I was born in 70 so I hit the most impressionable years of a kids life in the 80's, my teen years.
I remember when the clock struck midnight on Dec 31st 1979 to transition into the 80's, there was an honest feeling of change in the air. Politically in the early 80's I experienced a lot of fear due to the cold war escalating and the looming "threat" of a nuclear holocaust. This fear was apparent by so many TV movies and shows that dealt with it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear ... irefox-b-1The big one was the Day After, even the 80's version of the Twilight Zone had a nuclear part to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Znqt2b8CKQIn school we had nuclear drills (New Orleans was one of the places that were targeted due to it being a major port city) where they sounded the siren, we all got out of our desks and crouched on the floor with our hands over the back of our heads.
Personally I thought the clothes were great (skinny ties. the wild colors and styles of clothing and Topsiders
https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/dkscdn ... T_Brown_is) There was a ton of fashion-ability in the clothes of the 80's as I was a kid in the 70's and the clothes were abysmal then so anything was better than ugly blue (just one color example) reversible suits with bell bottoms.
I remember in the 70's only having 5 television stations to watch (ABC, CBS, NBC and two local affiliates) and they were all through antenna so the reception was crap, then in the late 70's early 80's cable TV really got the heavy push (before this it was only available in certain areas of the country) and we were now exposed to 45 channels (what Cox cable offered with the old school box) from all over the place including 3 movie channels, HBO, Spotlight and Cinemax Spotlight (the latter was short lived when it was bought out and replaced with Showtime)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(TV_channel)
A history about cable TV and a pix of a box similar to the first one we had
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_tel ... ted_StatesThen on August 1, 1981 the channel would debut that would change the industry and viewing habits.. MTV.. I was a MTV junkie and it was almost always on with the sound cranked up when I was home alone (which was a lot).
One thing I miss dearly is Saturday morning cartoons.. Aaaah the thrill of getting up at 6am and binge watching cartoons all morning until 11:30 (a couple stations ran them till 12), and you had 3 stations to chose from (ABC, NBC, CBS) so I would put the 3 tv's in my house at the time (living room, parents room and my room) on a different station and bounce back and forth depending on what was on.. Yes I was a cartoon junkie on Saturday mornings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday-morning_cartoonThis ended in then 90's as some stations did continue Like Fox and the WB but the "golden days" were long over with and it was never the same as when the "big 3" ran them.
The local stations (not main broadcast ABC, NBC, CBS) would play cartoons each weekday morning from 7 - 9 then in the afternoons from 2 - 5 they would play all the cartoons that changed the landscape for we gen Xers, Transformers, GI Joe, M.A.S.K, Robotech, inspector gadget, Jem, Inhumanoids, Thundercats, He-Man, Silverhawks, Bravestarr, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, etc.. etc.. This ended in then 90's (some did continue but the "golden days" were long over with)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekday_cartoonThere were no cellphones or beepers (unless you were rich), only pay phones everywhere which led to everyone always carrying change on them.
Playground equipment was pretty much unsafe considered to today's standards but going to them was safer (the amount of child stalkers seemed to be a lot less) .
I remember my summer schedule would be like this
Get up, eat breakfast, watch cartoons until 10, get dressed and walk outside and wait for the neighbor kids to come out so we could all organize our "play" for that day. We would play until around noon and either eat by someone else's house or go home for lunch. After lunch if we separated we would all walk out again and wait for the others to come out then we would play until about 5 or 6 and come in for supper (unless there was cartoons on that were good).
To me my life was somewhat carefree and I have tons of great memories from the 80's.
The holidays were cool too as the network shows would get preempted for the holiday shows. I used to get goose bumps when I would see these come on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4_d_6A8nE0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDlLR_iewkwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HCYw2_riEMAlso I used to look forward to reading TV guide and all it's articles as back then there was no guide telling you what came on TV like the stations offer now, if you wanted to find something you had to search and read it (I still have some old TV guides in storage too)
The 80's seemed simpler to me most likely because I became a full adult in the 90's and responsibility of life hit me.
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