What happened in 1989?

[MouseWife]

Hmm. I doubt if I will outsuck anyone at this but....

In 1989 I was 24. Married for 6 years {gawd, I must be dyslexic 'cause I first typed 9, what a mistake!} and had two wee ones, 4 & 2 at the time.

I was working PT for the Russian Arts Festival ticketing, that was interesting, my only time riding the trolley rush hour/at night on a regular basis. Hubby and I flip flopped and I went to work when he finished his day. I would come home and they would tell me all of the wonderful stories of their adventures with Dad. Like how the pelican almost ate my son....good one. Or how they went all the way to Mexico...on the trolley. Or how they saw 'aliens' out on a drive and my daughter asked what planet they were from....

This was a wonderful time because my daughter was not in school yet and we enjoyed them sooo much.

The Little Mermaid, that is the first Disney movie {first theater movie, period, actually} that my son saw. I can vividly remember the look on his face when we opened the doors to walk into the little theater and there was something on the screen {us being late, of course}. He stopped, his eyes wide as saucers, and says 'Biiiig t.v.' and we had to prod him along.

'89 was also the first year we took the kids to Disneyland. That was wonderful, too. Bought them Disney Dollars and I think the Rescue Rangers were big at the time.

They rode the People Mover, the buckets, old Autopia, and played with the animals in the petting zoo.

[katiesue]

Hmm living in Hollywood. I remember feeling the earthquake. I was working at STN/JC Penny Television Home Shopping (yea had to say that evey time I answered the phone) which was on the KTLA lot. Really old building that moved a lot.

The Berlin wall coming down was very exciting. I'd been an exchange student in Germany 84/85 and had gone to both East and West Berlin so it was kind of nifty to see places I'd been.

Went to my 5 year class reunion, which was fun. I think that's also the year we saw the Stone's Steel Wheels tour. And got up at midnight to get the Batman video at Blockbuster, they had a batlight up.

I think that was the first year I got an AP but I'm not sure.

[Ghoulish Delight]

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

[3894]

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]

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

[Capt Jack]

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]

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]

Oooo, I love contests!

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

What do I win?

[Alex]

Apparently at least 18 more years.

[Isaac]

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.