1987 (Look Who's Turning Thirty)

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DiO'Bolic

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YouTube has the commercial listed as 1987, but I kinda think portable cell phones in that year all looked like this. For some reason I didn't think a phone that small appeared until 89 or 90.

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HollyGolightly

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I graduated from high school in 1987. I saw Predator at the drive in that summer. I think Misery was published that year, I remember reading it that winter. Hair bands were in full swing. I had some very stylish crispy rooster bangs. It's hard to believe that was 30 years ago.

I totally skipped my 30 year class reunion this year. Meh.
 

fushingfeef

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When '87 came I was a 19-year old freshman business major at Notre Dame. I worked in the cafeteria washing dishes. I worked that summer at a cemetery, a great job because the customers never complained (hardy har har). That fall I returned as a sophomore and turned 20 years old in November. Really that's about all I remember about 1987, it wasn't particularly memorable, which in some ways is a good thing. I can't say the same for subsequent years.
 

Blake

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In '87 the price of a gallon of gas was 89 cents and the average cost of a home was $92,000.

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What do you remember about this year?
Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' came out with that nearly movie length film clip. I went to see Predator. There's was the 'Black Thursday' I think they callled it Stock Market Crash. Manly won the grand final. Anything else? Didn't know if that was from the time of then. Other stuff, working, I still had my yellow Holden car. I turned 22 in January 1987.
 
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swiftdog2.0

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Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' came out with that nearly movie length film clip. I went to see Predator. There's was the 'Black Thursday' I think they callled it Stock Market Crash. Manly won the grand final. Anything else? Didn't know if that was from the time of then. Other stuff, working, I still had my yellow Holden car. I turned 22 in January 1987.

Thriller was 1983.