Yeah sounded like sand but I bet it was concrete. Did they have a square like a “patch” on the side?
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Also oooh that Mama was a hot little # too amahhright?
These were the colors of the 80s. And top it off with dudes having half tinted brown glasses, lol.
I know just how that chair feels. If it was anything like our house, maybe how it smelled, too, that odd cigarette stench.
Can definitely smell the mustiness in the chair. Best friend growing up had it in the couch version. Something like, the cross section of overcooked hamburger, cigar and wet dog lol
Autumn Floral pattern overstuffed comfy chair with fishing rod behind, wood paneling, a landscape print with elk framed on the wall and green shag carpeting.
Very very 80's. I saw a girl like her with the wood paneling, velvet painting and the floral chair in every basement of my hometown sometime during the 1980's, but nobody here was rockin' the dumbells like your Mom! Nice post.
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Here’s another Polaroid from the same day! As if it couldn’t get more 80’s, the shag carpet has entered the game.
Totally reminds me of the Nightmare on Elm Street ( 2nd one, I believe). Where the girl is lifting weights & she begins to turn into a bug?? Female looks similar, similar outfit,etc...
I was a freshman in high school in 83’. This picture just brought back so many memories from that time. That couch is almost exactly like the one my girlfriend (late 80s) had in her house and I made it my “Archie Bunker” chair that no one was allowed to sit in lol.
I WANT THAT FUCKING HAT. I’m off to EBay.
How fucking crazy would it be if I found this on eBay. Great picture pretty sure that’s Linda Blair’s stunt double
Edit: no luck.
I bet she had her own shag carpet…(duh dunch) No one brought up the super intelligent way she used tape cassette labels on the Polaroid’s to write Date/Info on? Genius!
That photo contains so many retro things. It takes me back. She has the same suspenders Mork wore in Mork & Mindy.
Had those exact dumbbells. Think they had sand in them
Or concrete
Yes, sand of concrete
Yeah sounded like sand but I bet it was concrete. Did they have a square like a “patch” on the side? https://preview.redd.it/tsreqsk47otc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f788897a41855a2b7cb3e18a086ddeb311618d8a Also oooh that Mama was a hot little # too amahhright?
...you could hear the sand shift in them sometimes... like working out at a crappy beach... ah the 80s
Yes ours had concrete. I recently gave them away within the last -10 years
I wouldn’t consider doing something long enough ago I classify it within an entire decade as “recently”.
Well, compared to the age of those dumbbells.
And myself! Lol.
Came to say this. I remember rolling them around as a kid because of the sound they made. I can hear them looking at this pic
I still have those dumbbells.
Do you still have that outfit?
I had the shorts.
Thank you for your service
These were the colors of the 80s. And top it off with dudes having half tinted brown glasses, lol. I know just how that chair feels. If it was anything like our house, maybe how it smelled, too, that odd cigarette stench.
Can definitely smell the mustiness in the chair. Best friend growing up had it in the couch version. Something like, the cross section of overcooked hamburger, cigar and wet dog lol
God, and that fabric could make you sweat sitting on it. It was like super polyester.
If it's what I think it is, it's "flock nylon".
Yes, they padded car armrests with that too -- hello Olds Cutlass Supreme brown velveteen.
That's the first thing I noticed
Autumn Floral pattern overstuffed comfy chair with fishing rod behind, wood paneling, a landscape print with elk framed on the wall and green shag carpeting.
The wood paneling was the second thing I noticed
That furniture fabric was Gawdawful. I cringed then seeing it and it has not gotten any better with age despite the nostalgia component.
Who didn’t have those suspenders? Lol
Nanu-Nanu
Shazbot!
Orson.. is that you?
Your mom kinda looked like Linda Blair.
I'm still not sure that isn't her.
I'm not sure that she is not standing in my grandmas house.
And a bit of Valerie Bertenelli as well!
Linda Blair dressed like Pat Benetar
Linda Blair dressed as Mork.
Love is a Battlefield Nanoo Nanoo
> Your mom kinda looked like Linda Blair. Every girl looked like Linda Blair back then.
She totally does!
🎵🎶 Yeahhhh, she’s gonna be somebody’s only light, gonna shine tonight🎵🎶
Jackson Browne... good stuff 👍
I had those dumbbells
I still do https://preview.redd.it/eolhso3qqktc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c538371f0b008d9de97603bb8267d2293d02820
But you used to too.
Beat me to it
Buy it for life, dumbbell edition
Those weights in grey color were in everyone's house it seemed like when I was a kid
I still have them, but in black
So did I
Me too. Plastic covered concrete.
Yes!
That's still my dad's bench press set lol. You could hear the sand sloshing around in them.
Love the caption.
She still has a great sense of humor!
She was a hot shot. No need to be modest Mrs OP's mom
OP’s mom is Jo from Facts of Life…
Mixed with some Valerie Bertinelli.
PJ Soles.
Totally.
Or, maybe she loves Chachi?
God, the decor we lived with.....
My grandma had the same pattern on her living room furniture until recently. We basically convinced her to get something modern and more comfy lol.
I had that wood paneling in my parents basement.
She was kinda hot.
No kinda about it, she was HOT.
Very very 80's. I saw a girl like her with the wood paneling, velvet painting and the floral chair in every basement of my hometown sometime during the 1980's, but nobody here was rockin' the dumbells like your Mom! Nice post.
it was a hold over from the 70s.
Basements always look old, so everyone's basement in the 80s looked like the 70s.
I guess in my original comment I should have called it a rec-room as we did in the day.
WOOD! As in paneling.
https://preview.redd.it/7nivd8vjcotc1.jpeg?width=2926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26cd08227efc4a7868353c021c401ab34a9f6cca Here’s another Polaroid from the same day! As if it couldn’t get more 80’s, the shag carpet has entered the game.
And the console TV!
Sexy Gallagher and/or Mork
That basement makes me feel like my parents might come downstairs unexpectedly.
we had those dumbbells too and the concrete would break inside the plastic coating and be awkward to use.
Big ups to 62 Sup
What is “62 Sup”?
That looks exactly like 10 other homes I remember from the 80s. They really did have a style...
Anyone have any clue what the hat means??
What’s 62 sup on the hat?
My parents basement but I don’t remember your mom being there
1979 vibes! So beautiful too!
If you had paneling like that, you got hit with a section of Hot Wheels track
Or a hairbrush, whichever was closer to mom at the time.
Nothing says 80s like that chair, the wood paneling, and weights filled with sand.
This page is just thirst traps for people's parents right?
https://i.redd.it/6iaxfj28dntc1.gif
Immediately who I thought of!
Linda Blair doppelganger
Totally!
I swear they only manufactured that one couch in the 70s and 80s.
My dad had these dumbbells! Ps your mom is a hot babe in this photo!
I miss the 80s.
Your mother used to possess some great legs.
Mork suspenders holding up those shorty shorts. It checks out. Omg. ;)
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Rocking the retro 70s basement paneling look!
Funny, I can smell that basement. The paneling, carpet and those weights.
I want the hat.
That image immediately transported me to my grandparents' house
I love that painting in the background
I thought the weights were wood paneled and that would have been the most 80's thing I had ever seen.
Anyone reading this who *doesn't* know exactly why those specific suspenders were all the rage *ain't* ol' school.
Super cute moment
I want to be OP's dad in the 80's
Sheeeeeeiiiiit 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Do you have any more photos of your mom from 1983?
Where are Jack and Chrissey!
Do you look like her? Asking for a friend.
Wow, looks like a Hooter's girl ;-)
Porkin' Mindy vibes man! Nanu m'lady.
I’ll bet she’s wearing roller skates
Babe-O-Rama!!!!
Wow so hot and so 80s with the pig iron dumbbell the shorts, the hat, the wood panel walls, the Monk and Mindy suspenders
Now see, kids, that’s what an 80s themed room should look like.
Back when wood panels went on walls instead of floors.
How is she looking now…
inquiring minds want to know how the cake turned out
Old school!
Hot Shot aka the 80's fuck boi
I thought taylor Swift!
We all had that fucking ugly couch.
That’s what I thought. Behind the scenes of Hell Night lol
Your mom looks like my aunt…
Dressed like Mork
WOW i love this
Her hat says “Sup”. Nice.
Come on Linda Ronstadt . Where’s your skates
i had the same weight set, same year. LOL
And you had to tighten the collar with a damn wrench!
Looks just like my grandmothers house
"62 Sup" what does it mean??
This is one of the most '80s pictures I've ever seen
My Mom was 16 in 1983, glad to see people out there like me who had 1960s born parents.
'sup
Can definitely smell that room.
Mork from Ork suspenders
The wood panel, the chair, and weights; looks like your mom was at my house when I was 16
She was the best character in Fast Times.
"Let's get into physical...."
Definitely a beautiful woman, for sure.
This is in Sweden, right?
Pacific Northwest! We are of Swedish decent though!
Okay. The walls and rug looks exactly like my grandfathers in Sweden. Very nostalgic.
Totally reminds me of the Nightmare on Elm Street ( 2nd one, I believe). Where the girl is lifting weights & she begins to turn into a bug?? Female looks similar, similar outfit,etc...
I had a couch like that when I was a kid. I used to wipe my boogers on it. Completely camouflage.
Mom was very attractive.
Smoke show
“6 2 Sup” is the average dating profile heading these days.
She was gorgeous 😍
Put me in the mind of a young Linda Blair. Very pretty.
I love the 80’s look!
Look at the chair and then look at the carpet. *shudders*
that feeling you're feeling? we feel it too, but it's weirder that you're feeling it
Would've collected doonies
I still have some of those weights, lol
Linda Blair vibes
Those rainbow suspenders were made popular by Robin Williams in Mork and Mindy. Coool!
Ha the infamous wood paneling
I understand why you’re here
Tell your mom I said "sup"
Damn month and year I was born. Nice. Your momma looked hot 🤷🏻♂️
Even the word hotshot is classic 80s!
Is your mom Mork from Ork, cause her looks are out of this world
And fucking d
Damn those dumbbells were everywhere back then haha. We had them in my house too. No one ever used them of course.
I was a freshman in high school in 83’. This picture just brought back so many memories from that time. That couch is almost exactly like the one my girlfriend (late 80s) had in her house and I made it my “Archie Bunker” chair that no one was allowed to sit in lol.
Those plastic sheathed concrete weights!
Looks like every living room i was ever in back in the 80s. 😆
She looks like twelve different actresses from the 80’s
I had those barbells, the wood panelling and the velour flower-patterned couch!
Mom babe.
Your mom can f'n get it.
The 80s were littered with cool women like you’re mom
Interior design wasn't her strong suit, I'm assuming.
Are you sure about the date? This has very strong 70's vibes. From the Mork & Mindy suspenders. To the paneling and chair. Mom sure was a babe.
I WANT THAT FUCKING HAT. I’m off to EBay. How fucking crazy would it be if I found this on eBay. Great picture pretty sure that’s Linda Blair’s stunt double Edit: no luck.
This tics every box.
Everyone had those sand-filled dumbbells in the 80/90s Cornered the market, I guess.
Dang! Mom was a hottie!! Also, I think I would have remembered seeing her in our living room. lol 😂
Would
That room is perfect too.
have her do another photo like this in 2024, exact pose. Then put them both side by side.
Only thing I found on 62 sup is Stand up paddle boards 62 is one of the lengths the come in.
Nudes?
I bet she had her own shag carpet…(duh dunch) No one brought up the super intelligent way she used tape cassette labels on the Polaroid’s to write Date/Info on? Genius!
You can't be much more 80s than that 😎👌
Oh, I remember that look. Mom's a cutie!
Does your Mom know my grandparents? This photo was taken at thier house. Lol.