Some Selected Cultural Artifacts

1."We Are the World"
2."Do They Know it's Christmas?"
3.Band Aid
4.Farm Aid
5.Penny candy costing a cent
6.The Challenger
7.Baby Jessica in the well
8.Who you wanted to be president in 1989
9.Laced Tylenol
10.Chernobyl
11.The Berlin Wall being torn down
12.When the biggest thing in Disney World was Epcot Center
13.George Michael is more famous to you as the dude in tight jeans than the dude in the public bathroom
14.Four quarters went a long way when you went to play the jukebox at the local restaurant.
15.McDonald meals came in styrafoam containers
16.McDonalds restaurants were red and yellow.... not teal and white (or whatever they are painted in your neck of the woods)
17.McDonalds playlands first opened up.
18."Just Say No" became a household phrase.
19.The 1989 San Francisco earthquake
20.Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire in 1984
21.John Belushi died in 1982
22.John Lennon was shot and killed in 1980
23.President Reagan was shot
24.Ryan White became a household name and an instant role model
25.The birth of the yuppie
26.The birth of the mini-van
27. The Bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beruit
28. the MX missile
29. European anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations every single day for ten years?
30. Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika
31. "new" coke?
32.Who shot JR?
33. Union Carbide Chemical leak in Bhopal, India


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