80's decades
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The best of the 80’s
“If you’ve Got it, flaunt it . . .
you can have it all”
Sports Moments
The USA hockey team celebrates the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
Doug Flutie's desperation touchdown throw to the end zone vs. the Miami Hurricanes on Thanksgiving day.
Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb’s all time hit record in 1985. He was banned from baseball in 1986 for gambling on baseball.
Michael Jordan entered the NBA in 1984, famous foul-line dunk in 1987 and“The Shot” in 1989. Scoring champion in 1986 to 1989.
1980s Fashion• Fashion in the 80s was largely
influenced by popular entertainers, television shows and movies of the time.
Madonna-Wannabes Fashion
• Many girls in their teens and 20s wanted to look like Madonna– Layers – sexy – vixen look– Lots of accessories– Lace – pointed bustiers - bras– Crosses– Dangly earrings– Skirt over tight pants
TV Influences on Fashion• In this decade, materialism
flourished with “the bigger the better” in these looks:
• But don’t fret, there were also more wholesome looks such as the preppie look from Family Ties
Movie Influences on Fashion• In this decade, greed was good with slicked back
hair. There was also big hair, oversized shirts, jocks, legwarmers, etc., all from 80s movies.
Fitness and Fashion• The fitness craze also affected fashion
where leotards and tights with legwarmers flourished – headbands too!
Bruce Springste
en / "Born in
the U.S.A." (
1984)Bonnie Tyler / "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
(1983)
John Mellencamp / "Jack & Diane" (1982)
Styx / "Mr. Roboto" (1983)Guns N' Roses / "Welcome to the Jungle"
(1987)
A-Ha / "Take On Me" (1985)
Def Leppard / "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
(1987)
Cyndi Lauper / "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
(1984)
Journey / Don't Stop Believing (1981)
Michael Jackson / "Billie Jean" (1982)
Bon Jovi / "Livin' on a Prayer" (1986)Madonna /"Like a Virgin" (1984)
Wham! / "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
(1984)
Devo /
"Whip It"
(198
0)
AtariRoos (Kangaroo tennis shoes)
Legwarmers worn over jeans
charm necklaces
Yo-Yo Sandals jeans with the zippers up the legs
Aqua Net Hairspray
The British Invasion (U2, Duran
Duran, Culture Club, A-Ha, etc)
Swatch Watches
Apple Computers
Rubik's CubeGuys with one earring
Care BearsSlinkyJelly ShoesSimon (the game)
Shasta sodaNeon (clothings, bracelets, signs,
etc.)Scrunch SocksSpandexSchoolhouse Rock
Friendship Bracelets
80’s ACADEMY AWARDS
And the 80’s winners were . . .
HEAVY DRAMA
80’s MOVIES ICONS
80’s MOVIES ICONS
BIGGEST MOVIE STAR of the 80’s
80’s ARNOLD MADNE$$
Quotes from 80’s TV
• "Where's The Beef"• Totally Tubular!• "Yeah, that's the ticket!" • "It's better to look good than to
feel good."• "like gag me with a spoon“• "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!!“• Girls just want to have fun!
80’s Quotes
“I'm Gumby, damn it!”
• Eddie Murphy's character, Gumby, from Saturday Night Live
June 12, 1987 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
80’s Political Quotes
• George Bush: Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES!
• George Bush: "Wouldn't be prudent" • The Gipper: We will commence bombing
in five minutes. • Lloyd Benson: You are no John Kennedy.• "I'm in charge." - Secretary of State
A.Haig Said after Reagan was shot while George Bush was out of the country
Inventions
The birth of the compact discThe first of many space shuttles, Space Shuttle Columbia
Military Conflict
In 1989, the U.S. ousted General Noriega from power in Panama for drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering.
In 1983, the U.S. marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was bombed. It killed 243 Americans
In 1983 the U.S. invaded the island of Grenada in an effort to contain communism from Cuban influences
Books of the 80’s
Fiction Books based on Publisher’s Weekly Best Selling
• Clothing manufacturer Calvin Klein features Brooke Shields in ads, launching a designer jeans fad.
• Low-fare People Express Airline, founded by Donald Barr, begins no-frills service in the Northeast.
• United Steelworkers and big steel manufacturers attempt to revitalize the steel industry by creating labor-management participation teams in imitation of Japanese practices.
• 1-Exxon Mobil • 2-General Motors • 3-Mobil • 4-Ford Motor • 5-Texaco• 6-ChevronTexaco • 7-Gulf Oil • 8-Intl. Business Machines • 9-General Electric • 10-Amoco
• In American politics the 1980s were the decade of Ronald Reagan, who was elected president in 1980 and succeeded by his vice president, George Bush, in 1989. Reagan's vision of the nation helped to shape the economic and political fortunes of the United States for most of the 1980s.
“Just Say NO”• The Reagan
Administration accelerated the War on Drugs, publicized through anti-drug campaigns including the “Just Say No” campaign of First Lady Nancy Reagan. Drugs became a serious problem in the '80s. Cocaine was popular among celebrities and the young, sophisticated "yuppies", while crack, a cheaper and more potent offshoot of the drug, turned the inner cities into war zones.
80’s - Technology, Science, and Inventions
• 1980• The hepatitis-B
vaccine invented.
• 1981• MS-DOS invented.• The first IBM-PC
invented.• The scanning
tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
Inventions in the 80’s
• 1982• Human growth
hormone genetically engineered.1983
• The Apple Lisa invented.
• Soft bifocal contact lens
• First Cabbage Patch Kids
Significant Scientific Achievement
in the 80’s• 1984• The CD-ROM invented.• The Apple Macintosh
invented.• 1985• Windows program
invented by Microsoft.• 1986• A high-temperature super-
conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
• Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.
• Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
Inventions in the 80’s• 1987• The first 3-D video game.• Disposable contact
lenses.
• 1988• Digital cellular phones.• Doppler radar.• Prozac.• First genetically
engineered animal.• Indiglo nightlight.
• 1989• High-definition television .
ART in the 80’s
During the decade, huge numbers of people protested Artist Robert Mapplethorpe’s exhibit
Garden Grove Church, Los Angeles, California
80’s Architecture
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