1989.

[Magrittes Pipe]

[Paragon]

1. The number, another summer...

[Surf Cowboy]

39. Get Down! Sound of the Funky Drummer...

[UrbScotty]

2. Pistons won the championship that year, baby!

So did the U-M basketball team!

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Bad year for me.

SF earthquake and my brother died.

[AwakeAtLast]

4. Don't remember much about it, I was drunk most of the time.

Freshman year of college. ;-)

[RockaFowler]

5. I Graduated High School

[Lizz612]

6. Just to make you all feel old....

I turned 4 in June of that year.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Thbbbbbbtttttt!!!!

:P

[kitkatrose]

48. Weeeeeeeeeeee!

I turned 4 that July. My sister turned one that June. :)

[Lizz612]

61. What a co-inky-dink

My sister turned one that March!

:hi:

[St. Jarvitude]

66. Yeah? Four?

I turned ONE that year. So nyaaaaaaaaah :P

[Lautremont]

7. That was the year of the UHU STICS.

[The Great Escape]

8. Milli Vanilli***

[name not needed]

10. Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's

Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's
Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's
Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's
Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's

:P

[name not needed]

9. I was but a wee lad

[Rowdyboy]

11. I met my other half

and my life began...March 7th.

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Finally moved on from Sound Warehouse....

and got a real job.

Saw way too many bands. Bought lots of cool stuff for my apartment with my Pier One employee discount.

[GOPisEvil]

13. I was starting my senior year of college in the fall of 1989.

Good times. :-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. I got pregnant

:hi:

[Renew Deal]

16. I got her pregnant

:loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Shhhhh! That was our little secret remember?

:loveya:

[LiberalTechie1337]

17. Wow, was that really 15 years ago

I turned 5 years old in December. That's a whole hand!!!

[slutticus]

18. The Simpsons!!!!!!

Premiered on Fox

[VelmaD]

21. My "niece" was born that same day...

that The Simpsons premiered. :)

Kinda cool considering her favorite thing to say when she was little was "mmm...forbidden donut". :)

P.S. ;) I'm getting repetitive.

[flamingyouth]

19. I saw Nirvana play to about 60 people

I went out to shows every weekend. I lived the Seattle scene...

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. Ha! I was you, only it was the Austin scene.

I did get to see most of the grunge stalwarts, only in much more hot and sweaty circumstances. Liberty Lunch, baby! :D

[GOPisEvil]

35. I miss the Liberty Lunch.

:-(

I was only there a couple of times, being the tragically unhip kid I was. But I miss it just the same. I actually saw Timbuk 3 there in 1986. :-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

37. Sadly missed.

That place was my second home for quite awhile...87 to 93 or so.

I couldn't even name half the groups I saw there....

Nirvana, Mudhoney, Living Colour, Freedy Johnston several times, BoDeans several times, Lemonheads several times, Replacements, Jason and the Scorchers, Uncle Tupelo, Soul Asylum several times, Pato Banton, 10,000 Maniacs (when I wasn't sleeping- I hate them), Bouffant Jellyfish (more times than I can count), Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Yo La Tengo, The La's...I forget who else.

Sigh. Everything changes.
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[GOPisEvil]

41. I shall assuage myself with a trip to the Continental Club Saturday.

Centro-Matic and The Deathray Davies. Should be fun. :-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

54. Sweeeeeeeet.

You have fun now, ya hear?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Brazil

Held Presidential elections for the first time since 1960, ending the dictatorship period for good. :)

But a complete jerk was elected. RW, of course. :(

But then he was impeached for corruption, Like, REALLY kicked out! :)

[solinvictus]

23. Music and such...

Music

The Cure, "Disintegration"
David Bowie's comprehensive box set "Sound + Vision"
Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Mother's Milk"
Nirvana "Bleach"
Skinny Puppy "Rabies"
KMFDM "UAIOE"
Neil Young "Freedom"
Depeche Mode "101"

Movies

"Drugstore Cowboy" by Gus Van Sant
"Batman" by Tim Burton

[NightTrain]

24. Tears For Fears, "Sowing the Seeds of Love."

Best song of the year, IMHO! :headbang:

[SarahB]

25. I was 17.

It was a period of time. What's to say? Life was extraordinarily simple (it just didn't seem that way at the time). I worked part-time, partied a little, studied a lot, took my SAT'S, and dumped a few idiot boyfriends that year. It was better than 1990 that's for sure.

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Depends on your viewpoint, I guess.

My mom finally dumped her asswipe "boyfriend" of 9 1/2 years in 1990. Things finally began falling into place for me because of it. 1990 rocked.

Sorry it was crummy for you!

[supernova]

26. I was living in Maryland

in a tiny little walk up with my husband. I worked downtown DC at a trade association, he worked briefly on Capitol Hill. We both had volunteered for Steny Hoyer the year before.

We partied quite a bit. Loved The Kyber Pass downtown and The Olney Ale House in MD.

[carpetbagger]

27. Eastern Europe.

For those of you who are under about 20, you missed one incredible damn scene. Every night you'd turn on the tv, and there'd be another scene of playwrights, electricians, and conductors leading crowds of unarmed people out of churches and halls, through the streets, and then they'd be joined by the soldiers guarding the government buildings.

It was probably the closest I'll ever see to V-E and V-J Days.

[Terran]

40. That's what I recall most about that time

the fall of Communism in Europe and Russia. It was "interesting time" for sure. That and the SF quake, and being without power for three days, was rough. I also loved a lot of the House music that going around then. Remember "Stop This Crazy Thing", anyone?

[sundog]

28. 18, college, sexually ambiguous DC nightclubs, pot, LSD, good times

--

[sleepyhead]

29. Moved to NJ

after graduating from veterinary school. Felt like an adult for the first time in my life. Crappy job, great apartment, nice boyfriend. None of them lasted.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Doolittle.

[tsakshaug]

31. Teaching in NC

Scotland county
coaching X-C, trach and quiz bowl.

[Kellanved]

32. Visited Berlin to see the Wall come down.

I was in 3rd grade in Elementary School at the time...

[Danger Duck]

36. Kicked some ass

on the original nintendo entertainment system with FF1 and the adventures of Link.

[WilliamPitt]

38. The Berlin Wall came down

on my 18th birthday.

[yvr girl]

63. A Landmark Year

The wall came down - I'll never forget that.

Man stands against tank in a square in China - won't forget that either.

The world that I grew up in, the one dominated by the cold war, was radically altered.

[Ryano42]

42. 8 Seconds!

Greg Lemond wins the Tour de France after over 2000 miles by EIGHT SECONDS!!!

Went out and crashed my bike in the rain immediately after...that was FUN!

:kick:

[Aristus]

43. I graduated from the U.S. Army's tanker school at Ft. Knox.

I came home on leave, and saw the Berlin Wall fall on the evening news. Not long after, I was assigned to a 3rd Infantry Division post in Kitzingen, Germany. It was a terrific year.

The song that stands out for me from that year: "Listen To Your Heart" by Roxette.

[Ryano42]

49. Huahh!

M60's?

My brother was stationed there before N. Korea! Tanker City!

[Aristus]

50. Welcome Ryano42!

No, man, M1A1's. What a sweet machine. I don't miss much about the Army, but I miss my track! Kitzingen was a terrific place. i loved the people who lived there. Kind, warm, friendly. Everything the stereotypical German is believed not to be.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

Have a cold one on me. :beer::toast::beer::toast::beer::toast::beer:

[Connie_Corleone]

44. Senior in high school

The 80's sucked.

[DelawareValleyDem]

45. An all Bay Area

World Series was marred by an earthquake

[XNASA]

46. I was 32, we had been married for 5 years.

There was a 2 year old baby boy in the house, and a dog named Declan. We lived in a Polish neighborhood on the NW Side of Chicago in our first house.

My brother lived in the in-law apartment upstairs.

Life was sweet.

[fudge stripe cookays]

53. My family's lived near there for years.

Our "family homestead" (in my nostalgic young brain) was at 4017 N. Pittsburgh Avenue, off Irving Park.

I miss that house. I used to love visiting my aunt in this great old house from 1927. I slept in the sun porch, and my dad and I used to make that long walk past the cemetery on Irving Park to go to the shopping center down the ways.

There's a little Italian grocery across Irving Park where he used to buy me the little Neapolitan ice cream cups. =)

About 14 years ago, my aunt sold it and bought a condo on Northwest Highway. =(

I still love Chicago.

[XNASA]

58. That's a nice neighborhood.

Almost suburban out there by Irving & Cumberland.

Our place was closer to Addison and Pulaski, just off of Milwaukee. You could swear you were in Warsaw when you walk down Milwaukee south of Belmont.

Now I'm stuck in the South 'Burbs. But hopefully, not for long.

[fudge stripe cookays]

64. When we went to visit in 1990...

I had my first Polish food ever.

I was into experimenting with new cuisines, and my aunt took us to a Polish place.

I forget the name of the funky soup I had to ask her about on the menu-- it's like goat's blood or something? I wasn't QUITE that experimental.

Then later on in the week, we went to where my dad's buried, up in Mount Emblem Cemetery (Elmhurst), and one of my cousins took us out for Polish near there too. It was a very Polish visit.

Yak Si Masz!
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[XNASA]

70. Duck Blood Soup

It's pronounced, tchai-knee-nah. I'm not sure of the spelling.

I like beer with cherry syrup too. We used to go to the Congress Restaurant and also to Warsaw Inn in Niles.

Yummy!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

73. Warsaw Inn.....

I think that might have been the place....sounds familiar!

And that's the stuff. Sounds disgusting.

I found out several years ago that we actually had a Polish guy back in the mix in our tree. He lived in Germany for quite a while, but still.

We always thought his name was Dobre' (French), but it turns out, it was actually Dobra, which means "good."

Now I'm something besides just boring old Kraut and cheese-eating surrender monkey. Yay!

[bigwillq]

47. 1989 was the first year I discovered I liked guys

I was 12 and I was in the gym locker room. I'll spare you the details.

A good year though.

I was also elected secretary of the student government. I was in 6th grade!

[mrboba1]

51. Will Clark and Mark Grace

teed off in a very entertaining duel of power in the NLCS.

Too bad it ended the way it did...

[Texasgal]

52. This brings back so many memories

The song: A Girl Like You - the Smithereens

The place: SMU-Dallas

The car: Honda CRX

Ahhhhhh.... those were the days!

[Magrittes Pipe]

55. Y'all do know, don't you...

...that this thread was merely a celebration of my 1989th post?

:shrug:

[mrboba1]

56. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

nice.

[XNASA]

59. Well then. I guess it's been threadjacked.

[Worst Username Ever]

57. Shylock turned 13. n/t

[MissMillie]

60. My son's dad abandoned him

He and I had a fight and the dad just took off and never saw him again.

He died earlier this year.

[fudge stripe cookays]

65. So sorry, MissMillie

That's awful. Perhaps Al could have waited until his 1,999th post. Hope you and your son are doing better now.

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[bo44]

62. January 17. 1989 Cleveland School

Five beautiful kids dead, 29 students wounded, and one teacher shot rescuing kids while in the line of fire.

[chefgirl]

67. Life as I knew it ended

My son was born in April 1989.

-chef-

[ellie]

68. I turned 24,

was still in school (I was on the 10-year plan), and just hung out.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

69. I was 13 in 1989...

Unfortunately, I remember big hair, supermodels (ugh), and B*sh part I. :eyes:

On the other hand...there was the fall of the Berlin Wall. The world changed forever. That was something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime, as young as I was then.

[SmileyBoy]

71. I was 7 years old.

Damn, I'm still young...

[TEXASYANKEE]

72. Year of GREAT things

Broke up with live-in worthless boyfriend.
Toured Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce NP.
Got my first cat.

[TheSeventhStranger]

74. I was 15...

Just got a car and a DL. Freshman/Sophomore in High School. Knew everything, and more. Good times.

[JohnKleeb]

75. ahh fuck

That was the last year I had the house to myself, no blonde scandavian lite brother nor my twin who I am 14 years older than. Heh I can explain the latter, me and my youngest brother look identical but we're 14 years apart. '89 was also the year I moved in to this house, it was preceeded by a bad year for us though, '88 was no good.

[jdonaldball]

76. JESUS! Don't any of you remember watching the Wall come down?

So many babies here.
1989. First thing I think of is talking on the phone about nonsense, with a beer in hand, the TV on, and then saying "WHAT THE
F---?" as I watched the Berlin Wall suddenly come down. It was not expected at that moment - even for the preceding months, weeks, days, it was not expected. It just happened suddenly, and then everything changed for all of us who grew up during the Cold War, changed in an instant.
I see a few others here remember. But so many babies.
1989 means, the Berlin Wall came down, and everything changed.