The 70s & 80s Nostalgia Thread...

[Cotton]

That pencil sharpener reference was especially relatable. How in all those years did they not mount it in a way that you didn't hit your knuckles on the wall?

 

[Irving Cowboy]

I guess it would be the Challenger explosion. I don't really remember a major news event before that.

Patty Hearst and the SLA robbing the bank in San Francisco

 

[Genghis Khan]

I guess it would be the Challenger explosion. I don't really remember a major news event before that.

The Iran hostage crisis for me.

I remember people wearing these shirts:

 

[Rev]

Mine was the gas shortage at the end of the 70s.

 

[Cotton]

Patty Hearst and the SLA robbing the bank in San Francisco

I had to look it up, but I was 1 when that happened.

 

[Cotton]

The Iran hostage crisis for me.

I remember people wearing these shirts:

I do vaguely remember this. Of course, I know about it now, but then I just kinda vaguely remember it happening in real time.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I do vaguely remember this. Of course, I know about it now, but then I just kinda vaguely remember it happening in real time.

I definitely only remember it vaguely.

 

[boozeman]

Yes but only on HBO did you get to see Tanya Robert’s

 

[boozeman]

 

[bbgun]

9/11

Or maybe Three Mile Island

 

[bbgun]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I had that exact NFL one.

 

[bbgun]

I had the Happy Days one. I guess the Six Mills were sold out.

 

[boozeman]

Mine was the gas shortage at the end of the 70s.

This and the Watergate wing ding.

 

[boozeman]

I recall this and it is still superior to the slop in the bottles now.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Or a football or basketball... or just a door opening to the outdoors.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

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I had that SMDM lunchbox, and the Emergency! one