and can't forget
Posted on 06/24/2005 9:04:37 AM PDT by missyme
The Economy Boom The western economy boomed. Youth culture stopped hogging the scene as the teenage market lost impetus. The dominant market was getting older and was also financially secure. Demographics changed the face of society. People were living longer and seemed to act younger at the same time. Old industries died, while new technologies developed and boomed.
Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan in the USA celebrated presidential success with a style that used fashionable conspicuous clothes and social events to display the affluence of American society to a world audience.
The world was in flux; ever changing. The USSR relaxed rules and opened up to private enterprise. The Berlin wall came down and other eastern bloc countries craved western clothes and liberation.
In Britain Thatcherism promoted privatization and the idea that greed was good was given credence. Temples to modern living, shopping malls sprang up throughout Britain. Western society consumed and consumed. Yuppies Yuppie was an acronym for 'Young Upwardly Mobile Professional Person'. The word was coined by the advertising industry to capture the essence of a particular type of work hard, play hard, ambitious minded city career person of either sex. The hectic lifestyle of a yuppie meant that after long hours of work, rare free time was spent in a self indulgent way frittering away the cash earned on anything, from expensive make up and perfume, to a bottle of fine champagne. Conspicuous wastage was part of the attitude.
For day Yuppies sported wide shouldered jackets and for weekends they wore a Barbour to effect a country aesthetic or a ballgown to assume the appearance of a more advantaged lifestyle.
Learning how to slam in the mosh pit and still keep all my teeth! :-)
I think the Berlin wall came down in late 1989. So yeah, you are right, it was definitely part of the 80's.
Hmmm. In 1980, the economy stunk, interest rates and unemployment were in double digits, Mr. Peanut was still president, the Soviet Union was mopping up in Afghanistan, the hostages were still in Iran, the Olympics were in Moscow (minus America) and the United States was in decline.
That year sucked big time, except for two things --- the birth of my second daughter in May, and the election of the man who saved America in November.
1980 did kinda suck it was wierd I guess coming form the 70's and then 1980 showed up and everyone went form wanting to look like Crockett!
Living in beautiful Ft. Huachuca AZ !
1980? Being born :)
I remember during the election of 1980, we had a mock-election for president. I was the ONLY kid who voted for Reagan in my social studies class.
Watching cartoons and eating Cap'n Crunch.
Wait a minute, I'm doing that NOW....
-Dan
Add me to the list of sixth graders...
1980 was not one of my favorite years. And I wasn't even in junior high yet.
I was in Mrs. Lake's grade primary class.
GEEZ! I feel like a granny since I was shooting shots of Jose Cuervo! LOL...
"What were you doing in 1980?"
I want my lawyer. Why do you want to know? ;^)
I was about to say, "Man, were you busy!" Though, I guess it could have worked, except for not giving birth for ten years. That might have hurt.
In the last month I was in and out of the hospital, so it seemed to last 10 years!!!
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