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.
Not after eight Michigan winters...
HAHA..Yeah I see what ya mean! That car would be fun to have now!
sweet...
Coo what is that?
No I also quit in 1984 after seeing myself on 20/20 one night when they were doing a "Killer truck" expose'. Hugh Downs sucks! :-)
YIKES! DId you pick your dates up in this???
Like I said, that was with EX-wife. Current wife and I got married on 01-02-03, so we are about 2 1/2 years into this one....
Actually the show was broadcast in 1982. It just took a while to sink in. :-)
CAMARO!!! (you didnt know that?!?)
And this one:
ahhhhh....now I get it...I think...or not....
Yes. :-) My car and bike where mostly in storage in Miami.
currently?
I knew Silly! LOL..Nice Car but my vette (6 Speed) can out run your's in a heartbeat!
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