A Look Back at the Year 1980: Kicking Off a New Decade
As the 80s started, it brought some of the 70s but tried to carve its own path
When we look back on the year 1980, it sometimes feels like not that long ago. But put it this way: the year 2050 is closer to us than 1980 was. You can also put it this way: it’s the same length of time when we look back on 1980 from now, as looking back at 1940 was for people in 1980.
My head hurts.
Those comparisons seem frightening, but I wanted to take this time to look back at the year that kicked off the greatest decade ever: 1980.
I will mostly focus this on the pop culture-related aspects of this inaugural year as if we were to cover everything — we’d be here until 2050.
So let’s look back on the year that kicked off this monumental decade: 1980.
Setting the Stage for 1980
I was born in 1977, so I didn’t get to experience what the 70s were all about. From what I’m told, it wasn’t the best decade.
There were all the issues regarding the Vietnam War, Watergate, economic downturns, disco, and other horrible things like that. Would the 1980s usher in a new and bountiful era?
