Looking Backwards

[DWhittles]

From time to time, I'll dig out my tapes (yes I still have tapes) from the 80's and while I'm cleaning or whatever, I'll put them on and wax nostaligic for the days of huge platnium blonde hair, spandex and leather.
I did it today and started to wonder if anyone else mourns a time period that they loved that they know isn't ever coming back.
I had so much fun in my early teens, going to concerts and clubs sneaking into bars, hanging out with friends.
Am I the only wacko who looks backwards and wishes she could go back for a little while?
Diana

 

[snoopy]

I look backward to a childhood where we left home at 8am Saturday morning and didn't see the inside of our home again until nightime. I'm sad that my children will never experience that same sense of freedom and neighborhood camaradarie.

 

[Royalbear]

Dwhittles--Have you heard the song 1985 by Bowling for Soup? I chuckle every time I hear it. I miss WHAM!

 

[bigbabyblues]

I'd love to go back to high school for one week. My friends think I'm an idiot, but I would. Knowing what I know now, and the old age of 28, I'd love to go back for just a few days. No regrets, just wishing for a simpler time I think.

When I'm having a bad day at work, I get out some cd's from high school (early 90's for me), and turn it up loud (usually work alone) and it makes me feel better. I remember all the fun I had, and some that I didn't have that I'm glad for now, and then things look better in my real life.

Steph the wacko

 

[DWhittles]

Dwhittles--Have you heard the song 1985 by Bowling for Soup? I chuckle every time I hear it. I miss WHAM!

I have heard it and I miss WHAM! too. I actually still have (and listen to) my original copy of "Make it big" and somewhere on vinyl I have the single of "I'm your man"

 

[Rowena]

You're not the only one. I went so far as to make a tape for my DS to try and get him to appreciate some of the music of my youth. At least he likes Madness and TMBG so far.

I miss wearing spandex pants with high heeled pumps and a beaded button down sweater. I miss picking out my wardrobe by visiting several thrift stores.
I still kinda have big hair. It's curly and I can't be bothered to try and straighten it. DH likes it and it's not like I try to make it HUGE..it's just kinda big.
You are not alone in your nostalgia.

 

[SC Minnie]

We did the same thing snoopy!

We would go off on bike rides for the day and no one would know where we had gone. It was safe so there was not a concern. I lived in kind of in the country and it was nice. We didn't lock our doors until around 1980. Before we got AC in the late 70's we slept with the windows and doors wide open. Now I have to set an alarm or I don't feel safe.

I do miss my late teens early 20's too. Like DWhittles we went clubbing a lot and just hung out with friends. A radio station here has 80's weekends and they are great. I turn up the radio and love it!

 

[DWhittles]

You're not the only one. I went so far as to make a tape for my DS to try and get him to appreciate some of the music of my youth. At least he likes Madness and TMBG so far.

I miss wearing spandex pants with high heeled pumps and a beaded button down sweater. I miss picking out my wardrobe by visiting several thrift stores.
I still kinda have big hair. It's curly and I can't be bothered to try and straighten it. DH likes it and it's not like I try to make it HUGE..it's just kinda big.
You are not alone in your nostalgia.

My son LOVES TMBG!
"Istanbul" is his favorite though I'm always wandering around singing "Birdhouse in your soul" to him...
By the middle of the 80's I was into heavy metal and I was a total rocker chick.
I still love my stuff from the early 80's though...Hall & Oats, Wham!, Culture Club, Madonna, Erasure...

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

I definately would like to go back to my teenage years for a week or so. I work at the same high school I went to so I kinda envision myself still young and vibrant and still a teen . . .even at 37 years of age . . .

My kids definately do not agree with the above statement . . .

 

[Rowena]

My DS seems to favor "Particle Man" and "Don't Let's Start". Something about the whole "When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone You are an animal
The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account" just crack him up. He's a wonderfully weird kid with a goofball for a Mom .

 

[monkeyboy]

wax nostaligic for the days of huge platnium blonde hair, spandex and leather.

wait??
these are out of style????

 

[Tea Please]

I look backward to a childhood where we left home at 8am Saturday morning and didn't see the inside of our home again until nightime. I'm sad that my children will never experience that same sense of freedom and neighborhood camaradarie.

So true. My kids I suspect are older than yours, but still did not have the freedoms we had.

 

[coliebird]

I look backward to a childhood where we left home at 8am Saturday morning and didn't see the inside of our home again until nightime. I'm sad that my children will never experience that same sense of freedom and neighborhood camaradarie.

Isn't it sad how times change? I hear people at work planning playdates for their kids. I think "playdates"? We just went outside and played with whoever was there, there was no organizing and planning. I, too, am sad that my daughter will not be able to just go up the street and ring her friend's doorbell to play. It is just not safe anymore to do that, plus nobody is ever home, they are all out at their organized activities.

As for me, I get nostalgic sometimes (which is why I am going to see Motley Crue and Duran Duran in concert), but I also love my life now and would never want to relive the "old" days.

Edited to add - Monkeyboy, I just read your post and you kill me

 

[SeeDisney]

Diana,


You're not alone. Yes, from time to time, I yearned to go back to the late 80's.

I used to live in Union County, NJ then. I was in my early 20's. I used to go to FIVE nightclubs a week. Everynight, a different nightclub and hang there till closing and managed to work a full-time job during the day.

I miss the clothes, big hair, the music, the beaches, those nightclubs, my many old friends (which I don't see anymore), Bennigans with friends.

Aahhh, the memories!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I wish I could visit those times again.

 

[DWhittles]

Diana,


You're not alone. Yes, from time to time, I yearned to go back to the late 80's.

I used to live in Union County, NJ then. I was in my early 20's. I used to go to FIVE nightclubs a week. Everynight, a different nightclub and hang there till closing and managed to work a full-time job during the day.

I miss the clothes, big hair, the music, the beaches, those nightclubs, my many old friends (which I don't see anymore), Bennigans with friends.

Aahhh, the memories!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I wish I could visit those times again.

Boy, I wonder if we ever crossed paths! What clubs did you go to?

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

I look backward to a childhood where we left home at 8am Saturday morning and didn't see the inside of our home again until nightime. I'm sad that my children will never experience that same sense of freedom and neighborhood camaradarie.

"Wake me up before you go, go" (Was it really go, go or was it go, girl??? Royalbear......?)

Just a quick look at my old yearbooks and back I go.

I loved leg warmers, and shoulder pads......

 

[ckret01]

It's so funny that you posted this thread. I am so much an 80's girl. Up until 3 years ago I still had hair like Bon Jovi big and wavy and all my friends at my old job used to make fun of me. I still have bangs and a litle poof on the top of my hair. I scan my radio station in the car just to see if an 80's song will come on. I loved the good ol days and if I hear a song from then it brings me right back in time to the day.

Whats also funny is I was watching Oprah yesterday and they had make over's(how to look like you lost 10 pounds just by changing your clothing) as the topic of the show . The funny thing about it was they said do not EVER where tappered leg jeans.LMAO........I still have a few pairs that I wear

 

[SeeDisney]

Malibu, then got changed to JJ Rockers in Scotch Plains, NJ

Jukebox Eddie's on Route 22, Scotch Plains (I believe-?)

Wurlizter's in Piscataway on Wednesdays

Poor Billy's in Woodbridge, NJ

Liberty's in Sheraton Hotel in Iselin

Hunka Bunka in Sayreville (I believe-?)

City Lights on Route 35 in __________???

DJ's in Belmar during the summer

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There was some more too that I don't recall. The above were regulars. I admit that I had a lot more male friends than girl friends at the time. We all drove sports cars too. Hey, I remember the guys use to wear neon pink muscle shirts and animal printed balloon-looking pants (what were they called) ---- wasn't that so cool???

Just typing this gives me nostaglia

I never been to any in the Hoboken area.

How about you?

 

[DWhittles]

Malibu, then got changed to JJ Rockers in Scotch Plains, NJ

Jukebox Eddie's on Route 22, Scotch Plains (I believe-?)

Wurlizter's in Piscataway on Wednesdays

Poor Billy's in Woodbridge, NJ

Liberty's in Sheraton Hotel in Iselin

Hunka Bunka in Sayreville (I believe-?)

City Lights on Route 35 in __________???

DJ's in Belmar during the summer

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There was some more too that I don't recall. The above were regulars. I admit that I had a lot more male friends than girl friends at the time. We all drove sports cars too. Hey, I remember the guys use to wear neon pink muscle shirts and animal printed balloon-looking pants (what were they called) ---- wasn't that so cool???

Just typing this gives me nostaglia

I never been to any in the Hoboken area.

How about you?

as I stated, I was more of a rocker chick so I hung out at the Limelight, L'Amour, Scrap Bar and I can't remember a single bar we went to in Jersey

 

[leahannpen]

Yep, I miss the 80's too. Such a nostalgic time...high school, freedom, friends... summer vacation. The music! I love and miss the music of the 80's. I'll be seeing Duran Duran on 3/19. I can't wait!