What if I had saved Rod Stewart?
The bathroom door. That is what I remember.
And the color blue.
My iron bed was blue. The comforter upon the bed was blue.
The walls painted 50 shades of grey (kidding).
The walls painted a shade of blue.
And blue shag carpet.
I would lie on my blue bed and read, watch t.v. and talk on the phone which was attached to the wall.
All this crazy teenage mayhem under the watchful of…
Rod Stewart. Who was taped to my bathroom door.
Linking up with Mama Kat and choosing the prompt: 2.) What do you remember most about your childhood bedroom?
The image imprinted on my mind — like a baby zebra who can’t forget her mother’s stripe pattern — is that poster.
If I had saved the darn thing, they sell for 35 dollars on eBay.
And if honest, the thing I most remember about it is how much my mother loved to comment on it.
“He looks like he needs a bath.”
“How can you stare at that all day?”
“Couldn’t he have afforded some type of undershirt?”
And so on and so on.
It wasn’t even a huge Rod fanatic.
I just saw it and liked it.
Maybe it represented my alter-ego? The me I didn’t even know existed. Lurking, waiting for me to BREAK FREE from the confines of my middle-America blue-tinted teenage wasteland.
Probably not. It just made me happy.
Like Rod had this little secret and I was the only one in on the joke.
And as much as mom complained, I think secretly she liked Rod hanging around too.
What about you? What do you most remember about your childhood bedroom?
I REMEMBER this exact poster! Back in the 70’s, he was sex on paper. And all sorts of naughty. You weren’t the only girl with that poster I’m certain. He does exude secrets, doesn’t he? Your mom secretly liking it makes this story hysterical. I was a Stones fan so I had their poster on my wall and also used some of my favorite album covers as wall art. In college, Christopher Reeve as Superman hung above my bed.
It’s funny Gina, I remembered it — but not as clearly. Seeing it now, it was a tad more sexy than I remembered. I did remember the beer. The second I found it on eBay today, I really wished I still had it.
That’s quite a memory. After reading your post, “blue” is sticking out in my mind. I love the color blue!
As to our argument about the type of men you find attractive — I rest my case.
You mean men that don’t bathe?
Girly
I *love* his hair! The hair, the pose…he looks like an 80s era wrestler! He would have looked right at home beside Mean Gene Okerlund before hitting Wrestlemania IV ring!
I still have an NKOTB poster. It is framed and on the wall in the basement. I keep telling my husband if it were in our bedroom I would put out every night but, so far, he’s not buying it.
Nic, maybe you could just tape it to the bathroom door if it’s adjoining your room?
I have never seen that poster before. And if I did, I probably ran away from it. LOL.
Thank Janice. That made me laugh….
Baby pink carpet. I loved it then, and I would love it now. Though not with the ping gingham canopy bed.
Oh my husbands face if I were to utter the words “pink” and “carpet” in the same sentence!
You know Lisa, I have no idea why the blue? Maybe because the walls were blue when it was my parent’s room before I moved in there. But that iron bed is upstairs and peeling blue paint. Maybe we should paint it pink an put it in our daughter’s room?
Oh, how I loved Rod. The 70’s soft-core bad boy.
But all my mom would agree to letting me have on my wall?
Was stinkin’ squeaky clean Shaun Cassidy. *pouty face*
There was three of us in the room. Since I was the oldest, I had the double bed by the door. My sisters were in bunk beds across the room. The bathroom light stayed on all night and I ruined my eyes reading into the night after everyone else had fallen asleep.
My teenage aunt had that same poster. It used to terrify me when we visited my grandparents and I had to sleep in her room. I was really little at the time. Too little to appreciate Rod.
Too funny Patricia. At fourteen, I thought him strangely attractive I guess. But there’s a fine line between terror and attraction. ha.
If ya want my body and you think I’m sexy…..
oh yes, I remember that poster. it was definitely vetoed by my mama. (although I never did see it in the trash, which makes me wonder what she did with it – ha!)
Shaun Cassidy and C. Thomas Howell (Outsiders/Ponyboy) got her seal of approval though. I can’t say I really complained.
Rod Stewart was freaking sexy! I would have LOVED it if I would have been allowed to have that poster of raw sexiness up on my wall. But I was raised a Mormon and I wasn’t allowed to have any “pornography” in my room. I had a big weird picture of Jesus. It really just wasn’t the same.
Fun post! You had a phone in your room? It’s kind of funny how good that old Rod Stewart poster looks now. I was never an RS fan myself, but I can relate to your moms possible not-so-secret attraction to it.