When records had cool pictures and fast food places had gnarly happy meal toys

When toys were well made ad Fisher Price, Playskool, and Hasbro toys covered your playroom

You always ate the Barneys first, then the Strawberry Wilmas and by the end of the bottle, you had only Freds left.

Pez candies never tasted the same right out of the package, you HAD to load them into the proper dispenser

Grandmas were like, "it's Orange juice!" Blech!

In school.....

More Happy Meal swag

Murphy Brown was a popular sitcom

And sewing cards, talk-to-me-players and etch-a-sketch took the place of portable DVD players for roadtrips

The making of an excellent rainy summer day

Learning to use the card catalog

Tinkerbell nailpolish that peels off (everyone's brothers used to paint their nails just so they could peel it off)

And even though this was super older than the 80s, we all remember watching this at Friday night sleepovers and scaring the heck out of outselves

Mini cokes in glass bottles