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.
Yep, they say I am wise beyond my years. Actually, it's me who keeps saying that... ;-)
Yeah crazy earrings, and wild clothes.
Yeah, that's about it...
Were ya riding the Bull?
The Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places??LOL..
Not even a few funky Cocktails>
Playing with my Tie-Fighters and Death Star at my house on Long Island. Heck, I didn't even start Kindergarten until fall 1981.
HAHAHAHA .... good point!
WOW! You were Kinda like the Funky Cool ones! :)
You and I are the same age (born 1976 here).
The article reflects the memory of the writer only.
The Berlin Wall didn't fall until later, either. I think this thread is supposed to read "in the '80s."
Gettin' stoned and....
"Breaker, breaker, one-nine"
Love came lookin for me a few times in a truck stop! I never got around to how much the "pay" would be!!!!
Normal? SF??
The columnist Herb Caen, back then, called it "Bagdad by the Bay" - for it's plethora of delightful decadence...
Sorry,
1979 was the
"Separate from hubby/love-of-my-life, try white russians for the first time, get stoned on the front porch in the hammock while listening to Bob Marley, date major coke dealer (I DIDN'T KNOW) for a few weeks"
Year.
Getting Stoned watching Miami Vice? LOL..
Online and offline. :-)
"The Smoker" was my handle.
Miami Vice had to be after 1980...but how would I know, I was stoned..
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