1980s

1
1980s

• BAD HAIR DECADE

2
1980s Intro.

• Binge buying and credit became a way of life and
  'Shop Til you Drop' was the watchword.  Labels
  were everything, even (or especially) for our
  children. Tom Wolfe dubbed the baby-boomers as
  the 'splurge generation.'  Video games, aerobics,
  minivans, camcorders, and talk shows became part
  of our lives. The decade began with double-digit
  inflation, Kermit didn't find it easy to be
  green, hospital costs rose, we lost many, many of
  our finest talents to AIDS, and unemployment
  rose.

3
1980s

• Science and technology made terrific strides in
  the eighties.  Large numbers of Americans began
  using personal computers in their homes, offices,
  and schools.  Columbia, America's first reusable
  spacecraft was launched in 1981.  A sad day in
  our history was January 28, 1986, when space
  shuttle Challenger exploded 74 seconds after
  liftoff at Cape Canaveral, Florida killing all
  seven astronauts.

4
1980 Families

• Families changed drastically during these years. 
  The 80s continued the trends of the 60s and 70s -
  more divorces, more unmarried living together,
  more single parent families.  The two-earner
  family was even more common than in previous
  decades, more women earned college and advanced
  degrees, married, and had fewer children.

5
FADS LIFESTYLES

• Team sports for kids were really popular
  beginning in the seventies and going through the
  present.  Eighties' mothers ran carpool after
  work, kids had after school and weekend
  cheerleading, baseball, football, soccer, gym,
  dance, jazz, you name it!
• Collectibles were big in the 80s.   Smurf and
  E.T. paraphernalia, Cabbage Patch dolls,
  camcorders, video games (Nintendo, Pac Man, Game
  Boy), Rubiks Cube, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
  and Barbies.

6
Fashion

• The combination of Nancy Reagan's elegance and
  Princess Di's love of fashion, stimulated a
  return to lavish clothing styles. Madonna was a
  big influence on young fashion.  Calvin Klein was
  the designer for the 80s.  Film continued to
  influence and inspire clothing.  The Flashdance
  look had young and old in tank tops,
  tight-fitting pants or torn jeans, and
  leg-warmers.  Teens not wearing designer clothes
  opted for Michael Jacksons glove or Madonna's
  fishnet stockings, leather, and chains.

7
Fashion

• Shoulder Pads
• Flats
• Heavy Mascara
• Stonewashed Jeans
• Legwarmers
• Mini Skirts
• Leather Jackets
• Hoop Earrings
• Fingerless Gloves

8
Fashion

• Sneakers were the popular shoe.
• Guys discovered the parachute pant. Parachute
  pants were fairly tight nylon pants with zippered
  patch pockets, the usual 2 front 2 back, plus
  one or two on each leg with zippered ankles.
  Rapper MC Hammer took this pants style to the
  extreme with his loose, and ultra baggy pants in
  a wild range of materials and colors.

9
Hair

• 80s had the BIGGER the better hairstyle. 
• The start of the decade saw the extravagance of
  strange hair colors and cuts. By 1984 the trends
  had settled and focused on one simple concept -
  volume.
• Many accessories were available to assist with
  this process - you could tease your hair and
  stick it up with mousse. Some mousse even
  contained glitter or other sparkle pieces to give
  your hair 'extra interest and individuality'.

10
Hair

• And who could forget the mullet? The top and
  sides were short (and usually cut around the
  ears), then dropped off in the back to a longer
  'shag' style.
• Sometimes the mullet transformed to the rat tail

11
Music

• Cable was born and MTV, originally intended to be
  promos for albums, had an enormous impact on
  music and young people.  The digital compact disc
  (cd) revolutionized the music industry. 
• Dances learned on MTV  included slam dancing and
  break dancing.

12
Music

• Pop, rock, punk, country, and especially rap or
  hip hop became popular in the 80s.
• Rap was new in the late 80s  and 90s.  It had
  started in prison 20 years earlier by jailed
  black inmates who, in the absence of instruments,
  turned poetic meter into musical rhythm. 
• The early rap heard on ghetto streets was
  abrasive and laced with hostility toward society
• Early important groups are Milli Vanilli, M. C.
  Hammer, Vanilla Ice, and L.L. Cool J.

13
Music

• Michael Jackson
• Madonna
• Olivia Newton-John
• Queen
• Billy Joel
• Elton John
• Pat Benatar
• Bob Seger
• Bruce Springsteen
• John Cougar
• Bon Jovi

14
Country Music-1980s

• The Judds
• Kenny Rogers
• Dolly Parton
• Alabama
• Barbara Mandrell
• Rosanne Cash
• Juice Newton

15
TV

• Cosby Show
• Cheers
• Roseanne
• A Different World
• America's Funniest Home Videos
• Golden Girls
• The Wonder Years
• 60 Minutes
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Alf

16
Movies

• E.T-- Elliot befriends an adorable alien that
  wishes to phone home.

17
Movies

• An Officer and a Gentleman-Richard Gere sweeps
  Debra Winger off her feet.

18
Movies

• Ghostbusters-Who ya gonna call? The gang battles
  ghosts, goblins, and Gozar the Gozarian.

19
Movies

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

20
Movies

• The Karate Kid -Ralph "Daniel-son" Macchio
  learns from Pat "Mr. Miyagi" Morita.

21
Movies

• Rambo

22
Movies

• Dirty Dancing

23
Movies

• 'Crocodile' Dundee-Paul Hogan introduces us to
  the land down under.

24
Movies

• Top Gun- Tom Cruise takes Kelly McGillis' breath
  away while flying into the danger zone.

25
Movies

• Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

26
FACTS about this decade.  Population
226,546,000 Unemployed in 1980 National Debt
1980 - 914,000,000,000 National Debt  1986 -
2,000,000,000,000 Average salary 15,757 Life
Expectancy Male 69.9  Female 77.6 Minimum
Wage  3.10 Attendance  Movies 20 million/week
27
1980

• Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR, The US boycotts

28
1980

• John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman

29
1980

• Ronald Reagan is elected, defeating Jimmy Carter,
  and takes credit for freeing the Iranian hostages
  in his inaugural speech.

30
1980

• Mt. Saint Helens erupts, killing 60 people.

31
1980

• CNN is launched as the first all news network

32
1980

• Saddam Hussein launches war against Iran for
  close to a decade over oil rights.

33
1980

• US hockey team beat Russia for the gold in the
  Winter Olympics.

34
1981

• Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme
  Court Justice

35
1981

• Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July
  29, 1981.

36
1981

• August 1, The birth of MTV, the 24 hour-a-day
  music television station

37
1981

• Pac-Man is introduced in the US and sparks a huge
  craze.

38
1981

• Assassination attempt on Ronald Regan on March
  30, 1981 by John Hinckley

39
1982

• Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sells 20 million
  albums to become the largest selling record ever.

40
1982

• Ozzy bites the head off a live bat thrown at him
  at a January 20 performance.

41
1982

• Prince William is born to Charles and Di.

42
1983

• Cabbage Patch kids are released.

43
1983

• The final episode of MASH airs, advertising
  cost more than during the Super Bowl that year,
  and surpassing the record Dallas set for most
  viewers.

44
1983

• Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space,
  June 18th on the Challenger.

45
1983

• Compact discs are first released

46
1984

• Miss Ramey was born!!!

47
1984

• The Cosby show premiers.

48
1984

• Reagan re-elected in landslide election, Walter
  Mondale is never heard from again

49
1984

• Mary Lou Retton wins two gold, two silver and two
  bronze medals.

50
1984

• The AIDS virus is discovered

51
1984

• On January 28, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire
  during the shooting of Pepsi commercial

52
1985

• Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the
  Soviet Union

53
1985

• Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic
  camera in July.

54
1985

• Nintendo home entertainment system introduced.

55
1985

• Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened.

56
1986

• January 28, the Challenger explodes.

57
1986

• Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR,
  April.

58
1986

• Statue of Liberty celebrates the 100th
  Anniversary and gets a face lift in the process.

59
1986

• Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver.

60
1986

• "A.M. Chicago" changes its name to the "Oprah
  Winfrey Show" and goes national September 8th.

61
1986

• John McCarthy, a British journalist was kidnapped
  by Islamic Jihad. Remained in captivity for a
  staggering 5.5 years.

62
1986

• America celebrates national holiday Dr. Martin
  Luther King Jr. day for the first time.

63
1987

• Bruce Willis marries Demi Moore, November 21

64
1987

• The marriage of Charles and Diana starts to
  deteriorate, they begin living alone.

65
1987

• The year that Lane Frost won the PRCA World
  Championship in Bull Riding.

66
1988

• Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs.

67
1989

• The fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th.

68
1989

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become an over night
  sensation.

69
1989

• Milli Vanilli gets Best New Artist Grammy which
  is later stripped when it's learned they were lip
  synching.

70
1989

• Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on
  games, August 24.

71
1989

• Collin Powell is appointed Joint Chiefs of Staff,
  highest army post to ever be held by a black
  officer.

72
THE END!!