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Growing Up in the 80s
80s Memories, News, Clothing and Fads
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Topic: What was 1989 like?
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1989 wasn't much different than 1988 or 1990. It isn't as if the entire decade of the 1980s was a specific way and then at the stroke of midnight on Jan 1 1990 everything changed. The most popular music was probably "hair metal" from Bon Jovi, Poison, etc but plenty of people were listening to harder rock and rap as well. Clothing trends had changed some, less neon and more traditional prep clothing was in vogue where I lived, a suburb of Oklahoma City. To me, the bigger shock had come earlier in the year when George Bush took the place of Reagan. Ronnie had exemplified the decade, and in many ways the 80s died when he left office. By the end of 1989 we really did live in a different world. The "evil empire" of Reagan had changed. The Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union was showing signs of becoming more open and democratic in nature. (We never imagined that the USSR itself would soon be gone as well.) So in many ways 1989 did mark a change from one life to another more than 1999 did into 2000 even, and certainly more than 2009 into 2010. But nobody was sad worrying about the decade ending. We were all focused on what great things the future held for us.
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