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]

Rumsfeld....the Grand Marshall....how sweet is that!!! Those poor libs. LOL!!

[GodBlessUSA]

ROTFLOL!!!
Good Evening Radix! :)

[SevenofNine]

Actually Kathy if I know NBC they freak out at Rockfeller Center one of NASCAR guy going be interview tommorow on Today show HELLO Katie Couric going have a fit SHUT UP KATIE

Katie you ignorant slut

[laurenmarlowe]

I am taking a fun trip to sunny Arizona! I'm getting to see some friends and some places I visited as a kid.

I hope you have a great 4th!

[GodBlessUSA]

LOL! :) I was just kidding. I kind of figured that you didn't see. :) How are you tonight?
((HUGS))

[FeeinTennessee]

I was a little older than you in 1985. I remember the TV movie The Day After.


Was that movie about what would result in case of a nuclear disaster?


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)



I remember being overseas, the Philippines. Dad was in Navy. Getting a taste of the local culture...but anything 80s is cool for me. --Fee

[luvie]

"Only" l4??? LOL! I wouldn't know what to do with that many people in this house. Is everyone bringing something to eat to help you out?

It is fairly typical to have hot weather, but it usually cools off quite a bit at night. This is not typical and as much as I love to have the doors open for a breeze, it's not happenin' tonight!

[Army Air Corps]

I remember Geraldine rummaging through her purse to find her speech and glasses during the VP debates. I also recall some of the bumper stickers that came out at that time poking fun at Mondale and Ferraro.

[GodBlessUSA]

You are going to see people you knew from being a kid! That will be great fun! Will you see Connie? You have a wonderful 4th of July too! :)

[carlr]

1985 was a very perplexing,transitional year.I gave up trying to be a dairy farmer,getting rid of the cows much to my fathers disapproval.
I went to work at a local newspaper filling in for down routes,running "shorts" and answering the telephone.I hated it but it taught me to be a responsible employee which I continue to be.
All things come around though and now in addition to my regular job I once again farm my land with my cousin,growing hay which is sold for horses and cattle through the New England area.

In a lot of ways it was the worst year I can remember,having to face and accept failure while now realising that it led me to where I am now,which is reasonably successful.
Sometimes having to swallow your pride is the best thing that you can do,even though it is still distasteful to think about it 20 years later.

[AZamericonnie]

Happy Birthday on your Freeper sign up date!:)

[Army Air Corps]

Yeah, The Day After really focused on a Kansas town and its residents in the wake of a Soviet first strike, but it also touched on the broader results of such a strike. It was freaky stuff back then, but the production value seems campy by today's standards.

How many folks here remember the TV mini-series "V"?

[ntnychik]

Wow, the Soviet Union dissolved 20 years ago? Time flies. (Somehow, I think the joke might have been on us). I played hookey to be home for Ronald Reagan's inauguration. I think that was the one that had to be held indoors, due to extreme cold. In 1985, I was mixing work, business travel, and the raising of two small children. I went to dance aerobics at the Y, and remember warming up to "Sea of Love", doing endless crunches to "Part-Time Lover," and leg exercises to "Smooth Operator." We did some nasty boot camp exercises to an instrumental song that sounded like jungle music to me. I never knew the artist or title.

[luvie]

Hi, Lauren! Just wonderful pictures--it's like I am right there watching in person--except the noise from that rocket would be really loud!

You having a cool evening out there in the desert? What's in the plans for tomorrow? I'm waiting for pictures from the Suguaro Park! Was it awesome?

God bless our brave troops--so proud of Sgt. Pashley for her bravery under fire! They are all heroes to me!

[Senator Pardek]

Lol... I meant RUSH!

Now I feel really old!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

FR is simply the best. Landed here totally by accident.

It's a loooooooong story.

Is there anyone here that can help me with a VA life insurance/tax question or two?

FReepmail would be mucho appreciato!

(Been talkin' like that since the Santana concert last night ;-0)

[luvie]

Well, News Diva--you were quite the wild child back in da day weren't you! LOL!

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[Alkhin]

I graduated high school in 1985.

I was not old enough to vote for Ronald Reagan, BUT! our senior class trip participated in CLOSEUP and special arrangements were made for us to attend the very same week of the Inauguration. Unfortunately, we ended up sitting in the hotel room watching it on TV anyway, because that CLOSEUP trip became known as the "1985 CLOSEUP Inauguration FREEZE-OUT" - I still have the button that says it! It was still FUN FUN FUN!

My favorite band in 1985 was Men At Work.

I can't remember too much right now, but I do remember how much fun I had and how I was looking forward to college, and all the great music of the time.