...Walkin' through the park and REMINISCIN'...

KELOWNA:
When the coolest band ever was (and still is) ABBA!!!

When Plaza 33 was “Shopper’s Village”?

When the Rutland McDonald’s was brand new?

When you spent your allowance at “The Deli”, on Hollywood Road?

When the Kelowna Rockets were still “The Buckaroos”?

When the Waterfront Park and The Grand were just an industrial area you avoided?

When Earl’s was “Hollywood On Top”?

When you rode your (banana seat) bike without a helmet?

When the Rutland DQ was located at the top of Hwy 33, on the corner?

The cool juke box in the Rutland Dairy Queen?

The high diving boards at City Park?

When 4-Way Foods (no longer there!) was Dion’s?

When Sears at Orchard Park was “Simpson-Sears”?

Flintstones – before Wild Waters was put in?

The Boardwalk? And before that, The Roller Rec?

When the “Rutland stairs” were new?

Taking swim lessons at the FREEZING outdoor pool behind the Rutland Post Office?

Space Invaders & Monaco GP at Scandia?

The outdoor skating rink behind the SDA Academy (across from Quigley)?

Patchos at Kelly O'Brians?

Jonathan Seagull's on Bernard Ave (now Kelly O'Brians) 

QUIGLEY:
"The orange lemon” - and who drove it?

Being a part of “the human vacuum cleaner”?

The grade five field trip to Aldergrove? (going to the chicken farm? P.U.!)

Burying a time capsule?! (No, it has not been dug up yet!)

Mr. & Miss Interhouse Pageant?

A certain teacher always wearing either satin gym shorts or sweat pants?

Climbing “the A-frame”?

Mr. Hopton from the Kelowna Museum coming to visit our classroom?

Mr. Strukhoff playing for the Kelowna Sharpies?

Going to Seattle in grade seven for a field trip?

Learning the ukulele?

The Greek Feast?

Mr. Davies playing Simon & Garfunkel tunes on his guitar (wearing his purple turtle neck shirt)?

Miss Peters reading The Narnia Chronicles in grade five?

The swim party at Mrs. French’s house in grade two?

The huge split grade 4/5 class with Ms. Dale, Ms. Maine, and Mrs. Weisbeck?

The grade 6 camping trip?

Saying the Lord’s Prayer every morning until grade four?

Mrs.Weibe, the librarian?

Having a crush on Chad Vance or Suzie Oliver?

Alden Lange's "Bay City Rollers" T-shirt?

Rollerskating (NOT blading) with strap-on wheels?

Canada Fitness Testing (Which I'd rather forget!)

Going to see older siblings in "Dracula Baby"?

The Quigley Chronicle?

Caligraphy classes?

The outdoor skating rink at Quigley?


HOLLYWOOD JR.:
Platinum Blonde?

Grade 10 field trip to Vancouver and Expo ’86?

Mr. McLeish: “YES, not yeah!”

The Sound of Music?

“Hands across the CE room”?

A certain very cool car called “ZIPPY” ?

Braving the “smoke pit” to get onto the school grounds?

The Cult? (Sanctuary...)

Eddie Light as Bryan Adams?

The Life Savers commercials? “Tweet, tweet, Twiddle, twiddle…”

The Go-Gos?

Ed Light’s big party that got busted by the cops? (who later pulled me over, even though I had only been drinking Orange Crush, but CP’s ciders were in the back of my Dad’s pickup truck, so I got in trouble anyway! Do I sound bitter?)

WHAM!

Getting your driver’s licence???

Going to the teen dance club downtown?

Wanting to be as cool as Debbie Kariya or Shane Bishop?

Large black purses with a racoon tail and can opener hanging off one end?

Debbie Kariya having to point out to me that "INXS" was actually a band, pronounced IN EXCESS, and not just some weird grafitti that was pronounced "INKS"?

Having a crush on a certain teacher? 

You remember Don Johnson when he was "cool"
• You know who shot J.R
Your first Walkman weighed 10 pounds and was the size of a brick.
• You wore L.A. Gear tennis shoes.
• You know the meaning of Wax on/Wax Off
• If you can "See Better" with sunglasses that have paint splattered all over the lenses.
• You can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you.
• You need a shopping cart to carry your personal stereo with you.
• You remember what Michael Jackson looked like before the surgery.


• You go rollerskating every Friday night (not to skate, but to 'hang out')
• "Outrageous!" is the term to describe something neat and cool
• You think that Garbage Pail Kids are your children's worst enemy
• You had a poster of Bo, Luke & Daisy Duke
• There was nothing to question about Bert n' Ernie living together
• The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.
• You went out and purchased the sound track for 'Miami Vice'
•If you think Hulk Hogan is the best wrestler of all time.
Two words: The Clapper.
• "This is your brain on drugs."

• You want to live in 'the Valley' – and I don’t mean the Okanagan one
• You watched 'Star Search' on a regular basis.
• Every now and then, you blurt out: "Ooh noo, Mr. Bill!!!"
• If you had an entire wardrobe of Esprit clothing (or coveted one.)
• If you know the words to the "Oscar Mayer" theme songs
• Your bangs are teased perfectly to 7 inches above the rest of your hair.
• Have multi-colored earrings that touch your shoulders
• Played Upwords, Boggle or Trivial Pursuit (the original) on a rainy afternoon
• You wore lace gloves with the fingers cut off, bangle bracelets up to your elbows, bright red Reebok high tops and parachute pants to a school dance
• You're still bitter that WHAM broke up
• You know whose phone number is 867-5309

• You drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to
• You still watch things on Beta tapes
• You have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts
• You never go out for a night on the town without frosted blue eyeshadow and feathered bangs
• Everything in your wardrobe is either pastel or fluorescent
• People are constantly gagging you with spoons.
• You know all the words to "I'm just a bill, sitting up on Capitol Hill" and "School House Rock." Yeesss! Grammar Rock still rules!!!
• The feeling in your thumb is only now just returning after holding down the Atari joystick to control the racecar in Enduro Racer
• You still can't believe that Milli Vanilli was deceiving you all that time
• You can sing all the words to "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head, and now you understand that it is about chess. (Oops! Didn’t know that…)

• You still wear a bandana tied around your leg and/or a ponytail off-center on the side of your head.
• You still carry your boom box on your shoulder
• You think David Hasselhoff was awesome in Knight Rider but stunk in "Boob Watch."
• A piece of folded paper and two hands could tell your fortune.
• Knickers and leg warmers were cool
• You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room.
• You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding
• You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.
• You thought a Commodore 64 was the highest technology available
• You wanted to be "The Hulk" for halloween
• You want to be "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
• Remember "Big Mac, fillet-o-fish, quarter-pounder, French fries..!"
• You know who played Magnum P.I
• "The Plane, The Plane" holds meaning for you
• Still think banana clips were a godsend – AMEN!
• Still wear Wet n' Wild makeup

• If your idea of hi-tech toys is still the heat-sensitive color-changing sticker on Transformers
• You remember Bruce Willis from Moonlighting, not Die Hard

• You still have a couple of those barrettes made of woven ribbons.
• You had snap bracelets & cool shoelaces (from Pandora’s Box in Orchard Park)
• You remember when Pee-Wee wasn't a pervert
• You had had five pairs of socks on at any given time
• You still think Donkey Kong can beat Mario up
• You still have your scratch-n-sniff sticker collection

• You ever used Lee Press-On Nails
• You wear jelly shoes or “rice pickers”
• You still play with that CASIO SK-1 Keyboard
• You still argue over who was better: Tiffany or Debbie Gibson
• Every time you hear the "OH YEAH..." song you think of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

-record player or "Hi-Fi"

-striped suspenders

-knickers (AKA "gauchos")

-"gringo" jeans

-angel wing top

-personalized shoe laces (from Pandora's Box in OP)

-beelybobbers

-a t-shirt with your name on it (from the Dog's Ear)

-terry cloth (or velour) jumper (or "romper")

-high tops

-your own roller skates

-a skinny tie

-Hotwheels

-one glove, with no fingers

-feathered hair

-mullet

-Leif Garret poster

-Teen Beat/Tiger Beat Magazine

-terry cloth wrist bands

-spandex

-"teased" hair (the bigger, the better!)

-stirrup pants

-BMX bike

-hockey or baseball cards 

- leg warmers

- headband (like Olivia Newton John) 

- purple eyeshadow