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I didn’t got the look.

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I started 5th grade in 1979. That’s when designer jeans were “all the rage.”  An expression your grandmother would use, but really – they were the rage. All the sexy girls in my class wore them. (Yes, to ten year olds, other ten year olds are sexy.)

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middle school, wayback 1970s, 1980s, childhood, commercials, jeans, memories, video

It’s like coming to Broad-WAY!

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Action Park was a water park in New Jersey that deservedly earned the nickname “Accident Park” or, alternately, “Class Action Park.” Having gone there once a summer to slide head-first down their uninspected concrete water slides, with some fat kid crashing into us from behind every time, it’s a miracle my sister and I are […]

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TV 1980s, action park, commercials, memories, TV, video

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