FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1985

Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1985.

1985 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1985?

Events that occurred in 1985

- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief.

- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.

-February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia.

-March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

-March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.

June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil.

June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.

July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents

September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. 

October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.

December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda. 

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist
 

Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers won 38-16 over the Miami Dolphins

April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship.

World Series: The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to come back from a 3 to 1 deficit to win a series in baseball

February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air.

June - Alexey Pajitnov develops Tetris at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer.

November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows.

The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S.

 

Hit Music From 1985

Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls*

USA For Africa - We Are The World

Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover

New Edition - Cool It Now

Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love

Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok

Sade - Smooth Operator

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Madonna - Dress You Up

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

The Time - Jungle Love*

 

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!

 

 

[StarCMC]

Don Henley - Boys Of Summer

[GodBlessUSA]

A Farm sound great! Get some pictures. :) I'm going to have to look into visiting a farm with my daughter. She would love that! We have smaller farms out this way but I would love to take her to a large farm. Have a Great Time!

Poor Hubby will probably be thrilled to be home. He was so angry. He had no idea and I don't think he would have gone this week had they told him. Maybe that's why they didn't.

[MoJo2001]

Music from 1985


Genre: 80s
Artist: Various

Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love

Madonna - Angel

Ready For The World - Oh Sheila

Sidenote: More 80s tunes! Enjoy!
 

[FlingWingFlyer]

That middle picture appears to be somewhere along I-17.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Ahhh.. 1985. I turned 13 that year, and remember the word to every song listed above!

[StarCMC]

Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

[Army Air Corps]

Yes. Some of their other hits were:

In the Name of Love

Lies

Doctor, Doctor

King for a Day

[FlingWingFlyer]

I know where you're coming from.

[radu]

1. Were you in school? - Had been out longer than I care to admit. Ouch!

2. Were you in the military? - No

3. What kind of music were you listening to? - Basically New Wave and Punk, and some Heavy Metal.

4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1985? - Dang! That's a hard one. I've slept once or twice since then. LOL!

[mylife]

Looks pretty hot in the valley!

Much cooler in SV, they hit 98 today but the high for sunday is to be 92

Head for the mountains Missy! ;)

[StarCMC]

It's a PRETEND farm - no animals - just lotsa land. Did you ever see the pics I posted of it?

[Army Air Corps]

I have a couple of Robert Palmer songs on ye olde computer, now that you mention it.

[StarCMC]

And yes - before anyone decides to bust my chops - I'm playing 80's music - not necessarily 1985. LOL!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'm in the White Mountains east of Show Low and it was near 100 here today. Whew.

[luvie]

Lauren! Those are just beautiful! But, oh, it does look hot! Except for the saguaro cactuses, it looks a lot like the area out toward El Paso around Van Horn or Ft. Davis, don't you think?

[RepoGirl]

Hmmm... let's see... 1985. I was a junior in high school for part of it, a senior for the other. Good, weird year.

Playing lead guitar for my punk band, John Q. Public, slam dancing, listening to Oingo Boingo, Gary Myrick and the Figures, Midnight Oil, The Cramps and the Ramones.

Best memory involves watching a low-budget Italian zombie film called Burial Ground with my older brother in a really low rent, sleazy cinema pub in a nasty part of Orlando.

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there!

The picture was taken today at the Saguaro National Monument, just kind of a landscape shot.

But, I will be up the I-17 way tomorrow!

[bannie]

MoJo...do you have any New Kids stuff in that magic box of your?

:-)

(Thank you for all that you share with us!!!)

[GodBlessUSA]

I have 3 sisters and 2 brothers. It's just the immediate family and their families. I have one cousin that grew up with us. So he's like another brother. I don't think we could ever get other family here for reunion. We are all too spread out.

[StarCMC]

Awesome cacti lauren!!! Looks like a postcard or three.