Who Was Your Teenage Idol?

[Purwell]

Who were your teenage heroes or who did you want to be like?

For me it was a couple of motorcycle racers, sadly no longer with us.

Mike Hailwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hailwood

Dave Bickers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bickers

 

[Alligatorob]

Ross Allen, got to meet him once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Allen_(herpetologist) As a kid I really liked snakes and all reptiles and amphibians.

and

Sylvia Earle, she was a neighbor, did not really know her, but my mother did, a little, and I grew up hearing lots about her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Earle I loved being in or on the water from my earliest memories.

 

[Purwell]

Not too happy about the snake man!
Sylvia Earle sounds like an interesting lady.

 

[Laurie]

Who were your teenage heroes or who did you want to be like?

For me it was a couple of motorcycle racers, sadly no longer with us.

Mike Hailwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hailwood

Dave Bickers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bickers

I saw and worshipped both of them, along with contemporaries like Geoff Duke, Ag0stini, King of the island and Sammy Miller the Ariel
king.

However it was Speedway for me Ronnie Moore, Split Waterman and the like. My sister knew split Waterman personally, but she would never admit how personally!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

For me, as a kid, it was JFK. Let's face it, Mame Eisenhower looked like your grandmother, Ike was always having heart attacks, and for god's sake they lived on a farm. JFK was young, and wasn't about to keel over any minute. And Jackie was right off the runway of Paris, or Milan. And they lived in a seaside "compound". Plus, I'm from Massachusetts, and talked just like him.

 

[officerripley]

The characters that Katharine Hepburn (and some others) played in a lot of movies in the 30s, 40s; happy single gals living in a great little apartment and had a great job in the big city; oh, I wanted that for myself so much. Can;t remember any real women that I looked up to; it seemed like they were all the loving wives in the background supporting their husband (and getting cheated on too much of the time, the experience in my family anyway).

 

[Pepper]

Reminds me of a song:

 

[Nathan]

Who were your teenage heroes or who did you want to be like?

That's a tough one, in my teen years society was in transition between James Dean and the Beatles...I was just busy scraping the flesh off my knees and elbows bike riding & skateboarding. letmethinkaboutit

 

[Murrmurr]

Reggie Jackson, especially while he played for the Oakland Athletics and California Angels, and "Catfish" Hunter while he was with the Oakland Athletics.

 

[Silent Rose]

It had to be heartthrob Rob Lowe who in fact is still quite the heartthrob.

 

[Chet]

Elvis. He was one of a kind and drove the girls crazy.

 

[Geezer Garage]

Steve Allen was someone who impressed me as a teen. Humphrey Bogart was another, as an actor, and a person. For that matter most of the Rat Pack were pretty cool. I guess in the end, I never really thought more of someone just because of there fame. They had to be a decent sort of person to get my attention. So there were a few regular folks on the list too. My history, and drama teachers, my dad, and a few others.

 

[dobielvr]

I was in my early 20s...but it was Michael Landon.

My husband #1 was so jealous..lol

 

[hollydolly]

In the 70's when I was a teen..I had a passion for quite a few.. David Cassidy .. David Essex..

..who btw is still gorgeous today in his 70's and now a friend of my o/h... and my biggest heartthrob of all was the lead singer of 10cc.. Eric Stuart ... Oh be still my beating heart.

Eric is on the right of the picture... I only agreed to go out with my husband because he looked exactly like Eric ...

 

[jerry old]

For The Old Folks:

Urk could really beat rocks together, he made us want to jerk and flop around.
Sadly, a dinosaur ate Urk up.
never had another teenage idol

 

[officerripley]

For The Old Folks:

Urk could really beat rocks together, he made us want to jerk and flop around.
Sadly, a dinosaur ate Urk up.
never had another teenage idol

Um, who is urk? (I googled it and said a town in the Netherlands.)

 

[hollydolly]

Um, who is urk? (I googled it and said a town in the Netherlands.)

I was wondering the same thing

 

[jerry old]

Um, who is urk? (I googled it and said a town in the Netherlands.)

Urk was only one of the first guys that wanted to entertain his peers in the Mesozoici Era, 165,000,0000 years before Elvis.
I told you the post was for the old folks, really old.

 

[Don M.]

Probably Elvis Presley...back in the mid/late 1950's.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

In my pre teen years I adored James Brown, not the singer, but the actor on the Rin Tin Tin series. My Mom took me to Madison Square Garden where the cast was appearing. We had front row seats. As they rode their horses around the arena James Brown looked right at me.
I was absolutely star struck.
To this day I couldn't tell you anything else that went on during that show but I can still see his smile like it was yesterday.
A few years after that I fell in love with Dale Robertson, another western tv show.
I sure did love my cowboys.

 

[ohioboy]

I was wondering the same thing

Urk is a made up cave man name, but there were no people of course then, but in fiction, cave men fought dinosaurs.

Am I right jerry?

 

[jerry old]

Well, there were lots of cavemen running around, Alley Oop had his own comic strip.

 

[Alligatorob]

as a kid, it was JFK.

In the South (US) JFK was not well liked, too pro-civil rights and talked like a Yankee...

Mame Eisenhower

Remember the when will Mamie Eisenhower die contest the National Lampoon ran? Fell under the "That's not funny, that's sick heading" But it was real... https://www.marksverylarge.com/2006/10/12/104/#:~:text=A: “Slazor Gossage” won it.

 

[FastTrax]

Urk was only one of the first guys that wanted to entertain his peers in the Mesozoici Era, 165 years before Elvis.
I told you the post was for the old folks, really old.

Urk is a made up cave man name, but there were no people of course then, but in fiction, cave men fought dinosaurs.

Am I right jerry?

Well, there were lots of cavemen running around, Alley Oop had his own comic strip.

Urkle

 

[Tish]

For me, it was all about Music.

Rod Evans - Deep Purple

Ozzy Osbourne - Black Sabbath

Rob Halford - Judas Priest

Dan McCafferty - Nazareth

Graeme Strachan - Skyhooks

Angry Anderson - Rose Tattoo

Jimmy Barnes - Cold Chisel