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1980's
Miami Vice Fashion
popularized by Don Johnson on the hit tv show.
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Where's the Beef
A slogan from a Wendy’s commercial for showing that other restaurants didn’t quite use as much meat on their
hamburgers. Starred an old lady named Clara Peller, who kept asking that question.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A hit cartoon about a bunch of hip turtles who loved eating pizza and could also fight well. People bought lots of related dolls, stickers, lunchboxes, etc.
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Neon
Pretty self explanatory. Socks, Shirts, Hair accessories, bracelets, shoe laces, store signs etc.
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Wrestling
Although it has made a comeback in recent years, nothing even compares with the classic years of the WWF, and the NWA.
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Boom Boxes
This oversized radio was popular with the youth of the early and mid-eighties because they played music so loud, you could hear them from a 100 yards away. They eventually came with dual cassette and CD players and used 8 "D" cell batteries to power the big speakers. Some had a special Bass Boost button that would make the boom boxes even louder and more annoying to most who could hear them. This fad is still popular with some young people because the new boom boxes come with MP3 players.
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Rubik's Cube
Erno Rubik was looking for a innovative method of teaching his students about 3D objects and came up with what would be called Rubik's Cube. He patented this clever cube and made millions in the early 80's. There were 43 quintillion combinations of solving the cube, which prompted many books on how to solve the cube. The world record for solving the cube is 16.5 seconds! A later version of the cube was released called "Rubik's Revenge" which had four rows of four squares instead of three on the standard cube. 100 million cubes have been sold worldwide and are even now somewhat popular in certain places in the world.
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Wacky WallWalker
A sticky piece of rubber that usually resembled an insect that you throw at a window or wall. The Wacky Wallwalker would then slowly walk down the surface.
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Video Arcades
There are many arcades now, but during the 80s, they were the "in" place to hangout.
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Slap Bracelets
A flexible metal with a colorful cloth over it. You would smack these on your wrist and it would wrap around it.
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Jelly Shoes
If you were a little girl that grew up in the 80's, then chances are you owned a pair of jelly shoes. These were flexible bright colored jelly shoes that you could wear without socks. A very popular fad during this decade.
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Popples
These were popular toys in the mid 1980's. Popples were able to pull anything out of their back pouch. The craze was so huge that there was also a cartoon that followed the fad.
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