When you were a kid...

[PK Disney Dork]

You know what with so many threads on the CB doing nothing but dividing us and pitting groups against one another...I came up with a thread where we can just think and and remember a time when life for all of us was so much easier..

Now I am a child of the 80's! Here are some of the highlights of my life as a kid...

Television:
ALF
The A-Team
Small Wonder
Charles in Charge
Misfits of Science
Knight Rider
Family Ties
Growing Pains

Cartoons:
Transformers
GI Joe
He-Man
Gummy Bears
The Littles
Turbo Teen
The Smurfs
Pac Man

Movies:
The Star Wars Saga (Epi 4, 5, and 6)
Indiana Jones (Raiders, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade)
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Breakfast Club
The Secret of NIHM
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Clash of the Titans

Other than that...I had my Atari 2600...Rubiks Cube...Star Wars action figures...Nintendo Entertainment System...pogo-ball...Transformers...GI Joes...He-Man...

...wow...many of the cartoons and toys went hand in hand...

Ok your turn...let's be kids again!

 

[Uncle Remus]

My mom used to watch this guy.

 

[goofyernmost]

Television? You had Television when you were a kid? Lucky!!!

We didn't have electricity when I was a kid, so we had to watch television by candlelight.

Just kidding

 

[HelenePA]

As a child of the 80's I LOOOVEEEED the Fraggles.. Makes ya wanna sing their theme song doesn't it?

 

[hulagirl87]

I'm a child of the 80's as well, and wouldn't have grown up at any other time! I loved all the things OP mentioned plus for cartoons I loved Snorks, Beverly Hills Teens and especially Jem!!!! Showtime Synergy!

I still have my original Strawberry Shortcake dolls, My Little Pony stable and my Cabbage Patch Kids. The toys then were so much fun.

I loved Puffalumps, Poochie, my Barbie townhouse and convertible, Pound Puppies and Shirt Tales

I sign off with this....Rock me Amadeus!!!

 

[zippitydoo]

Another child from the 80's

T.V
Growing Pains
Head of the class
mr. belvedere
alf
21 Jump Street
Doogie
Wonder Years

Movies
Any John Hughes movie
dark crystal
labryth
Better off Dead
John Candy Movies(Summer Rental, Great Outdoors)
Goonies

Cartoons
Jem
Snorkels
Smurfs
Care Bears

 

[MomofKatie]

Child of the 70's, teen/college kid of the 80's here!

TV-
Little House on the Prairie
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
Dallas
the Carol Burnett Show
Saturday Night Live with the origional "Not Ready for Primetime" players
the Cosby Show
soaps (Luke & Laura on GH, Days of our Lives)

Saturday morning shows-
Scooby Doo
Sid & Marty Krofft shows (HR Pufnstuff, Sigmund & the Sea Monster, Isis, Shazam, Dr Shrinker, etc)
Pink Panther
Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner show
The Super Friends (Wonder Twin powers, ACTIVATE!!)

Movies:
Star Wars
Jaws
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Grease
Urban Cowboy
the John Hughes movies (16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Beuller's Day Off)
Top Gun
Risky Business
midnight movies!! (Kentucky Fried Movie, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Rocky Horror Picture Show)

 

[Ppufi]

I was a child of the 90's, dreamin of the 80's.

I played with Care Bears, MLP, Cabbage Patch Kids, and play food.

I watched Arthur, The Puzzle Place, Wishbone, Gullah Gullah Island, and a lot more.

 

[rie'smom]

60's
The Lucy SHow
The Andy Griffith Show
The Danny Thomas Show
My Three Sons
The Flintstones
The Red Skelton Show
Bewitched
That Girl
The Jetsons
The Beverly Hillbillies
Laugh-In
The Dean Martin Show


70's
Mary Tyler Moore
Welcome Back Kotter
The Bob Newhart Show
Dallas
Little House on the Prairie
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Love Boat
Dallas
Saturday Night Live

 

[dismom2]

Child of the 70's, teen/college kid of the 80's here!

TV-
Little House on the Prairie
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
Dallas
the Carol Burnett Show
Saturday Night Live with the origional "Not Ready for Primetime" players
the Cosby Show
soaps (Luke & Laura on GH, Days of our Lives)

Saturday morning shows-
Scooby Doo
Sid & Marty Krofft shows (HR Pufnstuff, Sigmund & the Sea Monster, Isis, Shazam, Dr Shrinker, etc)
Pink Panther
Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner show
The Super Friends (Wonder Twin powers, ACTIVATE!!)

Movies:
Star Wars
Jaws
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Grease
Urban Cowboy
the John Hughes movies (16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Beuller's Day Off)
Top Gun
Risky Business
midnight movies!! (Kentucky Fried Movie, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Rocky Horror Picture Show)

I watched nearly all of these, too. I really loved Little House on the Prairy, Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Also, Dallas, Knotts Landing, Gilligans Island, Brady Bunch. I am one of the only people who has not seen Rocky Horror Picture Show. John Candy---I wish he was still still alive.

Forgot to add: Dukes of Hazzard, Shawn Cassidy, Teen Beat Magazine!

 

[linda0706]

Child of the 70's, teen/college kid of the 80's here!

TV-
Little House on the Prairie
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
Dallas
the Carol Burnett Show
Saturday Night Live with the origional "Not Ready for Primetime" players
the Cosby Show
soaps (Luke & Laura on GH, Days of our Lives)

Don't forget Six Million Dollar Man & Bionic Woman. Steve Austin was such a hottie. And Jaime Sommers ROCKED the white Ked tennies! My favorites were the cross-over episodes.

 

[OK!]

I was born in '73, so I have memories of both the '70s and '80s as a kid.

TV
Dukes of Hazzard (if my parents wanted to severely punish me for something, they grounded me from this show.)
Facts of Life
CHiPs
Apparently, I dug Emergency 51 as a kid; I have several pics of me wearing an Emergency 51 fireman's hat
Electric Company
Mork and Mindy
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley


Movies
Star Wars
ET
Weird Science
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club

Toys
Cabbage Patch Kids
Smurfs (I think my mom still has a couple of the original figurines in what used to be my bedroom closet)
Viewmasters
Lite-Brite
Legos
Lincoln Logs
roller skates
Big Wheels
and I briefly had a pogo stick until I nearly severed my tongue (moral of the story: don't EVER stick your tongue out at your grandmother, but especially never do it while on a pogo stick)

Fashion
leg warmers
anything and everything pink and purple
Tretorns (that was more jr. high - high school)
Guess jeans
silver flats
Sebagos
those barrettes that had the skinny satin ribbons threaded through them, with the long ends hanging down with pony beads or tri-beads on the ends
Kangaroos shoes
acid-washed jeans
Hypercolor
ENORMOUS bangs
extremely shimmery eye shadow
Swatches (and Swatch Guards) -- I still have 2 of mine. One was this one:

and the other one was really cool and had fish all over the face. I think half of the band was blue and half was green, but I can't find a pic of it anywhere online and I'm too darn lazy to take one of mine and upload it, etc.

 

[PK Disney Dork]

I was born in '73, so I have memories of both the '70s and '80s as a kid.

TV
Dukes of Hazzard (if my parents wanted to severely punish me for something, they grounded me from this show.)
Facts of Life
CHiPs
Apparently, I dug Emergency 51 as a kid; I have several pics of me wearing an Emergency 51 fireman's hat
Electric Company
Mork and Mindy
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley


Movies
Star Wars
ET
Weird Science
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club

Toys
Cabbage Patch Kids
Smurfs (I think my mom still has a couple of the original figurines in what used to be my bedroom closet)
Viewmasters
Lite-Brite
Legos
Lincoln Logs
roller skates
Big Wheels
and I briefly had a pogo stick until I nearly severed my tongue (moral of the story: don't EVER stick your tongue out at your grandmother, but especially never do it while on a pogo stick)

Fashion
leg warmers
anything and everything pink and purple
Tretorns (that was more jr. high - high school)
Guess jeans
silver flats
Sebagos
those barrettes that had the skinny satin ribbons threaded through them, with the long ends hanging down with pony beads or tri-beads on the ends
Kangaroos shoes
acid-washed jeans
Hypercolor
ENORMOUS bangs
extremely shimmery eye shadow
Swatches (and Swatch Guards) -- I still have 2 of mine. One was this one:

and the other one was really cool and had fish all over the face. I think half of the band was blue and half was green, but I can't find a pic of it anywhere online and I'm too darn lazy to take one of mine and upload it, etc.

How could I forget Swatches??!!

I was born a year after you so a lot of the stuff you mentioned here is starting to job my memory more!

Parachute pants
giant boom boxes
Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo
Stretch armstrong
The USA Cartoon Express
Mousercize
M.A.S.K.
Jams
Kangaroos
underoos
Droids


Wow I could go on and on...

 

[mamacatnv]

70's here

Who remembers Ditto's Jeans?
I had a pair that were baby blue.........

 

[mrsdon]

you guys are bringing back so many memories
I was born in 61
We did not get our 1st color tv until I was 10
But I digress
TV
Dark Shadows
And how about the music
Three Dog Night
KC and the Sunshine Band
John Denver
Barry Mannilow
Bee Gees
Thats just tot name a few

 

[mrsdon]

And I forgot to add
Movie
The Exorcist
I remember watching the news, and them announcing all the people fainting and having to use barf bags, because the movie was so bad
I difnt see it until I was 18 and it was awful.

 

[ophelia]

Neon clothes. People wore them when I was in junior high. Good god those were ugly.....and they are making a comeback.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I'm a child of the 70s. My fond memories of childhood include:

Books
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
James and the Giant Peach
Ralph and the Motorcycle
A Wrinkle in Time

Vacations
Riding mules to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
Rafting down the Green River
Disneyland and Disney World
The Ontario Science Centre
Hiking in Colorado

Outings
The beach (especially our weekly summer visits to Fire Island)
The Vanderbuilt Planetarium
Exploring the woods with friends
Astroworld
Swimming

Stuff
Games with family and friends - Monopoly, Clue, Sorry, Gin, Hearts
Dungeons and Dragons
Standing on the baseboard heater
Playing tag, kick-the-can, and hide-and-seek
Block parties
Riding my bike
Fourth of July - parades, parties, and fireworks
Christmas - The music, the scents, the decorations, the presents
Sledding in the snow
Playing catch with my dad and friends

Clothing
Pajamas with footies
Tank tops
Cut-offs

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

I was born in 78, so I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

I remember (and this might have been a local thing I don't know) these clothes that were one color when they were cool/cold and another color when they warmed up. Hypercolor I think they were called. I had a Hypercolor shirt with a design of a guy on the front that, when cool, looked like he was wearing a buisness suit and fedora. When it warmed up, the hat disappeared and the business suit turned into a tanktop and board shorts.

Micheal Jackson--oh my gosh. I was so into Micheal Jackson, or at least until his first trial back in 93. The first time he was tried for pedophilia, I would've defended him to the death. Now..eh. He's just a weird old man. I still like his music though and I have a copy of "The Essential Micheal Jackson" around here somewhere.

Saved By The Bell--I had SUCH a crush on Slater. All of my friends did.

There was another one too..a surfer spin-off of Saved By the Bell but I can't remember the name of it. I see re-runs of it every now and then.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

I grew up in the 80's and 90's so it all depends on what period of my childhood what decade I was enjoying.

TV: As a little girl-
Facts of Life
Different Strokes
Alf (my mom hated this one)
Mr. Belvedere
Saved by the Bell was a classic

Cartoons:
As a little girl-
JEM!!!!
Smurfs
Snorks
Rainbow Brite

As an older girl-
Beetlejuice
Freakazoid
Animaniacs

Movies:
The Golden Seal (I really don't remember this one well, but my sister loved it)
Benji

Toys:
Cabbage Patch
Barbie dolls
Care Bears
My little Pony

Fashion:
My favorite outfit to wear in 3rd grade was the hideous little dress with shorts attatched that was all black, with alternating HOT pink and Lime green shoulders, pockets, and buttons with matching sun glasses and earrings. I was very stylin'.