At the time, I remember my dad telling me that the eighties was like the old 50s of his day. He even told me there was a brief period of the silly pastel and fluorescent colored clothes in the 50s just as was becoming popular in the 80s. Also, the flattop haircut was making a comeback. At the time, I thought he was nuts. But in hindsight, I realize he was more correct than even he maybe realized.
women did have silicone. People had "cares."
The same cares that people face today.
LOL! Maybe in your humble part of the country, but in NYC, Chicago, Philly, etc. the locales were in the midst of the CRACK EPIDEMIC and the 1980s saw crime rates that were considerably HIGHER than they were in the 1990s and first half of this decade! If you look at justice department statistics violent crime PEAKED in the 1980s/early 90s in most of the country.
"High school flunkouts" making a good living you say? Back in the 1980s, the same losers were WHINING about "the loss of unskilled factory jobs" as are currently doing. The 1980s are when more women than ever joined the workforce to support the family.
I think you have the 1980s confused with the early 1960s.
Huh? What planet are you from? What do you mean, "no Internet?"
Back then, real men (like myself, of course) were using the Internet. We just didn't have these sissy-boy applications like Firefox and Ineternet Explorer. Heck, WE WERE INTERNET EXPLORERS! Using "bang lists" to route email and copy files, the "uu* apps," rsh, and best of all, "rn" to read the news groups!
You young whippersnappers don't know how good you have it! We had to hand crank the generators to get the electricity to power the 300 bit per second acousti-couplers that allowed us to communicate over the Internet! lol! Seriously though, I remember how excited I was to get my first $250 2400 baud modem, and didn't need to use my old 300 baud modem any more! We're talkin' "BITS PER SECOND" here... Not giga-bits, or mega-bits, or even kilo-bits... bits!
Mark