Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Your Turn

When you were growing up, what posters did you have on your wall?

138 comments:

  1. A big black and white one of Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing.

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  2. Showing my age here ... Leif Garret, Shaun Cassidy, Michael Jackson & Andy Gibb :D

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  3. Donny Osmond...David Cassidy...Bobby Sherman...pretty much...

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  4. Zack and Slater from Saved By The Bell (!), Mariah Carey (her pre-crazy days), and Michael Jackson. Hahaha.

    Then when I hit high school, my room was pretty much a shrine to Trent Reznor. Oh, the angsty teenage years.

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  5. Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Leonardo DiCaprio

    <3 <3 <3

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  6. I wasn't allowed because in the words of my mother, "it'll ruin the paint".

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  7. Anonymous10:07 AM

    JTT then Hanson. Mariah then Alanis.

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  8. n'sync and Justin timberlake

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  9. Kip Winger for me. David Cassidy when we were really young. I was not really a poster person, so that's about it. My sister had John Travolta and Erik Estrada posters on our bedroom wall for the longest time.

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  10. Sting
    The Beatles

    Plus a collage of stuff on my door, the only acceptable place to hang stuff in my mom's eyes. I covered the door with butcher paper and then added pics, ticket stubs, whatever.

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  11. Donnie from New Kids on the Block (when I was really young), an Apple "Think Different" print of Kermit & Jim Henson, a still from "Clerks", a candid of the boys from Monty Python, and a movie poster from "Mission: Impossible". I was HUGE in love with Tom Cruise as a middle-schooler, and now he just disappoints me with all the crazy-go-nuts COS shit.

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  12. Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, David Hasselhoff (the shame!), aha, Fred Lynn and later Ron Romanick f the Angels, When I was really young, before I discovered boys, it was Tracey Austin.

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  13. Mark.Spitz. Enough said.

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  14. Michael Jackson (the Smooth Criminal years) and the Coreys (Haim and Feldman).

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  15. Rick Springfield on the back of my door.

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  16. Taylor Hanson, Lance Bass and AJ McClean.

    I had a full size Lance poster. Yikes. Haha

    Dad would always say of AJ: "All those nice looking boys and you pick the convict."

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  17. Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac.

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  18. Mark Hamill. Only I tore Carrie Fisher out if she were in the photo, too, hated her for some reason.

    All the Dynamite spreads and Tiger Beats, whoever was hot at the time!

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    1. Dynamite! That brings back memories!

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  19. none. thumbtacks were frowned on at my house.

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  20. John Stamos and Scott Baio

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  21. My my worked for the Canadian government, so my sister and I had matching Royal family posters - mine was Charles and Diana, and hers was Andrew and Fergie.

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  22. New Kids on the Block, particularly Jordan and Joey

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  23. DMX and a wall covered with every hot girl I can find in a magazine

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  24. 120 Duran Duran posters until my Dad ripped them all down when I was caught skipping school :(

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  25. Farrah Fawcett, KISS, Leif Garret and alot of kitten posters too...

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  26. Started with Randolph Mantooth when I was 10 and Emergency was on. Then matured into Donny Osmond. :)

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  27. As a kid, Shaun Cassidy, Andy Gibb. As a teen, show posters that I took off telephone poles downtown.

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  28. Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Andrew Keegan, Rider Strong, Jonathan Brandis...

    All four years of high school, I had a George Clooney poster in my locker, despite him being old enough to be my father. On the last day of school, the guy who had the locker next to me all of those years said, "I'm so glad that I never have to see George Clooney looking at me ever again!"

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  29. Corey Haim and Kirk Cameron. Apparently even as a child I had bi-polar taste in men.

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    1. Anonymous6:26 PM

      Hahaha! Same here

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  30. JTT and Dougie Howser

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  31. Several Indiana Jones posters, a Kevin Costner one from Bull Durham, a couple of Don Johnson ones, and I think a couple of very early John Stamos ones. And don't hate me, but I'm pretty sure I had a Charlie Sheen poster from "Young Guns" at one point.

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  32. Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, the Bay City Rollers, more Donny Osmond, Shaun Cassidy, yet more Donny Osmond, did I mention Donny Osmond?

    Funny story: My sis and I kept one wall free of teenybopper posters because it felt weird undressing in front of "eyes." When I met Donny Osmond for the first time in person, my sister couldn't make it because she was sick (with cancer, and Donny asked for her number and chatted with her). I asked him to sign a photo to her with something funny. We were trying to think of something funny and I told him about how we had his posters up, etc., and asked him to write, "It turns out I really could watch you from the walls," on the photo. He BLUSHED! But then he laughed and wrote it.

    I wish I could have told my teenage self that one day, I would meet Donny Osmond and make him blush! LOL

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  34. @Lisa: I loved Randolph Mantooth too!!!! :-D

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  35. Nunaurbiz, great story!

    My walls were covered with posters of Matt Dillon and the Soloflex ads guy. No pain, no gain!

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  36. Matt Dillon, maybe Harrison Ford. Matt is the one I remember best.

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  37. The Coreys, Ralph Macchio, River Phoenix.

    Wow, that's cheesy!

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  38. OK, lemme think here...I had Depeche Mode, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Belly...I know there was more, but I can't think of any more!

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  39. The picture that was taken of Earth from the Moon. Different War Chiefs Crazy Horse, Red Shirt, and Secretariat. I liked music,but these pictures I loved.

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  40. I is an old. Bobby Sherman.

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  41. I had some Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Wrestling stars, Sports stars. Mostly Derek Jeter. My future husband Kevin Spacey. And yes the fact that i'm a 29 year old female, I realize I am not his type. Don't care. In my head we are very happy together.

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  42. Movie posters from an abandoned drive in: The Out of Towners and Hannie Caulder. Beatles poster, Elton John, Neil Young, several posters that came with albums (those were the days) none of which I can remember at the moment. Stevie Nicks later in high school.

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  43. Duran DUran, Poison, Jordan and Donnie from NKOTB, Zack Morris, Cinderella (the band). Yeah, I' was a dork

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  44. Also my walls were covered in thumbtacs. The ceieling, front and back of doors. Used tape and covered my full lenght mirror. At my moms was the same mostly. Eminem there though.,mostly cause it pissed her off.

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  45. Andy Gibb was my first celebrity boyfriend, but I had the most posters of Duran Duran. My daughter has her walls covered with One Direction magazine pictures and I approve 100%!

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  46. my walls were black, and going from my door, around the room: Pulp Fiction, Don Juan DeMarco, Tank Girl, Lemonheads (Hate Your Friends), Hole (Live Through This, Pinkish hue.), Sex Pistols (Fuck Forever with a pinup girl), Nirvana (Bleach), Stolen Stop Sign, Green Day (Sepia), I hung some random concert and movie tickets, and a cross above my bed. Not like I'm religious, Then Courtney Love (bluish hue, pink lips, signed), I had a Joy Electric Corner, Blink 182, Structure Underwear Models (I grew up with one), Belly (the movie), The Negotiator, somewhere there was a Grateful Dead poster, and a "Have a Day" poster, where there were like 50 smiley faces)

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  47. Yes, I am a grande olde dame. The Jackson Five. On the ceiling.

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  48. Hahahahaha. When I was 12-13, my room was literally covered with posters of Edward Furlong. Then 13-15, it was Duran Duran. I was into 80s pop before it was retro and cool.

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  49. @nunaurbiz - such a great story! I had Donny Osmond posters but not The Osmonds. Also had Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy and Peter Frampton and the BeeGee's later.

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  50. Yes, I am a grande olde dame. The Jackson Five. On the ceiling.

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  51. River Phoenix. My soul mate. *sniff*

    And a giant dart board!!!

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  52. The Hey Vern guy wearing a Speedo.

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  53. A large B&W poster of Barbara Eden.

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  54. @Frances Parker your memory is scary. I don't even know what's hanging on my walls now, and I'm staring at them.

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  55. I was ALL over the place. I think INXS was my first poster and I accumulated random things after that....Lost Boys, Godzilla, Red Hot Chili Peppers, SF Giants, James Dean, anything I saw in a magazine or newspaper that seemed interesting..... I had a chunk of time when I had NKOTB ALL over the place and my brothers had a field day giving me crap about that. Actually, my sister gave me a lot of crap, too....

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  56. Prince (Purple Rain with him on the motorcycle), Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), one covered with teddy bears and hearts, and a Lakers poster (Magic/Kareem days).

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  57. @Turkish Taffy I made out with Bobby Sherman's nephew once!

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  58. NKOTB, Guys Next Door, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, Christian Slater.

    And a 'The Outsiders' movie poster that was my most treasured item for years.

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  59. @nunaurbiz - That's hilarious! I had a poster of Shaun Cassidy on my wall when I was real little (t-shirt, too!) that I couldn't get undressed in front of. No matter where I went in my room, he was looking at me! Also Andy Gibb.

    Later it was Duran Duran. After that... nothing. I'm notorious for having artwork & not hanging it. I have framed art leaning against walls all over my house.

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  60. Anonymous11:04 AM

    I didn't have posters, they weren't so big when I was growing up. How's that for showing my age? But as a teen I did cut out pictures of Ricky Nelson and tape them to my closet door, does that count? When I turned 40, my kids gave me my first poster ever, it was some generic cartoon character and said "Happiness is a day off, ecstasy is a day off with pay". I wonder what became of that?

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  61. I had KISS posters on my wall...it is what it is.

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  62. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Erickson, Bay City Rollers, all the standard late 70s/early 80s dudes.

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  63. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Erickson, Bay City Rollers, all the standard late 70s/early 80s dudes.

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  64. Charlie Sheen ... Hot shots !!

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  65. Jonathan Taylor Thomas. OBSESSED!! What happened to him?!

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  66. Charlie Sheen ... Hot shots !!

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  67. A vintage Rita Hayworth pinup - yep, that one - given to me by an older guy on my paper route who said "this got me through a ton of shit in WWII." Lost the pic during one of my many moves unfortunately - it may have actually been stolen, I'll never know.

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  68. Michael Jackson first, during his Thriller days. Then animals, posters and (my own) paintings.

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  69. Hockey posters - Team Canada, Team Sweden, Leafs, pictures of whichever players sent me an autographed picture (except Denis Potvin - signed his picture with a rubber stamp of his writing - feh). Madness - met them when I was 17 and got an autographed poster.

    Trying to remember what else I had.

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  70. THAT Frampton Alive poster....and then on the opposite spectrum Andy Gibb.

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  71. Bobby Sherman and Keith Richards. LOL quite a combo.

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  72. Leonardo DiCaprio. 3 of them. And a giant 5'x8' poster of Blink 182 in their undies.

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  73. nunaurbiz - what a great story! I shared it with my co-workers, it was that good.

    When I was little I did have a Bobby Sherman poster, and probably David Cassidy, and definitely Donny Osmond. I remember my brother tore a picture of a magazine of The Grinch with Max and Cindy Who of Whoville on his knee.

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  74. Anonymous11:46 AM

    My mom never let me hang posters up in my room. "It looks tacky and that wallpaper was expensive! I'll buy you a nice art print." Oy. But all bets were off in my closet! When I was really young, I had Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb. Middle school, Rick Springfield and Adam Ant. High school, Duran Duran, INXS, and Depeche Mode. My lockers at school, however, were COVERED with cut-out pictures from magazines.

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  75. Debbie Gibson and Jordan Knight

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  76. I had French drawing room etchings, 40's sheet music -- including Carmen Miranda, one of my dressing idols -- David Bowie, the Stones, and a B/W, naked photo of Yves St Laurent I stole from a French magazine.

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  77. Farrah (not the iconic one) and Lynda Carter in jeans and a tied-not-buttoned shirt.

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  78. Alice Cooper (hanging by the neck); Grand Funk Railroad (naked cavemen)& T. Rex.

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  79. Since I fell in love frequently, my loves were handwritten and taped to my door because you know, everyone was so interested in "I Love Peter Noone."

    I had those cheesey posters like "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" or something deep like that.

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  80. Anonymous12:01 PM

    How crazy I was just thinking the other day about my teen beat men .., Johnny depp, Leonardo ( my one and only true love) , the gut from never ending story (Jonathan Brandis maybe ?), and I think I had Tom cruise a la Top Gun. Sigh. Well it's better than Bieber I guess.

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  81. George Michael and Wham!, Duran Duran and especially Simon Le Bon were everywhere on my walls and closet doors.
    Shaun Cassidy and Rick Springfield when I was real little.

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  82. Guns 'n' Roses and Skid Row, mostly. If it had long hair and a Jack Daniels t-shirt, chances are I dreamed of banging it on eday.

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  83. One wall covered in Duran Duran posters.

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  84. When I was in junior high, I cut out the pictures from People of RDJ in his orange prison jumpsuit. I thought he was so hot. Still do. I'm sure my mom was a little worried, though.

    When I was in high school, I had a Beers of the World poster. No musicians or celebrities that I can recall.

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  85. Shaun Cassidy, John Travolta, Scott Baio, Leif Garret, Erik Estrada,Paul McCartney, etc.

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  86. The Beatles. Yeah, I'm old.

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  87. Kirk Cameron and Michael J. Fox in junior high. None in high school, save for a small poster from COSMO of Pierce Brosnan, where he was climbing out of a pool and facing the camera. SOAKING WET.

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  88. Bee Gees, Shaun Cassidy, and the BAY CITY ROLLERS, baby!

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  90. wOW i SO ENJOYED READING ABOUT EVERYONES CRUSHES... I am in the same age range with more of you than I thought. - I had David Cassidy and bobby sherman - but then graduated to the hardy boys - sean and parker - Andy Gibb - w/ the hairy chest and the satin jacket. Randolph Mantooth - HOLLA!! to my fellow randy lovers - Bobby Clarke from the Phila Flyers, Tug McGraw from the Phillies & yep, i will say it - Bruce Jenner... b4 kris, the trashians and the face lifts. God he was pretty in '76.

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  91. Anonymous12:52 PM

    Stacey, when I was a kid I LOVED watching "Emergency" for my man Randy Mantooth! Damn, he was/is hot! I was a weirdo, though -- I also had a crush on Wojciehowicz on "Barney Miller." Years later, I met Hal Linden and told him, "I had a huge crush on Max Gail when I was little." His fantastic response? "Hey, who didn't?"

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  92. Rob Lowe - Young Blood!

    And when I was nearly thirty, getting divorced, and moved back home to take a position as a deputy DA in my small little town after leaving my big time DC law job, I lived at my parent's house and slept in my bunk bed with it's barbie shits and Rob Lowe smiling down at me.

    It was the stuff of a bad sitcom.

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  93. Jimmy Page and the poster that came in the Who's "Face Dances" album. That album sucked but that poster was the shit artistically.

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  94. @ Another Josh , stop it. You're making me laugh.

    I still have my autographed picture of "Yaz" that I put up every baseball season.

    If you have to ask who Yaz was, well, sigh:)

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  95. River Phoenix and Corey Feldman haha

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  96. Lol @ Maja! My friend Amber was the exact same way.

    I had Guns N Roses on the back of my door at Mom's house-I had wallpaper,and it was never my choice. Im anti-wallpaper now. My cool dad didn't care so it was a Jim Morrison poster & Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy and a bunch of other stuff I don't recall.

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  97. I had empire strikes back poster with Mark Hamill, Kurt Thomas (gymnast) and Olivia Newton John (my friends and I LOVED her - found out she's coming in concert and I'm taking my friends for our 40th this year).

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  98. This is such a fun question!!!
    I can totally pick out which of you readers I want to chill with lol!

    I had Led Zeppelin, Kelly Slater, Van Gogh and Matisse' but as soon as I started doing custom picture framing everything got nice frames. Oh and the first to be framed was an Ozzfest poster I still have.

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  99. @Agent**It haha! BTW, I know who Yaz is. Carl Yastrzemski. I'm a lifelong Red Sox fan who grew up in NY.

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  100. Cat Stevens and Robert Redford. Yum.

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  101. When I was really little, Donny Osmond and Shaun Cassidy. When I was a teenager, Detroit Tigers Kirk Gibson and Dave Rozema.

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  102. Roman Gabriel.

    Christ, I'm old.

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  103. Adam and the ants, David Bowie & The Doors...sigh...I think the first one was Kiss...lol !!

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  104. Another Josh, you are a brave, brave Josh . My husband Is a Yanks fan.Bringing him home to meet my family was priceless. I had previously brought home boyfriends from Ethiopia,Venezuela,Germany, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist, a former priest-all easily accepted.

    But then I brought home an Italian Yankees fan and married him. They all were black armbands at the wedding feast they threw us.It was hilarious.

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  105. @Agent**It I am a life long Yankees fan. Even though I am stuck in Indiana, unfortunately never been to New York...yet.

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  106. Yaz was also a dance pop 80's band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D3udbawA1Q

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  107. in elementary school it was kittens, puppies, JTT, and the pictures I ripped out of Tiger Beat.

    In middle school it was my friend's school pictures, film posters (pulp fiction & empire records), and fashion editorials

    in high school it was photographs I had developed and art I had made while on acid

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  108. Early 70s: Lots of Black Light posters.
    Late 70s: Movie posters and the famous Farrah Fawcett poster.
    Today: (Yes I never grew up!) Posters from most of Sam Peckinpah's films, the Billy Jack movies and a ton of autographed photos of people I've been lucky enough to meet and interview.

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  109. Parker Stevenson a la the Hardy Boys -- wasn't he married to Kirstie Alley? Also, Dan Fogelberg

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  110. I had a poster of Woodstock from Snoopy. And a poster of the Pink Panther. A poster of the Damned, Duran Duran and the Beatles. Also Bon Jovi. For some reason I had a big poster of all the Kings and Queens of Britain. My favourite was the Pink Panther just after getting out of the shower....all fluffed up like candy floss!!!

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  111. STING-- the singer not the wrestler.

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  112. Duran Duran! There was one with the whole band and a tiger on a big chain. No doubt from Bop or Tiger Beat. Oh and Rick Astley.

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  113. Shaun Cassidy, Kirk Cameron, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell and Michael Jackson (Off the Wall and Thriller)!!

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  114. Conrad Dobler and Archie Manning. Yes, I am that old.

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  115. Oh, and Dr. J, how could I forget. It was the one of his infamous flying one-handed dunk from the foul line.

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  116. 3 walls Duran Duran, 1 wall Madonna, after "Like a Virgin". That was my only 'poster period.'

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  117. Anonymous5:48 PM

    surfing and skateboarding. john travolta. movie posters.

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  118. @Marti - A Dan Fogelberg poster???? Now that is the height of Nerd Chic. Love it.

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  119. My mom let me pretty much cover my walls, so it was constantly changing, but I am QUITE sure at some point I had...
    New Kids on the Block (lots of Jordan), The Guys Next Door, The Monkees (Davey Jones), Aerosmith, Fred Savage, Debbie Gibson, Luke Perry, Scott Wolf, Joey Lawrence, Jared Leto, Patrick Swayze. There was more, but that's enough.

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  120. Duran Duran, and way too many of them.

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  121. @Texshan
    Oh my gosh - EMERGENCY!!! I think every picture of me when I was 3 or 4 years old I was wearing my Emergency fireman helmet, and my mom still has my Emergency lunch box. Thanks for the memory!!

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  122. Shaun Cassidy. A full door size one from Spencer's in the mall. And another one of him in a satin jacket. Da doo. ron ron ron da. doo ron ron

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  123. Alf, Michael Jackson, Neil Patrick Harris, NKOTB, Joey Lawrence, Kirk Cameron (ewww) I was a kid, dont judge :P

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  124. Keith Richards and The Beatles

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  125. Sigh, Tom Cruise in Top Gun, INXS, Duran Duran and then I had some great B&W Paul Newman and marlon Brando back when they were young and gorgeous

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  128. Johnny Depp when he was in 21 Jump Street, Rob Lowe, Aha and whoever else was in Smash Hits Magazine!

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  129. Oh...and Matt Dillon from when he was in 'Little Darlings'!

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