOL

Bringing metal lunch boxes to school

Having a Trapper Keeper to stay organized at school

FOOD 

Jolt Cola

McDonald’s served their burgers in styrofoam boxes 

Eating "Push Up" ice cream that came from the "ice cream man" in a delivery truck

Candy Cigarettes

Eating only green m&m's (OR was it eating all m&m's except the green ones?)