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!

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, clyde asbury.

[Kathy in Alaska]

radu.....hope your storms are finally gone, having left you the proper amount of rain.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Dear Diary: Well, here it is the beginning of July, 1985. A lot has happened in the past month. Karen Ann Quinlan, who was in a coma for more than ten years, had her respirator removed. Let's hope that nobody fights over someone like her in the future...my kid sister wants to go see Tom Cruise in Legend. She's been a fan of his ever since she saw Risky Business. Personally I think he's a little whacky.

Back To The Future is coming out this weekend. I think Michael J. Fox has got a huge movie career ahead of him.

I saw a rerun of Magnum, P.I. over the week. Magnum's client was a lady with a split personality. The actress was somebody named Sharon Stone.

What the hell is New Coke? I'm fed up with it and so is everybody else. The next thing you know, they'll be making Pepsi that looks like 7-Up!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Early bird! Thanks, Rebel, for sharing a page out of your diary. Interesting how things change, and how they remain the same after 20 years.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Sweet_Sunflower19.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Flux Capacitor.

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! You did have an anniversary, didn't you?

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Our National Anthem

Kate Smith ~ God Bless America

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning fellow cubevillians!

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[Pusterfuss]

Good morning everyone.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sending prayers for your Dad's pacemaker replacement today.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Whacky Friday! TGIF!!

84 degrees right now, headin' for 100 today (again).

Have a cup while you Freep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. thanks for your contuined service to our country.

[Radix]

Gosh Star,

If too many people see that dilapidated old barn someone might want to take over your property using eminent domain and put up a hotel or casino there in order to increase the tax revenues in your area.

[tomkow6]

 

SALUTE!

 

[tomkow6]

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning, MoJo!!

Good morning, Canteen Crew !

Good morning, EVERYBODY!

 

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!

 

 

 

[tomkow6]

 

Today's FEEBLE

YOKE :

I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying: "Hi, how are you?"

I'm not the type to start a conversation in the men's restroom but I don't know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed,  "Doin' just fine!"

And the other guy says: "So what are you up to?"

What kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this is too bizarre, so I say: "Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!"

At this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I hear another question. "Can I come over?"

Ok, this question is just too weird for me but I forced myself to be be polite and end the conversation. I tell him, "No........I'm a little busy right now!!!"

Then I hear the guy say...

"Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the next stall who keeps answering all my questions!!!"

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

July 01, 2005
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