Would you have invested??

azsnowman · #2 Postby **azsnowman** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:58 am

"HOLY COW!" Feels like I'm having a severe *flashback*.........did we really dress and look like that back then??? Naaaaa!

Funny, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words or in this case.....a few BILLION dollars! Had I seen this photo back then, wouldn't have given it a second thought, now a days......Hmmmmm!

Dennis

Amanzi · #3 Postby **Amanzi** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:01 pm

OMG... dont look like corporate executives now do they!

#4 Postby **streetsoldier** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:08 pm

I didn't look all that much different in '78..it was my first year in art school. As to "investing"...I didn't have two pennies to rub together at the time, and what scholarships and grants I received went directly into art supplies. TONS of them.

#5 Postby **Stephanie** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:09 pm

I didn't have money to invest in the market either - that picture definately gives me flashbacks myself! :o

breeze · #6 Postby **breeze** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 5:48 pm

LOL, if it had been for a mushroom farm....hmmm...maybe....
No WAY! Only big companies had computers, and, they were
limited more than today's capabilities...much more. I would
not have seen the potential, at all.

JetMaxx · #7 Postby **JetMaxx** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:21 pm

Heck, in 1978 I didn't even know what a computer was, and had never seen one (nor a VCR)

We didn't even get cable tv in this area until 1980

BTW- about the picture.....yes, I did look and dress like that. Imagine me skinny (after mom died, I lost 75 lbs in nine months) ...with long hair down my shoulders, wearing a powder blue leisure suit and 3" platform shoes. I look at those old photos now and ROFL!!!! :lol:

azsnowman · #8 Postby **azsnowman** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 8:50 pm

Groovy man! OMG Perry, you actually ADMIT to wearing a 2 piece, double knit, polyester lesuire suit "ROFLMAO!" Perry.......don't feel bad my Brother "Shhhhhh" so did I!

Dennis

#9 Postby **streetsoldier** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:03 pm

I had several such 3-piece suits, and spent more than my fair share of "off-duty time" on the dance floor...and the wide-flare-bottom trousers hid my off-duty, ankle-rig S&W well (regs stated that I had to be armed 24/7), so as not to crimp "the silhouette" (yes, at that time I HAD one!).

JetMaxx · #10 Postby **JetMaxx** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:11 pm

Yeah Dennis....I was the grooviest nerd you ever saw :lol:

I'd leave the disco dance early and rush home just to track a hurricane....no wonder my father thought I was nuts

azsnowman · #11 Postby **azsnowman** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:14 pm

WHEW! Ya know......sad part is, that *style* is now *in style* once again.......as the song *Disco Duck* fades in! Hmmmm, wonder if my 3" platform shoes still fit....let's see, that would make me 6' 7" tall now "LOL!"

Dennis

JetMaxx · #12 Postby **JetMaxx** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:16 pm

I loved the platform shoes....they made me taller than the girls (at least when they were barefoot :lol:

Miss Mary · #13 Postby **Miss Mary** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:27 pm

Wow, flashback to 1978! Don't know why I avoided this topic all day, thought it would be serious. LOL! Let's see.....I remember going to see Saturday Night Fever. What a movie!!! For that time period. You kept thinking - that's John Travolta, a former sweat hog? LOL I had a neru jacket once. Remember those? Picture John Lennon, oops this was before Disco wasn't it? :-)

Finally, husband has red hair and when he was younger it was very curly. Now it's buzzed short (George Clooney cut from his ER days). Anyway, he had a huge afro for his HS grad picture. He and his siblings had these pictures made into paintings, which of course hung in the family living room. When his Mom passed away, each were given the paintings back. And do we have that hung anywhere in our house? Yikes - he wants to bury it. I say - hey this was a nice painting!!! Kids just roll on the floor - Dad, that was you? He had on a long pointed collared polyester shirt too (loud print) - this was 1977. Oh, the memories.....this picture is in the basement along with lots of goodies you hate to part with.

Thanks j for this laugh.

#14 Postby **azskyman** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:43 pm

Invested in them? Are you crazy? Remember just ten years ago when a fellow I knew wanted to borrow a few hundred bucks so we could by some domain names for something called the internet. Things like http://www.weather.com.

No fool would spend a hundred bucks on a name.

I'm the wrong guy to ask about investments.

Mary...a Neru jacket? That will be coming back soon!

breeze · #15 Postby **breeze** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:49 pm

LOL....OWCH, Steve....! :lol:

#16 Postby **streetsoldier** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:34 pm

I, too, once had a Nehru jacket; it was a bluish, "cadet" gray, and in a few years it was converted very nicely into a Confederate reenactor's "shell jacket", Louisiana Cavalry.

Like the old Quaker proverb states...'Keep a thing for seven years, and thee will find a use for it." :wink:

ColdFront77 · #17 Postby **ColdFront77** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:48 am

I was six to seventeen months old in 1978, so need-less-to-say, I don't remember the happenings personally and these pictures "live."; but of course I remember them years later, during the 1980's.

My siblings turned five, six, seven and eight during the year.

Miss Mary · #18 Postby **Miss Mary** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:59 am

Anyone have a CPO jacket from back then? Mine was a brown/tan plaid. Oh how I loved that jacket!!!

Remember desert boots? There's a picture of me, circa this era, wearing desert boots and a striped cotton sweater vest (another popular item with girls) and bell bottoms. Could dig that up, if I could just get that scanner to work, he he.

j · #19 Postby j » Thu Jul 24, 2003 7:21 am

memories..... I lost my first love (I like to think), because I hated Disco with a passion and refused to do the John Travolta imitation game with her at her favorite disco clubs. She found her a wimpy 3 piece suit scum of a lawyer...but he had money...and the moves.

Miss Mary · #20 Postby **Miss Mary** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 7:38 am

Awww j - violin playing in background - that hurts. If that's what she was into, maybe you were better off that it didn't work out? Give me the 60s' styles over the 70s anyday. Music too. The 70s brought us Three's Company, need I say more? LOL

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