1. The best of
the 80’s
“If you’ve Got It,
flaunt It . . .
you can have It
all”

2. Sports
Moments
The USA hockey team
celebrates the Miracle on
Ice at the 1980 Winter
Olympic Games.
Doug Flutie's
desperation
touchdown
throw to the end
zone vs. the
Miami
Hurricanes on
Thanksgiving
day.
Pete Rose broke Ty
Cobb’s all time hit
record in 1985. He
was banned from
baseball in 1986 for
gambling on baseball.
Michael Jordan
entered the
NBA in 1984,
famous foul-
line dunk in
1987 and
“The Shot” in
1989. Scoring
champion in
1986 to 1989.

3. TV SHOWS OF THE 1980s

4. 1980s Fashion
• Fashion in the 80s was largely
influenced by popular entertainers,
television shows and movies of the
time.

5. Madonna-Wannabes
Fashion
• Many girls in their teens and 20s wanted
to look like Madonna
– Layers – sexy – vixen look
– Lots of accessories
– Lace – pointed bustiers - bras
– Crosses
– Dangly earrings
– Skirt over tight pants

6. TV Influences on
Fashion
• In this decade, materialism flourished
with “the bigger the better” in these
looks:
• But don’t fret, there
were also more
wholesome looks such
as the preppie look
from Family Ties

7. Movie Influences
on Fashion
• In this decade, greed was good with slicked back
hair. There was also big hair, oversized shirts,
jocks, legwarmers, etc., all from 80s movies.

8. Fitness and
Fashion
• The fitness craze also affected fashion where
leotards and tights with legwarmers flourished
– headbands too!

9. Popular Female
Entertainers

10. Popular Male
Entertainers

11. Bruce Springsteen / "Born
in the U.S.A." (1984)
Bonnie Tyler / "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
(1983)
John Mellencamp / "Jack & Diane" (1982)
Styx / "Mr. Roboto" (1983)
Guns N' Roses / "Welcome to the Jungle"
(1987)
A-Ha/"TakeOnMe"(1985)
Def Leppard / "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
(1987)
Cyndi Lauper / "Girls Just W
ant to Have Fun"
(1984)
Journey / Don't Stop Believing (1981)
Michael Jackson / "Billie Jean" (1982)
Bon Jovi / "Livin' on a Prayer" (1986)
Madonna /"Like a Virgin" (1984)
Wham! / "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
(1984)
Devo
/"W
hip
It"(1980)

13. Atari
Roos (Kangaroo tennis shoes)
Legwarmers worn over jeans
charm necklaces
Yo-Yo Sandals
jeans with the zippers up the legs
Aqua Net Hairspray
The British Invasion (U2, Duran Duran,
Culture Club, A-Ha, etc)
Swatch Watches
Apple Computers
Rubik's Cube
Guys with one earring
Care Bears
Slinky
Jelly Shoes
Simon (the game)
Shasta soda
Neon (clothings, bracelets, signs, etc.)
Scrunch Socks
Spandex
Schoolhouse Rock
Friendship Bracelets

16. 80’s ACADEMY
AWARDS

17. And the 80’s
winners
were . . .

18. HEAVY DRAMA

20. 80’s MOVIES ICONS

21. 80’s MOVIES ICONS

22. 80’s MOVIES ICONS

23. BIGGEST MOVIE
STAR of the 80’s

24. 80’s ARNOLD MADNE$$

25. Quotes from
80’s TV
• "Where's The Beef"
• Totally Tubular!
• "Yeah, that's the ticket!"
• "It's better to look good than to feel
good."
• "like gag me with a spoon“
• "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!!“
• Girls just want to have fun!

26. 80’s Quotes
“I'm Gumby, damn it!”
• Eddie Murphy's
character, Gumby,
from Saturday Night
Live

27. June 12, 1987
Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this
wall!

28. 80’s Political
Quotes
• George Bush: Read my lips: NO NEW
TAXES!
• George Bush: "Wouldn't be prudent"
• The Gipper: We will commence
bombing in five minutes.
• Lloyd Benson: You are no John
Kennedy.
• "I'm in charge." - Secretary of State
A.Haig Said after Reagan was shot
while George Bush was out of the

29. Inventions
The birth of the compact discThe first of many space shuttles
Space Shuttle Columbia

30. Military
Conflict
In 1989, the U.S. ousted
General Noriega from power
in Panama for drug
trafficking, racketeering
and money laundering.
In 1983, the U.S. marine
barracks in Beirut,
Lebanon was bombed. It
killed 243 Americans
In 1983 the U.S. invaded
the island of Grenada
in an effort to contain
communism from Cuban
influences

31. Books of the 80’s
Fiction Books based on Publisher’s Weekly Best Selling

32. • Clothing manufacturer Calvin
Klein features Brooke Shields
in ads, launching a designer
jeans fad.
• Low-fare People Express
Airline, founded by Donald
Barr, begins no-frills service in
the Northeast.
• United Steelworkers and big
steel manufacturers attempt to
revitalize the steel industry by
creating labor-management
participation teams in
imitation of Japanese
practices.

33. • 1-Exxon Mobil
• 2-General Motors
• 3-Mobil
• 4-Ford Motor
• 5-Texaco
• 6-ChevronTexaco
• 7-Gulf Oil
• 8-Intl. Business Machines
• 9-General Electric
• 10-Amoco

34. • In American politics the
1980s were the decade of
Ronald Reagan, who was
elected president in 1980
and succeeded by his vice
president, George Bush,
in 1989. Reagan's vision
of the nation helped to
shape the economic and
political fortunes of the
United States for most of
the 1980s.

35. “Just Say NO”
• The Reagan Administration
accelerated the War on Drugs,
publicized through anti-drug
campaigns including the “Just
Say No” campaign of First
Lady Nancy Reagan. Drugs
became a serious problem in
the '80s. Cocaine was popular
among celebrities and the
young, sophisticated "yuppies",
while crack, a cheaper and
more potent offshoot of the
drug, turned the inner cities
into war zones.

36. 80’s - Technology,
Science, and
Inventions
• 1980
• The hepatitis-B
vaccine invented.
• 1981
• MS-DOS invented.
• The first IBM-PC
invented.
• The scanning
tunneling
microscope invented
by Gerd Karl Binnig
and Heinrich
Rohrer.

37. Inventions
in the 80’s
• 1982
• Human growth
hormone
genetically
engineered.
1983
• The Apple Lisa
invented.
• Soft bifocal
contact lens
• First Cabbage

38. Significant Scientific Achievement
in the 80’s
• 1984
• The CD-ROM invented.
• The Apple Macintosh
invented.
• 1985
• Windows program invented
by Microsoft.
• 1986
• A high-temperature super-
conductor invented by J.
Georg Bednorz and Karl A.
Muller.
• Synthetic skin invented by
G. Gregory Gallico, III.
• Fuji introduced the
disposable camera.

39. Inventions in the 80’s
• 1987
• The first 3-D video game.
• Disposable contact lenses.
• 1988
• Digital cellular phones.
• Doppler radar.
• Prozac.
• First genetically engineered
animal.
• Indiglo nightlight.
• 1989
• High-definition television .

40. ART in the 80’s
During the decade, huge numbers of
people protested Artist Robert
Mapplethorpe’s exhibit

41. Garden Grove Church,
Los Angeles, California
80’s Architecture

42. The
End