Today is Friday and my day to post something fun and personal. I was hoping after visiting my family in Oklahoma for a week, I would have some funny stories to tell. But, we just got caught in a spring time blizzard… nothing fun about that!
I did venture up in my mom’s attic and to my surprise found a bag with my high school bulletin board, still intact! Apparently I couldn’t fathom throwing away my corsages. The bag was full of nasty dried out flower dust. {cough!}
I graduated in 1989, so this thing is chalked full of great 80′s memories!! LOL! You have to appreciate my 4 inch high bangs. What’s even funnier is it wasn’t just me … everyone had them! Well, only my friend Lori had good hair. Which she still does to this day:-)
Either there weren’t that many great concerts in Tulsa back then, or I just didn’t have the best taste in music?? I do remember that Cyndi Lauper concert, it was soooo much fun! I think The Bangles (They sang… Walk like an Egyptian) opened up for her. Hard to believe it was only $10. As for Poison, yes… I loved Brett Michaels. There I said it for the world to know. Please don’t think bad of me.
Here is my Rick Springfield ticket stub. The first concert my mom took me to. Ahhhh memories! If you were an 80′s child… you know you loved him too:-)
And who didn’t LOVE Top Gun?
And Dirty Dancing???? Nobody puts Baby in a corner!
Do you remember Sixteen Candles? I think it’s obvious that it was my favorite movie. Half of the bulletin board is full of notes with drawings of Long Duk Dong. I think my friend Sharon drew this. I had several talented artist friends and we would write notes in class which always included drawings of Long Duk Dong! ha! Our poor teachers.
I also noticed everything by my name said “wacky” or “goofy”. I wonder why? hee.
Here’s something you might not know about me… I was run over by a girl named Lisa driving a giant station wagon one night. You remember the kind with the wooden panels? I got out of the car before she had stopped all the way and she ran over my foot. The tire held me under the car as I screamed to the load of girls in the back seat “Tell her to BACK UP!” She then put it in drive and ran right over me. (re-enacted in this note…)
Surprisingly the only thing wrong with my foot was a big tire print on my white Keds. The doctor said if she had backed up, my ankle and foot would have been crushed. Whew! Good thing Lisa didn’t listen to me!!
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Did you grow up in the 80′s?
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What were your favorite movies and concerts?
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Have you ever had your foot ran over?
Hope you enjoyed my 80′s bulletin board. Have a great weekend!
Love- Goofy
I loved (and still love) Rick Springfield! And he is STILL hot to this day! :p
I loved the 80′s..the styles, the movies, the music, it was ALL good!
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That is hysterical!
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I love it! I graduated in 86 and totally relate. I loved Motley Crue and scorpions and bon jovi! I was bummed my hair would never get big…even with all the aqua net in the world!
I love the Eskimo Joes button…my husband had a shirt from there (he went to hs and some college in OK) It is amazing how many people know it even in California.
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
@Stacie,
Oh yeah… I forgot about Motley Crue! Funny:-)
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What a fun treasure! Brought back memories….of raising my children in the 80′s =)
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
@teresa,
I bet your kids could relate to this. My mom took me to many of those concerts. I think she had a car full of us at the Cyndi Lauper one:-)
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So hilarious!! I loved all things 80′s back in the day and still do. I would get a kick out of rereading some of those notes composed in biology – so fun!!
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I love it!!! I should have given you that awesome umm karaoke video for this post. It would have fit right in, muhahahahaha!
You are soo 80′s babe!!
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OMGoodness!
That 80′s bulletin board is FAB!!!!
I bet you spent hours combing that thing and thinking back to the good ole days!
I totally went to a Rick Springfield concert!
And Cindi Lauper rocked!
And what about Air Supply…remember them!
Oh…and I was allll into country in the 80′s…Alabama!
I was in college…and we would get up on our dorm desk…with our hair brushes…in our nylon gowns and belt out the songs!!!
Ha..haha!
What a treasure!
xxooxx
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This was too funny! I graduated high school in ’92 but my big sis graduated in ’89. As a little sis, I loved everything she loved including Opus, Sixteen Candles, and 4 inch bangs. What’s funny is that I noticed all the Tulsa stuff. We were Jenks kids and faithfully wore James Avery jewelry, button on lace collars, bomber jackets, etc. Were you by any chance a Jenks HS grad?
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I LOVE THIS!!! I am sure I could find some similar things in my moms attic!! Got to love it!
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I just felt like I was back in my room. What a fun flashback. My first concert ever was Poison!! I rocked big hair (permed!) and big bangs too.
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Love the bulletin board…you obviously had too much fun!!
This makes me want to go see what I can scrounge up at my parents’ house. My mom kept a bunch of our stuff too.
I was born in ’79 so I mostly remember the 90′s. And no, I’ve never had any part of my body run over, thank goodness, and hope I never do.
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Wow! I graduated in 1989 too and this gave me a good laugh. I was more of a Bon Jovi girl though. My family owned the station wagon with the wood paneling. So embarassing! We called it Noah’s ark. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
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This is hilarious! I graduated from college in ’89. So I was the full on eighties’ girl – all of high school and college in the 80′s. I relate to everything on your bulleting board.
I loved St. Elmo’s Fire. I had many romantic fantasies about he boy du jour to that theme song. Loved the Brat Pack.
Those drawings on your bulletin board are very Napoleon Dynamite, by the way.
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I was born in ’80, graduated in ’98, so most of my eighties memories revolve around kiddie stuff: The Smurfs, Barbie, My Little Ponies, He-Man, charm bracelets, etc. Loved this post!!
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
@Amanda @ Serenity Now,
Just make me feel old why don’t ya!? ha. I loved the Smurfs too:-) My daughter is really into My Little Ponies now… I forgot it was an 80′s thing.
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I love the board!! My year was ’86 and I had that similar collection of all things that were super important to my youth. I, too, loved Poison and saw most of the big hair bands back then. I still have friends that quote from Sixteen Candles ALL THE TIME! Fast Times at Ridgemont High seemed to be a huge deal to us, too. And, my girlfriend ran over me with her snowmobile, but the snow was so soft and fluffy that all it did was push me deeper in the snow. No injuries.
Now, I feel like calling all my high school BFFs! Have a good weekend!
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
@Jeri,
Glad to hear you survived the snow mobile run over. hee! I loved Fast Times at Ridgemont High too. I saw it on Showtime when my mom was out one night… I wasn’t supposed to be watching it:-) That and Porky’s. Shhhh!
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OMG I graduated in 89 too. Big Hair was a must. LOL Also, I had those same bear stickers, like millions of them. haha
Rick Springfield was a hottie then too. Loved him.
Also, was obsessed with Top Gun!
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
@Paula,
Too funny! I bet you had some really big hair. We would have gotten along great:-)
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I was born in 1975 so I grew up with “Neue Deutsche Welle” (f.e. Nenas 99 Luftballons) and very bad haircuts!
Music was a big deal back there. German singers Herbert Grönemeyer or Marius Müller-Westernhagen had several good songs far away from “Neue Deutsche Welle”, but I fell in love with Graig, the bassist of the English band “Bros”. Uah! Don’t want to think about that! I never went to a concert, because I was too young.
I liked listening to Europe, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper and loved the A-ha video “Take on me”. I guess that’s why I’m a typical radio listener right know: I was always interested in different styles of music.
And yes: Dirty Dancing! My husband gave to me “The Gold Edition DVD” as a Christmas present two years ago. Isn’t that sweet?
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I grew up in the 80′s – graduated in 1985. We had the big hair with lots of hairspray and black eyeliner/blue eyeshadow. I went to a very conservative private school, but we did wear the fingerless gloves and the Members Only jackets with the upturned collars.
Some memories are better left in the box!
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That’s awesome. i remember being so in love with tom cruise that I couldn’t breathe. Now he’s so weird.
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yep…I graduated in’90. I love 16 candles, and Pretty in Pink, Just one of the Guys, Girls Just want to have fun!
I so remember those bear stickers.
RICK SPRINGFIELD!!!!! OMG! I loved that.
Also I remember those “Gag me with a spoon” pins that you could just wear on your clothes.
My very first concert in the 80′s was Bobby Brown and Rob Base…
“I wanna rock right now, I’m Rob Base and I came to get down. I’m not internationally known but I’m known to rock the microphone because I get stupid, I mean outrageous. Stay away from me if you’re contagious, cuz I’m winner no not a loser…”
my Mom would have been horrified at Rob base ripping off his velcro sided pants to reveal his black and red speedo type underwear during the concert. Scandelous.
I loved me some depeche mode and Duran Duran!!!!!
I also remember rollerskating to GnR’s Patience! Love it!
Good times. Good times.
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 11:57 am
@JJ,
Scandelous indeed! Like, totally gag me with a spoon!
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I had to come out of lurkdom to tell you that was awesome!!!! I graduated in ’90 so I’m a total 80′s girl. (ooops – did saying “total” give it away??” I loved it!!!
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 11:57 am
@Lisa,
Thanks for coming out of lurkdom! Great to see you here:-)
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That bulletin board is awesome. What memories. It’s great that you never took it apart. I remember liking all those things you mentioned. I am a bonified Bon Jovi fan to this day, but I like their new music more than their old at this point.
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 11:58 am
@Libby M.,
I loved Bon Jovi too! I’m surprised I didn’t have a photo of Jon on there?? I also liked Guns & Roses. ha!
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I never got Dirty Dancing when I was growing up, it was only when I was older that I got it! I did however like The Lost Boys and I kept a few bits and pieces from when I was growing up, but yours is a great trip down memory lane!
Oh and I never got run over, but a little girl walking next to me had her foot run over by a truck she was like you and wasn’t that badly hurt but your story and drawing made me remember!
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 11:21 am
@PippaD @ A Mothers Ramblings,
The Lost Boys was and still is one of my favorite movies. It was the 80′s Twilight:-)
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That thing ROCKS!
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Really fun looking at that private world of a teenager. Reminds me of my mirror that practically looked the same but with a 70′s flare! Have to say god bless your mother for hanging on to that for so long. The woman must be a saint!
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Amy Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 11:13 am
@Pink Martini,
My mom kept everything. I even have a box of my baby clothes:-) Some great 70′s outfits that my daughter has worn. Someday I’ll have to open an Etsy shop. I even found a few acid washed items… oh boy!
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