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socal78

socal78

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What America's Malls Looked Like in 1989. <-- This will bring back a lot of memories! Feels like yesterday.  :( Sometimes I want to go back. Makes me want to go crimp my hair, put on giant hoop earrings, tuck our pants into our socks, okay maybe not that part and meet up at Sam Goody with friends to buy some tapes. Where have the good times gone. Now we just sit on the computer and do all of that virtually.

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Wow Kurt Loder is holding up well.  Looks like he's in his mid 50's.  Probably the coolest grandpa on the block.
 
Looking at those pics in the link reminds me of going to Orange Mall and buying the Def Leopard CD on release day at Sam Goody.  That place was packed! 

It was right next to "Millers Outpost", where I picked up some sweet Anchor Blue Cargo Pants...
 
In the 80s I ran into my middle aged neighbor at the Wherehouse after I had just purchased an LP.  She asked me what I bought.  I said "The Cure."  She asked, "the cure for what?"
 
Actually the malls themselves look much the same to me.  Just the clothes and hair are different (and the crappy pics...shoulda taken a photography class before that trip).  I already shed a tear for Radio Shack back in the '90s when they became cellphone shack, and another tear for Sears a few years ago when they quit making their Craftsman tools in the US.  JCP too.  Good riddance.
Those of us who miss the '80s are really just missing our youth and all the things that came with it; the '80s just happened to be there for us by chance.  I don't really miss big hair and bugle boy jeans any more than I miss bell bottoms.
 
aquabliss said:
Wow Kurt Loder is holding up well.  Looks like he's in his mid 50's.  Probably the coolest grandpa on the block.
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Okay, I thought the same thing but I was suspicious when I first saw the pic. I did a Google image search for Kurt Loder and came away thinking that jpb has an older photo of him. Going by more recent pics, I'd say yah, he looks about 70:

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aquabliss said:
Looking at those pics in the link reminds me of going to Orange Mall and buying the Def Leopard CD on release day at Sam Goody.  That place was packed! 

It was right next to "Millers Outpost", where I picked up some sweet Anchor Blue Cargo Pants...
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Oh my gosh. Yes, yes, and yes! I grew up going to Orange Mall and was standing next to you at Sam Goody wearing the stonewashed denim jacket I got at Miller's Outpost along with high-top L.A. Gear shoes I got at the mall. I have so many memories of the Orange Mall back then. Iho was the old guy standing next to us in his cool "Member's Only" jacket, trading in his vinyl records for tapes.
 
daedalus said:
Actually the malls themselves look much the same to me.  Just the clothes and hair are different (and the crappy pics...shoulda taken a photography class before that trip).  I already shed a tear for Radio Shack back in the '90s when they became cellphone shack, and another tear for Sears a few years ago when they quit making their Craftsman tools in the US.  JCP too.  Good riddance.
Those of us who miss the '80s are really just missing our youth and all the things that came with it; the '80s just happened to be there for us by chance.  I don't really miss big hair and bugle boy jeans any more than I miss bell bottoms.
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Yeah, I'm sure you're right about it being the carefree age and not so much "the 80s". For example, sometimes I wish I could do a timewarp back to Skateway on a Saturday night again. Who doesn't love some good ol' 1980s rollerskating on 4 wheels before in-line skates were a thing, do the photo booth, and skate to Depeche Mode. But then I actually did go back and try it a few years ago. Skating wasn't nearly as fun or easy as I remember it being. There was no Depeche Mode but some kid singing garbage I'd never heard of... well, okay, maybe some things were better then.  :)
 
aquabliss said:
Wow Kurt Loder is holding up well.  Looks like he's in his mid 50's.  Probably the coolest grandpa on the block.
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Us poor kids with no cable tv had to be content with Richard Blade's imitation MTV called MV3.
 
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