What do you remember most about growing up in the 70's and 80's?

Question

Television, Movies, Fashion, Music, School, Toys? It's all considered retro now.

Answer 1

Parachute pants
Bubblicious and bubble yum debut. Before that, gum always came in a stick
Pop rocks
Mood rings
Great music from both decades
Great cars ( 1970's cars are now worth a lot of money in mint condition)
Summers that seemed to last forever. Playing outside in the neighborhood until the street lights came on, not worrying about being abducted
Intoduction of BMX bikes, everyone wanted a Mongoose neck.
Mark Spitz
Dorothy Hamill
Charlie's Angels
Barretta
MacMillan & Wife
Kojak
CW MCCall
CB Radios
Smokey & The Bandit
Road trips
Great toys - Hot Wheels, Lincoln Logs
Playing with Army Men
Walkman radios
Pong!!!!! That was a really big deal back then
Pac-Man fever
Great Commercials

Seeing Star Wars in the movie theatre when it first came out
Seeing Empire Strikes Back, waiting hour s in line to see it the weekend it came out
Seeing Return of the Jedi
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Animal House
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc.

Answer 2

I was born in 1986. This is what I remember from the eighties. Remember, I was very young so everything is related mostly to children...

Television:

Care Bears
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Fraggle Rock
My Little Pony Tales
Popples

Movies:

Adventures in Babysitting

Fashion:

Corduroy
Striped tops
Ruffled or folded socks

Music:

Just about any '80s music that was playing on the radio.

School:

Wasn't in school yet.

Toys:

My Little Ponies
Cupcake Dolls
Popples stuffed animals

Answer 3

Music and Television were my favs Fashion came more in the middle 80's when I was a teenager. I do not know about retro.

Answer 4

Hmmm... in the 70's.. being born & living it up as the first baby in my family in about 10 years.... in the 80's I remember kid stuff the most... strawberry shortcake, the smurfs, the snorks, fraggles, Poochie, Jem, carebears, rainbow brite, my little pony... I remember Cabbage Patch Kids & Garbage Pail Kids.... Sesame Street & Mr Roger's.... thundercats, transformers & GI Joe... I remember WWF & that Piper guy, Hulk Hogan, that andre the giant guy (I had a nephew). I remember every guy walking around with a glove on and a red jacket like Michael Jackson. Pee Wee Herman's playhouse and Lambchop's playalong. I remember riding big wheels and playing double dutch, hopscotch & playing house or school. I remember swimming in the summers and snowball fights in the winters. Wow.. kids today are really missing out huh???

Answer 5

I grew up in the 80's and I remember mimicking the whole 80's style. I'd see things on TV, in magazines, in stores and try to do it at home. The big hair, layered clothes, collars up... I wanted to be a teenager in the 80's so bad! Unfortunately, I was really young and my mom squashed a lot of my ideas before I could get out of the house. In the 90's, when I actually was a teenager, then my mom let my creativity go overboard.

Answer 6

Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley, Welcome Back Cater, Threes Company, S.W.A.T Team, Barrita, Starsky and Hutch, Gilligans Island, The Pyramid (game show), Family Fued with Richard Dawson, Kimba (cartoon), Speed Racer.

WOW there is so many, my mind went blank. These are a few that I remember.

Answer 7

Care bears
Smurfs
Fantasy Island
The Dukes of Hazard
Big wheel
Under roo's "spelling"
ET

Answer 8

somewhat i imagine they were called Bimbos or something similar. Used to get them at Wendys and A&W virtually the length of a golf ball. fuzzballs with tiny eyes and the ribbon. sure I keep in concepts nicely :o) probable will run into one or 2 if i ever sparkling out storage lol

Answer 9

dude, before the 70s and 80s were the 60s, I can't remember sh­it.

Answer 10

Peppy songs and fun music videos.