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On the date

Thursday, October 25, 1984

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sound

The hiss of my walkman can’t drown out the street noise or the spiraling cost of living; fifty cents for a loaf of bread feels like a robbery when the rent is due. Between the synth pulse of Stevie Wonder on the radio and the clatter of those new Macintosh computers in the shop windows, the world feels totally loud and fragile. I’m shivering in my layered sweatshirt, clutching my ticket for *The Terminator* while hoping the machines aren't actually coming for us next. Everyone’s distracted by fancy literary parties uptown, but all I can hear is the frantic ticking of a city that's getting too expensive to survive.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I Just Called to Say I Love You

Stevie Wonder

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

15,199 days ago

(41 years, 234 days)