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.
I was waiting tables at Spanky's on the weekends and going back to school to get my second degree. Then moving into a Pepto Bismol pink trailer for $85 a month and working as AM (5am) supervision for the local hospital kitchen to pay for college.
Oh yeah, and I lived off of tomatoes from volunteer bushes in my yard and chicken livers.
Who didn't smoke a lot of pot back then?
And ... and??
Don't stop now! =)
You were a long haul trucker???
3.7 million miles worth. :-)
Najida that was tame! What were ya doing for fun????
So did I (the big hair). I still have it, but not on purpose.
And don't forget the leopard print spandex pants and pumps to match. (But I don't have those anymore...)
Hoo boy, I shudder at my 80's pictures... lol.
WOW? So what were ya doing for fun if I may ask???:)
Do you want to get the thread pulled for sexual content, or should I stop here?
That's why I enrolled into the all-girls school in '84. Needed to quit the road, but was still frisky. :-)
I had the snake skin print with the fishnet sides.
Starting kindergarten.
I was defending the Fulda Gap with the 2/11 ACR!
No wait... don't forget the giant hoop earrings.
Mine were big enough to train poodles to jump through them.
I was a Truck-drivin,' urban cow-girl, who listened to Willy Nelson, Wylon Jennings, Beaucephas (Hank Jr). I was still trying to recover from the Jimmy Carter recession - - I had a heck of a lot of fun!
ROFL!! Those stories are not for print. :-)
Not a dang thing for fun, no time for it!
I was either in school, studying or working in 1980.
I also think I buried my Grandma Zip that year.
HAHA..Okay we will get it out ya one way or another!
How bout some hints? LOL..
Me too....maybe we crossed paths. My handle was Tin-Lizzy. I was trying to remember the "10" code today. What was 10-10, 10-8??
1980?
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.
Reagan took office in 1981.
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