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.
Born Independence Day, 1980.
Yeah I knew my share of Coke Dealers! What was it a 100.00 an ounce for those little bronze bottles YIKES
now how did I know that!
Actually before one-nine, as in anything pre-76, it was "Breaker Breaker one oh. Channel 10 was the original trucker channel before the CB explosion.
Well that's a Cool Day to be born!
Yeah, if ecclectic bad taste was in ;-)
The only thing missing was an eye-patch.
Yeah,
I broke up with him when someone firebombed his car in front of the restaurant I was working in...
I may have been a ditz, but I had a very strong sense of self-preservation.
Like from the Movie with Burt Reynolds, those were great movies. Smokey and the Bandit!
I was being all I could be down in the 1st Ranger Battalion.
10-4 :-)
The Smoker huh, let me guess...you like to smoke.
Hey, I'll catch ya on the flip side...10-8
YIKES! Glad you made rhe right decision.. Crazy things were happening still not comparable to the crap we have now a days!
Yup, I'm a quarter of a century old this year.
Never did work in a shoe store, but I handed out the rental shoes at the bowling alley, and you get practiced at it....
Actually more like Jerry Reed, Burt drove the car. :-)
While my days were spent in elementary school, my nights were spent studying to be a Dark Lord of the Sith. Heh.
In 1980 I voted for the first time.
And I voted for Ronald Reagan.
The real question is not What but WHO!
You might be mistaking ounce for gram,100$ a gram,maybe 1000$ a ounce.With the right connection of course.
OOH! Another Loaded queation! What's honest brave souls will answer this one!
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