FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

~ 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!

Thanks so much for posting the pictures. You put the pictures and comments together beautifully. That's an absolutely gorgeous place! What a great place to escape to! I would love to be there. Be careful with the visiting comments, you may end up having some. LOL!
Enjoy it!

221 posted on 06/30/2005 8:57:37 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

Weren't they great? I especially love their song Best of Both Worlds--which has a smoking guitar solo.

222 posted on 06/30/2005 8:57:37 PM PDT by RepoGirl (You can ban my rottweiler when you can pry her from my cold dead hands...)

To: AZamericonnie; mylife

Grackles I know about, LOL! We have those all over North Texas.

These birds I saw and heard were sorta small brown birds, almost sounding like mockingbirds, loud but not unpleasant.

223 posted on 06/30/2005 8:57:43 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe

To: TASMANIANRED

Some things never go out of style. I still have a couple of pairs of boots I got in Germany in 1969 and I wear them sometimes too! One pair is made for extreme cold and they come in really handy on the odd really cold day we have here! Ooooooooo--getting really close to dating myself! Yikes!

224 posted on 06/30/2005 8:59:11 PM PDT by luvie (GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND GOD BLESS THE USA! GOTTA LOVE W!)

To: DTwistedSisterS

Welcome, DTwistedSisterS, and thanks for stopping in with your remembrances.

225 posted on 06/30/2005 8:59:35 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: Flux Capacitor

I loved that movie!
Marty McFly! WooHoo!!

226 posted on 06/30/2005 8:59:54 PM PDT by MoJo2001 (Support Our Troops-->It's The Least Any Of Us Can Do...www.proudpatriots.org)

I watched, learned.....

I'll bet! LOL!

227 posted on 06/30/2005 9:00:34 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)

To: laurenmarlowe

Small and brown? those may very well be cactus wrens.

I never thought of them raisin a rukus L0L

Ravens are big and black and noisy as hell L0L

See any hummingbirds yet?
Find a place with water early in the AM youll see birds galore

228 posted on 06/30/2005 9:01:05 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)

To: Kathy in Alaska

God Bless you for all the work you do supporting our troops.

229 posted on 06/30/2005 9:02:25 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.And we're unlikely to get a look into this t)

LOL!! It ain't bad. Come up and visit sometime!

230 posted on 06/30/2005 9:03:12 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

I'm doing great Radu, Thanks! I hope you are also. It's so good to see you! I'm usually a morning person. This is late for me. :)
LOL! Kitties will be happier than having those fleas. :) There was a flea here by the computer the other day and I panicked my dog had them. Whew, all clear.

231 posted on 06/30/2005 9:03:23 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

Bliss and delirium are the same thing, right?

232 posted on 06/30/2005 9:03:23 PM PDT by TheMom (My husband rocks!)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Three!

I gotta nic!

Thanks Kat!

233 posted on 06/30/2005 9:03:37 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly)

234 posted on 06/30/2005 9:04:41 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)

Best damn movie there is.

-Dan

235 posted on 06/30/2005 9:05:17 PM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)

I'm in the city, very close to the University of Arizona campus. It's quite beautiful!

Phoenix tomorrow!

236 posted on 06/30/2005 9:05:31 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe

To: Alkhin; Flux Capacitor

ROFL!! I was someplace a couple of years ago and a guy had hoodwinked a chick into going to the Autoparts store and telling them she needed a Flux Capacitor for her car. I was overhearing this guy tell the his friends and I started CRACKING UP!! He turned around and said "See - even SHE knows what a flux capacitor is!!" ROFL!!!

237 posted on 06/30/2005 9:06:11 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

To: laurenmarlowe

I recognize that landscape!

238 posted on 06/30/2005 9:06:46 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)

Visiting would be great - you're all welcome!

239 posted on 06/30/2005 9:06:54 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

That must be so wonderful to have a close relationship with hubby's mom! OK is not too far, right? That will be a nice trip for you two!

240 posted on 06/30/2005 9:07:00 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)

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