I have a cousin named Lori. Even though I grew up on the other side of the country from her and we only saw each other every couple of years when I was growing up, we have discovered that we are practically the same person. We like all the same things, and think the same way....we were talking about childhood memories and discovered that we had a lot of the same ones. Especially when it comes to television and music. Both of us had television addicted families who spent each and every evening watching tv. All those tv shows that we both watched growing up gave us the same pop culture references to look back on. There is just one thing that is a little random about this, Lori is 16 years older than me.
How does that work out? When I was growing up I watched Nick at Nite for tv, and listened to my parent's old records for music. In fact, I'm a little surprised that I even know that the 80s existed. I might have been a kid then, but I certainly don't feel like I lived in the 80s! The only show I remember regularly watching on television that didn't come on Nick at Nite was The Wonder Years.....a show about growing up in the 60s and 70s. Which explains a lot about my connection with my cousin. She might be older than I am, but we basically grew up in the same decade. We watched the same tv and listened to the same music and read the same books. And to the extent that those things color your world and influence your thinking, we had the same world.....I just had mine 16 years later.
So, tonight I will travel back to my childhood and watch a little Rhoda. It's nice to see 1974 again. I've missed it.
What shows, music, or books do you miss from your childhood?
Happy Days I LOVED that show LOVED IT.. and Scot Baio is da man lol
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute post! And how funny that you grew up watching and doing so many of the same things she did :)
ReplyDeleteMy fav show from the 70's... hands down... Little House on the Prairie!
I loved Rhoda! It's funny, I'd forgotten all about that show until you mentioned it. Enjoy your "flash back" evening!
ReplyDeleteThis is really cute :)
ReplyDeleteYa gotta love Hulu!
That is so interesting that your tv paths cross due to Nick at Nite! I watched the Wonder Years when it first aired. There was also another family show with Patti Lupone and a kid named Corky that I really liked. I seem to recall one with Wilford Brimley too. Gee, you're working my brain today!
ReplyDeleteI loved Growing Pains and Family Ties... *sigh*
ReplyDeleteMusic--Hmmm...I liked Madonna's older songs..."Like a Virgin" and such...
I don't remember a show called Rhoda. But I love nick at nite!!!
The Brady Bunch. I watched it in re-runs after school. Loved it as a kid.
ReplyDeleteAnd then during my time LOVE BOAT!!!
I liked Bea Arthur's scarves in Maude too. I loved Rhoda and still think of it when I hear her sister's voice on The Simpsons.
ReplyDeleteI loved The Wonder Years too and had a HUGE crush on Kevin Arnold. omg. I was out of control.
ReplyDeleteAnd that show with Corky was Life Goes On. I loved that one, too. And My So-Called Life. Picket Fences. ummm....Family Ties. I loved Alex P. Keaton!!!
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I keep hearing about Hulu, so I have to check it out one of these days. I love Rhoda too, but the show I love from my childhood were Facts of Live, Family Ties, Kate and Allie, Diff'rent Strokes, Who's the Boss, Golden Girls . . . They just don't make TV like that anymore!
ReplyDeleteMy children and I have been enjoying Alf...I know it's cheesy, but it makes us laugh as a family!
ReplyDeletethree cheers for HULU!!!
I remember Rhoda - I enjoyed that show. I wasn't allowed to watch tv much as a kid, but Christmas just wasn't the same without "Charlie Brown's Christmas".
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh you just sent me back to my era as well. I remember Rhoda and the big day she got married to Joe! Then came Phyllis, then Lou Grant, all spin offs from my fave MTM. Thanks Tracie for the memories, and am glad you can relate to your cousin so well. Blessings.
ReplyDeleteOh lovely post Tracie - I love your description of this parallel universe you and your cousin inhabited as children but 16 years apart.
ReplyDeleteI still love the music from my childhood and teenage years and although there are artists today who I also really like I think there is way too much bland manufactured music and far too little real music like the rock I loved in my teens.
As for TV shows I used to love dramas and TV productions of wonderful books and characters which the BBC were so very good at but apparently budget cuts mean they do very little of that these days.
I was a huge tv junkie as a kid. Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Love Boat, Three's Company, Fantasy Island, The Dukes Of Hazard and Dallas are just a few of my old favs.
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