What happened in 1989?

[Moonliner]

That was the year I became a bitter east coaster when I left the west and came out to DC....

[thecorndogwalker]

It was the year I went to High School. 9th grade, in Brooklyn..
A tortured teenage gay boy!!!!

It was also the last year I went to WDW, I used to go every year with my evil aunt & uncle and their bratty two daughters. My mom and I used to hitch a ride with them down to Florida. I remember listenening to the Milli Vanilli cassette tape on my personal walk man...

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by thecorndogwalker

It was the year I went to High School. 9th grade, in Brooklyn..
A tortured teenage gay boy!!!!

It was also the last year I went to WDW, I used to go every year with my evil aunt & uncle and their bratty two daughters. My mom and I used to hitch a ride with them down to Florida. I remember listenening to the Milli Vanilli cassette tape on my personal walk man...

OMG! You did have a difficult time growing up. Imagine being exposed to Milli Vanilli at such a young age. The mind reels!

[Snowflake]

1989, hmmmm, started a new job that year (resulted in a 10 year tour of duty with said firm), walking across Market Street, standing at the bus stop and whammo Loma Prieta quake hit, walked to Tower Records on Bay Street (my moonlighting job) and on the way learning from some guys who had a portable tv plugged into their van that the Bay Bridge collapsed and the Marina was on fire (our apartment was on bedrock, nothing but crooked pictures and no phone service for a few days, no power for 1 day, we got off very easy). Fully immersed into opera that year, I was a standee (could not afford seats (still can't ) and went to the opera 4 nights a week at least. Spent most of the year listening to music, reading books and spending time with several good friends (and still friends) and the saddest milestone of that year is my best opera buddy was the first friend to die of AIDS. I still miss him. I remember that time, as a 29 year old, a good year, lots of happy memories and good times. 10 years later I was having a mid-life crisis and moved to the bitter east coast.

[Scrooge McSam]

1989, hmmm

I remember that year. I took most of it off.

Started the year with a cruise through the Caribbean.

Spent the first few months working as maitre d' on the Mississippi Queen. I had already been employed onboard for a couple of years.

My friend, Jere, was diagnosed with AIDS. He died the next year.

After leaving the Queen, I spent a few months living in New Orleans, where I somehow managed to have all my clothes stolen by someone I thought was a friend.

Watched the beginnings of the Loma Prieta quake while visiting friends in Virginia Beach, VA. My friend, Melissa, was pregnant at the time. Her son, born a short while later, just entered the army a couple of months ago.

Hey GC! Remember that avatar pic you and Claire wondered about. It was taken in the summer of 1989 in the Ozarks while visiting my Mom.

[JWBear]

I was 27, living in Placentia, and working as a manager at an ARCO station in Seal Beach. I was still involved with the SCA. Nothing exciting.

[Ponine]

1989......
I was suffering through my second year of college...
working my tail off as a waitress as Bob's Big Boy on the weeknights,
weekend days in the commons at school.
I had just gotten my new voice coach, and man was she difficult.

My step-mothers mom died that year, my Dad was having issues with his addiction, and it had just been made public to us girls I think.

My step-mom had a miscarriage.... and one of my stepsisters started being rather promiscuous.

89.. would have also been the year that I did three months as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and a run of Stop the World I Want to get Off.

[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.