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On the date

Wednesday, February 15, 1984

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The flash of my Leica catches the neon glare reflecting off a girl’s spandex leggings and the thick, cable-knit texture of her leg warmers as she rushes toward the subway. I pause by a newsstand where a stack of heavy ink screams **FOR REAGAN, A CROSSFIRE**, the black headlines bleeding into the gray slush of a cold Manhattan morning. I adjust my lens, capturing a businessman in an oversized sweatshirt who almost knocks over my tripod. I’ll be back tomorrow for the light at dawn, but for now, the city is just a blur of athletic silhouettes and the tinny echo of "Karma Chameleon" drifting from a passing transistor radio.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Karma Chameleon

Culture Club

The must-have

Transformers

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

awesomebodaciouscheesychill

Valley Girl

as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally

Hip Hop

baddefdopeflyfreshword

Yuppie

greed is goodpower lunchnetworking

Catchphrases of 1984

  • Where's the beef?
  • I'll be back
  • Who you gonna call?

Tech Check

Apple Macintosh, CD-ROM & Flash Memory.

Style of 1984

Silhouette: Athletic and layered

Material: Spandex and sweat

  • Leg warmers
  • Headbands
  • Oversized sweatshirts

Cost of Living (1980)

Loaf of Bread

$0.50

Gallon of Gas

$1.19

Average Home

$47,200

New Car

$7,200

Time Elapsed

15,452 days ago

(42 years, 122 days)