We sent an e-mail out to our list of Insider advisers last week asking for “top ’80s picks” in several categories – everything from top music artist to top Concord hangout.
Deb Worster
Top ’80s toy: Big Wheel, anything Ghost Busters, Thundercats, He-Man
Top ’80s fashion trend: mullets?
Top ’80s TV show: “Three’s Company”
Peggy Anne Klinker
Top ’80s toy: Mario (Nintendo)
Top ’80s singer/band: Bette Midler
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Concord High School art room. (Mark Knipe was the teacher.)
Top ’80s movie: “Return of the Jedi”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Hair. Big, BIG hair.
Top ’80s TV show: “Magnum P.I.”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Harrison Ford
Jill and Matt Brown
Top ’80s toy: Transformers and Barbie
Top ’80s singer/band: Duran Duran
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Hannah Dustin Park
Top ’80s movie: “The Breakfast Club,” Ferris Bueller!!!!!
Top ’80s fashion trend: Big hair.
Top ’80s TV show: “Miami Vice,” “Hunter”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Corey Garland
Top ’80s toy: Anything Transformers or G.I. Joe . . . Oooh, or even Voltron
Top ’80s singer/band: Duran Duran or INXS
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Bear Right (currently Hesser College)
Top ’80s movie: “Red Dawn,” starring the amazing Patrick Swayze or “Lost Boys” – “Stay gold Pony Boy.”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Girls in spandex. I Love girls in spandex – you can’t get clothes any tighter.
Top ’80s TV show: “Alf”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Patrick Swayze, Winona Ryder
Jen Sackos
Top ’80s toy: Lite Brite; Easy Bake Oven (hello fire!), Barbie Corvette, Barbie house with the pool, Rubik’s Cube
Top ’80s singer/band: The Go-Go’s, Shawn Cassidy, Duran, Duran, John Cougar (no Mellencamp yet), ALL the hair bands
Top ’80s Concord hangout: The roller rink and Funspot (they were where Planet Fitness is now), the movie theater on Main Street that has since closed, Pizzarelli’s on Depot Street.
Top ’80’s movie: “Dirty Dancing” (I saw it at least 50 times), “Footloose,” “ET,” “Porky’s” (C’mon, every kid in the ’80s watched that when they were at someone else’s house.)
Top ’80s fashion trend: Leg warmers, pegging your pants so they were tight to your leg; BIG HAIR
Top ’80s TV Show: “Alf,” “Dallas,” “Falcon Crest,” “The Love Boat,” “Facts of Life,” “The Hardy Boys,” “Dukes of Hazzard”
Biggest Stud or Babe of the ’80s: Shawn Cassidy, Rick Springfield, Cheryl Tiegs, Farrah Fawcett
Andrew Barnes
Top ’80s toy: Anything He-Man
Top ’80s singer/band: Huey Lewis and the News
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Bear Right
Top ’80s movie: “Back to the Future”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Acid washed jeans
Top ’80s TV show: “Cheers”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Daisy Duke
Susan Hewey
Top ’80s toy: Rubik’s cube
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Veano’s, the quarries
Roseanne Cota
Top ’80s toy: Atari, boom boxes, Rubik’s Cube
Top ’80s singer/band: Eagles, Journey, Def Leppard
Top ’80s movie: “E.T.,” “The Goonies,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Ripped jeans, blue eye shadow, spandex, leg warmers
Top ’80s TV show: “Family Ties,” “My Sister Sam,” “Doogie Howser”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Tom Selleck, John Schneider, Erik Estrada
Cheryl Rodgers
Top ’80s toy: Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Top ’80s singer/band: Michael Jackson, “Thriller”
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Bear Right
Top ’80s movie: “Back to the Future”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Large hoop earings, folded pant legs, tall bangs
Top ’80s TV show: “Webster,” “Punky Brewster,” “Family Ties”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Michael J. Fox
Anna-Marie Sparks
Top ’80s toy: “Star Wars” (all toys from movie), KITT (car from “Knight Rider”), Nintendo
Top ’80s singer/band: Aerosmith, Chicago, Paul McCartney (‘60s-‘80’s, he’s great.)
Top ’80s movie: “Back to the Future,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Terminator”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Shoulder pads, leg warmers, oversized sweatshirts (UGH)
Top ’80s TV show: “St. Elsewhere,” “Cheers,” “Cosby Show”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Tom Selleck, Johnny Depp, Don Johnson
Jill Dater
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Janet’s Donuts
Ruth Lassonde
Top ’80s toy: Cabbage Patch dolls
Top ’80s singer/band: Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Red Blazer, Take Five, Louie’s Diner
Top ’80s movie: “Fried Green Tomatoes”
Top ’80s TV show: “Dallas,” “Dynasty,” “Golden Girls”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Larry Hagman, Julia Roberts
Kim Hawkins
Top ’80s toy: Cabbage Patch Kids
Top ’80s singer/band: Boy George, Def Leppard
Top ’80s movie: “Back to the Future”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Big hair, pink shirts, leggings
Top ’80s TV show: “Baywatch”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: David Hasseloff, Donna Dixon
Bob Pingree
I’ve outgrown toys, would probably pick Placido Domingo as the singer of the ‘80s, hang out at home, don’t qualify as fashionable and watch only football, news, cooking shows and “The Simpsons” (best show of any decade!) on television, so I’ll have to suggest a few movies:
Top Comedy: “A Fish Called Wanda”
Top Drama: “Ordinary People”
Top “Big” Picture: “Out of Africa”
Top Foreign Film and Best of the Decade Overall: “Fanny and Alexander”
Feel free to disagree, but “DON’T CALL ME STUPID!”
Jodi
Top ’80s toy: Nintendo
Top ’80s singer/band: Prince
Top ’80s movie: “Sixteen Candles”
Biggest stud or babe of the ’80s: Harrison Ford
Sebastian and Kelly Grasso
Top ’80s toy: Cabbage Patch Kids
Top ’80s singer/band: Van Halen
Top ’80s Concord hangout: Tio Juan’s
Top ’80’s movie: “Sixteen Candles”
Top ’80s fashion trend: Leggings and long sweaters.
Top ’80s TV Show: Cheers
Biggest Stud or Babe of the ’80s: Jon Bon Jovi
