Fads you remember fondly

The Charleston, flappers, drinking and driving, reminiscing about the good ol' days before the First World War. [/spnited] ;D

The Family Compact, Ottawa thinking it could ever be an acceptable national capital, meetings of the Loyal Orange Lodge, the idea that any good will ever come of all that farmland that surrounds Toronto on three sides. [/jr] ;D

 

Support for the war in Iraq...

 

I remember Hypercolor shirts with a fondness. My dad put mine in the dryer, and that was the end of that.

A few girl ones: Keds, color-layering your slouch socks, Swatch watches, body glitter, hair mascara, "bubble necklaces", banana clips.

Big ups to the person who said bangs.

 

Buttons of your fave bands etc. pinned to your denim or leather jacket. I had loads of buttons, wonder whatever happened to them.

Another one I remember fondly: reasonably priced concert tickets.

 

Fire, the wheel, dinosaurs, the dark ages...

Ah, hell. We luv ya, spnited.

 

Geek.

Dweeb.

Spaz.

 

I'm a neo-maxie zoom dweebie.

And I had a pair of black Guess? overalls that I wore with one strap off.

So there.

 

That goes right along with attending concerts at the CNE Grandstand (Garth Brooks in '91 or '92, can't remember right now) or the Kingswood Music Theatre at Canada's Wonderland.

 

Current fads?
Would Tickle me Elmo count? And what about the latest Japanese anime figure? Or do things that could be toys not really count.
What about jam bands?
As far as the interweb goes, I think blogs are, for the most part, a fad that will go away.
Just like chat rooms, I can't remember the last time I was in one.

 

Ragu, as long as you weren't flouncing around to the Thompson Twins, you weren't one of those new wave boys of whom I wrote disparagingly.

By the time the late 80s rolled around, I had ceased being punk rock because I was attending a snooty liberal arts university and I didn't think I could credibly pass myself off as a punk any more. I enjoyed Smiths, Erasure and other stuff that people called "new wave" but you're right, it was really more "new music"...heard it referred to as "indie rock" or "college rock" sometimes.

 

I worked at Kingswood in the summer of 1984. Unreal year for touring acts there. Pretenders, Grateful Dead, Huey Lewis, Squeeze and plenty of others. Made $3.85 an hour - plus all the free tickets I could handle - and loved every minute of it.

Great venue for outdoor shows that was a lot easier to get to than the Molson Amphitheatre without the nasty breezes off the lake.