Posted on 04/14/2013 11:05:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Enter Our Matrix of Milestones, Music, and Memories
High school and college in the 80’s. Decade I grew up and became who I am today. Love every part about it. The music, the movies, Reagan, sports, I love it all.
+1 for Aliens.
Don’t forget Road Warrior, Blade Runner, and Predator.
Al Gore was working days and nights in a lab inventing the Internet.
My times in the 80s were all during my miltary years in Cape Cod, Australia and Washington DC.
Cape Cod: The played music in the chow hall. First heard Tainted Love there. Song was appropriate, as the chow was tainted!
Australia: I’m the new guy, walk into the dayroom, guys are hanging out watching music videos. Ask me if I thought the chick singing was hot. Man, she looked weird. Trying to be polite, I said not bad. They all laughed. It was Boy George. Yes, I really wanted to hurt him (makes fist)!
Washington: Had to work a lot of extra hours at the Pentagon due to the burgeoning terrorist threat. Spent several crisis events in the Intel Command Post as staff NCO. I remember when SW2 Robert Stethen was killed. Man, were we pissed off about that! Liased between White House and Pentagon, hand carrying very classified papers. Worked with Major/Lt Col Oliver North. Nice guy!
Loved the Greaseman on DC 101.1 FM! Even went on his Wednesday live audience show.
Went to evening classes at Nothern Virginia Community College then Strayer College. Got my degree. Not Harvard, but I really learned a LOT!
The best things from the 80s were the music, and the military.
When Reagan was President the Navy was adding ships almost weekly, it was a grand time to be a Sailor. We had useful ships too. Aircraft Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Frigates, and tons of support ships.
The Navy of today is just....sad. Littoral Combat Ships? Seriously? USS Gabriel Giffords? USS John Murtha?
God help us....
What I hated? John Denver was still breathing.
Made me think of this immediately, unfortunately never seem to be able to embed youtube for some reason, so here is the link to the John Denver Experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V8ai1LctwIQ
My fave 80’s film is “Repoman”
YES.
“...and got to listen to WHFS 102.3 on Cordell Ave. in Bethesda every day!”
Ahh, the days of Weasel...with his Throbbing Thursdays and Wild and Wacky Wednesdays...
The end of Carter.
Reagan as President.
Iran backing down once Reagan took office.
The coming down of the Berlin Wall.
(Of course, I’m jumping about!)
Yes, the end of Disco.
1984 Olympics on local TV.
Watching Peter Jennings have a thrill up his leg,
announcing the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army, and becoming violently ill.
The ‘annual three day malarial malingerings’ finally stopped.
Watching Wally George on TV.
Seeing Yul Brynner, as The King, in “The King and I”, in his last month of performances.
Meeting Roy Rogers.
A seafood restaurant, out past Redlands, in the low desert.
Bobby McGee’s Conglomerate!!!!
Seeing Elvira live at Knott’s Berry Farm on Halloween night.
Seeing “The Captain and Tenille” live, at the San Diego Zoo.
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So you would have been living in the Pfälzerwald. An old friend of mine lives in Kindenheim, which is about 25 miles to the north, at the northern terminus of the Weinstrasse (Wine Highway), which is located just east of the mountains and runs down to the French border.
Less than a month later, on November 22, 1983, the first Pershing II IRBM's arrived in Germany, and the theater nuclear balance in Europe at last began to tilt our way.
I was born in the first half of the 1970s and I thoroughly enjoyed the 1980s. I am old enough to remember gas lines and generally depressing things seemed. I can still vividly recall Carter delivering a message on energy conservation while wearing that stupid sweater of his.
The back fence of the post chapel was the international border, but there was a big hole in it. We used to crawl through it so that the next day, when our teacher asked us what we did over the weekend, we could tell her that we'd been to France.
“The one event from the 1980’s that I especially remember is the invasion of Granada on October 25, 1983.”
I could never figure out what the Spaniards did to warrant a US invasion.
MTV, when it really was MTV!
And Saturdays... closing time for my business was 6:00, when Milo played his bumper of “I almost cut my hair” it was time to pop a cold one.
I swear, I listened 8 hours a day and they never played the same song twice in a day.
Then I moved to Albuquerque, and it was “set your radio back 20 years”.
About three years ago, I terrified my wife when Wall of Voodoo’s “Mexican Radio” came on and I started singing along.
Hey, you’ll dance to anything so get over here!
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