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06/11/2008 12:53:09 AM · #26 |
| I was in my first year of high school. |
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06/11/2008 12:55:43 AM · #27 |
| Smoking so much weed that I can't recall anything else. Wish I could be of more help. |
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06/11/2008 01:00:28 AM · #28 |
Senior year of high school. Playing soccer, applying to colleges. Chasing girls..
Possibly my best year ever. |
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06/11/2008 01:03:26 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
i seriously want my college years to be like this! |
Oh, and did I mention that whitewater canoing was one of my credit courses? :D |
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06/11/2008 01:06:20 AM · #30 |
| 1979 actually ... working in the nuclear power industry when Three Mile Island nuclear plant had its historic accident. |
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06/11/2008 01:15:12 AM · #31 |
Finishing up my junior year in high school....listening to Barry Manilow and John Denver a lot. Long, straight hair parted down the middle, mood ring on one hand, boyfriend's Navy ring on the other hand. I worked that summer at a local amusement park and hung out with the circus people who lived there all summer. Bought my FIRST camera for myself as a birthday present and took lots of shots of the circus folks (still have a whole album dedicated to them.) I found out later that my mom was VERY worried that I would run off with someone from the circus :)
I was pretty much the designated driver to most places because I had a car (1969 Ford Galaxy 500) and generally did not drink. I was also starting to follow the Cincinnati Reds and Pete Rose's hitting streak (44 games)
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06/11/2008 01:22:59 AM · #32 |
| I was 12 years old and I spent a good portion of that year in the hospital with Spinal Meningitis and read just about every issue of DC and Marvel comics. That was also the year I got my first guitar - a very cool Univox hollow-body electric. I believe that was the year I found how awesome Freddie Mercury and Queen really were with the release of their album titled Jazz. |
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06/11/2008 01:38:23 AM · #33 |
Surfing mostly, although I think I remember smoking weed too. I'm not sure.
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06/11/2008 01:41:07 AM · #34 |
| Last year of Highschool ---> Marine Corps boot camp... |
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06/11/2008 01:48:12 AM · #35 |
1978 ΓΆ€“ I was 13 years old entering 8th grade.
Reunited with a good friend from 5th grade we had a wonderful year and became best of friends but sadly he died the day after school was out at the end of the year in 1979.
Meet my first real love had a blast throughout the year going to every dance. At the end of the year she and I had to go to different high schools and we grew apart. We ran into each other at the local mall about two years later and talked. To this day I could kick myself in the butt for not getting her number and keeping in touch. But even after 29 years she still has a special place in my heart. I often wonder how she is doing, where she lives, and how life has treated her; I hope very well.
Hushpuppy shoes, Bell bottom pants, and great music!
So much more I could go into but year 1978 was great year for me. I believe that 1978 and 1979 through it good times and bad help mold me into who I am today.
Scott W. |
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06/11/2008 01:51:43 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I was 10.......Shawn Cassidy was IT!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I LOVED Shawn Cassidy too! My good friend had a life size poster of him on her door and we'd jump up to try and kiss him on the lips! My goodness, I was 6 then. I also had a yellow Shawn Cassidy t-shirt (the kind you get at the mall with the ironed-on decal). I remember loving Leif Garret, and Andy Gibb too. |
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06/11/2008 02:14:38 AM · #37 |
| Trying to figure out how to cope with the economic devastation about to be wreaked on schools and non-profit organizations by Proposition 13, perhaps the most misguided and discriminatory piece of tax law the voters have ever been tricked into passing. |
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06/11/2008 02:21:58 AM · #38 |
in 1978 I was nothing. Heck, in 1978 my mom was 5.
Im a 90's baby hehe :)
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06/11/2008 02:24:46 AM · #39 |
Originally posted by noisemaker:
in 1978 I was nothing. Heck, in 1978 my mom was 5.
Im a 90's baby hehe :) |
Yes, you're still a baby :)
(Ack, and I'm old enough to be your grandmother! Barely...) |
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06/11/2008 03:04:54 AM · #40 |
i was waiting in another place, for my parents to meet..
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06/11/2008 03:13:55 AM · #41 |
| 1978......Iwas probably sucking my thumb...I was only 1 year old then. Yeah those were the days. Nothing to worry about except what I was going to play with next.... |
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06/11/2008 03:16:47 AM · #42 |
| learning to play drums, making first experiences with dope and alcohol, reading every book by Herrmann Hesse, listening to Deep purple and Led Zeppelin |
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06/11/2008 03:24:38 AM · #43 |
Originally posted by Jaker:
Gurgling a lot and pooing in my pants. Not that I remember! :-) |
Me too. I was 3 months old (nearly 4) back in this time in 1978. Isn't it funny how when you're young you add every last fraction you can to your age? "I'm 4 and seventeen eighteenths"
Message edited by author 2008-06-11 03:24:52. |
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06/11/2008 03:50:46 AM · #44 |
1978 - 9th grade - it was the pinnacle of my juvenile delinquency. I think it was the last year I actually went to school at all. It was out of control. I was out of control. It was the best of times, the worst of times. ;-) I wore Levis Super Bells, steel toed boots and black T-Shirts that advertised what a stoner and troublemaker I was. I smoked Marlboro Red - a pack a day. Weekends were made for Michelob! If I were to sign your book, I would write something original like : "Stay cool" or "Have a Bitchin Summer!"
edit: Let's not forget the music: Aerosmith, AC/DC, Molly Hatchett, Led Zep, Foghat, Montrose, Ted Nugent and Pink Floyd, to name a few.
Message edited by author 2008-06-11 03:52:40. |
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06/11/2008 05:08:21 AM · #45 |
Meeting my wife........well, meeting the woman who is my wife now, my wife at the time was NOT amused.
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06/11/2008 05:57:32 AM · #46 |
I was finishing up a 3 year tour in the US Navy, cruising around the Med on an aircraft carrier. Hitting the beaches of France and Italy and Spain. Wow. Cast off the ropes at first opportunity and returned to Chicago area where I almost immediately met the girl I would marry. Selling cameras at JC Penney in the local mall. Not really doing any photography at all.
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06/11/2008 07:03:54 AM · #47 |
| I wasnt born back then... I wasnt around untul 1980 :) |
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06/11/2008 07:07:57 AM · #48 |
| I was having my 1st birthday!! |
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06/11/2008 07:20:33 AM · #49 |
Senior year at college, working on my photography degree and working full time as a surveyor for the county and shooting weddings on the weekends. In my spare time I hung out with my wife and two daughters.
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06/11/2008 07:23:48 AM · #50 |
| Working as assistant to the chancellor, research & restoration for Louis Smith Tainter House University of Wisconsin - Stout |
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