Who was your crush when you were growing up?

[Sergeant Rock]

Welcome to GMG, home of horny middle-aged men. (I resemble that remark)

The premise of this thread is who we found attractive when we were growing up. So not horny middle-aged men but rather, nostalgic middle-aged men (or, for a few of us, nostalgic old farts  ).

Sarge

[Marc]

Too many crushes to mention.
Celebrities and classmates.

But the biggest shock came was when I was about 9 years old.
It lasted quite a few years.



Agnetha Fältskog.

0:)

[Cato]

Too many crushes to mention.
Celebrities and classmates.

But the biggest shock came was when I was about 9 years old.
It lasted quite a few years.



Agnetha Fältskog.

0:)

Let's counterbalance all the blondes...



Lynda Carter was the obsession for one of my friends from high school.





Raquel Welch!     She was everybody's obsession!   

[Ken B]

I was gonna mention RW, but thought that redundant...

[Marc]

Too many crushes to mention.
Celebrities and classmates.

But the biggest shock came was when I was about 9 years old.
It lasted quite a few years.



Agnetha Fältskog.

0:)

And in the early 1980s:



Annabella Lwin.
Hot lady from me own generation.

[Cato]

I was gonna mention RW, but thought that redundant...

Let's counterbalance all the blondes...

In my grade-school class there was a girl who had brown hair, and very dark eyes that nearly disappeared when she smiled or laughed, and who had a slight lisp.  But I was much too backward... 0:)

[Sergeant Rock]

And in the early 1980s:



Annabella Lwin.
Hot lady from me own generation.

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,6066.msg145125.html#msg145125

Sarge

[Marc]

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,6066.msg145125.html#msg145125

Sarge

See jungle of Sergeant, go join his room yeah, Lwin all over, go ape crazy.

[Sergeant Rock]

See jungle of Sergeant, go join his room yeah, Lwin all over, go ape crazy.

 

Sarge

[geralmar]

I wished my parents were like this:

[Mirror Image]

This is my kind of thread! Thanks for creating it, Nik!

A few of my early crushes...

Lark Voorhies from the moronic, but somehow popular late 80s/early 90s teen sitcom, Saved By The Bell -



Jennifer Tilly from the 1985 comedy, Moving Violations -



Phoebe Cates from the 1982 comedy, Fast Times at Ridgemont High -



Kate Beckinsale from the 2001 romantic comedy, Serendipity -

[Alek Hidell]

I was of the (original) Charlie's Angels generation, so:



(Wasn't much into Kate Jackson, though - at least not compared to the other two.)

I was also into Mork and Mindy's Pam Dawber ...



... and Dorothy Hamill.

[NikF]

I was of the (original) Charlie's Angels generation, so:



(Wasn't much into Kate Jackson, though - at least not compared to the other two.)

The thing is, a woman like Kate Jackson is going to kind of almost pall when placed between those two (FWIW  Jaclyn Smith even nowadays stands out [check her out - her features remain neat, delicate, relatively symmetrical ]  and busts my chops  ) But I look at that shot with pro eyes and believe it was built around their relative height and in this instance a mistake. Also, KJ has her eyes on camera axis - and that can be a powerful tool, although here there's a number of reasons that picture editors (*furrowed brow*  ) aren't going to embrace it) But what do I know? I'm just a hack with a long lens. 

[zamyrabyrd]

Re: the above post, no need to repeat the picture.
From left to eight, THE HAIR, for goodness' sake!
Interesting, two are wearing belts (that could make a comeback sometime) and the third obviously doesn't need one.
The middle lady can donate her shirt to her brother or son.
Are they praying? And if yes, to WHOM?
As for me growing up, I liked Dr. Kildare (whoops, that sort of pegs my era...)
I didn't really have a favorite Beatle, though.

[Ken B]

Re: the above post, no need to repeat the picture.
From left to eight, THE HAIR, for goodness' sake!
Interesting, two are wearing belts (that could make a comeback sometime) and the third obviously doesn't need one.
The middle lady can donate her shirt to her brother or son.
Are they praying? And if yes, to WHOM?
As for me growing up, I liked Dr. Kildare (whoops, that sort of pegs my era...)
I didn't really have a favorite Beatle, though.

Kinda killin' the nostalgic old men vibe here, zbyrd. 

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

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[Wendell_E]

Re: the above post, no need to repeat the picture.
From left to eight, THE HAIR, for goodness' sake!

Are they praying? And if yes, to WHOM?

But, the hair was Farrah's thing!

They were "Angels" after all, maybe they're praying to Charlie?

[Brian]

She grew up to be rather famous presenter on Serbian TV, but we never met after that holiday.

Wow, you had good taste! 

Self destructive, at fifteen in a fit of rage stabbed her dad with a kitchen knife, had a serious drug problem, string of boyfriends from bad to worse ... We lost touch, no idea what happened with her. 

Wow, you had bad taste! 

Like Draško, I think my real crush is a more interesting story than posting pictures of TV stars. I had a crush on a girl for a good 8 or 9 years, starting in the fourth grade. It only grew more intense because my family moved to another state after 2 years, and we started corresponding by email. (This was the early days of the internet, so we used our parents' email boxes and "To (Name) from (Name)" in the subject line!) Distance proved very effective at adding to the mythology of her perfection in my mind - she was as smart as Sarge's crush (now works for a science education think tank), funny, a redhead, a very good writer of emails, also a good piano player...wait are Sarge and I the same person? Nah - the redhead thing.

Anyway, I visited her a few times and counted them as some of the most magical days of teenagerhood. She visited me in college and I tried to lure her into attending the same school (she was a year behind).

And then I visited her at her home when we were adults, 25-year-olds. I was on vacation and agreed to stay on her couch for a night during my road trip.

Guys...I am not a clean guy. My girlfriend tells me when to clean my bathroom. But holy shit. Never seen a house like hers before or since. The pillow she gave me for the night had brown and black spots. Before I slept on the couch, she had to move pizza boxes and empty Chinese takeout boxes around the coffee table so I would have a place to put my glasses. The table was covered with trash. So was the dining table. Her bathroom did not have towels. Her bathroom did not have soap.

She expressly forbade me from looking at her bedroom.

During that day, as I gingerly moved empty boxes or asked for soap, she never once apologized or gave any hint that something might be different, or weird.

That crush died hard.

[PerfectWagnerite]

This one is easy.

Seven of Nine and Kelly Bundy.

Followed by my fifth grade teacher and my 10th grade English teacher.

[Sergeant Rock]

Guys...I am not a clean guy. My girlfriend tells me when to clean my bathroom. But holy shit. Never seen a house like hers before or since. The pillow she gave me for the night had brown and black spots. Before I slept on the couch, she had to move pizza boxes and empty Chinese takeout boxes around the coffee table so I would have a place to put my glasses. The table was covered with trash. So was the dining table. Her bathroom did not have towels. Her bathroom did not have soap.

Sounds like this Friends' episode   Ross dates an intelligent woman who unapologetically lives in a mess:

https://www.youtube.com/v/vwOZo11eo4Y


Sarge