Prove to me that you were alive in 1983

etrhrghr wrote:

i remember when the soviets shot down that passenger plane just a few weeks before i was to go off to college. i was convinced reagan was going to start world war 3 over it.

Wasn't that 1986 or 87? The Korean Airlines jet?

I remember the Air Florida crash in DC pretty clearly. But I think that was 1982. I still think of it every time I run over the 14th St Bridge.

And....googled AFTER posting (so in reverse order of what I should have done :). You're right - 1983 was KAL 007. For some reason I thought I was older when that happened. (I was 9 in 1983)

1983 - that might have been the year that Anwar Sadat got assassinated in public, in broad daylight.

We had an actor in the White House.... an ACTOR

MTV only played music videos, and they were pretty good ones.

In SoCal...

Oh Laser club opened in Tijuana...

91X became the Rock of the 80's...

I was alive in 1982 (bought my PC with 256K memory) and I'm alive today, applying the Theorem of Continuity of Life, therefore , I was alive in 1983 QED

D3 XC's were held at Christopher Newport College in Newport News, Va. and the race was won my Mark Beamon from Brandies.

I ran my fastest ever 1500 m. I've been getting slower ever since : (

got a colecovision from my Washington Post delivery earnings.

jjjjj wrote:

got a colecovision from my Washington Post delivery earnings.

this is my favorite post of this thread.

Joe Wolfpack wrote:

North Carolina State won the NCAA basketball tournament.

I was in Charlottesville when NC State beat UVA in the elite 8, something like 62 to 63, that year. There was a huge crashing, shattering, breaking sound from the next door fraternity on Rugby Rd, then absolute silence: the end of the Ralph Sampson era.

Remember also, strangely, how folks gathered in common areas on campus for the final episode of M*A*S*H. Was it really that good a show?

Linsanity wrote:

... REM was a huge act and I remember the black concert T shirts everyone was wearing, except me. ....

REM weren't huge then. Murmur sold 200 000 copies and didn't even break the top 30 on the charts. They weren't even on TV until late that year.

Ooops; Sadat was shot in 1981. Memory is getting swiss cheesy.

I do know that i had a home mortgage at 12 7/8 percent and that was considered a 'good rate' at the time.

Watched E.T. in the theaters in 81 or 82.It was actually a one screen theater in my hometown right on the "square".

I was near the finish line, in the rain by the way, when Rod Dixon won the NYC Marathon. Dixon later indicated this win made up for never getting a gold at the Olympics.

Apparently everyone lived in Washington DC back then.

I was lapped by Keith Brantly at Penn

I graduated from 8th grade that year and my graduation gift from my parents was a Walkman. It was about the size and weight of a brick and had AM/FM radio and a cassette player.

My friend's parents bought a Beta VCR that spring and we watched "Caddyshack" on it, the first time I'd ever seen an R-rated movie. A couple of nights later, we taped the NC State/Houston NCAA final and watched the ending about 20 times.

I saw War Games that summer, and earned the money for my freshman year of high school wardrobe by detassling corn on a farm. I worked for a week at $3.35 and hour and made something like $95 bucks after taxes.

I also had a sweet BMX bike.

We must be the same age, as I finished 8th grade in '83, too. I got a Walkman a bit later--I think in '85. Mine was a bluish color.

Do you still have the NC State/Houston tape?

I was born May 17, 1982 so I was roughly 6 months old on January 1, 1983!!!

Eric and Mark Mastalir were Freshman and high school at Jesuit in Sacaramento!!!!