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Subject: A Look at 1983.
http://imageevent.com/screwball54/1983
It is 2003, and 1983 was 20 years ago. I know some of you wish it was still 1983, so to get you in the 1983 mood I have posted some magazine ads from a 1983 Issue of national Geographic. Comments would be welcome.
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I had that exact Kodak disc camera pictured in the ad. Do they still make disc cameras? I always thought that was a cool format.
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I had that exact Kodak disc camera pictured in the ad. Do they still make disc cameras? I always thought that was a cool format.
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Not according to thier website, but I guess that is why Ebay is so popular.
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The best thing about 1983? A kid by the name of John Bongiovi recorded a song called "Runaway" with a group of studio musicians and it took off across the country. Needing a band he formed "Bon Jovi" and the rest, as they say, is history!
Yes, it is the 20th anniversary of my favorite band...watch for an amazing box set to be released this year!!
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I remember the Canon camera ads, that was the year I got my first....it was a Canon AE-1...best camera I have ever had...still use it to this day, even with all the advances in technology!!
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How can 1983 possibly be *twenty* years ago...that's just not right. :P
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Ah, 1983...the last model year of the DeLorean...sigh.
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How can 1983 possibly be *twenty* years ago...that's just not right. :P
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I know!!!! Doesn't it sound like so long ago?? It seems like it was just around the corner!! Time flies man!! :o :o :o :o
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;D OH YES... 1983 was a very cool year... One of the things I remember the most is the Cabbage Dolls craze. I was blessed to get one just before Christmas that year. They were funny-looking, but cute.
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1983 was an awesome year!
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If we could only go back sometimes to visit those very FUN times.
Subject: Re: A Look at 1983.
Oh,Man.1983.Well:
-I was 9 years old and I was in 3rd grade with Mrs Amer towards the beginning of 83' then transferring to another
Public School with Mrs. Faison later on.I was so ugleee! :o I had bangs
and buck teeth.The buck teeth was when the time I kept
sucking my thumb years before 1983.2 years later,I needed
braces.I'll never know whatever became of Mrs Amer or
Mrs.Faison later on in life.
howard
Subject: Re: A Look at 1983.
1983...
Michael Jackson, Boy George, Huey Lewis, and Cyndi Lauper became household words. Heavy metal started getting in the top 40.
Starrcade '83 ("All together now - "Dut, duDut, duhhhDut, DuDuhhhDuhhhDuhhhDuhhh, Dut..."). Jackie Fargo's fear-inducing words: "You little stinky stink! You stink!" Then there's Brett Sawyer: "It's not right, it's just not right! This is not right, Gordon, it's not right!" And who could forget "Charlie Brown from Out of Town"?
"Quincy" and "Laverne & Shirley" were cancelled. (Of course, with no Shirley, did they really think it would last much longer?) The end of Coy & Vance Duke.
"Dragon's Lair"
"Saturday Supercade" began.
"Wheel of Fortune" changed its theme song. "Price is Right" started using some new music. The debut of "Press Your Luck".
"Magnum, ha. Fall Guy, forget about him. The A-Team wants you!"
The 1st time I heard the word "pee" on television. (There was a TV movie about a retarded boy, and he yelled "I GOTTA PEE, I GOTTA PEE!")
Well, I better go now. The clock says 11:59, and in less than a minute it'll be 1984. You know, that stuff in that book might happen. We could all self-destruct or anything. Well anyway bye...
Subject: Re: A Look at 1983.
1983...hmmm...there was this show on channel 60 in the Chicago area...MV3...it was taped in California. David Maples, Richard Blades and some dweeby chick named Karen Scott. Anyone remember it? If you were an Adam Ant fan you got plenty there along with alot of goofy stuff that just never really made it mainstream: Rough Trade and The Snowmen and whoah! Anybody remember The Snowmen video? FUNNY like albino KISS as I recall. Anyone?
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I was born in 83!!! Thats the best year ever!
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That was the year I graduated High School, moved out of my dad's house, and lost my virginity with 2 beautiful babes (Hope and Mellisa)!
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That was the year I graduated High School, moved out of my dad's house, and lost my virginity with 2 beautiful babes (Hope and Mellisa)!
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AT THE SAME TIME? You DAWG!! :D *high five*
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83: I was eleven. I started getting into music videos, even moreso after we got cable in October. That Christmas I got my first boom box, along with my first two cassette albums: Thriller and Pyromania. I was still playing my Atari 2600...can't remember much else, except that Human League's "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" was one of my favorite songs.
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It still is one of my most favorite songs today! :D :D :D
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It still is one of my most favorite songs today! :D :D :D
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Mine too, Spray! :D '83 was a great year in music.
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MV60 was the channel...I remember that channel well and all the weird videos at the time! 8)
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1983...hmmm...there was this show on channel 60 in the Chicago area...MV3...it was taped in California. David Maples, Richard Blades and some dweeby chick named Karen Scott. Anyone remember it? If you were an Adam Ant fan you got plenty there along with alot of goofy stuff that just never really made it mainstream: Rough Trade and The Snowmen and whoah! Anybody remember The Snowmen video? FUNNY like albino KISS as I recall. Anyone?
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Born that year (hence the username) on Saturday, August 13th, coincidentally the same day that one of my very favorite bands, R.E.M., first hit the Billboard 200 with "Radio Free Europe," although I don't think it went higher than 80 (?). Love a whole lot of music from that time and I agree that "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" rules. I saw that video a few weeks ago for the first time in three or four years.
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"(Keep Feeling) Fascination" rules. I saw that video a few weeks ago for the first time in three or four years.
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It remains as one of my top 10 favorite videos of all time. :)
Subject: Re: A Look at 1983.
The Summer Of 1983,I was in day camp
and taking a look at one of my old pics,
I had bangs and buck teeth.That was
sure ugleee! :o
howard
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David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single and album was a smash hit, also "Modern Love". Boy George and the rest of Culture Club first came to my attention with "Karma Chameleon". Here in Australia a TV show called "A Country Practice" was extremely popular, as was "Young Talent Time"...a showcase of the nations greatest singing and dancing youth. Australia won the America's Cup with the vessel Australia II, featuring the secret "winged keel". I was 12 years old in 1983 and was at the beginning of my record buying career! We listened to a radio station called 2SM religiously...it played mainly top 40 tracks. What I remember most about 1983 is the fun I had, as I did through most of the 80s...when the music was real!!! :)
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Here is a piece if weather history from 1983 The winter of 1983-84 was one of the coldest on record for much of the United States. Unseasonably cold air arrived in December and lingered through January as a tremendous area of high pressure dominated the United States weather pattern. A few notable numbers from that winter...the enormous high pressure raised pressure readings to 1064 milliards at Miles City, Montana on December 24th. That is the highest pressure reading ever recorded in the United States. On Christmas Eve, Arctic air covered almost 90 percent of the country with temperatures well below freezing and, in many areas of the North, well below zero. On Christmas Day 125 record lows were set in 24 different states. On December 24th, 1983 the Northern Plains was in the grip of a ferocious ground blizzard. Over the stretch beginning on December 18th, 1983 through the 25th temperatures were rarely above zero across the area and strong winds made conditions especially dangerous. The worst conditions occurred from the 23rd through the 25th as light snow and loose surface snow combined with strong northwesterly winds to produce whiteout conditions for extended periods of time. The ground blizzard paralyzed most areas, completely blocking most roads with drifts 4 to 5 feet high. One drift in southwest Minnesota climbed to 15 feet deep and took five hours to clear with a large snowplow. With subzero temperatures and winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour, at times, wind chills were in the 60 to 100 degrees below zero range. The intense and long-lived cold spell burst gas lines, caused propane gas to solidify, and froze water pipes and tanks. :)
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I was only 5 or so, so I can't remember much, but what I do remember is being a kinderbean and having to listen to my snpa crackle pop mini record. I sent for it via snail mail from rice krispies cereal. It was awesome and ya know, I still have it.... :-/ :D
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Here is a piece if weather history from 1983 The winter of 1983-84 was one of the coldest on record for much of the United States. Unseasonably cold air arrived in December and lingered through January as a tremendous area of high pressure dominated the United States weather pattern. A few notable numbers from that winter...the enormous high pressure raised pressure readings to 1064 milliards at Miles City, Montana on December 24th. That is the highest pressure reading ever recorded in the United States. On Christmas Eve, Arctic air covered almost 90 percent of the country with temperatures well below freezing and, in many areas of the North, well below zero. On Christmas Day 125 record lows were set in 24 different states. On December 24th, 1983 the Northern Plains was in the grip of a ferocious ground blizzard. Over the stretch beginning on December 18th, 1983 through the 25th temperatures were rarely above zero across the area and strong winds made conditions especially dangerous. The worst conditions occurred from the 23rd through the 25th as light snow and loose surface snow combined with strong northwesterly winds to produce whiteout conditions for extended periods of time. The ground blizzard paralyzed most areas, completely blocking most roads with drifts 4 to 5 feet high. One drift in southwest Minnesota climbed to 15 feet deep and took five hours to clear with a large snowplow. With subzero temperatures and winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour, at times, wind chills were in the 60 to 100 degrees below zero range. The intense and long-lived cold spell burst gas lines, caused propane gas to solidify, and froze water pipes and tanks. :)
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Wow,It was that cold :oUnbelieveable! And I was only 9 at
the time. barely do I remember those cold temperatures.
howard
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1983. Move to California. All downhill from there... :P
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and lost my virginity with 2 beautiful babes (Hope and Mellisa)!
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Yeah right... ::)