50 Posts That Capture The Best Nostalgic Moments Of The ’80s

I got the metal tube slide edition. Nothing better than scorching yourself on a hot day. /s

Rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine

Playgrounds, around the 90s, were made of wood and metal, and only for hardcore kids. No pain no fun!

Sand! Ours weren't surrounded by sand we had concrete.

i remember twirling on these when in grade school - and I'm 82 now so they've been around for ages! It always made me nauseated.

Oh yeah nothing like slamming it down with idiots or crazyass relatives that you want nothing to do with.

Closing your phone call with a slam? There must be an app for that.

My head was bruised by my Brother with a phone.

I have always coveted a red telephone like this. Then I would know I am important...

I wish they made one of those stupid audio emojis that was actually useful like a slam hang up sound. The good one that made the phone bell ring just a little bit!

Somehow we never finished he bottles. Except the year Dad got drunk on Saint Patricks Day and made green eggs and green ham and green juice.

I still do.

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Bruh. I have these now! Fun for science projects with my grandson.

Sure did! I used to make up "science experiments" with it.

still do? time to clean out the cabinet...

It was a very satisfying click.

Sony! That’s posh, mine was an Aiwa

Even in the cabinet they still attracted more dust than any other fixture in the room

I had this exact system, It was one of the first things I bought when I got a job. So I can relate.

how'd you get in my childhood home to take that pic?

I kinda liked these. Contrary to popular belief, there is a roll of clean towel, and the used towel gets rolled away on another roll, when it runs out it gets swapped and usually a company will collect the bulk of dirty towel rolls for a wash. Better than blower that never blows your hand dry, better than paper towels that always seem to run out.

These things still exist!

My favorite Chinese restaurant only stopped using one of these after the pandemic started. I've been eating there since '93.

Oh yes!! We survived because mom was a R.N. got every shot ever possible, and then some.

yeppppers......it was kind of gross, but if you pulled it down to a clean part, it was ok

I love the sound this makes

My parents ran a service station for 30 years - incredible that you ran someone's credit card on total faith! My job was to add them all up. Twice.

Sigh, yes I am.

I didn't know what this was as the only ones I ever saw were metal. (South Africa, despite being a third world country without aeroplanes to give people, has one of the most sophisticated banking systems in the world.)

I still have mine somewhere. I definitely prefer the Square, it beats the heck out of having to use an early cell phone to call in a credit card charge then type in long strings of numbers and hope you haven't messed anything up or you'd have start again. The long strings of numbers would be your merchant account number, the credit card number, the number that identified what type of charge it was and where you were calling from and then the amount of the charge itself. Then you had to wait and copy down the long string of numbers that indicated the charge was verified and accepted. I'm so glad for the Square.

That wasn't as bad as when it happened to an 8-track!

My tapes always got crinkled up precisely where my favourite song was which was great preparation fur the future when my CD's got scrathes at the same spot

Its Zepp in case your wondering.

Even worse when it jams up the cassete player in your car.

the WORST thing that could happen to me at 12; pencil might not even fix that

In the summer if you started to sweat then the candy would dissolve giving you pastel color around your neck.

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LOLOLOL!!! Perfect !!!