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]

Awwww, Tom. You ARE a mushy, loveable little fuzzball. :o)

[GodBlessUSA]

Excellent pictures and reports, Lauren! :)

[SevenofNine]

So what I was listening to Rush as Sophormore LOL!

Believe or not leave to old school actor like Reagan got me start in Republican party that pretty right or very wrong

[StarCMC]

Me too!! Woo-hoo!!!

[FeeinTennessee]

Ah! The 80's...some of the best times to grow up in! I was 7 in '85.

I remember a sense of proud patriotism in America, with one of the nation's best Presidents ever, Ronald Reagan at the helm. God rest his soul. Those were good times!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there Gracie! Do you have big plans for the weekend?

[StarCMC]

LOL!! You were smart enough to do that as a kid??

[Army Air Corps]

Whoa, I have some of those songs on my hard drive! I remember when Sugar Walls hit the music stores because of all the media hubub that surrounded that song (no, it is not one of the hundreds of tracks on my computer).

[GodBlessUSA]

I can't believe how hot it is at night right now for you. Is this typical summer weather or a heat wave?

We are very lucky. It will be latter 70's/lower 80's with lower humidity.

Some of my family won't make it this year. :(. There will only be 14 of us this year. I can't wait to see my niece and nephew. It's been since Thanksgiving. I miss them so. :) The kids have a great time together!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Beautiful prayer for our troops this fine day, Sa.....thank you.

[Smartass]

My Pleasure...

[GodBlessUSA]

Hi Lauren!
Yes, family weekend with barbeque's. It will be fun! How about you? What are you up this weekend?

[Radix]

2 January 1985

 

Dear Diary,

 

Boy am I glad that we got through 1984 with all of our Rights intact. Gosh, ever since I read George Orwell's masterpiece "1984" I have been worrying about the possibility of fiction becoming truth. All that talk about New Speak and New Think sure had me worried for a lot of years. We are so fortunate in this country to have a Supreme Court which makes it impossible for the Senate, Congress, and the White House to get out of control as they did in Winston Smith's world.

 

I think that things turned out OK in the end last year. The 1984 campaign for president was certainly interesting. Senator Mondale promised that if he were elected then he would raise taxes because it was "good for the country." Heck, how could anyone consider that to be Orwellian? His running mate for vice president Geraldine Ferraro was a terrific candidate. How could anyone even imagine that she was picked for political reasons? She was from the great state of New York and had a quite distinguished career in Congress before her selection as a member of the ticket. How could anyone ever think that she was chosen solely because she was born with female plumbing? Sometimes people are so stupid.

 

Who knows though Diary, perhaps someday a great woman political leader from New York actually will get to be a vice president. Heck, years from now, we might even see a woman from New York actually be on top of the presidential ballot. I can't really see it happening though. That would have to be a really tough broad who is ruthless, shrewd, and have to possess an impeccable resume. Ha, that is not likely to happen because  anyone so politically savvy, would have the media all over exposing her for every single blemish. No way is the press going to let someone walk into the oval office just because she is a woman. That'll be the day that George Orwell turns in his grave.

 

I was also glad that the Soviet Union decided to boycott the Olympics  last year. Everyone knows that that had nothing to do with our boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.  Yeah right talk about "War is Peace" being a lie. Still, the Soviet union is a great super power, and someday they could actually beat our country in the cold war. That will suck. It is too bad that we can't get a great leader in Washington to stop those Commies. Every time I read the news I keep learning about how bad our president is. I don't know though, I think that he is kind of cool, and sometimes he says things that seem intended to be a joke, but really are quite profound upon reflection. 

 

Things were really screwy when the government broke up the phone company. Gosh, my phone bill is going to go down now for sure. I am sick and tired of paying to that behemoth AT&T. What has that company ever done for me? Besides, my phone bill is too high at almost $27.00 a month.

 

Oh yeah, Michael Jackson won the Grammy for best album of the year. That guy is still so young that he is likely to be around for a long time. He has done so much ever since he was 10 years old. I wonder what he'll be doing 20 years from now. I am sure that he will always be famous because of his contributions to the music world, as well as the example that he sets for people all over the world because of his character, hard work, and his love of children.

[SevenofNine]

Hey guys I got question why all MSN network are smack chat those Iranian former hostages claim that new Prez of Iran was one of guard with that type of the crime would anybody would remember his/her captive

Also report off AP wire guess who going be grand marshal NASCAR FAN for Pepsi 400 this Saturday

RUMMY that right Pentagon secretary that going freak out Libs at NBC

[GodBlessUSA]

HI STAR!
I said hi earlier but your ignoring me. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Army Air Corps]

I was a little older than you in 1985. I remember the TV movie The Day After. I also recall Reagan's Star Wars speech. Ah, the '80's: the music, the movies, the cars, the attitude! Dang, now I really wish that I had a time machine so that I could go back and thoroughly enjoy that decade...(time to buy an IROC-Z and grow a mullet)

[Smartass]

Good Evening Kathy--As always, same to you too.   

[StarCMC]

NOOOOOOOO!!! I'm sorry - I didn't see it!!

Hi GBUSA!

[SevenofNine]

You asking yourself how did sweet poor black child go from biggest entertainer to Elephant man homeboy LOL!

Radix you could tell your future children that you knew Jacko when he was black LOL!