awww ya bring it on back...




what were you like when you were young, hip and cool?


did ya own a leather jacket?

have the big hair with so much hair spray it would take a hurricane to move it?

were you sporting parachute pants?

bell bottoms?

enough eyeliner ya could have passed for Cleopatra?

I was 14 and had a denim jacket with the Anthrax state of euphoria album cover airbrushed on the back lol....& a pair of Reebok pumps ;-) I was the cock of the wok for sure

I owned one of these



and a pair or two of these

I may have also walked around in a lot of these

and this looks familiar..

and these...



And who can forget....

I was just young.
Never hip or cool.


I always had the Lands End jacket with the plaid lining.
Or a barn coat. Or a kind of blue flight coat with gold lining.
Those were all hand me downs from my dad.
Leather coats were for criminals and smart kids that wanted to be Macgyver.


Hair spray caused the ozone hole.
So it was a time of gel.
Great big gobs of gel that shellacked the hair in place.
Women still used hair spray to make the curled moth catcher cage of their bangs.


Nylon pants.
No one tried to pull off the mc hammer look.
Otherwise it was acid washed jeans with the cuffs folded tight.


The only girl that tried to do that in our school was an Asian transfer student that liked to wear cutoff shorts with a garter belt and lace stockings and tennis shoes.
That prompted a lot of the other girls to start wearing stockings (rather than tights which they always made sure you knew the difference).
...I don't remember which class I had with that, nor what we were supposed to learn.
She was also a cheerleader, and during special home game pep rallies she would get all the other cheerleaders to wear their regular/sexy underwear under their uniforms, and then flash the crowd a lot.
...Those were the only rallies I never skipped.
Amish girls always wore the most makeup in the community.

Otherwise the most common makeup was beige Oxy acne cream.

What girls wore the most of was perfume.
Each one had their own personal cloud around their locker.

can remember this kind

oh and this shampoo

TMommy, you forgot to mention these:

I'm still cool and Hip. Just not young.
But missing that 70 Chevelle

not too sure how cool I was ..I mean I did own these

Saturday Night Fever



.Those days.... Sweet 17 at that time.
Falling in love with Barry Gibb

Playing the Bee Gees song all day long....(driving my parent crazy)

Then came Grease..




Begged my parent to buy for me that skinny , skinny, super tight black pants and blouse. They did ....and regretted...smile:

....I remembered ABBA....
And the band group....Earth, Wind and Fire.

I so wanted to be this cool and this vain.

Star Wars was released in 1977...
... I remember it as if it was just yesterday... taking the bus downtown to see the movie with a friend...
Feeling young hip and cool...
Renegade at heart... favorite pair of sneakers on.. leather jacket over top of a hoodie.. little black hair comb in the back pocket of my jeans... cigarette in one corner of my mouth...
..ohhh.. wait a minute I was only eleven then..lmao.... yep nothing like dating a movie to have reality come crashing back to you.... wow I could have sworn I was so much older when that came out .lol

the movie Grease released 1978....wow...