https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr Made with ♥ en-us 2017-05-22 14:49:49 UTC 2017-05-22 16:07:56 UTC hello@padlet.com ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173168326 Beat It By: Michael Jackson
Album: Thriller 
Won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. 
Released: 1982
Nominations: Grammy Award for Song of the Year]]> 2017-05-22 15:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173168326 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173169602 Livin' on a prayer 
Artist: Bon Jovi
Movie: Rock Star
Released: 1986
Awards: MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance
Nominations: American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single]]> 2017-05-22 15:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173169602 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173170099 Push It
Artist: Salt-N-Pepa
Album: Hot, Cool & Vicious
Released: 1986
Nominations: Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
Genre: Rock

]]> 2017-05-22 15:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173170099 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173170589 Gremlins
Release date: June 8, 1984 (USA)
Director: Joe Dante
Featured song: The Gremlin Rag (Full version)
Screenplay: Chris Columbus
Budget: 11 million USD
Description: A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the "mogwai" but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.]]> 2017-05-22 15:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173170589 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173171162 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Release date: June 11, 1982 (USA)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Featured song: E.T.: The Flying Theme
Screenplay: Melissa Mathison
 "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time in Canada and the US ]]> 2017-05-22 15:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173171162 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173171810 The Goonies
Release date: June 7, 1985 (USA)
Director: Richard Donner
Featured song: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Screenplay: Chris Columbus
Producers: Richard Donner, Harvey Bernhard
When two brothers find out they might lose their house they are desperate to find a way to keep their home. They find a treasure map and bring some friends along to find it. They are all out looking for the "X" and trying to get away from a group of bad guys who also want the treasure.]]> 2017-05-22 15:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173171810 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173178719 Parachute Pants
They started off skin tight & ended up baggier than a potato sack. Parachute pants may very well be the one piece of clothing that sums up the ridiculousness of the 80s fashion fads.  But, at the time, they felt so cool.  They were the perfect thing to wear to the skating rink, & they were worn equally by guys and girls.]]> 2017-05-22 15:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173178719 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173178734 Mini Skirts
Women & girls loved miniskirts. Denim was the most popular, but miniskirts were made in a number of other materials including knit & leather. These were often paired with leggings. This particular look has made a big comeback recently. The only people not wearing miniskirts in the 80s were men & elderly women.]]> 2017-05-22 15:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173178734 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173178750 Shoulder pads may very well be the most decade-defining of the 80s fashion fads.  Maybe it had something to do with the assertion of power that women were beginning to have in the work place?  Whatever the reason, we wore shoulder pads often & we did so with pride. Between her feathered hair & the awesome over-sized jacket with shoulder pads to the heavens, this 80s babe had it going on.]]> 2017-05-22 15:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173178750 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173180776 Personal Computers
Perhaps the product that introduced the greatest change in American lifestyles of the 1980s was the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Introduced by APPLE in 1977, the personal computer allowed management of personal finances, quick word-processing, and desktop publishing from the home. Businesses could manage payroll, mailing lists, and inventories from one small machine. Gone were the ledgers of the past. The SILICON VALLEY of California, which was the home to many of the firms that produced the processors that made these computers run, became the symbolic heart of the American technological economy.]]> 2017-05-22 15:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173180776 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173180792 Music
MTV, or Music Television, brought a revolution to the recording industry. MTV broadcast music video interpretations of popular songs. Beginning in 1981 with the prophetic Buggles tune "Video Killed the Radio Star," MTV redefined popular music. Stars like MADONNA and MICHAEL JACKSON were much more able to convey an image as well as music. Madonna's "MATERIAL GIRL" message typified the values of an increasingly materialistic decade.]]> 2017-05-22 15:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173180792 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173180818 Cable
Americans enjoyed many fundamental changes in their standard of living in the 1980s. One major transformation was the new, expanded role of television. CABLE TELEVISION, although available in the 1970s, became standard for most American households. This change ushered in a whole host of new programming.]]> 2017-05-22 15:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173180818 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173182310 The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 am local time & spilled 10.8 million US gallons (260,000 bbl; 41,000 m3) of crude oil over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disaster.]]> 2017-05-22 15:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173182310 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173182331 The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration that was, one journalist wrote, “the greatest street party in the history of the world.” People used hammers and picks to knock away chunks of the wall–they became known as “mauerspechte,” or “wall woodpeckers”—while cranes and bulldozers pulled down section after section. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. “Only today,” one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, “is the war really over.”]]> 2017-05-22 15:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173182331 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173182358 In 1980, the United States didn't go to the Summer Olympics at all because the games were being held in the Soviet capital of Moscow & the USSR had refused President Jimmy Carter's call to abandon the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Japan, West Germany, and Canada were among the countries to join in the boycott. All in all, 65 countries that were invited chose not to participate in the Moscow games, for one reason or another. The Soviet Union boycotted the following Summer Olympics because the 1984 games were being held in the United States.

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The popular toys at of the decade also signaled the age of the video game in arcades, Games Machines and PC's the most popular games being Space Invaders and Pac Man plus talking dolls were all the rage and at the end of the decade Featured Below Children's very own Sony Walkmans, Talking Alf, Star War Figures, Pound Puppies, My Little Pony and Mr and Mr's Potato Head From Our Vintage 1980s Toys ]]> 2017-05-22 16:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173184832 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173184857 Furniture From The 80'S
It is interesting looking at the furniture and fixtures you might find in a home from each decade, as we move to more smaller computers why have a Computer Work Station, VHS Tapes No Longer used, Bean Bags not anywhere near as popular as during the 80´s.]]> 2017-05-22 16:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173184857 ashley_gilliland884 https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173184868 Electrical Home Goods
As technology improved the size gets smaller and smaller and more and more powerfull, The "Portable Camcorder" replaced by today's Mobile Phone, The Timex Sinclair Color Computer replaced a much more powerful Tablet, Stereo Sound Television now exists as a smaller more energy efficient flatscreen TV, and the latest 50 inch Projection Screen TV can now be found as Flat Screen TV up to 100 inches . ]]> 2017-05-22 16:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ashley_gilliland884/kunkdthie8wr/wish/173184868