Irrespective of when and how it was obtained (and in what manner it was obtained), what are your personal favorite or most valuable 1980’s piece/s of film, music and non-entertainment related memorabilia you have and please elaborate on why do you admire or treasure it, or what makes it reasonably special or unique to you ?
Please keep in mind anything mentioned doesn't have to relate to just things that are entertainment related.
If in case this topic has been discussed before on either this forum (with people giving their reasons why) or elsewhere, please give a link if possible
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
My Quicksilver Shirt!
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
You don't own that anymore....I do,,,but I cherish it just as much!
This is a great topic, and I can't narrow it down to one thing.
The thing I cherish the most are my highschool year books from the 80's. Especially 1983-1986. I love looking at the pictures and seeing all the goofy things we did, and the fashion.
Clothing wise-are 2 satin blazers, that I loved wearing in the 80's, they are really the only clothes I even have left.
I actually wish I would have saved more stuff.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Oh I have more than one Quicksilver shirt from the 80's, but the one Isis has is way cool.
Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
This is an awesome topic! I would have to say my stickerbook, which is a trip to look at on occassion! Also, my Harvey Edwards and Patrick Nagel prints, my copy of The Preppy Handbook, my three Strawberry Shortcake Dolls that are still new in the box (Blueberry Muffin, Baby Apricot and Butter Cookie) my original Swatch watch and my Andrew McCarthy autograph! Check out my pics!
Oh yeah, and I couldn't forget my movies and soundtracks...gotta cherish those !
[ 01. October 2005, 08:11: Message edited by: cindymancini ]
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Cindy don't forget your picture with New Kids On The Block and Marky Mark. Btw, was Tiffany jealous of you?
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I found a Strawberry Shortcake doll on the way home from school one day, and you'd have thought I struck gold.
One thing I wish I would have kept was my Buckwheat T-shirt.
I have a Rubik's Cube key chain.
My Mad Magazine Card game is one of my favorite games that I still play and have great memories of...we use to play either that or UNO at lunch every day. My son has barely time to eat lunch...let alone them hang out together. Our cafeteria in high school had a jukebox which was way cool, so I am glad that we had that time in school to just goof off.
Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Real nice Valley...hahahaha . I think I'm going to have to post those pics soon. It's funny what you said about Tiffany cause of all the guys, I only really talked to Jon once. He was so nice but I could care less. I was too busy hangin' with the Funky Bunch .
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Sounds Like Cindy Remembers Some Good Vibrations!
Yo! It's about that time To bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme I'ma get mine so get yours I wanna see sweat comin' out your pores On the house tip is how I'm swingin' this Strictly Hip-Hop boy, I ain't singin' this Bringing this to the entire nation Black, white, red, brown Feel the vibration
Come on come on Feel it feel it Feel the vibration
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Cindy-I love your pictures!
I still have my sticker book too from the 80's.
I had a bunch of E.T. Stickers, and Garfield ones, and the Scratch and Sniff ones.
I had a friend who lived about 45 minutes from me, and we use to write each other in the mail all the time, and we would send each other stickers back and forth , or sticks of gum...it was all fun.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I have a bunch of things rally that I cherish. My Joe Strummer autograph, some rubiks cubes, my music books of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Cure,U2 and Depeche Mode. And of course all my DVD's and VHS's that I have painstakingly had to acquire over the years. I actually still have my scratch and sniff sticker album from the early 80's, but there is hadly any smell to them anymore.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
My music and my movies, but from the actual decade, I kept many of my toys.
We are DEVO
Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
Of the handfuls of 80s memorabilia that I still cling to and save from the church rummage sales, probably the Hess trucks I've gotten over the course of many Christmases.
Posted by deathbystereo80 (Member # 2005) on :
I guess that would be my diaries. I used to write every single day, and it is just so cool to relive all those intense teenage years through the diaries.
Posted by kat27 (Member # 3979) on :
Am sad to say that I succumbed to the 90s grunge & minimalist, movements and have lost/given away most of my things. Looking back I am very sad now. Some of the penultimate 80s things I once owned were: one of the first mini TV's (still rather cumbersome), hypercolour T-shirts, lots of denim, Fergie bows (does anyone else remember them?), Strawberry Shortcake, cabbage patch kids & barbies, New Kids on the Block signed posters, Men At Work's autographs, Danni & Kylie Minogue's autographs - and lots more........ok I have to go away and cry now.
Posted by kat27 (Member # 3979) on :
Oh and an undying love for Andrew McCarthy & Judd Nelson.....No,actually, that is one of the few things I haven't lost...........
P.S. yearbook, photos & school stuff - gone!
Posted by Rainbowbrite22 (Member # 2288) on :
I have my orginal care bears and wuzzles from the 80s and a few records like the strawberry shortcake alphabet record and a corey hart record and now i have most 80s movies on dvd and some toys of gotten like a rainbow brite doll and my little pony and a strawberry shoctcake rag doll just toname a few cindy your collection is great i want you blueberry muffin doll lol
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
I got: 1) Care Bears dolls 2) Care Bears playset 3) Bunches of Prince CDs 4) Picture books about Prince & Michael Jackson 5) "Purple Rain", "Under The Cherry Moon", & "The Great Mouse Detective" on DVD & VHS (well, I have GMD on VHS, anyway) 6) All GMD, Prince, & Secret Of NIMH memorabilia I can get my paws on 7) All the 80's Disney movies on video (as well as "The Secret Of NIMH")
And much, much more...
(P.S. I'll provide pictures of my 80's stuff later--for you guys! )
Posted by eightieschick (Member # 4385) on :
I gave or threw away any 80's clothing that I may have had back in the 90's when the grunge thing came around. But I have some posters somewhere in this house- I know one of them is a door size one of Cinderella (the band, not the movie!) and a Cinderella bandana. I have lots of stuff like that, just can't remember what all I have. I have a few tour programs. And I would never even think of giving away any 80's music that I own! I still listen to mostly 80's hair bands- that was the best time of my life!
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
Oh, I forgot to mention that I have a Secret Of NIMH lunchbox, a paper playset, plenty of the storybooks, & the sequel on video.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
I still have all my original GI Joe, He-Man, Thundercat, and several Star Wars actions figures and pieces in storage. There's also my Jordan rookie card, 80s movies on DVD, and my signed Motley Crue drumhead and guitar...
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
Of course all of my movies and a couple of books that have tons of 80s pop culture information in them. Any time I am missing the 80s I just go back and read those and I feel like I am home again.
I also have 3 miniature cabbage patch dolls that are erasers. Don't know who I got them from, but I have them in a box of stuff that I have kept from the 80s. Old notes from my friends at high school, old photos of me and my high school boyfriend and stuff like that.
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
Aw...that's so wonderful! Posted by Bionic Bigfoot (Member # 2490) on :
I have an original '80s cast & crew jacket from the A-Team tv series (sweet!) and a plastic M-16 toy rifle from the A-Team. I also have a talking Ernest doll, a poster from the tv series "V" signed by Marc Singer & a Batman ('89) cardboard mobile that was hanging in a video store when the movie came out on VHS. I also have a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee signed by Bo, Daisy, Roscoe, Enos & Cooter! Oh yea...and my Fall Guy & Buck Rogers lunch boxes and a Buck Rogers poster signed by Erin Gray, Gil Gerrard & Felix Selia also a Flash Gordon poster autographed by the Flashter himself--Sam Jones. I have tons of other stuff too...but those are some of my favorites. I also have a lot of '70s memerabelia.
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
OMG, I forgot to mention I had all of Vanity's albums, as well as Apollonia 6. (They were bootlegs, but I don't care! )
Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :
I've collected lots of obscure 80s movies over the years. My intent is to watch all of them for reviewing purposes. I've got all sorts of obscure 80s movies from "Resurrection" to "Lovelines" to "I, The Jury" to "A Stranger Is Watching".
Thank God for file-sharing, too. That's where I've been able to score all sorts of 80s songs...Obscure artists, remixes, 12 inch versions.
I've got discs full of all sorts of 80s artists in all genres from freestyle to industrial to hair metal to punk to new wave to speed-metal to R&B to blue-eyed soul. I've got literally hundreds of songs on these discs and more than 250 I still need to burn.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
OMG....how impressive! Posted by Bobby Keller (Member # 2129) on :
Mine is my copy of the New York magazine that the orignal Brat Pack article appeared in.
Posted by The Wizard (Member # 533) on :
I've a lot of 80s handheld electronic games but none of them I got in the 80s (never had the money) so really the only thing from the 80s I kind of treasure is my red with blue edges ripper wallet, I bought it over 20 years ago and still use it to this day, bought it at a Glastonbury festival where my mum took us along some years, this was before it became a huge commercial event.
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
What about my home-made GMD items & the Basil Of Baker Street books?
Posted by eightieschick (Member # 4385) on :
quote:Originally posted by MotleyRulz: I still have all my original GI Joe, He-Man, Thundercat, and several Star Wars actions figures and pieces in storage. There's also my Jordan rookie card, 80s movies on DVD, and my signed Motley Crue drumhead and guitar...
OMG, that is so cool! I have a Winger signed drumhead that I got from when I saw Reb Beach here in Pittsburgh. Is the guitar your own, or is it one that was used by Mick or Nikki? That is just really great! Do you have them on display? I don't know how to display my drum head and am looking for suggestions. I have it wrapped in a towel and sitting on top of a cabinet for now!
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
The guitar was one that I owned that I had them sign during the Dr. Feelgood tour when they came thru in 1989-90. The drumhead is signed by all 4 band members and rests in a plexiglass case my cousin made for me....
Posted by Bionic Bigfoot (Member # 2490) on :
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. I think I'm going to have to post those pics soon. It's funny what you said about Tiffany cause of all the guys, I only really talked to Jon once. He was so nice but I could care less. I was too busy hangin' with the Funky Bunch