Nick (Bo) Comstock said:Bobzilla said:I don't remember them. I had just turned 4 when they ended. Now the 80's.... yeah those were fun times.
I was born in 79 so no memory of them for me either. But I hated the 80's. Don't particularly like the 90's - current days either, but hated the 80's.
You have a hate for all time.
Nothing special. Living the good life.
I spent the first four years of the 70s inside a steel tube with 100 other men. When I "bought back" the time in the service so it would apply to my federal job I realized that I earned a whopping $4500 per year.
Unbelievable. I had a 1966 VW camper bus, pot, girlfriends, I miss rolling into a gas station and not being embarrassed buying gas at $2 or $3 at a time. I miss $20/oz. for pot. I miss the diversity of car selections. I miss local "Speed Shops".
Dan
But I hated the 80's. Don't particularly like the 90's - current days either, but hated the 80's.
You HATE the 80's!! That's a capitol offence in some areas. How can anyone hate the greatest decade ever!?!??!?!?!?! Does not compute!!!
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
Greatest ever? I dunno man... the 90's were pretty awesome. We got the internets then.
914Driver said:
I miss $20/oz. for pot.
Just saying, but $20 in 1970 money is $126 in 2017 money. Don't know what the rate is, but don't fall into the 'old guy' trap of it was cheaper in my day!
Having said that I bought a ZX Spectrum computer in 1982. I got the big one with 48K or RAM rather than the standard one with 16K or RAM, I paid the bargain price of £175 in 1982. That converts to £581 today which is $782 in American money. I guess given the technology of the time that doesn't even sound too bad, so I'm not going to complain about costs today at all.
Adrian_Thompson said:But I hated the 80's. Don't particularly like the 90's - current days either, but hated the 80's.You HATE the 80's!! That's a capitol offence in some areas. How can anyone hate the greatest decade ever!?!??!?!?!?! Does not compute!!!
Absolutely hated the cars.
Despised most of the music.
Watched my little part off the world turn into a crack infested E36 M3 hole.
Yeah that decade sucked.
I miss riding my bike to My friend John's house to play space invaders on his Atari 2600 and smoke Parliament cigarettes we swiped from his dad's 3 pack a day stash.
Cap guns 
Adrian_Thompson said:But I hated the 80's. Don't particularly like the 90's - current days either, but hated the 80's.You HATE the 80's!! That's a capitol offence in some areas. How can anyone hate the greatest decade ever!?!??!?!?!?! Does not compute!!!
Adrian,
I know you love living in Michigan too. As someone who was born in Michigan and spent the 70's and 80's there, I think your judgment highly suspect. 
The original theater release of Star Wars. I was in 3rd grade. I managed to connive my way into seeing it 12 times before the end of the summer. Best thing to ever come out of the 70's.
Donebrokeit said:Cap guns
I remember those. Man, those were fun. We still had 'em in the 80's, growing up. Grandpa would buy us a few rolls of caps. Eventually, we got more interested in seeing how many we could set off with a hammer on the ground than shooting them through the actual gun.
volvoclearinghouse said:Donebrokeit said:Cap guns
I remember those. Man, those were fun. We still had 'em in the 80's, growing up. Grandpa would buy us a few rolls of caps. Eventually, we got more interested in seeing how many we could set off with a hammer on the ground than shooting them through the actual gun.
YOu can still find them now. I bought some for a friends sons a couple of years ago plus several rolls of caps.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
After I typed my last post, I did a search and found a place online selling them. I'm glad they're still a thing, and the safety/ anti-gun/ save-the-children crowd hasn't banned them. Yet.
Remember when it would sometimes catch fire after smashing them? That was satisfying.
nothing really.
In the 70's my hometown was a sleepy little beach town. From Labor day through memorial day, we had two streets with working traffic lights (the ones with the bridges) and the rest were set to blink. All the shops closed on the boardwalk, and all but about 10,000 people went "home" and stayed there. It was one of those towns like in "jaws" if you weren't born there, you weren't "A local"
My parents bought their 3 bedroom bungalow, with a 2 car garage, and a 1/4 acre of property (an unheard of amount on a 7x2 mile island, most of which is unbuildable) for 15,000. It was a great place to grow up. We had "blue laws" that restricted what you could buy on sundays and it was a Dry town.
In the 80's the building boom began and all the small houses got knocked down to build bigger ones, the blue laws went away, and more and more people started to call the town home year round, to the point where the boardwalk stayed open and the lights worked all year.
Now they are knocking down the big homes for BIGGER homes and it's back to about 10,000 people living there because very few people can afford to call it home. It's still a dry town, but they are trying to change that too.
Now if you are a "local" the tourists and summer home owners look at you like you are an alien or uncouth
In reply to mad_machine :
Ocean City, NJ? I spent a summer or two there in the early 2000's. Fun little town, then. Good memories.
Breast feeding
I miss the simplicity of my life in the 70's being just a kid, with a dog and a bike and that was about it.... and the original Star Wars and how awesome it was to me as a kid, and just skating first on ice on a pond, then on rollers at a rink and finally on a board on the street...
Nothing.
Didn't seem to have much positive to it outside of my family.
Donebrokeit said:Cap guns
Then you had the caps rocket. Remember those?
Joe Gearin said:I miss heading out on my bike in the Summer and not coming home until dusk. No cell phones or computers. Instead, we had slingshots, swimming in rock quarries, toilet papering houses, pool hopping, and an occasional fistfight. Good clean fun......the kind that today would get you thrown in jail.
Absolutely this. I remember heading out with my mini bike or go kart with my buddies, and not coming home until dark. And of course seeing movies at the theater like Jaws, Star Wars and Smoky and the Bandit. People that aren't old enough can't imagine the lines they caused.
^^^ I remember the lines for Saturday Night Fever.....they were huge! I think we dropped off my parents friends or something there, and I was amazed at all the folks standing in line.
I also saw Star Wars in the theater shortly after it opened in 1977. My buddy's Dad took us---- it was a big deal, as the hype (and toys) were already inescapable. I thought it was fun, but overhyped. I've always thought it was one of the most over-rated movies of all time. (ducking from the fanbois ) Carrie Fisher sure was cute though. I just never could root for Luke--- he was always whining, and complaining. I kinda wanted to see Han Solo smack him around a bit.
Big Pucker candy.
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