What Do You Remember from the ’80s?
What do you remember from the ’80s?
These are what I can come up with:
- candies at 25 cents each.
- Bazooka bubble gum.. and the comic strip that comes with it.
- Tootsie Roll
- more candies: Viva, Lipps, Texas bubble gum, PEZ (of course, with dispensers), White Rabbit, yung White Rabbit na caramel
- the PSA “kung ano ang ginagawa ng mga matatanda ay syang gagayahin ng mga bata”
- Batibot
- Rainbow Bright (or Brite?)
- Shaider
- sila Red 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Yellow 4 at Pink 5
- Smurfs
- Punky Brewster
- Shower to Shower (the commercial and the body products)
- Sic-o-clock news at Channel 13
- Edsa 1 (walang pasok kasi noon)
- Collecting stationery (dapat yung scented, para sikat)
- Chinese garter (pahabaan)
- Tex (padamihan, and definitely not the SMS)
- Mr. Magoo’s pizza (bandang SM ata ito noon. not even sure of the name)
- Lovingly yours, Helen
- Connie Reyes on Camera
- Cow Label (local beef jerky)
- Holen
- Wok With Yan
- The Price is Right
- Perfect Strangers
- Laura Branigan
- Michael Jackson’s voice in “Somebody’s Watching Me”
- Kiss perfume beads (the ones they put in poutpourri ata. I swear, even the boys in class collect this)
- Police Academy
- 2 peso bills
- Playing outside with the neighborhood kids
- Aquanet
- USED jeans (the brand name)
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- The Cosby Show
- Improvised rattle made of tansan (pang-Christmas carolling)
- That’s Incredible
- Ripley’s Believe it or not
- Friday the 13th tv series
- The Twilight Zone
- Menudo
- making bubbles out of gumamela
- bangkang papel.. bangkang papel
- Ooceaan Deeeep
- Mr. T
- Astroboy
- Love Bus
- yellow taxis with broken meters
- cuffed jeans (like the boyfriend jeans trend)
- another PSA: “Ang basurang tinapon mo ay babalik din sa ‘yo”
- Martin Nievera announcing his marriage to Pops on Penthouse Live
- The Wonder Years (’80s ba yun?)
- Karate Kid
- Aiza Seguerra as a kid (especially the duck walk)
- John and Marsha
- Litte Twin Stars
- Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang
- Minus Ones
- Casette tapes
- Game ‘n Watch
- Mario Brothers
- Atari
- Sweet Valley High
- Crimp ‘n Wave
Dare I say it? Ang tanda ko na, ang jologs ko pa hehe.
So, what was your ’80s like?
