What happened in 1989? - Page 5

3894 · 05-22-2007, 09:29 AM

Personal life: going on a bike tour of Ireland while 4 or 5 months pregnant, having my first baby

Professional life: professor of French

Brigitte · 05-22-2007, 09:32 AM

Graduated high school, moved across the state and started at WSU. Was a good year for me too!

Capt Jack · 05-22-2007, 09:42 AM

wow, that seems forever ago now. married. I think I might have been working in a bank data center that year. prepping for my 10 year HS reunion (now THAT was a party!).
good times...

alphabassettgrrl · 05-22-2007, 09:54 AM

89....
I was finishing my first year of college, and spending a lot of time with a particular boy (still with him, a zillion years later). I went home for the summer and my mother informed me mid-July or so that I wasn't going back to school in the fall. I spent the fall semester back at the community college local to my parents. The end of December my honey came to hold my hand while I moved out of my parents' house to Montana to live with him. He had broken his tailbone just a few days before, so his bus ride was ... unpleasant. But he valued me enough to endure it.

I remember the earthquake; we heard about it on tv. I think my dad was watching the baseball game in Candlestick park. I came up from the basement into the kitchen and dad joked that they just broke Candlestick park. Of course then we hear about the damage to the rest of the city and it's horrifying. Was that the one where the freeway collapsed? That was awful.

And of course now we live in CA.

With earthquakes.

SzczerbiakManiac · 05-22-2007, 12:24 PM

Oooo, I love contests!

I had open heart surgery in 1989 (I was 20).

What do I win?

Alex · 05-22-2007, 12:28 PM

Apparently at least 18 more years.

Isaac · 05-22-2007, 12:29 PM

I completed the 4th grade and began the 5th.

I received a Gameboy for Christmas (it was the latest Nintendo system).

Don't remember anything else in particular.

innerSpaceman · 05-22-2007, 12:44 PM

I, too, would have about to embark on what I assumed would be crappy 30's (but they turned out great!)

I don't remember anything else specifically. I must have gone to Epcot, 'cause I was doing that every year in the 80's. I loved seeing Little Mermaid, perhaps more than any subsequent Disney animated feature - because (a) it was the one that surprised me by far from sucking and (b) it was the last one to play on the huge screen in the Cinerama Dome before Disney took over the El Capitan in Hollywood.

Other than that, I don't remember anything specific about 1989. That means nothing terribly sucky happened ... and for that, I am grateful.

Cadaverous Pallor · 05-22-2007, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Oh yeah, the quake. Had it happened 5 minutes earlier I would have been riding my bike.

I think you're thinking of the Whittier quake. You wouldn't have felt Loma Prieta, what most SoCalers think of as "the San Francisco quake, not the old one, the recent one."

1989 - Finished up my first year of junior high. Hated it, couldn't make friends, couldn't keep up in school. By 1990 I was contemplating suicide, which led me to switch schools and begin the chain of events that would lead me to meeting GD.

I really wanted a Batman T-shirt, even though only guys wore them. We saw Batman and Honey I Shrunk the Kids at the drive-in. I saw Back to the Future II the weekend it was released - I couldn't wait! We took my Dad to see Indy III on Father's Day, I believe. A lot of good movies were released that year.

I know I visited DL at some point before they opened Splash and was able to see most of it, almost finished, behind construction walls. Probably 1989.

The things you'll find on wikipedia!

Ah, for the days when my family would read TV Guide as soon as we bought it so we could choose what movies we'd see that week on the networks. I didn't watch the Simpsons because my parents didn't like it - we only had the one TV, and primetime was their time. I used to watch it when I babysat.

cirquelover · 05-22-2007, 01:45 PM

The end of 88 and 89 kind of meld together for me.

I remember the TWA flight over Scotland as I was getting ready to fly to Australia to see my mom. I also remember a Hawaiian Airline losing its top right as I was coming home from Australia. I left Australia in early 89 after an altercation with my moms boyfriend and went back to my first husband who was in LA. I saw the premiere of Big in Australia and it became my favorite movie.

There were a lot of earthquakes that year! It really freaked me out! The police helicopters were always flying over our neighborhood. The police presence was amazing to me. Once during a family bbq the helicopters came over and told us to disperse, from our own backyard! I never really understood that.

I was overly sheltered in LA and wasn't even allowed to go to Disneyland so I left to go back to Oregon and live with my brother and his roommates.

I lost two of the most important men in my life my grandfather and a good friend John, I still miss them.

I think that was the yearI went to work in a lumber mill as a a fire watch. If you don't think that was fun weighing 100lbs and carrying around 100+lbs of hose. There was only one big fire that I was too short to put out and it was inside the mill. That one became exciting fast!

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alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	89.... I was finishing my first year of college, and spending a lot of time with a particular boy (still with him, a zillion years later). I went home for the summer and my mother informed me mid-July or so that I wasn't going back to school in the fall. I spent the fall semester back at the community college local to my parents. The end of December my honey came to hold my hand while I moved out of my parents' house to Montana to live with him. He had broken his tailbone just a few days before, so his bus ride was ... unpleasant. But he valued me enough to endure it. I remember the earthquake; we heard about it on tv. I think my dad was watching the baseball game in Candlestick park. I came up from the basement into the kitchen and dad joked that they just broke Candlestick park. Of course then we hear about the damage to the rest of the city and it's horrifying. Was that the one where the freeway collapsed? That was awful. And of course now we live in CA. With earthquakes. __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	I, too, would have about to embark on what I assumed would be crappy 30's (but they turned out great!) I don't remember anything else specifically. I must have gone to Epcot, 'cause I was doing that every year in the 80's. I loved seeing Little Mermaid, perhaps more than any subsequent Disney animated feature - because (a) it was the one that surprised me by far from sucking and (b) it was the last one to play on the huge screen in the Cinerama Dome before Disney took over the El Capitan in Hollywood. Other than that, I don't remember anything specific about 1989. That means nothing terribly sucky happened ... and for that, I am grateful.
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05-22-2007, 01:45 PM	#50
cirquelover Cruising around in my automobile... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,617	The end of 88 and 89 kind of meld together for me. I remember the TWA flight over Scotland as I was getting ready to fly to Australia to see my mom. I also remember a Hawaiian Airline losing its top right as I was coming home from Australia. I left Australia in early 89 after an altercation with my moms boyfriend and went back to my first husband who was in LA. I saw the premiere of Big in Australia and it became my favorite movie. There were a lot of earthquakes that year! It really freaked me out! The police helicopters were always flying over our neighborhood. The police presence was amazing to me. Once during a family bbq the helicopters came over and told us to disperse, from our own backyard! I never really understood that. I was overly sheltered in LA and wasn't even allowed to go to Disneyland so I left to go back to Oregon and live with my brother and his roommates. I lost two of the most important men in my life my grandfather and a good friend John, I still miss them. I think that was the yearI went to work in a lumber mill as a a fire watch. If you don't think that was fun weighing 100lbs and carrying around 100+lbs of hose. There was only one big fire that I was too short to put out and it was inside the mill. That one became exciting fast!
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