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.
Hey I even had one of those brand-new FORD CAB-OVERS (after being busted in IOWA (I oughta went around) for being over-length. It had a 13-speed w/a splitter...what an improvement over the old 15 spd double-shift. It was a piece of s**t.
You were just WAY out of my league!
No I had the fastback, not the Mach 1. The Mach 1 had 3 dash gauges and a hood scoop I didn't have that defined it. The rest was the same. Oh and the paint job with the mach 1 lettering. :-)
The fashion business tends to be soft on totalitarianism for aesthetic reasons. There's something attractive about all those uniforms. By contrast, ordinary people having better lives doesn't have much aesthetic appeal. Indeed it can be a disaster stylewise.
The funny thing is that the businesses that are most concerned with luxuries and materialistic pleasure, like fashion and entertainment, are the quickest to find "greed" in other people.
yes!
what about the brand-spankin new ones? (emphasis on "spankin")
those are GREAT
One of dem dar big trucks,, I was I was.. 10-4 ... :-)
My cat would do 122mph. Not 123, or 124. @2450 RPM. Dyno'd every 90 days and tweaked. :-)
A company, feeling it was time for a shake-up, hires a new CEO. This new boss is determined to rid the company of all slackers. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The room is full of workers and he wants to let them know he means business! The CEO walks up to the guy and asks, "And how much money do you make a week?"
A little surprised, the young fellow looks at him and replies, "I make $300.00 a week. Why?" The CEO then hands the guy $1,200 in cash and screams, "Here's four weeks pay, now GET OUT and don't come back!"
Feeling pretty good about his first firing, the CEO looks around the room and asks, "Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-off did here?" With a sheepish grin, one of the other workers mutters, "Pizza delivery guy from Domino's.
An elderly Italian Jewish man wanted to unburden his guilty conscience by talking to his Rabbi. "Rabbi, during World War II, when the Germans entered Italy, I pretended to be a 'goy" and changed my name from Levi to Spamoni and I am alive today because of it."
"Self preservation is important and the fact that you never forgot that you were a Jew is admirable," said the Rabbi.
"Rabbi, a beautiful Jewish woman knocked on my door and asked me to hide her from the Germans. I hid her in my attic and they never found her."
"That was a wonderful thing you did and you have no need to feel guilty."
"It's worse Rabbi. I was weak and allowed her to repay me for my efforts with her sexual favours."
"You were both in great danger and would have suffered terribly if the Germans had found her. There is a favourable balance between good and evil and you will be judged kindly. Give up your feelings of guilt."
"Thank you, Rabbi. That's a great load off my mind. But I have one more question."
"And what is that?"
"Should I tell her the war is over?"
I loved 13sp with a half splitter. Easiest transmission to drive. Well back then at least. :-)
And ford W9000/9050 was popular as all heck. It sure had more room then the internationals.
Which one are you?
Where were you when I needed you......
I remember crawling up Parley's Summit, Cajon Pass, the Sisters etc, etc, with my Cummins 350....then one of YOU guys would come blow my doors off. I always figured you were empty.
Who are the goofs with Mr. Reagan?
just kiddin'
There it is. Hood scoops, rear valence, lower valence, hood locks and those darn 3 dash gauges I never had. :-)
Mine was golden brown, had 147000 miles on it when stolen.
You never see these Mustangs anymore unless it's at a Classic Car Show, next time I go In will see if I can spot one! My passion Classic Car Shows and Boats! I usually want all of them!
I was in 6th grade.
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