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Stuff from The 1980s
Does anyone have any particularly personal strong memories of things from the 1980's, symbolic of that decade?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.More than any royal wedding or Worldwide concert or even a couple of horrible football disasters, on a personal level I remember how much we paid each month for our Mortgage, and in 1987 it was just �50 less than I am paying on a Remortgage now! Not a financial advisor but I know it makes us alot better off now. We really struggled back then with a young family, one wage and no Working Tax Credit!
Oh and sweets cost about a quater wot they do now!!
If you've got amnesia check this site out:
http://tv.cream.org/
Anyway, the '80's - IRA bombs, high unemployment, cheap London Transport (in those days you could travel anywhere by bus on a Sunday for 30p), smoking on the top deck of a bus, Kings Cross fire, Bradford, Heysel, Hillsborough, video recorders becoming very popular, seeing my first mobile phone (yes, the size of a brick), shoulder pads, white stilettos, ra-ra skirts, cocktails, new 20p coin and new �1 coin, the end of the sixpence as legal tender, the first colour newspaper (Today), playing computer games (ah, the good old commodore 64), Torvill and Dean, Bowie playing his first concerts in years (Serious Moonlight tour), Kenny Dalglish, Herpes (nothing to do with Kenny Dalglish), Aids, (again, nothing to do with our Kenny!), Mother Teresa, Princess Di, Reagan being shot, Pope being shot, what a great decade!
Jackets worn with sleeves pushed back up to the elbow (men)
Poodle perms (both)
Rubik cubes and all their variations
Deely-boopers (a.k.a. bonce-bouncers)
Mullets (and I don't mean the fish)
America having a brainless president (as opposed to now, when...oh)
The birth of "right-on" alternative comedy
Having to sit over 7 hours of A Level exams in one day
Glasnost and perestroika (thanks again, Mikhail!)
Pretentious Duran Duran videos
Treasure Hunt with Kenneth Kendall and Anneka Rice's bum
...but best of all...
...Dangermouse!
As bigD says the Amiga, coming home from school, playing superfrog with my friend who I was in love with, we were 8 or something like it. :0)
Having a vague understanding of the world outside and all the big things starting to happen. A memory that for some reason is stuck in my mind reagarding the unification of Germany (I know it wasn't until 1990 but things were starting to happen) is my Dad saying "what a great football team they'll have", but not that great, just look at 1992... Sorry Andy I'm starting to ramble.
For me personally...
rubik's cubes
deely boppers
white socks,loafers,and very tight trousers
he-man,she-ra,and dangermouse
the top 40 rundown on a tuesday afternoon...would frankie goes to hollywood still be at number one after two months...?
miami vice
the falklands war
chart lps costing 3 pounds 99p
dallas
the kids from fame
...blimey...I could go on forever!!!