What were the 80s like?

[SlimTrae]

1980s was a decade of great transition.
Electronics, technology made the greatest leaps for the average citizen.
Analog gave way to digital.
Radio for many was a.m. Mid 80s more music could be heard on f.m.

Americans IMO would lose her dominance of manufacturing to Mexico
Electronics to Asia.
Mom & Pop (family owned) were eviscerated by warehouse-type stores like Sam's Club to Walmart.
1980s IMO was the final decade of soliciting speciality stores like the butcher for meats. Groceries from a local grocer, fish from the fish market.
Medication from your neighborhood pharmacists who knew your whole family, and ailments.
Nick knack & novelty items from small chains known as five & dime stores like Ben Franklins to Woolworth's. By 1990...none of these businesses existed..at least in my home state.
It was the early 1980s ...final time the milk man would drop milk off at the door step next to the juice man's bottles.

Coca cola had glass bottles returnable 10 & 25 cents . I used to make 10 sometimes $20 on returning.
Today I hear 10 bags of aluminium cans won't get you that.

Technology from an optimistic POV- a company called Apple was quickly becoming a household name.
Record's & albums were giving way to cassettes.
Advanced technology was having a cassette deck that change sides without having to physically take the tape out, then flip it around!!!
CDs would come in that same era.

And when the walkman was introduced? A hand carried battery operated cassette deck you could put on your belt buckle while working/jogging? That shit was amazing!!!
I was the sixth grader AV aka audio visual monitor who would leave class to show movies to 1st & 2nd graders. It was a damn reel to reel tape.
By Junior high 7tg grade I saw some shit called a VHS tape. OMG!! No need to run the tape feed through the machine to the empty reel?o Sometimes the tape would jam\crinkle up, so I had to know how to splice.
Shux...not with this small plastic case with a mechanism toforward .. And..get this: Reverse!!!D
History shows microwave ovens for sale in the 70s... Most people didn't start buying them until late 70s early 80s.
Having a microwave oven in 1982...we felt like we were literally on the brink of Star Trek come to life. Then my cousin mid 80s...showed me he bought called a pager, aww shit!!! Next year he had...a (mobile) cell phone. So small..it could fit in a shoe box. Oh yeah...the 80s was a time of transition!!!

[Master]

From someone who was born in 1992, what were the 80s like for those who lived during that decade?

Now you tell us what it was like to live in the 90's.

[SlimTrae]

From someone who was born in 1992, what were the 80s like for those who lived during that decade?

Now you tell us what it was like to live in the 90's.

It's his turn!!!!!!!

[Spicoli]

Was reminded of some seriously cuffed jeans today via FB, man I had a short period where I put Kevin Bacon to shame

[Master]

From someone who was born in 1992, what were the 80s like for those who lived during that decade?

Now you tell us what it was like to live in the 90's.

It's his turn!!!!!!!

let me start Tyson comeback, Bowe v Holyfield, Spice Girls, OASIS, Blair government knocking out Thatcher,

[Memphis]

Weekday - Get up, get dressed and eat breakfast. Walk to school, even if it was further than a mile away!! Do as you're fucking told all day long or you'd get a clump. Get home, play football with your mates until it gets dark, go home, watch whatever TV channel your dad was watching, stay up for midweek sports special if you were lucky.

Weekend - wake up, get dressed and eat breakfast and be out the house by 9 am at the latest. Fill the day with bike races around the block, building dens, having fights with whatever was growing down the local fields (a damson in the face fucking hurts) and playing football. Going home for lunch optional, popping home for five minutes to eat dinner was a requirement although it didn't have to be your house you went to. Building ramps, boxing on street corners, getting hold of a slither of lino to break dance. A bottle of squash was all you needed to get through the day.

Yeah it was fucking awesome.

[Master]

Made my kids watch Back to the Future, Karate Kid and Rocky 3 and 4 as homage to the great 80's.

[walrus]

Thatcher and Reagan.......it was heaven

[Xwetie]

https://www.facebook.com/WERCOMEDY/v...5291396194857/

[SlimTrae]

Side note on Elvis ...AND advice to the young blood here.


I can kick myself ...if I could. My grandfather told his grandkids on a juke joint in the big town of Tupelo. He lived in Okolona Ms.

On several occasions a young white kid would peer through a side \back window where blues player threw down. The kid named Elvis.

When he moved forward to Milwaukee, he and my grandmother use to babysit a kid to help pay for their one room in the back. He became a great jazz singer named Al Jareau.

Today my grandfather's memory is pretty much history. I wish I could've tape recorded his stories.

Young guys . value your elders. Never know whose paths they may have crossed.

[Beanz]

From someone who was born in 1992, what were the 80s like for those who lived during that decade?

The 1980's were fucking great! Just as the 1920's truly opened the 20th Century, the 1980's closed the chapter on the century in much the same manner. Brilliant new art, music, literature, movies the world was on the upswing so it seemed and then along came the 1990's where it was like people got tired of success and became self destructive.

The 2020's are going to be fucking amazing though

Not the greatest start

[Beanz]

Just ordered an 80's Jigsaw puzzle for the Mrs. Everyone loves nostalgia and the decades that define their youth.

[Spicoli]

I neglected to mention I played a shat ton of Galaga..and I was damn good at it

[Mark TKO]

Everyone claims to have grown up in the best era - and understandably so- but I honestly believe if it came down to it with an expert panel to weigh up the evidence etc etc the 80s would come out on top.

Perfect blend of kids still going out all day long and the home computer revolution just kicking off with great TV and VHS, arcade games that were simple but awesome and football pre the Premier league era when money killed the game as we know it.

You just don't see kids or any more on their own in groups building dens, playing football in matches that lasted hours. Parents just don't let them out of their sight any more - and though I've no kids I fully understand that too.

We were around for the birth of the Internet, this wonderful thing (?) that changed society - history will continue to judge if it was for the good.

Oh to be 13 again in 85.....

[Dark Lord Al]

Just ordered an 80's Jigsaw puzzle for the Mrs. Everyone loves nostalgia and the decades that define their youth.

Thanks for that me and the Wife enjoyed the old ad's.