Post a picture of yourself in the 1980s in this thread.
This is me in January 1988. To think that some gutless "fans" go to Angel road games during these current glory years with NO gear on while I was fighting in the trenches, in the heart of Dodger country back as the lean years were getting dark and gloomy... Anyone else got your war stories and photos?
Tonight is Retro 80s night at the Big A. Robert Ray (born in 1984) faces Jered Weaver (born in 1982). The Blue Jays look for real.
Let's talk about the 1980s at lunch. Back when MTV played music videos 24/7, back when the Cold War was fought with weapons that didn't yet exist, back when the Savings and Loan industry was the bad guy and We Are the World was the good guys... oh boy, do you really want to go back?
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Mullets are still in style in certain areas of West Virginia and the Ozarks...
so, it could not possibly be “best of the 80’s.”
Downing Rules - May 7, 2009
We are talking about “civilization” and not just “earth” here…
Rev Halofan - May 7, 2009
Oh, baby do you know what that's worth?
Oh, Heaven is a place on Earth.
No thank you to mid to late 80s pop music
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
The mullet
Business in the front, party in the back, douche-bag all around
anaheim angels - May 7, 2009
Toss up
between the mullet and mohawk, voted mullet for the comedy factor
Epic Dean - May 7, 2009
Im a 80's baby
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
my kitchen has the same formica flooring
and that was installed here in … THE 1980s!!!!
Rev Halofan - May 7, 2009
Same house since the 80's?
Damn your die-hard Southern California. Props to you.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
The '80's...
…meet this cute chick-a-dee, got hitched, graduated from college, help produce 2 little sothballs, bought the house we still live in…all in all, good times.
Slowly re-living a lot of it it as I transfer our home videos to digital/hard drive.
Some of the music from that era I still love… Pretenders, Cars, Police, Clash, B-52’s, Tom Petty, the Go’Go’s….mmm,mmmm…too much good stuff.
sothball - May 7, 2009
I didn't want to talk Angel baseball as that would require referencing...
…the year that follows 1985, and a certain playoff game that STILL makes we commit some obscene act of violence, which actually led to a participant committing an obscene act of violence…ugh.
(PURE cleansing thoughts, deep breath, PURE cleansing thoughts..)
sothball - May 7, 2009
Damn...
Me too…
Except the little floyds came in the 90s, and we moved from our first house in 1999.
red floyd - May 7, 2009
Pretenders? Clash? Petty? Hell yeah.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
The Clash...
I hold the unenviable distinction of falling asleep during a Clash concert.
Us ’83. New Wave day. They were the last act, and were delayed due to some contract BS. I was wiped and zoned during their set.
red floyd - May 7, 2009
"Wiped and zoned" seemed to go with the times...
sothball - May 7, 2009
do you listen to Jack FM Sothball?
They play quality 80’s music throughout the day.
blochead - May 7, 2009
no i dont...where....when?
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
93.1fm in the LA metro area
its good stuff!
wallispdub1 - May 7, 2009
hell yeah
and their in their breaks in between songs are always hilarious
blochead - May 7, 2009
not living in the LA area right now...
Should be within the next year. Maybe I can stream ’em…..
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
San Diego has Jack too if you live here
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
931jackfm.com!
ladybug - May 7, 2009
where do you live?
They have Jack throughout the country i was at coachella a few weeks ago and it was 95.9 there.
blochead - May 8, 2009
Yeah...but I found a slightly better station...
…(hope I’m not breaking any rules by plugging a station) 100.3 (The Sound). It’s pretty good!
So I go between 93.1, 100.3. If I have a longer commute – and depending on my mood – I’ll play a classical, Jazz , musical, or soundtrack CD.
Listened to part of the soundtrack from “The Commitments” today. If you love soul, it is sooooo good.
sothball - May 7, 2009
100.3 is pretty good...sometimes it faulters with a Dave Mathews song or some crap like that, but overall it aint bad. I love a station that plays deep cuts.
I saw The Commitments as a kid, then re-visited it when I was in high school because I was getting into a lot of soul music. So I go to Tower, buy the cassette and then when I get in the car I quickly realize all the songs were by The Commitments. I had bought the soundtrack thinking it was going to be the original versions of all the songs they played. After owning the tape for roughly 5 minutes, I threw it out the window of my moving car.
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
LOL...I hope it landed at "The Dark End of the Street".
sothball - May 7, 2009
Flying Burrito Brothers?
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
My reference was to...
…this.
sothball - May 7, 2009
I forgot that song was in the movie...got into the burrito bros a few years back and always thought that was a great soul song, especially coming from a more country rock band.
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
I have never seen the movie are any part of it until that clip
Thanks!
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
It's a pretty funny movie...I love the music...
sothball - May 7, 2009
From the crummy little building in Culver City
red floyd - May 7, 2009
awesome red
I like it when a caller sings a song before they play it lol. Btw I see you are a clash fan as well!
blochead - May 8, 2009
Rev,
I was gonna make some snide comment about wearing glasses so thick that you could see into the future… and then I looked into the mirror.
Had a flattop, glasses (as well) and a porn star (undeserved) mustache.
I apologize for my original evil thoughts.
Ahhh, the eighties…..
rmhalofan - May 7, 2009
My wife had the same...goggles? Damn they were huge.
The look on the Rev’s face is sort of “…send your tired, poor, huddled masses…I’ll kick their asses too!”
Dodgers…we don’t dodge nothin’.
sothball - May 7, 2009
Those are some pimp glasses
kinda makes you look like a hipster
blochead - May 7, 2009
Agree
Belongs in Silver Lake
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
My son and I at Disneyland
My son is now 26…I was once 26, but that was so long ago.
What were we talking about?
WiHaloFan - May 7, 2009
I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.
red floyd - May 7, 2009
Yeah...that was The Byrds?
sothball - May 7, 2009
...the reason I ask...coincidentally the Flying Burrito Bros. were mentioned above...
sothball - May 7, 2009
I coincidentally spent much of the 80s listening to the Burrito Brothers. It’s quite a blessing to have parents with good music.
Sam Miller OCR - May 7, 2009
Ha!!!! That pic is awesome, Rev, and now I can totally see the David Keith resemblance.
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
I don't have an 80's pics here at work, unfortunately, although I'm drinking a Pepsi Throwback right now.
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
yeah i was born in the late 80's
so i’ve got nothing either.
but i am going to the game tonight!!
howiestheman - May 7, 2009
"i've got nothing either"?!
ugh… brain not functioning too well.
in any case, i don’t have any 80’s pics, as i was an infant. that was what i was going for.
howiestheman - May 7, 2009
I would SO do this
but I don’t have my 80’s photos — which are not generally digitized and few in number anyway — readily handy.
scareduck - May 7, 2009
Develop that Kodak 110 film and then scan...
Downing Rules - May 7, 2009
bada bing! LOL!!
ladybug - May 7, 2009
i wish i had some of my 80's pics
on my new laptop… i was born in 83 and have an epic pic of me in a bombers helmet! awesome! gotta love the 80’s…
wallispdub1 - May 7, 2009
I love 80s pop culture
I like to divide the 80’s up from 1980-1982, 1983, and then 1984-1989.
From what I have observed, it seems like the US in 1980, 1981, and 1982 (though here we begin to see some changes) were basically like 1978 and 1979 in terms of hairstyle (helmet hairdo for men seemed to still be popular), the use of orange and brown, and US Billboard Mainstream Pop music trends which for the most part seemed dominated by soft rock sprinkled with a few New Wave top 40 hits here and there (mostly from 1982), with synths and drum machines not yet ubiquitous in US top 40 music.
1983 seems to be a transition year in US pop culture with New Wave finally becoming mainstream in the US.
1984 though is the first year IMO that seems to meet most people’s conceptions of what the 1980s is in terms of music (lots of synths, drum machines, hair metal bands like Ratt and Twisted Sister), fashion, and dress.
I am probably wrong, but that’s what I have observed through attempting to study 80s pop culture.
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
The next thing I can feel coming on is the 90's nostalgia...ughhh
My problem with it is that the nostalgia is just so empty…like grasping for something that’s not there. I’ve had two separate groups of friends lately that had two different 90’s themed parties, as well as a bar I know of having a 90’s night now. I gripe that most of the funny, kitschy nostalgia they are harkening back to is really just from 90-92/93…i.e. stuff that was held over from the end of the 80’s. Their idea of 90’s nostalgia is really taking it’s cues from 1988.
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
I bet there was some "Cherry Pie" at the parties
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
Fan from day one…
BrentSchmidt - May 7, 2009
I had the same look on my face...
… In October of 2002…
Northwest - May 7, 2009
Hall & Oates
In the video for “Family Man”, I believe one of the kids is wearing an Angels hat
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
Bingo
I remembered seeing that also.
Alway thinking he looked like Mike Witt without the stache.
eyespy - May 7, 2009
Mike looks a little like Nick Adenhart i say.
WillGoAngels27 - May 7, 2009
Jimmuscomp chiming in..
That’s me on the right, circa 1991. I don’t see any pics on my CPU from the 1980’s…
The other guy is Dave Deroo – he went on the become the bass player in Adema and played in a band with Jonathan Davis from Korn around this time as well…
jimmuscomp - May 7, 2009
What type of music?
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
looks like classical from the Baroque period. ;)
Downing Rules - May 7, 2009
LOL!
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
Ehhh
Grungy, funky rock…
Pearl Jam meets the Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Soundgarden meets ???
jimmuscomp - May 7, 2009
Dinosaur Jr meets Husker Du
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
meets thank-god that era is over...and all the alt-bros it produced.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
Hey now...
… Pavement and the Pixies came out of that Era
Northwest - May 7, 2009
+1 for Frank Black...
jimmuscomp - May 7, 2009
Frank Black is playing at Detroit bar is Costa Mesa...either tonight or tomorrow, can't remember right now.
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
+10 to you all
for the pixies and frank black/black francis talk on HH
blochead - May 7, 2009
+ No. 13 Baby
gary matthews jr. jr. - May 7, 2009
Nothing in the world better than Frank Black, but I saw him at Detroit about a year ago and the shit sound in that place does not do well for him. It was a very disappointing show.
Sam Miller OCR - May 7, 2009
Wow, what a fall from grace.
PieceOfAase - May 7, 2009
Wait, a Pavement fan from the NW? No way!
i was more referring to Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Candlebox crew…
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
I know...
.. A rarity. Almost as rare as a PDX bar having PBR on tap…
Northwest - May 7, 2009
hahaha....are you in Portland? I think I asked that once...
Bees playing the Beavers for a 4 game series starting Friday. Im going to at least two of the games and Im making a sign that reads:
“Wood 3:16”
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
Actually leaving for Las Vegas tommorow...
Can’t pass up the opportunity to gamble on a halos-royals series.
P.S.
Things Ive learned from vegas via Halos Heaven:
1. Diet Coke will mix with anything
2. Pattimelt is a slot-playing machine
3. The Hilton Sportsbook Customer Service is lacking…
4. The Rev is not afraid to hit on 17.
Northwest - May 7, 2009
correction
#2. Pattimelt will win ANYTHING merely by standing by it. She’s the Most Interesting Woman of Winning
ladybug - May 7, 2009
i stand corrected.
Northwest - May 7, 2009
1986-1989
My career as a scrappy 1st baseman for the Fresno-Sierra Little League Angels began my love for the Halos.
Northwest - May 7, 2009
ROFL.....this is SWEET. I just found this one!!
Before the Prom, Mom just HAD to pose me:
WITH ANGELS RALLY MOM:
ladybug - May 7, 2009
bangin'
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
yeah, I haven't changed a bit!!
gotta run and dodge the lightning strike now…………..
ladybug - May 7, 2009
i guess we are both lucky
that they kicked me out after junior year
Rev Halofan - May 7, 2009
Rev, you've been kicked out of a lot of schools.
We need storytime with the Rev some off night.
AlanFalcon - May 8, 2009
only six, big whoop.
Rev Halofan - May 8, 2009
Prom Night!
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
Mmmm, damn girl. You look so good somebody ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit!
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
girl you so fine, i'd drink your bathwater....
Northwest - May 7, 2009
you do realize that was 25 years ago?
ladybug - May 7, 2009
Yeah, I was your date...remember?
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
I had no date! I went with a guy friend who was one of my good friend's boyfriend
so it was a rather boring prom
ladybug - May 7, 2009
What? That's a damn shame!
Mayheminthehood - May 7, 2009
I did the same (sort of).
My GF was in Sweden as an exchange student. So I went with a friend who’s BF was in boot camp.
red floyd - May 7, 2009
I think we need 44FAN to work some magic and make this part of a lose photo...
…or at least add some cartoon captions. Ah…if there was a way to read the minds of people in photos…too funny!
sothball - May 7, 2009
dude if Halos Win or LOSE tonight...the 80's will be involved.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 7, 2009
oh boy.......
ladybug - May 7, 2009
Ladybug showin off the gams
Higz - May 7, 2009
Boing...
bc56274 - May 7, 2009
rallymom pimps out her daughter? who knew?
Stirrups - May 7, 2009
Look at them legs...well one anyway!!! Damn girl!!!
“…Mom just had to pose you…” in your “normal” condition of talking on the phone?
sothball - May 7, 2009
hey, I was a teen girl. I have no idea who I was speaking to
ladybug - May 7, 2009
LOL! Since seeing that photo, I've been humming another song from the '80's...
“…she’s got legs….she know how to use ’em…”
sothball - May 7, 2009
ZZTop rocks!
red floyd - May 7, 2009
and look how that girl ended up!!
ladybug - May 7, 2009
Crappy 80s music that the Big A can play for the Halos
“Broken Wings”
“Wind Beneath My Wings”
stolenbases - May 7, 2009
Is anyone watching the pregame show?
halofan1 - May 7, 2009
I'm a Charter victim
I don’t even have the TV on.
rspencer - May 7, 2009
I didn't show up in pictures in the '80s
I was going through this weird vampire phase.
I got better.
rspencer - May 7, 2009
The Stirrups' HH Clan, 1989.
Stirrups - May 7, 2009
There was no need to point out it was 1989.
Those jeans tell that tale…
jimmuscomp - May 7, 2009
The oak furniture should have been your tipoff.
Stirrups - May 7, 2009
That too...
jimmuscomp - May 8, 2009
Hey, what's wrong with oak?
I like oak tables. The oak trim on the couch and chair, however….
red floyd - May 8, 2009
omg ...that is not you?!?!?!
the kids look like mine…one blondie, one brunette
ladybug - May 7, 2009
Ok. Now THAT is going to start a new flood of comments.
Stirrups - May 7, 2009
LOL!
ladybug - May 7, 2009
What is it with kids and laundry baskets?
I swear I have a jillion pics of me and my brother in laundry baskets when we were tots.
Good lookin boys BTW!
Higz - May 7, 2009
thanks!
I don’t know about the laundry baskets….but I remember climbing in them as a kid (or a large box). Instant car!!
ladybug - May 8, 2009
Kids...they always surprise you...
…we had a variety of toys for our kids…swing set, tree house, Ninja Turtles, Barbie stuff,cars, musical instruments and noise makers of all sorts. What did they have the most fun with?
Cardboard tubes! I had brought home 2 – 36" diameter tubes about 4’ long. I had intended to use them for a construction project. Well, they quickly found these tubes were great “interactive” toys. One would get inside and brace themselves inside the tube. The other would roll the tube till they hit the wall, planter, etc. The one in the tube would emerge a bit dizzy while the other giggled themeselves silly. Then they’d switch. Or they’d get in and get the tube rolling “hamster style”. Then that turned in to races….which was funny ‘cause they couldn’t see where they were going. These tubes turned out to be one of those rare toys that they actually shared and enjoyed.
I never did use the tubes for the project…I ended up with much better memories anyway!
sothball - May 8, 2009
Ah the days when I had blonde hair
HaloVET - May 8, 2009
Don't feel too bad...
…I look at photos from 20 years ago and say, “Ah the days when I had hair”.
sothball - May 9, 2009
oh boy
REV, you look exactly like danny masterson in that 70’s show hah
ANewFoundThrice - May 7, 2009
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