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re: Urban Cowboy
Posted on 7/13/25 at 1:38 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Posted on 7/13/25 at 1:38 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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The 80s middle class lived in trailers?
For their starter home
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Urban Cowboy
Favorite 80s movie.
This post was edited on 7/13/25 at 1:42 pm
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Posted on 7/13/25 at 4:07 pm to Pandy Fackler
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More like white trash. Everything about this movie was genuinely trashy. It was a work of art. In its own way, Saturday Night Fever wasn't much different.
Both movies nailed that trashy culture.
Viewed through a 2025 lens, or hell even a 2005 lens, all but the highest classes of people look kinda trashy from back in the late 70s/early 80s, in one way or another. Not saying you’re wrong, just that it’s more of a context issue.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 4:20 pm to This GUN for HIRE
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The 80s middle class lived in trailers? For their starter home
Middle class has become just a catch all phrase for where the person saying middle class was. A trailer as a starter home was not “middle class” it was poor or working class if you prefer but not the “middle”. It’s not a put down it’s just reality
Posted on 7/13/25 at 5:41 pm to H-Town Tiger
Growing up in a military base area when this movie came out, i was 11 in 1980. This was very much lower middle class living. Hell interest rates alone made trailer living normal. Plus this was in the Houston area and wanting to live near work would have been a thing.
Also, Pam made 11 year old me have feelings. Not Wonder Woman level but still a very sexy woman.
Also, Pam made 11 year old me have feelings. Not Wonder Woman level but still a very sexy woman.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:01 pm to Pandy Fackler
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Both movies nailed that trashy culture.
Maybe it nailed it because it was how it was?
Hollywood doesn't make "a mechanical Bull movie" unless it was a cultural thing they saw and wanted to tap that fad/market. They tried it serious fading 70s style; Swayze did it big hair/guns 80s style.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:05 pm to BHTiger
Agree. I think the biggest difference is those getting a trailer as a starter/temporary home and those living long term.
Also, Bud, or at least his uncle, were the 70s version of plant baws, probably made a decent amount for the time but I don’t know about that world. Like I said, viewed through today’s lens, most of the 70s imagery looks kinda trashy in a way, definitely the haves (wearing a suit and tie) and the have-nots (jeans, t shirt) and the hair styles were arse too.
Also, Bud, or at least his uncle, were the 70s version of plant baws, probably made a decent amount for the time but I don’t know about that world. Like I said, viewed through today’s lens, most of the 70s imagery looks kinda trashy in a way, definitely the haves (wearing a suit and tie) and the have-nots (jeans, t shirt) and the hair styles were arse too.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:25 pm to H-Town Tiger
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:59 pm to The Torch
Love that truck!
Posted on 7/13/25 at 7:02 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:Plus she was rich, and had a rich daddy. Bud made the wrong choice. Sissy hooked up with a loser ex-con. Bud should have left her with him, moved out of the trailer park and into her penthouse!
The gf was hotter than the wife.
BTW, Scott Glenn was a bad mfer in that movie. He played that character to perfection.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 7:17 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:Correct. People don't start out as middle class. People raised as middle class, start out as poor and work their way up. I was raised middle class, but my parent lived in a trailer when they were married. My brother did the same. Both have a lot of money in the bank, and custom built the homes they live in now. Same as me.
Middle class has become just a catch all phrase for where the person saying middle class was. A trailer as a starter home was not “middle class” it was poor or working class if you prefer but not the “middle”. It’s not a put down it’s just reality
Posted on 7/13/25 at 8:05 pm to BabyTac
I was a young kid when this came out, and I loved this movie. My dad worked in a plant, and this put a fear in me that I never could shake. When he falls on the ladder and breaks his arm, it stuck. There was an explosion at my dad’s plant one night, and all I could think about was is he ok and this movie was in my head that night.
My point being it was very real to a kid like me growing up with these characters in real life. Great movie
My point being it was very real to a kid like me growing up with these characters in real life. Great movie
Posted on 7/13/25 at 8:29 pm to This GUN for HIRE
Then enlighten me how in 1980 a trailer park was middle class and not poor/working class ? 
Suburbia was a thing in 1980 and that was (mostly) middle class. A 1500 sq foot house in Harris county per Grok was around 50,000-60000
Suburbia was a thing in 1980 and that was (mostly) middle class. A 1500 sq foot house in Harris county per Grok was around 50,000-60000
This post was edited on 7/13/25 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 7/13/25 at 8:55 pm to H-Town Tiger
You don’t have to argue it to death dude. Ffs.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:22 pm to dblwall
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dblwide
Amiright?
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:28 pm to boogiewoogie1978
quote:Some of the most level-headed, retired early people I know took their 1970’s seven and seven oil rig money and invested in a mobile home instead of throwing money away in apartment rentals. We laughed at them until they bought their first real homes while we still had roommates.
The 80s middle class lived in trailers?
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:29 pm to BabyTac
Bud was a dumbass for not sticking with Pam.
I always thought Sue Ellen in Dallas was HOT too.
I always thought Sue Ellen in Dallas was HOT too.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:53 pm to greygoose
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Plus she was rich, and had a rich daddy. Bud made the wrong choice. Sissy hooked up with a loser ex-con. Bud should have left her with him, moved out of the trailer park and into her penthouse!
Bud was never going to end up with Pam. Girls like Pam don't marry guys like Bud. They bang them for awhile in their early to mid-20s then marry some rich oil dude that their daddy approves of. Tale as old as time. Bud getting a few months of crazy sex and some nice shirts was the most he was ever going to get out of it.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:49 am to Midget Death Squad
Bud broke his arm when the mechanical bull slammed into him. Him falling off the scaffold happened earlier.
Great movie. Travolta had a table at Ninfas in Westheimer he ate at all the time. Sat at it many occasions
Great movie. Travolta had a table at Ninfas in Westheimer he ate at all the time. Sat at it many occasions
Posted on 7/14/25 at 5:31 am to BabyTac
This thread is quickly evolving into one of those threads where boomers yell at millennials about how they spend too much money on Starbucks and vacations.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 6:58 am to Gifman
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This thread is quickly evolving into one of those threads where boomers yell at millennials about how they spend too much money on Starbucks and vacations.
Sorry, boomers didn’t set themselves up for a lifetime of debt so they could live in a DR Horton community.
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