Woke-up way too early and I'm bored.  Other than yearbooks and the like, junk you still have in your posession from that decade...

   Here's almost all that I still have...

   http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1193336/Loma%20Prieta%20Earthquake%20(Newspaper).jpg

   ^San Francisco Chronicle Examiner coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in '89.  Paper is dated October 19th, 1989.  I casually pulled this out of an office trashcan, on my ship, as I was walking past and have had it ever since...

   http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1193336/Manuscript%20and%20Letter_edited-1.jpg

   ^Manuscript w/cover & letter.  Wrote "F-25 Squadron" in the sixth grade.  Dated February 3rd, 1981.  About air force pilots who save the world from nuclear death by fending-off two Russian bombers...

   http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1193336/Tigers%20Jacket%20(Photo%20Collage).jpg

   ^My T'Ville Tigers jacket from the eighth grade ('82-'83).  Accompanying photo of me wearing the jacket, around Christmas '82...

   http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1193336/Green%20Lantern%20Card.jpg

   ^The only remaining piece of my DC Heroes role playing game, circa 1985.  Green Lantern card.  The reverse listed his attributes, anyone who played these games knows what I'm talking about.  Why are you following me around, Green Lantern..?

   
   I love piccys, so post pics if you want to... :)

love the pic of you....

I have my Rubiks cube, a glow in the dark Duncan Yo yo and some other stuff... oh and all the jem dolls plus a rockin' roadster...

love the pic of you....

I have my Rubiks cube, a glow in the dark Duncan Yo yo and some other stuff... oh and all the jem dolls plus a rockin' roadster...



  Thank you... :)

  So your rubicks cube, is it solved or unsolved?  I could only manage one side.. :-\\

   Thank you... :)

   So your rubicks cube, is it solved or unsolved?  I could only manage one side.. :-\\
I manage to solved my Rubik's Cube, but I doubt if I could it now.

I manage to solved my Rubik's Cube, but I doubt if I could it now.


The new cubes come with a link to a website with instructions on solving the cube.  So I can solve the cube following these instructions.

I threw out a lot of 80s stuff recently.  When we moved here I cleared out my jewellery boxes and some clothes.

Just remembered I do still have my boots.  Similar to these but with a higher heel

http://www.enchanted-emerald-forest.com/images/GaryBlackBuckleBootsrRASU2.jpg

Shame my feet have grown since then!

My mother threw out most of my toys and music when we moved house in '89.  :-\\ A few cds and some cassettes have followed me through life though. And yes I still have my yearbooks and some school report cards.

   Thank you... :)

   So your rubicks cube, is it solved or unsolved?  I could only manage one side.. :-\\



completely unsolved...I have managed to get two sides done tho.

http://www.alchemistmatt.com/cube/rubik.html

I have these two books, as well as an Atari VCS and other video game stuff:

http://www.tripoint.org/games/literature/books/vidinvcover.jpg    http://www.tripoint.org/games/literature/books/kubeyfront.jpg

I used to have an arcade full of classic coin-op video games, but I sold the arcade ages ago, and the games went bye bye with my marriage.

I still habe my stuffed Ewok.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LzXlhEBR8iw/R3yZHINPgQI/AAAAAAAAAAM/OFmNpKFhuGQ/s320/Ewok1.jpg

I still have a bunch of my old toys, magazines (mostly Seventeen), cookware (in addition to the ones my parents used in the 70s), trinkets, and even some of the clothes I wore, mostly the late 80s stuff.

I still habe my stuffed Ewok.



No way!!! I loved Wicket! I used to wear his head cloth over my own head... hahaha! Good times.

No way!!! I loved Wicket! I used to wear his head cloth over my own head... hahaha! Good times.


;D

I still have the jean jacket I wore in high school.  Most of my toys are at my parents house.  They include my Missing Link (which was kind of a knock off of the Rubic)  a stuff Smurf and Garfield stuff.

I still have the jean jacket I wore in high school.  Most of my toys are at my parents house.  They include my Missing Link (which was kind of a knock off of the Rubic)  a stuff Smurf and Garfield stuff.


I just found my jean jacket the other day... that is my goal for this weight loss thing...if I can get that thing back on I'm gonna be hawt!  :-* 


;D

I just found my jean jacket the other day... that is my goal for this weight loss thing...if I can get that thing back on I'm gonna be hawt!  :-* 


;D


Mine has a hole in the elbow.  I'm looking for a suitable iron on patch so I can wear it again.  Yeah, I've heard getting back to high school size is a really big thing for people losing weight.  Remember collar up. 8)

Mine has a hole in the elbow.  I'm looking for a suitable iron on patch so I can wear it again.  Yeah, I've heard getting back to high school size is a really big thing for people losing weight.  Remember collar up. 8)


always!

  Some decent junk, so far - boots, books, rubicks.  I had two rubicks cubes, one regular size and one small one on a keychain...

  I just remembered I have my uncancelled movie ticket from 1989, Lynnhaven Mall UA Theater, Virginia Beach, VA.  Had it stuck in the pages of a CD liner notes...

  http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1193336/IJ-Last%20Crusade%20Ticket.jpg

  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  Hard to read but the ticket has the date and time of the showing: June 1st, 5:00 pm.  This was the first and only movie I brought my son to watch, he was around two-and-a-half y/o at the time.  As I recall, he didn't make a fuss through the entire flick.  I don't know why the usher didn't rip the ticket.  Maybe I asked him not to.  There was still a little residual geekiness left in me in '89...

 

I still have the jean jacket I wore in high school.  Most of my toys are at my parents house.  They include my Missing Link (which was kind of a knock off of the Rubic)  a stuff Smurf and Garfield stuff.


I used to leaf through my sister's Seventeen mags; of course, my interest was entirely prurient!
:P

I've moved around so much since I first left home in the late '80s that I don't possess anything from childhood save for some old letters and journals.  Fortunately, my generation is obsessed with its old toys.  If I should gather the interest and the disposable cash, I could take a thousand bucks or so and tour flea markets for a couple of weekends.  From there I could collect all the Rubik's Cubes and Atari games I wanted.  My brother is doing some of that.  For instance, he's got most of the Star Wars figures he had, including the ones he stole from me...it doesn't matter that I was too old for them, they were MINE...and an old Atari set. 

Thing is, unless you have the old home you grew up in to go back to, chances are your stuff is long gone.  I grew up in two different towns and have no family left in either one. 

My dad and my stepmother had a summer place way up in Maine.  Stuart locked the remaining old toys and junk we had in the storage shed up there before he went to college.  That must have been '92 or so.  Our parents rented the place out and the tenants, we think, stole everything in that shed before skipping out on the rent. 
"But why would anybody want to steal a bunch of old plastic junk?" I asked Stuart.
"Don't know, " he said, "I guess they were that kind of slatternly down and out Mainers, you know the type." 

I have all the music I listened to as a teenager (even Men Without Hats and Wang Chung), but it's all on CD or CD-R.  The cassettes and records are long gone.  I was attached to the music, not the copies of the recordings. 

The there were those piles of magazines: Rolling Stone, Star Hits, Spin, NME, and what have you.  I had a strange urge to retain those, but I couldn't reconcile hauling all those dust-gathering, dog-eared, yellowing periodicals around in my transient life. 

Even so, it's amazing what you can find online nowadays.  I found that Ministry interview from 1984 scanned right from "New Sounds" on the Ministry site.
http://prongs.org/minfiles/tour/NewSounds_May_1984.jpg

Eventually, it all ends up online anyway...

http://www.kakophone.com/kakorama/rollingBase/imagesSmall/m3rs481.jpg

This is one issue I'd love to have hard copy of again!

I used to leaf through my sister's Seventeen mags; of course, my interest was entirely prurient!
:P

I've moved around so much since I first left home in the late '80s that I don't possess anything from childhood save for some old letters and journals.  Fortunately, my generation is obsessed with its old toys.  If I should gather the interest and the disposable cash, I could take a thousand bucks or so and tour flea markets for a couple of weekends.  From there I could collect all the Rubik's Cubes and Atari games I wanted.  My brother is doing some of that.  For instance, he's got most of the Star Wars figures he had, including the ones he stole from me...it doesn't matter that I was too old for them, they were MINE...and an old Atari set. 

Thing is, unless you have the old home you grew up in to go back to, chances are your stuff is long gone.  I grew up in two different towns and have no family left in either one. 

My dad and my stepmother had a summer place way up in Maine.  Stuart locked the remaining old toys and junk we had in the storage shed up there before he went to college.  That must have been '92 or so.  Our parents rented the place out and the tenants, we think, stole everything in that shed before skipping out on the rent. 
"But why would anybody want to steal a bunch of old plastic junk?" I asked Stuart.
"Don't know, " he said, "I guess they were that kind of slatternly down and out Mainers, you know the type." 

I have all the music I listened to as a teenager (even Men Without Hats and Wang Chung), but it's all on CD or CD-R.  The cassettes and records are long gone.  I was attached to the music, not the copies of the recordings. 

The there were those piles of magazines: Rolling Stone, Star Hits, Spin, NME, and what have you.  I had a strange urge to retain those, but I couldn't reconcile hauling all those dust-gathering, dog-eared, yellowing periodicals around in my transient life. 

Even so, it's amazing what you can find online nowadays.  I found that Ministry interview from 1984 scanned right from "New Sounds" on the Ministry site.
http://prongs.org/minfiles/tour/NewSounds_May_1984.jpg

Eventually, it all ends up online anyway...

http://www.kakophone.com/kakorama/rollingBase/imagesSmall/m3rs481.jpg

This is one issue I'd love to have hard copy of again!





Seventeen magazine was too mainstream magazine for me.  I bought my jean jacket back in "86" with every last penny I had at the time.  I guess that why it sentimental, I used my cash to get it.  I have the mini Pac-Man game, it still works great.  I lost anything I tried to take with me due to unstable residency.  Lost my music collection so I'm kin of thankful for iTunes.