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some 80's nostalgia

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  • #32
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    500ml Supercans of Coke
    Amusement arcades with great games like Double Dragon, Robocop and JailBreak
    Toploader VHS machines that cost a fortune and weighed a ton


  • #33
    RainMaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭RainMaker


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Toploader VHS machines that cost a fortune and weighed a ton

    Betamax toploaders! :D
    This one actually!

    sanyovtc9300pn.gif


  • #34
    Smidge
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    Puff ball skirts
    Bottle tops on shoes(usually Grolsch)
    Slow sets
    Hair-sprayed fringes(girls)that were backcombed to within an inch of your life and the sprayed with a half a can of hairspray the HAD cfc's still in it.
    Blue eyeshadow and mascara


  • #35
    padd b1975
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    shockwave wrote: »
    Glass litre bottles of coke and Tk lemonade.
    Used to love taking the empty ones back to the shop and getting some money for them.


  • #36
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 739 ✭✭✭steveone


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Used to love taking the empty ones back to the shop and getting some money for them.

    No Deposit No Return ha! that was stamped into the glass!


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  • #37
    IvyTheTerrible
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    miss choc wrote: »
    Remember LW Atlantic 252 radio used to love that in College
    Yep! They were based in Trim and I remember staying there with my granny in the early 90's, going up to their offices and knocking on the door hastling them till we got stickers and hats and stuff!


  • #38
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 739 ✭✭✭steveone


    LW 252..was talking to dusty rhodes a while back about the regulars on that station...

    KLF /tammy wynnette justified and ancient..
    prince.. diamonds and pearls
    george and elton.. don't let the sun go down (steady on there)

    he said they had them on catridge and stuck them on if they were running into dead air while changing tape or cd..

    brilliant!


  • #39
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 739 ✭✭✭steveone


    how about Hawker vans...
    we had one in our street..


  • #40
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,686 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Had a vivid memory of drinking orange from a brown glass bottle with a straw,tasted amazing.
    Today,I remembered the name.

    "A dwink is not a dwink without a Dwans".

    Anybody remember?


  • #41
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,034 ✭✭✭uch


    msthe80s wrote: »
    Had a vivid memory of drinking orange from a brown glass bottle with a straw,tasted amazing.
    Today,I remembered the name.

    "A dwink is not a dwink without a Dwans".

    Anybody remember?

    Yep, they had a depot in Cherry Orchard, me Da used to work next door, so we always had gallons of free Dwans in our house back then.

    22/25



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