[Misc] Who was your first childhood crush.

[jcdenton08]

She always came across as stiff to me. Plastic smile and very little in the chest area.

Stiff

 

[Albion my Albion]

if we have to go with real people then................. Nadia Comaneci during the 1976 Summer Olympics. I was 15 and raging with hormones. It was really hot in the US Midwest that summer and my nan didn't have any air conditioning at that time.

Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner[a] (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.[5] At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal) she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow Comăneci won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s. During her career Comăneci won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.


I figured if an international gymnastics judge could give her a 10 then she must be really something. She was also very close in age. 14 years old.

 

[Stato]

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OK, both already mentioned but worth repeating. Clare actually improved with age, not so much Debbie Harry.

Slightly unfair on Debbie. She was 33 when that photo was taken. Here she is at 23 in 1968. She was a good looking woman back then, but she wasn't going to be the inspiration for Madonna, Grogan (https://www.theguardian.com/culture...mages-clare-grogan-dont-talk-to-me-about-love) and several thousand other wannabes over the last five decades. She's nearly 80 now, almost 20 years older than Clare Grogan, and she still has the fierce spirit that made her the coolest woman on the planet for half a decade or so from 1978.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

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That is my uncles sister, sadly both have passed now.
My uncle took me to my first Albion game at the Goldstone, I will be internally gratefully to uncle Bob.
R.I.P

 

[The Clamp]

Would have been getting into my teens in the early 90’s but here’s a selection of top telly totty from back in the less complicated days…

 

[wunt be druv]

I loved this woman so much.

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I was working at Gatwick Airport when she came through a V.I.P. area, she actually looked at me and smiled!! Stunningly beautiful in the flesh.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Siobhan Fahey

 

[SK1NT]

Mine was her too!!!

Great taste... she still looks equally as good now.

 

[SK1NT]

Jessica Rabbit.

she was going to mine in the next thread... Cartoon Crush lol

 

[fork me]

OK, both already mentioned but worth repeating. Clare actually improved with age, not so much Debbie Harry.

TBF, Debbie Harry was already in her 30s when Blondie released their first album. By the time this came out:

she was 41.

Just to compare this is the sleeve of the only album released by the first band she was in. It was released in 1967, she was 23.

 

[banjo]

 

[kojak]

Phoebe Cates or possibly Denise Perry

 

[GT49er]

Anita harris

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Met her once - well, saw her anyway. Most bizarre. I was working in the drawing office of a factory in the eary 1980s, and had to deliver some drawings to the technical dept. on the top floor (which was shared with the MD and other bigwigs in the company). Pounding along the corridor in my toe-tector boots (everyone on site had to wear them (I've still got mine to do the gardening 40 years later!)) I passed this lady in the corridor waiting outside one of the offices.
True story. No explanation. No idea what she was doing there. Just one of those weird experiences that happen.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Corny....but the girl next door ( two years older ) Lustrous black hair and dark eyes. There was another though. A young lady horse rider in the village. She stopped and looked down and smiled. I was completely smitten. Never ever saw her again. Wish I could have bottled that moment for posterity.

 

[Washie]

The awakening of many boys in my generation.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Nadia Comaneci during the 1976 Summer Olympics. I was 15 and raging with hormones. It was really hot in the US Midwest that summer and my nan didn't have any air conditioning at that time.

I was much the same in the Summer of '91 when Wimbledon was on. Became totally smitten with Gabriela Sabatini & Jennifer Capriati (who was about my age).
Still would tbh, even if Capriati went a bit batshit mental over the subsequent years.

 

[worthingseagull]

theres only one correct answer

 

[Weststander]

Siobhan Fahey

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I loved her

Viv Albertine too.

 

[Klaas]

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Oh my lord, good call!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Can't really remember that far back BUT Madeleine Smith springs to mind!