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Re: Cultural Shifts. [Re: RedRanger] #8693273 09/22/22 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by RedRanger
Dallas in the 80's was rocking good time, they would take city hall and turn it into a beach with sand and have rock concerts, I believe the Zoo did one, it was great times

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OMG....I WAS THERE!!!!! Drank free Coors backstage with a buddy who worked for them. Almost rolled my jeep on the tollway going home.

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Re: Cultural Shifts. [Re: Stub] #8693314 09/22/22 06:05 PM
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80's for me were the best of times and the worst of times. Happy I survived both!


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Re: Cultural Shifts. [Re: Stub] #8693451 09/22/22 08:11 PM
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I just remember the summer of 80 made the last couple of months we have had seem like a walk in the park!! Working 7 days a week in a precast concrete plant making buildings for Las Colinas and Greens Point in Houston. Damn it was BRUTAL

Re: Cultural Shifts. [Re: Jimbo1] #8693485 09/22/22 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimbo1
80's for me were the best of times and the worst of times. Happy I survived both!

Same, I graduated in 80. Late 70's were fun too.


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Re: Cultural Shifts. [Re: Stompy] #8693503 09/22/22 09:41 PM
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80's for me were the best of times and the worst of times. Happy I survived both!

Same, I graduated in 80. Late 70's were fun too.

I graduated from Burnet HS in 1980. Every summer prior to that I worked at Inks Lake State Park as part of their summer hires. I would then haul hay on the weekends. It use to break my heart to look across a hay field and see a thousand bales standing on end and shimmering in the sun but to be honest I would love to go back if only for a day. But Inks was the place to work as a teenager. Girls still wore bikinis then that were held on with nothing bigger than trotline staging.

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Bunch a youngsters here. By the time the 80;s rolled around I had already done 10 years, 9 months and 16 days in Uncle Sam's Canoe club and was on my way to Glynco, Ga. to the Border Patrol Academy.

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From 1980 to 1990, I had an absolute ball. Best decade ever.


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Re: Cultural Shifts. [Re: jetdad] #8693959 09/23/22 03:07 PM
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When i think of the 80's for some reason I think of some version of American Psycho where everyone lives a life of vapid excess accompanied by a Nu Wave soundtrack encrusted in corporate greed.



I'm sure the reality is pretty far off of that but when I think of the 80's for whatever reason I imagine young folks living high on the hog with no consequences or repercussions.


There was definitely some hard and fast living during those times. They came to an abrupt halt in '85 when the S&L's and banks began to fail. 9 out of the 10 largest banks in Texas either failed or were forced to merge with out of state banks to keep from failing. The only survivor of that group was Frost. They were not as heavy into real estate or oil and gas lending. You couldn't give real estate away. The federal government took control of the assets of the failed banks and liquidated them all over the next ten years or so. It was a blood bath.

Bobo, I had a friend that had some one-year CD's at 20% back in 1980.


I was a fetus thru most of 85’ but to hear friends and family tell it, the S&L deal really put a hurt on many people. One uncle who was very successful went belly up almost overnight. He recovered very well in the early 90’s but for awhile it was real rough for him.

One of my clients who I currently do business with had $8mm in land loans when it hit….he was able to crawl himself out of it though.


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It was the best of times.


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