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Okay I know I’m dating myself here. But I was just reminiscing about life growing up in the 80’s. Man, I miss those simple times!
It was almost like a different planet compared to today. No cell phones, no internet, no fax machines, economy was booming in America, music still had a hint of ruchnius, the air was fresher, water was clearer, etc,etc.
Any good memories from the 80’s?
The best part of the ’80’s was Ronald Reagan. He has no replacement and is sorely missed.
Teh 80’s…the best of times cuz i was born then..lol! Seriously though, i do miss those simple and carefree days…
Atari.
I with Baal HaBooze. I cant forget the station wagons where a dozen kids would cram in the back!
Baal Habooze- 3 pc suits was in style a lot more recent than the 80’s. As with all styles, its only a matter of time till the wheel turns and the next new/old thing is in style.
Fridays in the 18th ave park!
puffy sleeves where in for the younger age group 2-3 yrs ago!!
In NYC. Squeegee men at major intersections. Time out games. The worst possible thing you could do in yeshiva was be caught with baseball cards. Nobody heard of sushi. Abe Stark ice skating rink in Coney Island. Pirchei trips on Chol Hamoed Asbury Park. When we went to sleepaway camp, the trip to camp WAS the major trip.
Israel Day Parades and Solidarity Sundays (March for Soviet Jewry) when the entire Jewish world would come out and join together for a common cause.
Pacman, Frogger and Centipede (I’m with the Goq on Atari)
Living in Queens as a teenager and being able to go to Manhattan by yourself by subway to meet friends.
Spending summers (in the late 80’s) working in the Wall Street area and going to lunch concerts in the World Trade Center plaza.
Non-schmutzy movies you could go to, like E.T.
Rolling filberts at shul on yontif afternoons (went to YI of Hillcrest recently for a simcha and the concrete walls were gone!)
Having to work so hard in order to do something you weren’t supposed to, that it wasn’t worth the risk!!!
“Rolling filberts at shul on yontif afternoons”
14th Ave, in front of BYOB, (but not in the 80s)
Was this still the rage in the 80s in Queens? In BP, it fizzled out in the late 70s.
To be honest, I’m not sure when it stopped, but I’m pretty sure in Hillcrest it went into the early ’80s.
Tzlil Vzemer
Care Bears
Reagan
Gorbachov
Thatcher
JR
Amadeus
Back to the Future
Inspector Gadget
Beverly Hills
Crocodile Dundee
Jaws
Karate Kid
Rocky
Star Trek
Superman
Smurf
Mr T
ETC
Anybody remember the old Buick Wagons that the back door was in two parts? The window would slide upward into the roof & and the bottom half would slide downward into the bottom somewhere. That was in the good old days when bumpers were actually chrome.
Or what about the period in the early 80’s when theives would steal bumpers from all the GM cars?
hmm i wasn’t born but sounds nice:)
I CAN NOT believe that people have good memories of those station wagons. I guess being the youngest, I had no choice but to sit facing sideways or even worse backwards…..
music was not noise, but words. safer neighborhoods. pple did more together, shmoozing, . we weren’t attached to our little machines. if someone spoke to you, you had their full attention and not them looking at their pell. or ipod every 3 seconds.
Shticky Guy: I didnt have the guts to write all those
Why? Didnt you like Tzlil Vzemer?☺ Seriously, that was my good list. You should see the ones I left off… Lol
This is discrimination. I want a 1990’s thread.
Music wasnt noise? Maybe youve forgotten all the street kids who lugged boomboxes on their shoulders everywhere, including on the subways? I assure you it was not enjoyable for us grown ups. I think that headphones, walkmans, diskmans are great inventions!
For ladies: The “big hair” sheitels which took hours of teasing to get the perfect bang wave OR the Tuxedo sheitel by Georgie….The shoulder pads on everything….., Sun-In, the messenger bag which we called “pouch”, the low waist dress, the sparkly shoes and collars, huge sweaters with big designs, and every house had MAUVE,or mauve and gray, and a white kitchen was in. I also distinctly remember the mustard yellow color for clothes and handbags-although I have tried to block it out……
And the Country Yossi children’s radio show Tuesday nights.
When sony introduced the walkman, I remember one Rosh Yeshiva railing against bachurim who walked around all day “with those keilim in their ears”.
Buying a roll of subway/bus tokens to get to yeshiva because I was 1/10 of a mile to close to the yeshiva to get a bus pass.
When my parents bought a new car that came a cassette player. Boy, were we cutting edge.
The olympic boycotts.
Mike Eruzione (captain of the 1980 gold medal usa hockey team) telling president carter, “sir, I’m no hero, I’m just a hockey player”.
The Miller Lite commercials (taste great, less filling – especially the one with billy martin and george steinbrenner)
Nintendo – Mario, Zelda, Tetris
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
“new” coke.
The US supported what later became known as the taliban in afghanistan in their fight against the soviets. (in the 80s they were called mujhadeen – freedom figheters).
The mujhadeen who got rid of the Soviets in Afghanistan were not what later became the Taliban.
the mujhadeen who drove out the soviets were a mishmash of many afghan tribes (including many who lived in the mountainous regions of pakistan who joined up to help drive the soviets out). with the soviets out, what we call today the taliban emerged as the strongest of the groups and took control of the country. it did not happen overnight. the soviets withdrew in 1989, by 1991, the taliban were running the asylum.
212 area code for the WHOLE New York City (inc. Brooklyn, Queens, SI, and Bronx)
201 area code for the WHOLE state of New Jersey
You gotta show me the rest!!
No problemo. Simply organise another CR meeting or party like Goq did for his birthday and I’ll bring my list along when I come to meet the chevra. I know guys will be suprised when they find out who you are. We know who coffee addict is also. He’s the mashgiach with the sliced finger so he sticks out like a sore thumb! I want everyone wearing their cr names on name tags. Dont need to know your real names. And the new mod that we so desperately need to cover current long gaps will be unanimously chosen from the crowd so dont miss it. Whether you have a ‘bubbly’ character like Dr Pepper, a schitsophrenic nature like Joseph, an ultrasonic one like squeak, a humorous one like getzel, popa, Goq, several mods, daas yochid and so many others, or a shy and reserved nature (ahem) like deiazooger, bpt and itche srulik, you can be invited to the party.
URSULA and MINYAN will be handing out poetic licence but dont BLINQ because, SHREK, you may miss it. We will serve YUMMY CUPCAKES and STUFFED KAPUSTA CABBAGE, but the ONE GOAL is to BE HAPPY in good HEALTH and if you always SEE ALL SIDES and treat everyone as a BROTHEROFURS in an ADORABLE way then be sure of a kesiva vchasima tova and AM YISRAEL CHAI. (The rest of you are also invited).
The death of Ma Bell and the birth of the “baby bells”.
The birth of the Personal Computer (IBM PC).
The birth of the Internet. (Before the 80’s it was only a military network called ARPANet.)
Wayne Gretzky literally obliterating every offensive record in hockey.
The Artscroll siddur (the original version with the square nekudos – I know that might sound funny and yes, there was some negativity towards the siddur in part due to the square nekudos).
knit ties and light blue suits from the right place
Asteroids, Q-bert, dig-dug and frogger.
Rotary phones. Rubiks cubes.
Those technologicaly advanced 5.25″ floppy disks.
Too bad you 80’s missed de 70’s and 60’s..
those were really good ol’ days..
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