It's June 2nd, 1980

The trunk of my car is filled with Michelob on ice. I have a gram of coke, and I'm driving to Ft. Lauderdale.

I was the hooligan of the family. Good times!

Im recovering from a long weekend at the Grove.

I'm in my last month of a six-month assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

I was still working my first first college job at the advertising agency.

I was probably working on something for our natural gas utility company client. They liked to have an annual gas grill sale prior to the Fourth of July.

My mom is going to drop me off at the Galleria after school. I’ll hang out with my friends and then meet up with my mom for dinner at The Magic Pan.

I’m going to get the back of my hair permed at the JC Penney.

OP must be from Indiana, with the Burger Chef detail.

Me? I'm going to hang out at the new mall (it's enclosed!) with my buddies. We'll play Asteroids and Space Invaders and this new game called Pac Man, maybe a little air hockey. Then Camelot Records to look through their albums (I plan to buy "Diana" if it's not too expensive; if it is, I'll just get the 45 of Upside Down) Then we'll go to the food court and pig out, then General Cinema (two screens right inside the mall!) to watch Empire Strikes Back for the 8th time.

Oh, I also need to stop at Sears for new tube socks, and Mom asked me to snag her some Karamel Korn.

Ciao! Or as Mork would say, "Grub!"

Dropped off my blue sweater at the cleaners. Asked my hairdresser to give me The Anne Murray.

Same thing I do every day -- Wondering how Jimmy Carter thinks he's going to be able win a second term.

*cough*

I don't feel too good. I have this cold I can't shake.

Won't skip the Pines this weekend, though. I missed Beach '79 last year and wanted to kill myself!

School, homework, dinner, bath, teeth, 1 hr tv before 10pm bedtime.

[quote]I was probably working on something for our natural gas utility company client. They liked to have an annual gas grill sale prior to the Fourth of July.

How peculiar, r4. I, too, was working at an ad agency on that date, and one of my clients had been the natural gas company. I had written a couple of bill inserts for them over the past three years, including two for a gas grill called the Charmglowette. I remember it so well because my cat and I were also the spokesmodels. We did a beach theme one year, in which my cat wore little, cat-sized sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt made for a baby.

I don't have anything to wear for my 9th grade graduation. Oh well, I'll figure something out.

I flew to Holland Michigan to present a two-day class in our company's product.

I just graduated sixth grade, which will turn out to be my last happy school year until college.

Junior High was rough!

My grandmother died on June 2, 1980. She lived from 1897 to 1980. I was finishing up at college at that time. I still remember that phone call from my Dad with the news. I wasn't able to make it home in time for the funeral.

I served peanuts to R14. And cock to A27.

Just graduated High School and waiting for the premiere of Xanadu in two months before starting Community College.

I'm getting ready to erupt again in 10 days. Get ready, girls!! I'm going to have a busy summer!!

Just finished first year at college. Now on train from Paris to Monaco to fuck my way around the Cote D’Azur for summer.

I just turned 8 ..My dad took me to Waxie Maxies to buy me my first record. Lol something called Rock 80.

Going to wax my muscle car and squeeze into my Jordache Jeans and go looping.

Applying for a pt job at K-Mart, and eating a triple decker baloney sandwich on white bread an hour after supper but never gaining a pound.

I'm going to try and runaway after my mom gets my dad's check cashed this Friday. I'll take the money from her purse before she wakes up Saturday, buy a Trailways bus ticket to Florida and I'll be free.

I'm four years old. My parents bought me this and put it on the stereo frequently, so I'll dance around and tire myself out enough to go to bed.

Hoping and praying "Angie" would be renewed for a third season.

Finishing up 10th grade, just a few more days of school and then the highlight of the year Jubilee Day, the largest, longest one day street festival on the east coast! Sadly it was cancelled for this year.

Hmmm, Monday. Pretty much a nothing day. I probably watched 'That's Incredible' on ABC, and maybe NBC's Monday Night at the Movies if it was any good. I might have taken in 'Lou Grant' on CBS at 10pm if it wasn't.

Watching Fame with my siblings and wishing I lived in New York.

You better have watched the last four first-run episodes of Family, R28. They aired in June.

Sorry, R30 - 'Family' never did anything for me.

Besides, in June of 1980, it aired on Wednesdays at 8pm.

I have some home truths for you, Nancy — that is no excuse!

I'm thinking, Should I move to New York?

Did you come back with the souvenir that kept on souveniring, R20?

r24 - did you make it out??

I was... probably shitting my pants.

Celebrating my 10th birthday.

Graduated high school. Bumming the summer at Venice Beach.

School's about to be out for summer, and we're all waiting around to find out who our teacher assignment will be for 5th grade in September.

I'm praying that I get that new hot young blond guy named Mr. Hurst.

Yeah, I started early.

R24's post made me oddly emotional. How've the years treated ya?

Counting down the days until I’m out of the fourth grade, and I’m NOT doing my homework tonight. The year is almost over anyway.

I can’t wait to ride my bike after school.

[quote] and go looping.

I wonder if looping is the same thing we used to call “cruising” (not in a sexual sense, either).

Imagine my confusion between cruising and ‘cruising.’

I'm listening to Blondie's Eat To The Beat while all my friends at high school are listening to some shit called "Breakfast in America".

I’m staying in tonight and washing my hair with Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific.

I'm on my way to apprentice at a summer theater. Little did I know I would lose my virginity that summer.

Im in a tea room fucking a married guy and cumming in his ass.

It’s Monday and I’m visiting the Mexican subsidiary of my company. My butt is sore because the married chief financial officer of the company has been fucking me all weekend. My relationship with Anonimo would end in about a year because he got fired from the company and had no free time to see me.

I've been done with 1st grade for about a week. Probably riding bikes or playing some elaborate form of tag with the neighborhood kids. "The Empire Strikes Back" opened 11 days ago and I believe I will be seeing it within a week or two at the Burnsville Center theaters in Burnsville, MN. It will leave an indelible mark on me.

I was getting laid. It's a miracle I'm still here.

I wasn't even three bitches! How am I supposed to remember?

[quote]Im in a tea room fucking a married guy and cumming in his ass.

And how would this be different from the other 365 days that year?

1980, you say? Why, I was but a twinkle in my father’s eye!

I never made it to Florida, though the fantasy was- I think- the thing that kept me sane all through the awful gay h.s. years. Sort of a safety valve.

However, I feel I've been running away ever since.

R44 = Ethel Merman

R48 - ❤️

R51 - Missed you!

I was a student at FSU in Tallahassee , Florida . 20 years old and reading in After Dark magazine how exciting my upcoming homosexual life would be!!! I could not wait to graduate and move to a big city .

I am lucky to be alive with slight to moderate emotional damage now at 60 .

I was keeping all of my young gay male fans on the dance floor all summer !!!! Such memories we have now my Eldergay children !!! Much Love !!!! My concert schedule resumes in 2021 , however no "Reach Out and Touch Someones Hand" will be permitted.

I'm glad you made ie through, R54. Where did you land after Tallahasse?

R56 thank you for your kind words ! A rarity here on the DL!! I am living in the DMV specifically the Maryland Burbs.

I'm not even in junior high OP.

I'm reading my DC comics during my summer break = Super Friends #35, Green Lantern #131 (Evil Star attacks him with in all yellow city & I'm hoping he'll be okay), World's Finest #264 (a kryptonite Clayface is back against the world's greatest duo) & JLA #181 (Green Arrow quits!?!).

I'm hearing good things about the New Teen Titans series. I hope it doesn't get cancelled like the last two times.

I think I'm coming down with something. I've been feeling flu-like lately. Oh well, off to the bathhouse to take some raw loads tonight!

I wasn't even born yet!

[quote]Oh well, off to the bathhouse to take some raw loads tonight!

Would loads have been referred to as "raw" in 1980?

I'm going to Radio Shack to FINALLY get my Tandy computer. They are AMAZING!

I'm at the same Radio Shack picking up 9-volt batteries for my Merlin, R62.

Can't wait for "Can't Stop The Music" to come out in a few weeks. Allan Carr said on Merv that Disco is the music of the 80s, and he's bringing back the lavish Busby Berkley musicals of yesteryear.

And it looks like hunky Bruce Jenner will be the star of the 80s.

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to Air Canada flight 6969 from Quebec to New York's La Guardia Airport. My name is Gaetan and I will be your flight attendant today.......

Living in an unfinished dream house on plywood floors taking showers in over chlorinated sulfur water my parents saved all their life to build. In a couple of weeks their dream will come to a crash as my father has an emergency quadruple bypass while my mother and I are forced to sell the house and move into a shitty rental which gets burned down to the ground 2 years later in a massive brush fire. Oh well, dad survived.

I was one month off parole after doing 4 years in prison for various and assorted stunts. I immediately hooked up with my cousins in Miami and started slinging coke ,making crazy cash and partying like a debauched rock star. I was 19 . No one is more surprised than me that I'll be 60 in november.

I'll be selling programs for the Tall Ships at Boston's Jubilee 350.

I was there, not doing all that much. Life seemed pleasantly uneventful back then. As in, nobody paid much attention to the news. We went out, drove around, saw friends, went places, watched sitcoms and movies, disco danced, did this or that.

Well, today I jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

R1 Burger Chef! We had one of those! It was pretty good as I recall. Ours was in Massachusetts. I remembers songs on the car radio like Wings "Comin On"...I'm probably off a year or two with that.

My favorite tv show in 1980 was Galactica 1980.

Oh also, it's my birthday this week. I'm going to be 20!

Just turned 9, finishing up 3rd grade. Probably looking forward to the summer break, but sad that Miss Ball will no longer be my homeroom teacher.

It's the summer after my sophomore year at college, and I'm working night shift at a psych hospital, Really. I enjoyed some dick in college - but since I'm living at home with my parents, there;ll be no dick for me this summer! And work with crazy people is depressing.

I just saw a preview for Olivia Newton-John's new musical. I hope it's as good as Grease.

I'm also a college student, very likely traipsing through the ash-covered Eastern Washington streets to daringly buy a Playgirl at the corner market, still wearing a surgical mask after the eruption of Mount Saint Helens.

[QUOTE] thank you for your kind words ! A rarity here on the DL!! I am living in the DMV specifically the Maryland Burbs.

R57 - Despite how ugly this place can sometimes get (which, let's face it, is part of the fun,) some of the kindest people I've known have been older gay men. Anyway, I'm always grateful to hear reminices from men who made it through those darker years -- whether it was from family abandonment or the plague. I came of age in the late 90s and was very lucky to have accepting parents and to have stayed healthy.

I had just graduated from college and there were no career type jobs because the economy had tanked, so I worked at a grocery store during the day and at Pizza Hut at night to earn enough dollars to go live with my boyfriend in England. I made it there in September. I thought I was in love. Silly me!

Im 4 years old and my mother is going to give birth my first sibling in 5 more days. I still hate his guts, he ended up being an abusive, right winger, "know it all" stoner who lives in the Netherlands. Thanks to fight we had a few years ago and I don't have to pretend I care about him anymore.

Why do I keep thinking of a horse drawn carriage?

It's a Monday.....and I cant WAIT for 7th grade to be over.