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It was a BAE-less, YOLO-less, and TWERK-less world.... and David Hasselhoff ruled the world.... ok maybe not world... East and West Germany... but then he brought the walls down!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Personally, I was on welfare for most of the 80's, and didn't care about anything one way or another. Nobody I knew cared a damn about unemployment or soviets - I mean, really - SOVIETS??? That was the fear in the 50's, not the 80's! Reagan dominated the 80's, with his Star Wars and NAFTA treaties. All I remember is bad music, big hair, wild neon colors, and ratty fringe on everything. Break dancing and boom boxes. Music Videos were the hottest thing going, and Michael Jackson was HUGE! Atari was the latest thing, Nintendo was just in it's infant stages. Minivans were coming into vogue. Aerobics, spandex, those stupid rolled silk headbands that were worn like a crown. Cable TV was just for people who couldn't get regular TV, and people who got it still only had 20 or 30 channels. I'm laughing here because young people actually doesn't remember the 80's.......................
We drove American made cars
We watched Little House on the Prairie on Monday. The Waltons, The Cosby Show, Dallas, and Sunday night Disney.
I vividly remember when MTV came out!
We saved up our money from mowing lawns and washing cars to buy a "Walk Man". My parents bought Keds sneakers, so I saved my own money to buy Addidas! Blue with white trim. And to buy my Ocean Pacific and Lightening Bolt shirts, painters pants and puka shell necklaces.
The 'hot' girls wore Ditto's jeans or Calvin Kleins.
Every male at my high school lusted after a Camaro, Trans-Am, BMW 320i or VW Scirocco.
We knew the Russians were bad and were going to get us, but The Gipper would protect us.
My parents tried to sell a house in 1981 and interest rates were around 18% - it did not sell.
We still saved our Green Stamps and turned them in a for set of TV Trays
We got our first microwave, an Amana Radar-Range, around 1982.
Cabbage Patch Kids, Pet Rocks, Members Only jackets, Atari, and many more fads.
Avocado green and Harvest Gold appliances still in vogue. We remodeled our home around 1987 with Corian counters!! And new Almond appliances. And an 'appliance garage' on the counter top....we were the bomb! My parents Z-bricked the kitchen walls! Brass accents and hardware.
Did life revolve around the fear of unemployment like it does now? Were families more intact (people more loyal to one another)? What would you say the general feeling during the time was? Did the fear of the soviets grip the nation?
The 1980's were good and bad. I was a kid in inner city L.A. in the 1980's. I remember the Showtime Lakers. I remember Michael Jackson, Prince, and Madonna as the main pop icons. I remember Rocky movies, WWF (not WWE) wrestling. I remember street gangs and crack cocaine. I remember Ronald Regan. I remember watching the fall of the Berlin wall on TV.
I remember the space shuttle Challenger exploding in the air as we watched it on TV in grade school. I remember seeing ET at the drive in theater. I remember parents making such a stink about the movie Gremlins that the MPAA created the "PG-13" rating. I remember Stallone and Eddie Murphy being kings of the box office. I remember hair bands and the golden era of Hip Hop.
The best thing about the 80's was no internet and no social media. But it was in no way some golden era. It just was.
Wrong. I, like many of my friends and family, detested Reagan. We weren't inspired and we certainly didn't believe the country was in good hands.
Go back and read the first paragraph of post #20. The truth is Reagan was NOT universally beloved.
Some people thought that way, but after four years of Reagan, here's what the overwhelming majority thought:
Please note--should you ever choose to do historical research--that at that time the Republicanswere Blue State and the Democrats were Red State.
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