Life In America 1989 – Average household income is $27,450. George H.W. Bush is president. Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida. The Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska’s Prince William sound spilling 11-million gallons of oil. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, by Poison and Look Away, by Chicago are just a couple of [...]
Life In America 1988 – Average household income is up $100 over ’87. The Hubble Space Telescope is launched. Pan-Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270. Russia begins retreat from Afghanistan. McDonald’s opens in Moscow. Rain Man, with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman is bringing folks to the movies along with Bruce Willis [...]
Life In America 1987 – Average household income is $24,350. An Iraqi missile strikes USS Stark killing 37. Saddam apologizes. Iran-Contra debacle sinks military career of Ollie North. Unemployment is at 6.2%. Prozac is released for general use. 30 Something debuts on TV, and the Simpsons make their first appearance as a segment on the [...]
Life In America 1986 – Average household income is $22,400. Unemployment is at 7%. The shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff, killing all aboard. It’s NASA’s first major disaster. In Russia the world’s greatest nuclear disaster takes place in a place called Chernobyl. Mad Cow disease is diagnosed for the first time in England. Oprah, debuts [...]
Life In America 1985 – Household income is up $500 to $22,100, unemployment though is still high at 7.3%. Hezbollah hijacks TWA flight 847. Famine spreads in Ethiopia. Microsoft releases Windows V.1. The Coca-Cola Company launches something called, New Coke, six months later it’s pulled from shelves. Mel Gibson and Tina Turner team up to [...]
Life In America 1984 –Household income averages is up, $21,600. Aids has been identified and is not as wide spread as first believed, Apple introduces the Macintosh computer. 70 US banks fail. The Olympic Games are held in LA and for once traffic is bearable. Comedies are big at the box office with Beverly Hills [...]
Life In America 1983 –Household income averages $21,070. Unemployment is at 9.7 percent, the highest since 1941. Microsoft introduces Word. The first mobile phones are introduced by Motorola. On TV we’re being entertained by the men of the A-Team. Michael Jackson’s video, Thriller, is aired for the first time and goes on to become the [...]
Life In America 1982 – Argentina and Britain go to war over the Falkland Islands. Disney opens their futuristic amusement park EPCOT in Orlando. Toyota introduces the Camry. We’re listening to the J. Geils Band’s Centerfold, and Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger. At the movies E.T. is winning hearts and audiences. And Stallone sheds Rocky [...]
Life In America 1981 – The average income is $21,050/year. Ronald Reagan is elected President. Unemployment is 7.1%. Charles, the Duke of Wales marries Diana Spencer. The virus we now know as AIDS is identified. MS-DOS is released by Microsoft along with the first IBM PC. On TV we’re watching Hill Street Blues, and The [...]
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