Back when shorts were actually short.

These are amazing. In my 50s, I think of the 80s as 'just a few years ago' but it's only when I look at pictures like this I realise it's more than half a lifetime away.

Same here, Senyar. Same here.

What a great set of photos.

And what Senyar said.

Looks like my childhood. Half-shirts!

Yes, what Senyar said. Maybe it's because the photos are black and white but they seem so much older than they are. And, wow, the hair. There was some serious hair going on with those girls.

Even the cars look ancient. I am OLD. When did that happen?

*sigh*

I'd been thinking about 1984 a lot lately, as that was the year the Olympics were in Los Angeles. My family got tickets to one of the soccer games. I was introduced to the wave. Does anyone do that anymore? Working around students who hadn't even been born when that happened. It seems both close and far away.

The cars... they really were that old then. The air pollution they caused! It used to be so bad I'd get covered in smoke every time crossing a busy intersection. Then I'd cough... and choke on my cough.

And Staten Island! If we hadn't relocated I wouldn't have been far away in 1984. We used to live in Queens.

1984 was only yesterday. I had be out of High School only two years. Yes, so recent and so very far away. On the radio, my beloved 80's new wave songs are being called oldies. It's a very different world these days. I'm lucky though, to have grown up in those days. These kids today....

Funny, I remember it in color.

Class of '82, MonkeyButter? [high fives]