Posted on 04/14/2013 11:05:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Enter Our Matrix of Milestones, Music, and Memories
Lawrence Welk was alive, as was Liberace!
I worked hard with a group opposing Prop. 12. This was a motley crew that included conservative activists, refugees from Eastern Europe and Castro's Cuba, John Birchers and members of the Church Universal and Triumphant, an ultra-weird cult that had infiltrated many conservative groups in Southern California at the time. There were probably a few Moonies in our group as well. We had some pretty interesting discussions at our headquarters.
Among other things, we used the Fairness Doctrine to force broadcasters to air our advertisements. On a few occasions, I had the duty of taking tapes of the ads to the studios.
I spent Election Night partying with the No on 12 crowd and watching the election returns. The media predicted that Bradley would win the governorship, but Deukmejian continued to lead. He was still leading when I got home around two AM.
Early the next morning, I awoke and immediately turned on the radio. When the announcer said "Governor-elect Deukmejian," I went back to sleep.
Proposition 12 passed, but only narrowly, proving that Californians were less than enthusiastic about the "nuclear freeze," which soon vanished as an issue. Prop 15 also went down in flames, and Governor Moonbeam failed in his bid to go to Washington.
Loved the 80’s! I was in my 20’s, had my own business, and got to listen to WHFS 102.3 on Cordell Ave. in Bethesda every day! It was THE alternative music station, before most folks knew there was such a thing.
Wally Rap--Wally George (1984)
I’m so old that I remember when Liberace was a heterosexual.
Some say the HHH is a drinking club with a running problem, and others say it’s the other way around. It was formed in the 1930s by expat Brits in Malaya. These guys were all so far out of shape that they decided to start a running club. Their local pub was near a Chinese-run opium den, hence the name. It’s international. I ran with them in Lagos and Havana. There are certain protocols involved, most include a lot of beer. I don’t know why it never caught on in this country
Johnny Paris was still blowing his horn and my ex hadn’t even been born yet, what’s not to love about that?!
Oh. My. Goddess...errrr, I mean, Goodness.
I don’t remember a whole lot about the 1982 elections. My dad was stationed in Germany. If the weather cooperated, we could pick up the BBC, which is how we were able to get news about the Falklands War and some of the worldwide news events, but they rarely said anything about US politics.
There’s so much to love about the ‘80s. The music, for one...I love it still. Also, girls and women actually looked female back then, and enjoyed it. We loved the big hair, the makeup, the short skirts, and the spike heels.
We would have died laughing at the way some women look nowadays.
That way I didn't have to suffer through a sophomoric script broken up by “interesting” scenes. Then came VCR with it's fast forward button!
How about having an Apple computer that ran DOS as its O/S.
At least you can’t remember back farther when he wasn’t anything sexual.
If you were close enough to Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart or Munich, you might have been able to get the Armed Forces Network on AM radio. However, in 1985, I tuned in while I was over there and they were using National Public Radio as their news service, which wouldn’t have helped you much.
At night, when I was there in the early 1970’s, I could sometimes hear German-language broadcasts on the Deutschlandsender (Radio Germany) out of the Soviet zone, which gave a rather interesting perspective on the news. I could also get English-language news broadcasts over Radio Luxembourg and was able to keep up on the fighting going on in Northern Ireland.
We lived about thirty klicks south of K-Town, but we were in the mountains east of Pirmasens so it was difficult to pick up any transmissions. We could sometimes pick up AFRN out of K-Town or an American station out of Pirmasens, but for the most part we could only get the local German station. They loved playing Elvis, Johnny Cash, John Denver, and the Beach Boys.
“The movies:”
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Die Hard
Favorite 80’s things:
We had President Reagan, Thatcher over in the UK, great music, got married (still are) and California always voted Republican.
Favorite Musician, Stevie Ray Vaughan,here he is live in 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3lsfxGAaU
What I hated? John Denver was still breathing.
"Aliens" should always be on an 80's list.
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