🌴1980s🌴

Star's decades appreciation spot (NOT STRICTLY 80S)

[the-b0y-blog1]

[nostalgiaphile-blog]

Phoebe Legere in ‘The Toxic Avenger Part II’ - 1989

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

[followthebluebell]

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

[nycnostalgia]

Subway 1980

[rnaryjune]

This is actually really accurate.

[lofishing-deactivated20210113]

Retro Sears

[bjs237]

Definitely Miami - SR Formica

[birdjob]

My dad kissing his friend in 1981

[deborahfeingoldphoto-deactivate]

© deborah feingold photography

Ally Sheedy 1988

[springbreak1984]

Miller LIte’s Biggest Party in History at the Astrodome

[kristina100000]

[zombiesenelghetto]

Punks dancing at the Island, by Ben DeSoto, Texas 1980

[n64s]

me af

[thosekennedys]

August 31, 1980: John F. Kennedy Jr. during Kennedy Family During Labor Day Weekend In Hyannis Port

[amazongirlfriend-deactivated201]

i decided to look up the original mad world because i had never heard it and at one point in the video one of the other dudes in tears for fears just starts going hard while standing on a dock

[level5goblin]

NADIA LEE COHEN: ‘HELLO MY NAME IS…’

[odinsblog]

“Marvin Gaye’s voice was so amazing that even when you strip away all of the musical accompaniment it stops you in your tracks.”

Wow.