The 80s in one picture

Hahaha! Jersey Girl here. Amazing how we all survived that place! There's a nostalgic documentary about how dangerous many of the rides were and no one cared. I think it's called "Class Action Park". Worth the watch, especially if you've been there

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CreatrixAnima@reddit

I’ve seen it - I also survived it back in the day!

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oldschool-rule@reddit

So where’s the lines of snow?

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KajaMagna@reddit

Iron Maiden shirt tucked in!. 🤣🤣🤣

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turbulencefun@reddit

those yellow shorts are absolutely amazing

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digdugnate@reddit

dang, there's a lot to unpack here. lol

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StringFartet@reddit

Nut huggers.

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78317@reddit

This should be the name of an '80s cover band.

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wierdomc@reddit

Serious blow dried hair. I miss the 80s

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viewering@reddit

i miss the casualness.

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StringFartet@reddit

You can still do it. We got shit back then, just don’t give a fuck. It goes a long way.

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brianlangauthor@reddit

And pornstaches.

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motley2@reddit

Tbf they didn’t have fancy beard trimmer technology back then.

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Wookanash@reddit

Truer words have never been spoken.

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rjross0623@reddit

Looks like yellow shorts guy has to unpack a lot of

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InternationalAnt4513@reddit

That guy on the left always looked an undisclosed “older age” that never changed. On weekend nights “that guy”would roll up in his Trans-Am with the T-tops out and he’d have his Panama Jack hat on, Ocean Pacific muscle shirt, parachute pants, Van Halen blasting, a case of Lite beer, and a can do attitude.

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drink-beer-and-fight@reddit

He looks like he’s gotta be up at five to get to the concrete job.

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InternationalAnt4513@reddit

I only just now noticed in the pic he is holding a Lite beer. Nailed it. Lol

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Acrobatic_Ocelot_461@reddit

It's less filling, tastes great, at least thats what we were told. Gave me a headache.

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InternationalAnt4513@reddit

It was the most popular beer amongst my peers back then. I don’t drink it now.

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cipher446@reddit

Lifting sidewalks by hand.

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Elowan66@reddit

Gotta eat more carbs man…

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BallDiamondBall@reddit

The guy who hung around high school the year after graduation. I know because that was me. Everything eventually worked out well, somehow.

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InternationalAnt4513@reddit

We had a junior college in my little town and my dad worked there so there was a lot of us who hung around another 1-2 years before moving onto to universities or to just whatever. We were all Dazed and Confused back in those days. Good times weren’t they?

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sinisterdesign@reddit

Yup, and he looked like that staring at age 17 on…

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-Why-Not-This-Name-@reddit

No hesshers wore OP.

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halotron@reddit

Like McConaughey in Dazed and Confused

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vizette@reddit

He gets older but they stay the same age.

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diopsideINcalcite@reddit

Everyone in this picture is probably 22 lol. It’s amazing how old people looked in 70s/80s..

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Acrobatic_Ocelot_461@reddit

A great time to grow up in, the Maiden T-shirt is '88, I was 20

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

If you squint hard enough you can see the IROC parked next to the Chevette in the driveway. The K car must be parked on the street.

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blackpony04@reddit

In just two sentences you unlocked some major memories of the 80s for me.

I learned how to drive in a baby blue K car in Drivers Ed in 86, and my sister's best friend and her parents both had Chevettes. No IROC, as we were a Mustang family, but my college roommate circa 1990 had an 86 Berlinetta that could squeeze 2 smaller dudes under the hatch but was so low powered it could barely get out of its own way.

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

My first financed car was an 86 Camaro. It was a heavy car for a six cylinder and some Camaros even had a 4 cylinder option. Any male driving a Berlineta was in for some serious side eye and downright laughter back then 😂

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Acrobatic_Ocelot_461@reddit

Berlinetta was a chick Camaro.

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blackpony04@reddit

I hear you, but we were 19 & 20, and his 4 banger 'Maro was 10 times better than the 85 Century I was driving, that's for sure. Heck, I had to drive a 78 Buick Station Wagon in high school, so we both had upgraded!

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

My first car was a 76 Chevy Nova so I totally understand. I didn’t mean to throw shade: I thought Berlinetas had the same 6 cylinder my 86 and 87 Camaros had. I got plenty of grief for not having an 8 cylinder in mine😆

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blackpony04@reddit

[I was wrong, it did have the 6 cylinder.[(https://autopolis.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/1982-1986-chevorlet-camaro-berlinetta/#:~:text=With%20107%20to%20150%20hp,far%20from%20a%20redneck%20rocket.) It made a whopping 107 HP! My 85 Century with the Iron Duke 4-banger only made 85 HP.

My wife's hybrid Toyota Venza makes 219!

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arlenroy@reddit

My cousin had a maroon K car, those things weren't much to look at but were pretty fucking reliable. I was talking to a coworker the other day about Gen X and how far apart the generation is, we're both at the tail end, and consider ourselves Gen X, but grew up way differently. To us watching Tony Hawks podcast on YouTube, interview AD Rock from The Beastie Boys, both pushing 60, is peak old person Gen X. But then people post picture from the late 80's with the Iron Maiden T and driving a Nissan mini-truck, oh yeah that's technically Gen X too. Is there another generation where the same generation can be so different in pop culture references? I guess Babyboomers would be hard to look at, the older side didn't even have electricity in their homes, let alone a pop culture reference. I am pretty interested in that, the evolution of each generation.

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thehoagieboy@reddit

Pretty sure the guy on the left has a Chevy Nova

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

Nah. He works the trades. I figure a Monte Carlo SS, Cutlass 442, or an El Camino 😂

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Western-King5865@reddit

Grand National.

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

I’m a bad person for saying this: I didn’t think he looked classy enough for the Apex predator of the sedan sports car

After the 87 GNX came out it seemed like the whole sedan sports car class died off. I loved me a 85 442 Cutlass Supreme. Monte Carlos not so much.

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glxym31@reddit

There has to be a Fiero out there somewhere….

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Western-King5865@reddit

The Fiero that always had one headlight that never popped up.

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glxym31@reddit

That's the one!

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glxym31@reddit

That's the one.

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Lizzy_Boredom_999@reddit

I'm betting there a Sunbird around the corner that someone is ashamed to be seen in.

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

The more I look at the dude in the yellow shorts the more I’m convinced he’s driving a Subaru Brat 🤣

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Western-King5865@reddit

And that guy in the bar who tells everyone he “drives a Vette” then you find out it’s not a Corvette, it’s a Chevette. Good times.

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tryitweird@reddit

I just saw a Chevette the other day. I did a double take. Beige four door and it didn’t look in too bad of shape.

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thr1vin9-insolitude@reddit

NAILED IT! Pretty much covers the basics.

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NoMayoForReal@reddit

Every time I see one of these old school photos I’m afraid I’ll be in the pic 😳

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Advanced_Tax174@reddit

Fortunately there are very few pictures from the 80s.

Kids today are photographed more before turning 1 than we were through age 30.

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GogglesPisano@reddit

I had a core group of friends in high school and we hung out together constantly during most of my teenage years in the ‘80s. Yet I don’t have a single photo of us together during that time.

Cameras, film and photo processing cost money and you were limited to like a dozen pics per roll of film, so in my family photos were reserved for special occasions, like holidays, weddings or graduations.

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No_Opportunity_4740@reddit

I feel sad that you don't have pictures with your friends!

I took more pictures in the 80s and 90s than I do now. It meant so much more then. You couldn't wait to get them developed & would open the envelope up immediately at the store. It did suck when some of them came out blurry when you only had 24 or 36 to a roll!

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endofmayo@reddit

reminds me of this NOFX lyric

All the endless nights we had The 20 years of laughs I’ve looked but I can’t find any photographs Of us, because it’s weird to take photos with your best friends Cuz you don’t think that you’ll never see them again

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blackpony04@reddit

It's funny that back in the film age, it seemed we took more photos of our surroundings than of the people we cared about. The logic being, we saw those people frequently, but when's the next time we'd see the Grand Canyon? Now you look at those photos and toss the landscape ones and keep the ones with the people in them.

I love the age of the camera phone and I am probably one of the few of our generation that loves selfies as they capture moments and not just some landscape we'll forget about in a few years.

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IamtherealMelKnee@reddit

I have three photos of myself younger than 19 that aren't school photos or formal portraits.

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StringFartet@reddit

We had one friend who took pictures all the time and he still has them all, only cracked out a few online, though.

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Gibder16@reddit

Damn. Where can I score some of those yellow shorts? Even those jorts the dude on the left has are dope.

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pwcWMD@reddit

There was a sunset of folks who definitely looked like that. Certainly not everybody though.

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Ok_Robot88@reddit

As a seattle gay, this picture could be seattle gay

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The_Dixco_Bunny@reddit

This picture has made me want to cosplay myself as a teen. It’s going to be hilarious, I think. 😂

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kah46737@reddit

Where’s the hacky sack?

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catrules618@reddit

Wow. I do miss men in short shorts, ngl. The stripes athletic socks pulled all the way up can take a hike

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ChrisRiley_42@reddit

Needs a can of "new coke"

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Machinebuzz@reddit

The guy on the left would fuck your world up if you crossed him.

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kbk1008@reddit

That dude in the iron maiden shirt can be seen at my kid’s school

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kbk1008@reddit

Skirts longer than the shorts lol

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Low_Opportunity_8080@reddit

Hell ya! That’s too funny man! Why did we dress like that? I wouldn’t be caught dead in that getup today. lol 🥴

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palbuddymac@reddit

Your 80s, maybe

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Spiritual-Stand1573@reddit

This looks so asozial

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OtakuTacos@reddit

When the dudes had better hair than the ladies.

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elijuicyjones@reddit

The boomer 80s you mean. I’ve never looked anything like that.

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luvnmayhem@reddit

My husband and I were adults in the 1980s and we never looked like that, either.

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CobblerCandid998@reddit

I never knew a single person in the 80s who looked like any of these people. None of the characters in 80s tv shows resembled them either. O.P. Found a random photo of silly looking people took a wild guess, I’m guessing. These people actually look like New Jersey citizens- where a certain “look” is considered fashion only to them, regardless of the decade.

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red_wildrider@reddit

I knew plenty of people in the 80s who dressed like that. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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CobblerCandid998@reddit

Where are you from? I’m in the Midwest- so maybe it was in spots… I remember everyone in the 80s being skinny. Even men, not at like these heavier men in the picture… I was born in 75, so maybe it’s because I was still a child throughout the 80s and just didn’t get out too much 🤷‍♀️

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Coffee-N-Cats@reddit

I was born in 75' also and these totally look like my babysitters. My friends and I looked much like this even into the early 90s.

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red_wildrider@reddit

I’m from NYC and born in 73. I was never skinny either, hence how I know the dude in the Maiden shirt ain’t me lol.

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HandsomeChubaka@reddit

Those yellow shorts are something else.

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dperiod@reddit

Back when shorts were short. Lol

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dperiod@reddit

Come on, boys…thighs are for eyes, not disguise. 😆

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drink-beer-and-fight@reddit

Yeah, no thanks. I’ll stick with my cargo shorts.

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Repulsive-Ice8395@reddit

I think I'll be buried in cargo shorts!

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Cliffmonger@reddit

When Gen X ruled the world, everything felt like this.

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viewering@reddit

they look like boomers

or maybe gen x who looked older

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Free_Boner_Pills@reddit

I agree. I think that’s an ‘88 Maiden shirt which would have made me 18 at the time this pic was taken. All those dudes look like my older siblings, cousins and their friends who were 8 to 10 years older and gave me the fucking creeps when they were around. The fashion sense also screams early 80s.

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jackrip761@reddit

We'd still rule the world if we actually had any fucks left to give.

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Accurate-Tax4363@reddit

Maybe early 80s

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

Nope. Late 80s. The Iron Maiden T-shirt came out in 87/88?

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Accurate-Tax4363@reddit

I graduated high school in the late eighties, and people didn't dress like this. I'm guessing this was probably taken at a themed party or something.

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

I graduated in 88 and in New England there absolutely were people that looked like this. They look like working class metal heads. Not everyone dressed the same back then.

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Accurate-Tax4363@reddit

Must have been a North East thing. Lol. I lived on the Northern gulf coast and Southern California around that time, and the people that dressed like that were the ones "stuck in their era". I still see people dressed like that. Lol. Most have white hair now.

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RunningPirate@reddit

Dude on the far left owned a jet boat that was painted the same color scheme as his van

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movies_and_parlays@reddit

Not a lot of ball room to work with there !

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Repulsive-Ice8395@reddit

Now I have Ballroom Blitz playing in my head

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CthulhusEvilTwin@reddit

Dear god they look… flammable

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motofabio@reddit

The crazy thing is that all these people are in high school.

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Foolgazi@reddit

Early ‘80s. Mid-late ‘80s would have had longer shorts and a ton of neon.

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red_wildrider@reddit

Only the late 80s had that Maiden shirt, though. The metalhead crowd weren’t fans of neon generally, even in the 80s.

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Foolgazi@reddit

Ah, good eye! No one I knew would wear shorts that short in 1988 though… kind of weird

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cancankantz@reddit

On their way to see Judas Priest...

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Best_Yesterday_3000@reddit

The Turbo tour judging by the Eddie t-shirt.

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linuxnh@reddit

Up the Irons!!! 🤘

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VerbalGuinea@reddit

Headed to the Myrtle Beach Pavillion for a Sugar Creek concert.

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basuramatata@reddit

The beefy stached fella on the right in tube socks and the shorty shorts tho. 🔥

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Jazzlike-Election840@reddit

it certainly was

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95Counties@reddit

Is that an Iron Maiden T-shirt?

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red_wildrider@reddit

Saw this picture… “LOL I had that Maiden shirt, even cut the sleeves off the same way.” (Definitely not me in the picture, though.)

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gnombient@reddit

Yep, the "Can I Play With Madness" shirt (from Somewhere in Time)

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drink-beer-and-fight@reddit

Or, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

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ufront@reddit

Yes, the cover of the "Can I play with madness?" single released in '88.

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Hot_Chef_746@reddit

Before we got tattoos

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Vanman04@reddit

Close but no neon so not quite.

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Justadropinthesea@reddit

No leg warmers?

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oldschool_potato@reddit

Gold shorts fighting for the 70s

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Yarnprincess614@reddit

Zoomer here, and this reminds me of the pic my ex showed me of his late father and his(dad’s) best friend when they were teenagers

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SocialMimicry99@reddit

Ronnie the Limo Driver’s epic pic is making the rounds again.

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seabass4507@reddit

For some reason this reminds me of Cedar Point

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Accomplished-Push190@reddit

I don't get it. I grew up in the 80's and wouldn't be caught dead in this crowd. They were the trans-am, beer drinking crowd.

My crowd was piercings, punk, plaid, and pot. We chilled and respected boundaries. That other group had WAY to many rapes and assaults.

The 80's wasn't a singular experience.

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JohnYCanuckEsq@reddit

Man, I could not wear my socks that high on my calves. Drove me nuts. My friends used to make fun of me for rolling them down to shoe level.

I'm so glad ankle socks are a thing for men now.

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Dirty_Grundle_Bundle@reddit

Someone skips leg day

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GreatQuantum@reddit

The 80s were pretty Homoerotic.

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Thurkin@reddit

Homococainic

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Dirty_Grundle_Bundle@reddit

Bromopsychotic

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pdm2002@reddit

The girls were 16, and the guys were about 30 :D.

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Gourmeebar@reddit

It’s as if we wore costumes

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frankiebenjy@reddit

His Jean shorts used to actually be his jeans, but they got too holy and dirty so he cut the legs off and now has perfectly good shorts that fit just right. 🤣

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WabiSabi0912@reddit

They were his favorite jeans to wear when he worked masonry.

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NumerousPenalty2653@reddit

Maiden. Can I Play with Madness shirt.

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Wshngfshg@reddit

The best decade! Music was great, girls were beautiful and friendly.

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NeighborhoodBetter64@reddit

The look was a cross between biker and tennis player. 😅

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Dick-Guzinya@reddit

If the word “jabroni” was a picture.

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BlueProcess@reddit

It's funny how short-shorts went from ordinary to looking like out clothing

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luvnmayhem@reddit

It's the short shorts and white knee socks. This was high fashion.

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Exotic-Sea-2767@reddit

These people are all in their late 30’s right?

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MassSPL@reddit

The dude on the far left.

r/absoluteunits

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HIS_AFFLICTION_0079@reddit

This pic smells like Marlboro and Budweiser

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chicahhh@reddit

Oh wow. The shorts + socks combo on #5 = 🔥

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ImmediateKick2369@reddit

The men all look like they are cross-dressing.

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azrolator@reddit

Probably running around now whining about drag shows lol.

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viewering@reddit

L O L !!!!!!!!

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Natural_Board@reddit

We were all pro wrestlers back then

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viewering@reddit

trying to remember how they would have danced ?

not 🕺this 🍻🍺but makes me think of this

WAIT ! Now I REMEMBER the 80's DANCE ! LOL !!!!

shakes flouffy mullet

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SugarRosie@reddit

Can I Play With Madness!

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

My balls hurt just looking at this picture.

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goonwild18@reddit

The guy with the camel toe thinks it's 1978

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waldo_wigglesworth@reddit

Hey, it's Murderface! And another Murderface! And that guy from Reno 911!!!

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Expat111@reddit

Just seeing those yellow polyester shorts gives me a rash in my sensitive area. Nothing worse than those tight polyester shorts mixed with hot, humid summer days and dried sweat.

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u35828@reddit

It really seals in the flavor.

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D05wtt@reddit

Someone’s reposting pictures again.

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TBeIRIE@reddit

I have a good friend who still looks like the chick in the blue skirt. I don’t do many public outings with her to be honest.

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NortheastCoyote@reddit

Need someone with leg warmers in there! 😁

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No-Brick6817@reddit

I love the Cut off Jean short shorts on the left. But I really the look of the shirtless guy in the yellow shorts on the right with the knee-high tube socks

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No-Replacement-1061@reddit

I am went out with a guy who looked like yellow shorts. Good times.

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Moiler62@reddit

I wish those people would get together now to recreate this photo! Would love to see how they look now.

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InternationalAnt4513@reddit

They look the same. Just go down to Central Florida. Find a trailer park. They’re all there. Haven’t changed a bit.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Lol...I was just gonna say this looks like the "Florida version" of The Lost Boys.

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Evolvingsimian@reddit

OK. I don't want to hear any more about how badly we dressed in the 70s.

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East-Station-7140@reddit

Sleeves came out in the 90’s.

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Natural-Hamster-3998@reddit

And they're all boomers. Explains a lot lol. Us older GenXers were just teens then

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Inamibles@reddit

This almost looks like a ‘Mad magazine’ fold-in page.

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lopix@reddit

Needs a mesh shirt

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Anomuumi@reddit

I feel like there should be at least one fanny pack in there. Probably early 80s then.

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gnombient@reddit

The Iron Maiden shirt puts it at 1986 at the earliest

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dangelo7654398@reddit

In my view 1986 is peak 80s.

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Branded1917@reddit

Bought that album the day it was released

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drink-beer-and-fight@reddit

That Iron Maiden shirt came out in 1988

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Anomuumi@reddit

That's peak fanny pack then.

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IW1NZ@reddit

I had no idea that Dr Disrespect had been around that long 😁

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GimmeCat47@reddit

Bro on the left is rocking cut-off jeans.

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ColonelBourbon@reddit

Which is back in style.

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Sumeriandawn@reddit

Heart- Nothin at All

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dacutty@reddit

Nancy Wilson is lovely no matter what era.

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everyday95269@reddit

Almost thought it was a promotion pic for the lost boys.

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DerbGentler@reddit

Awesome, dude! 😲
I only miss the pastel colored keytar. (But maybe that was a European thing.)

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hdhdhgfyfhfhrb@reddit

I went to a combined 7-12th grade high school. I started there in 1980 and to me who was going on 13, a lot of the 'kids' in upper grades seemed similar to this. I saw two guys fight within a month of starting and watching these mustachioed dudes who were pretty much adults drop bombs was crazy scary.

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