Friday, November 28, 2008

QUICKSILVER!!!!! 1985


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Forgive the fucking ad before this video. I fucking hate embedded ads, but what can I do. This video is an awesome little encapsulation of bike messengers in Manhattan in 1985.
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Anonymous said...

You have been representing 1985 lately.

Interesting things that happened in 1985, according to Wikipedia:
January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term in office
February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia.
March 14 - Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on birth control after the lion population increases from 2 to 16.
April 23 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke
May 13 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire
une 27 - U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned
July 13 - Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia
August 31 - Knorr, Robert Ballard, Jean-Louis Michel, and crew, find the wreck of R.M.S. Titanic
September 28 - The shooting of Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce by the Metropolitan Police sparks race riots in Brixton, an area of South London, England (Ella note: Guns of Brixton predates this event)
October 18 - The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in US stores
November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time
December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda

Also: "The graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore is set in an alternate 1985."

And I was born.

November 29, 2008 at 6:21 PM

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