Post an Image of a Person, Place or Thing that Represents the 80s to You

Such a &%$@

Simon

Nice R2. How do you post an image without text?

Daisy Dukes

Jeff Stryker

CK Underwear

Symbol

Wasn't trashboy from the '90s, r7?

Tom Hintnaus was CK's '80s guy.

Jeff Aquilon telling Michael Ives it's over between them.

Had one of these.

Cocaine Made Me

the compact disc

The Queen of Pop

Never forget them!

Really, r14? Your day would not have been complete until you made us look at that piece of shit? Shit, shitty shit. She is shit. All she is is shit. An excretory product with a recording contract. You are shit, too.

Thank you for posting that photo, R15. It immediately came to mind when I read the title of the thread.

Kodak disc film cameras! I had one when I was eight, and loved its slim profile, but hated the image quality & having fewer photos on one reel of film.

Just fuck off R16. You're a slobbering fuckmuppet.

Jordache

Ocean Pacific

Nostalgia that had me in very "Mary" ecstasy.

How about this:

....

3 in 1

R21 I used to have eight or ten pairs of their corduroy short shorts, and LOVED them. Now? They go for ridiculous prices on ebay and other places.

Memphis style everything.

Margaux Hemingway.

You can see the despair kicking in in this clip.

R18 - I had a disc camera! All my college pics look like grainy crap. I took the disc negatives into a photo store to see if I could get improved prints and they said, "Good luck with that!"

I begged my mom and she finally bought me an OP jacket, with removable sleeves to become a vest! I was coolest kid in high school for a day.

Tight jeans! Even little guys like this looked good in them. Might be a good thread topic of its own!

Sadly....

R29 Even if they'd taken better photos, they simply weren't cost effective. Fifteen photos on a disc vs. twenty-four on a traditional roll of film? Logistically it makes sense, but I was always disappointed with that. And I was very young, but I don't recall disc film being that much less expensive than traditional 35mm rolls.

I remember finding a few undeveloped discs years after they stopped developing them. I'd still like to know what was on them. Whatever it was, I'm sure the quality was terrible! 🤣

Charity concerts and these two

Chams shirts.

This

Ridiculously big hair

Money. Class. Morals.

Robert Wagner and "Morals" in the same post?

What's that at R32?

Jason Voorhees

High school

the music

Palladium club

Betsy B.

Chess King at the mall.

Members Only jackets.

My first post high school boyfriend had three members only jackets.

Two black and one gray

Wow, how soon they forget.

I hate to do it but ....

Yes, him. You see, I hated the 80s, the naked grab of wealth aided by a complicit White House, the leering vulgarity, the suppression of the working class.

But in that same decade I loved Spy magazine and read it cover to cover, including the tiny text inserted around the margins of articles. It was Spy that showed me the person who embodied every single terrible thing about New York in the 80s. And we all know who that is.

I didn’t know Trump had been married to Joanna Lumley.

R50, lmao

tragic hair

R50 could easily be Appalachia last week.

NBC's "Let's All Be There"! '85-86 season promo.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Here's a twofer.

Regan and Thatcher

An Early Frost

R67 I still have that poster stored away somewhere.

R69 Scary times back then. Convinced that Soviet tanks would roll over the West German border some morning.

The 80s will always remind me of making my own mix tapes and collections.

In 1982, I bought this exact GE Silver Signature boombox at Service Merchandise.

It was $250 and I was finally able to record on METAL bias cassettes!!!!

High school dropout Mary Lou Retton.

This song and this video...

Bananarama. They always looked great.

Tear it down Mr Gorbachev

Poltergeist

They kissed the face of God.

Who shot JR?

Spoiler alert: all TV crossovers are the product of a gay autistic boy’s imagination.

[quote] They kissed the face of God.

Oh, dear!

Kitten With a Whipped Cream Soufflé

The original Vidal Sassoon shampoo...

"You need my three steps, everyday, for maaaahvelous looking hair."

If you don't look good, we don't look good. Vidal Sassoon.

Snickers by any other name

Making Love

Presented without jibber-jabber

Artwork at ALL high end salons!

Glenn's almost Oscar

Luke and Laura

The beginning of passive virtue?

Sean Penn and Madonna

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Hello? How did this thread get to 95 without us?

I want my MTV.

R97 - wow, forgot all about Mark Goodman. Had a little crush on him.

You fat ungrateful whores. Almost 100 replies and no mention of these DL goddesses.

The theme was important, too.

These 2

Washington D.C. politics on daytime. OK, it got a little weird in its last year, but oh that cast!

Nutty heiresses on the primetime soaps!

Julia Cumson was my favorite.

"Cumson". I wonder which writer came up with that?

Hypercolor

Bea Arthur looks like she’s half in the bag in the photo at r99.

Peg-rolled pants.

... And more peg-rolled pants.