Old things youngins might like to know

[Julia1996]

Come on!!! My avatar was taken in the very early 90s with the style I was wearing in the 80s. In addition, those blouses where perfect for me. I would pull the shoulder pads out of any new blouse and the blouse would still fit perfectly. Now I have to be careful with a new blouse as there might not be enough room in the shoulder area. If I find one that has shoulder pads in it today, I shouldn't have fit issues.

But your picture looks fine. It doesn't look like an 80s picture.

[Shambles]

My first car had a choke. You had to adjust it to get the car started and controlled fuel flow. Now these new fangled cars do it for you !

[DawnOday]

Here is one that kept me from making the company millions of dollars. Disk space. I needed 20 - 25 gb to manipulate the Bills of Material.. At the time the price of one gig was in the area of $250,000. These servers took up whole rooms. Now look down at your laptop with 1 terabyte of disk space for about $800. Just think. We put a man on the moon with less computing power than your cell phone. Think about that for a minute and how they were able to survive Apollo 13 where the spacecraft was damaged by an oxygen tank explosion. If the solution was not exact the chances for it's return was nil.

As to ugly women in the 70's 80's. OMG  I looked at my yearbook and there were maybe five attractive girls in my class of over 400.  I looked at my sons yearbook from a few years ago and it was like the complete opposite. The hair and eye makeup of the 80's were hideous. And I was supposed to impress them while wearing polyester. eww.

[Julia1996]

Here is one that kept me from making the company millions of dollars. Disk space. I needed 20 - 25 gb to manipulate the Bills of Material.. At the time the price of one gig was in the area of $250,000. These servers took up whole rooms. Now look down at your laptop with 1 terabyte of disk space for about $800. Just think. We put a man on the moon with less computing power than your cell phone. Think about that for a minute and how they were able to survive Apollo 13 where the spacecraft was damaged by an oxygen tank explosion. If the solution was not exact the chances for it's return was nil.

As to ugly women in the 70's 80's. OMG  I looked at my yearbook and there were maybe five attractive girls in my class of over 400.  I looked at my sons yearbook from a few years ago and it was like the complete opposite. The hair and eye makeup of the 80's were hideous. And I was supposed to impress them while wearing polyester. eww.

Yeah it's weird. I've seen old movies from the 50s and I did a search on Pinterest once for 50s style hair and clothes. OMG, every woman had the same old lady hairdo! Even the teenage girls back then looked 40. Awful!  But some of the clothes, hair  and make up from the 60s was really cool. I came across a picture of my grandma when she was young and I was just amazed. She had on a miniskirt and these really cool white boots that laced up the front. She had this weird double eyeliner with white in the middle thing going on but it looked really cool. My grandma was beautiful when she was young.

[Laurie]

Yeah it's weird. I've seen old movies from the 50s and I did a search on Pinterest once for 50s style hair and clothes. OMG, every woman had the same old lady hairdo! Even the teenage girls back then looked 40. Awful!  But some of the clothes, hair  and make up from the 60s was really cool. I came across a picture of my grandma when she was young and I was just amazed. She had on a miniskirt and these really cool white boots that laced up the front. She had this weird double eyeliner with white in the middle thing going on but it looked really cool. My grandma was beautiful when she was young.

That sounds like the Jane Fonda look from her song "These boots were made for walking"

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[Dena]

That sounds like the Jane Fonda Nancy Sinatra look from her song "These boots were made for walking"

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[Cassi]

I always find it weird how everything changes from decade to decade. Something state of the art quickly becomes obsolete. It's not just technology that changes it's style and even attitudes. I've seen a lot of my grandma's picture albums. I have to say the 1980s had the most hideous hair, clothes and makeup! One picture of my grandma comes to mind from the 80s. She's wearing this butt ugly puffy blouse with huge shoulder pads that make her look like a football player, her hair is kind of big and puffy and she's wearing these super huge square glasses with a small silver J on the corner of the lens. Wow! Talk about UGLY! I asked her why there was a J on the glasses and she said it was the initial of her first name. She said it was a thing for a brief period back then to have little silver or gold initials on your glasses.  Ok.........  Then I saw a picture of my dad as a teenager and didn't even recognize him. When I saw the picture I asked him who was that slob and he told me the slob was him. His clothes were ratty, he had a face full of scruff  and his hair was shaggy and looked like it had never been brushed. He looked like a homeless person. I asked him why he looked like that and he said it was called grunge and it was the thing at that time. That's crazy. I've never seen my dad with anything but buzzed or semi buzzed hair and clean shaven. As hideous as people looked in past decades 20 or 30 years from now someone will probably  look at a picture of me from 2018 and think I look stupid and awful.

Technology and science are in a constant state of flux.  Nothing's written in stone and nothing stays the same.

[Julia1996]

Thank you Dena. That was kind of cute. But I couldn't help laughing at their dance moves. Lol!

[Cassi]

Thank you Dena. That was kind of cute. But I couldn't help laughing at their dance moves. Lol!

Go Go Girls with Go go Boots dancing to Nancy's Boots

[Anne Blake]

Laurie, if you are going to bring up the Jane Fonda reference you will need to include her infamous movie, "Barbarella" (1968).

[Roll]

Was that an accidental replacement of Nancy with Jane, or a slick tongue in cheek reference about how it looks like they are making an exercise tape in the music video?

[Cassi]

Laurie, if you are going to bring up the Jane Fonda reference you will need to include her infamous movie, "Barbarella" (1968).

Hey Barbarella and her spaced out zombie angel were kewl.  Loved her outfits!

[HappyMoni]

Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

[steph2.0]

Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

And we LIKED it!

Old Stephanie

[Julia1996]

Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

That's hilarious. Lol

[Cassi]

That's hilarious. Lol

Awesome Moni though you left out a few things like the alien uncle. and girl from too

[Cassi]

Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

Wow, totally like this comment.  There was the guy who had 3 sons, Marlo was always doing something. The Robinsons getting lost.  Uncles Rowan & Martin, the Smothers Brothers...................................

[sarah1972]

Did we already mention Jane Fonda workout videos?

[Cassi]

Did we already mention Jane Fonda workout videos?

Hanoi's workout videos came out mid to late 1980s.

[BeverlyAnn]

But some of the clothes, hair  and make up from the 60s was really cool. I came across a picture of my grandma when she was young and I was just amazed. She had on a miniskirt and these really cool white boots that laced up the front. She had this weird double eyeliner with white in the middle thing going on but it looked really cool.

You mean eyeliner like in this video?