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I'm creating a project for work.  My boss asked me to come up with some ideas on things that represent the 1980s.  It will possibly morph into a team logo.

 

SO.......

 

What comes to mind when you think of the 1980's????

 

Walkman

 

Mullet

 

Mohawk

 

Delorian

 

I need to turn these ideas in Monday so flash back and let me know.

 

Thanks so much!!! 

 

 

 

 

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Cellular phones pretty much came into being in the early 80’s and then their use skyrocketed as they became more affordable to everyone and smaller and they could do more and more.

 

Space shuttle program.

 

 

 

 

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You won't be able to use what defined the '80's for me living in Florida.

 

- Getting married and divorced.

- Cocaine and the drug wars in South Florida.

- Space Shuttle Challenger.

- Ronald Reagan.

- Hair bands.

 

 

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Reeboks

 

Cop mustaches

 

Suspenders for suit pants

 

White collared pastel color dress shirts

 

Zubaz or other parachute sweats

 

 

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Bad Rolling Stones albums.

 

Hulkamania.

 

Terrible hair metal bands.

 

'Canned Muzak' used for tv show soundtracks, watch The Equalizer.

 

Slasher Films like Friday the 13th, and Halloween.

 

Death of the 8track tape, birth of CD's.

 

Rise of cable teevee.

 

Live Aid

 

Farm Aid

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Ronald Reagan

Star Wars - the space arms race, not the movie. 
Members Only jackets

parachute pants

another British Invasion - alternative music. 
Cocaine seemed to be every where

Crappy cars

Cool motorcycles 

A new wave of Conservatism

Big hair

Shoulder pads - (we need a barf emoji)

The collapse of the USSR.

Moon Pies went nationwide. Amen

 

 

 

 

 

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New Wave Music (The Cars, Berlin, Duran Duran, etc...)

Hip Hop / Rap (Run-DMC, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, etc...)

Alternative Rock (R.E.M., The Smiths, Depeche Mode, etc...)

Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc...)

Hair Metal :(

 

Preppies

Yuppies

Sunglasses styles. RayBan Wayfarers and Aviators (Both courtesy of Tom Cruise)

Levi's 501 jeans

 

The Chicago Bears and The Super Bowl Shuffle

Celtics-Lakers rivalry. Bird and Johnson, et. al.

Kirk Gibson's home run

 

Reagan Shot

Grenada

Challenger Disaster

 

The new golden age of cars with the new Mustang and Camaro with V8s, along with Grand Nationals, Hurst Olds' and others,

Bigfoot and Monster Trucks

I could go on and on.

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Satellite TV!

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My son being born.

Watching my son take his first steps toward me, when I came home from work. 

President Ronald Reagan :FlagAm:

Living in a town much like "Mayberry".

Owning/driving a 1972 Chevy Pickup. 

Playing Pac-Man, at the local watering hole.

Eating my first Kolache. 

Eating Blue Bell ice cream for the first time.

Driving 35 miles, one way, to eat at a Whataburger (we did not have one in our town, back then).

Working for a family-oriented company (didn't last much longer, unfortunately. It switched to a "team company", thus making it much easier to cut you from the "team". Another "brilliant idea" from clueless upper management).

Working for a boss that actually came up through the ranks. He was a true servant-leader. He led, he never pushed (not an "instant boss" straight out of a university, who didn't know his elbow from a waffle about being a boss/leader, or even how we did our job).

The movie Ghost Busters came out. 

I bought my second Colt single action, in .44 special, after a series of articles came out by the gun-writer: Skeeter Skelton.

I got to visit, in a nearby museum, and see the Colt revolver, owned by Pat Garrett, that was advertised as being the one that killed Billy the Kid. It was on loan for a few weeks, and I did not want to miss my chance to see it. 

I got to see the actual "round rock" that the city of Round Rock, Texas was named after. Sam Bass, the outlaw, was shot and killed by Texas Rangers, in Round Rock, in 1878, and Sam is buried there.

First time seeing crop dusters, dusting cotton fields, and flying under the power lines, at times, to do it. 

First time seeing an entire 20-acre cemetery with all the headstones in German, and not English. 

Living in an area/city where Veteran's Day is an official holiday, and all businesses/schools are required to close, and most everyone goes to the fireworks show in the center of town. Anyone burning an American flag, in that town, better be wrapped up in it!!!

Buying/reading my first book that gave many evidences of creation. Turns out, there is a lot. 

 

Lots going on in the 1980's. Thankfully, not the insanity of today. 

 

 

  

 

 

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The Simpsons started in the 1980s

90210

Melrose Place

Madonna hit her stride

Miami Vice

VCRs

Paula Abdul

SASS started

Rosanne

Designing Women

Cars sucked as they tried to keep the mucsle car image and put smaller engines in them.

Back to the Future

Plymouth K cars

Lee Iacocca

The end of Charlie's Angels after they moved away from Farrah.

The Dukes of Hazard

 

Edit:

I got out of the USCG, moved to Florida, got married, moved to Colorado, then to Arizona, then back to Florida, and back to Arizona, as result U-Haul stock went up 30 points... 

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2 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Ronald Reagan

Star Wars - the space arms race, not the movie. 
Members Only jackets

parachute pants

another British Invasion - alternative music. 
Cocaine seemed to be every where

Crappy cars

Cool motorcycles 

A new wave of Conservatism

Big hair

Shoulder pads - (we need a barf emoji)

Moon Pies went nationwide. Amen

 

 

 

 

 

Just those.  Nothing else comes to mind.

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8 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said:

Excess.  The decade of excess.

Naw...

 

In the 80s I had 2 guns.

 

Now I have, ehem, more than 2. ;)

 

 

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Boom boxes

Parachute pants

The Day After

Rambo

The Breakfast Club

The Iroc Z

The Delorian

Sony Walkman

Big hair

Miami Vice

Ronald Reagan

 

Too much more to list. And no, I DID NOT wear parachute pants.

 

 

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13 hours ago, Chantry said:

The invention of MTV and the really bad music of my teenager years

I still listen to a lot of that!

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On the musical side: George Strait, Clint Black, Brooks and Dunn. Quitting listening to rock because of the Michael Jackson rage.

 

Cars:  They were crappy in the '80s.  The best ones I had during that time were ones made in the late sixties and early 70s.

 

Jobs:  Got laid off from construction work two years in a row just before Christmas.  Got a job as a cop in 1986, still doing that.

 

Politics:  Ronald Reagan.  

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13 hours ago, Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 said:

 

Computers

 

 

Oh yeah, explosion of home gaming systems like Atari, and ColecoVision.  Then Nintendo in the mid to late 80s

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10 hours ago, Cholla said:

Cars sucked as they tried to keep the mucsle car image and put smaller engines in them.

 

 

30 minutes ago, LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L said:

Cars:  They were crappy in the '80s.  The best ones I had during that time were ones made in the late sixties and early 70s.

 

 

I'm going to have to disagree with both of you. After the doldrums of the mid-70s, when everyone proclaimed performance was dead due to OPEC, emissions and MPG standards, the mid-80's brought the resurgence in performance that we still see. The 1983 Mustang GT brought back the 302, up from the 255 that had been in place since the late 70s, along with a Holley 4bbl. GM quickly followed along with the Camaro and Firebirds, and the pony cars were back on. There were also the GM G-Body platforms that were doing well. Did they have 454s, 428CJs and 426 Hemis? No. Were they capable of low 14 to high 13 second 1/4 mile times? No, more like low 15 to high 14s back then. But they could do something those muscle cars couldn't do. They handled far better and could brake better, and got far better gas mileage.

 

The "Big Three" has continued to build on those until we are where we are today with performance cars. There's no comparison between modern performance cars and the best of the late 60's and early 70's. At least from a performance perspective. I love the looks of a '70 Mustang or a 69 Camaro. There is nothing like the sound of a big block loping along at an idle, or opening up to WOT.

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