Do you remember 1985 ?

[sweetip2000]

Cost of Living 1985
How Much things cost in 1985
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 3.55%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1546
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.75%
Average Cost of new house $89,330
Median Price Of and Existing Home $75,500
Average Income per year $22,100.00
Average Monthly Rent $375.00
Average Price for new car$9,005.00
1 gallon of gas $1.09
Movie Ticket $2.75
US Postage Stamp 22 cents
Bacon per pound $1.65

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1985.html

[atc007]

Too bad we can't look ahead as easy as we can back........Very cool post . Thanx

[Vealmonkey]

Are you trying to make a point here?

[hillbilly 200x]

Are you trying to make a point here? YUPE!!!
everthing has gone up alot but the average income per year hasn't gone up much

[Dirtcrasher]

That was 27 years ago, the world is no longer in it for us.

There will be rich and poor and probably an uprising at some point........

[Thorpe]

Dude... Transformers was huge back then! (granted I was 4 ((and a half!!))

[blkstangman88]

That half counts when trailprotrailpro 4!!

[brd812]

I was 15, bondoing up a international scout and raising hell on old orange. The hood had 3 trikes, honda 110, kawi 110, and my 185.....funny we went from 110s to tecates and banshees really quick in those days.

[hublake]

I bought my 85 BR then and it cost a little less than $1700.00 new

[atc350xer]

The year I got my driver's license... and other "milestones"... lol

[riverrat]

I was stoned.....20 years old.....riding 110's and 200x's haha I was making like $5 an hour. We had hair! Drag racing on the blvd.

[riverrat]

For the record, I still have hair, by hair I meant big boofy hair because it was the 80's.

[Thorpe]

The year I got my driver's license... and other "milestones"... lol

I don't get it....??? jk

[dksix]

85 was the year my dad took me too look at my first 3 wheeler. The one he rode straight out of the parking lot, across the road, into a drive way, off a bridge, landing in the creek. He was somewhat drunk, needing to make a left turn, in rocks, on a 200X with a twist throttle. That was the day he told me "I'd never own one of those things". LOL

[DRKCYDE]

I was 7 and we had just bought the 200s for the cottage up north.
Memories I am trying to relive with buying the 250sx last summer.

[hogmuffin]

I was 3 years old zooming around on my yellow yamaha tri zinger 60, my dad running behind me with a firm hold on the "kill cord"

[blkstangman88]

A rope attached to the grab bar isnt considered a "kill cord " well maybe it is lol

[code200k]

A rope attached to the grab bar isnt considered a "kill cord " well maybe it is lol
the zingers actaully have a tethered kill switch

[Chazz of Blades]

Swimming around inside my father wishing for an upgrade.

[willreed03]

Swimming around inside my father wishing for an upgrade.
lol...I was recently out...only a few weeks old at the start of 1985...

[Vealmonkey]

In my fifth year of serving in the Haze Grey Canoe Club. (USN).

[oscarmayer]

michael jackson was king back then and we all wanted to be a goonie!!!!
fried bologna samwiches were also popular. and kissing a dr.pepper was a big commerical.

[Vealmonkey]

I still like fried bologna sandwiches. And for some reason, weeks of my memories keep disappearing? LOL

[sledcrazyinCT]

Was 14 and got my first real job working at David's Place in Montville CT scooping ice cream. Owned a honda 110 and was actively looking to buy a nice 200X. Was making good money for a teenager ($400 cash) a week. Back then life was simple....Looking back I would have invested in some 426 hemi cars and Boss or Shelby mustangs. I still retch when I watch Barret Jackson and remember the cars available for sale in the late 80s early 90s. We had a drag strip in Colchester, CT about 10 minutes from where I grew up and lots of locals had killer cars!!!

[JasonB]

theres some HUGE differences in the numbers you listed. I thought gas was around the dollar mark when I started driving in 2000. either way, ya there needs to be a major cost of living increase.

[tri again]

1985? interest rates were at 19 freakin' percent.
Lots of loans were prime plus 2.

is that Deflation or inflation?

[CRAZY70MAN]

That was 27 years ago, the world is no longer in it for us.

There will be rich and poor and probably an uprising at some point........

Correct!! Well said, my thought's exactly DC

[HuffieVA]

1985......

Motoworld was on TV every week...

Three wheelers were in their prime...

You had a choice between Beta & VHS...

JT Racing sponsored everybody...

Sand Scorcher had the coolest stickers...

None of the girls my age were grandparents... (and quite a few were still hot)

Tim Richmond was ready to rule the world of NASCAR...

You could buy a brand new street legal 2-Stroke RZ350...

There were no underage drinking laws and we took full advantage of it ...:D

Burger King had a salad bar...

You could still get laid at the drive in...

Everybody had neon colored zebra print bandanas...

You could set off a 1/4 stick in the high school parking lot without going to federal prison...

Ron LECHIEN took the 125 Class on a CR
Jeff Ward took the 250 Class on a KX
Broc Glover won the 500cc Outdoors on a YZ490
Danny Magoo Chandler was riding for KTM
David Bailey was the shining star of motocross

Thats all for now, I'm almost out of hair spray...

[oscarmayer]

i remember the last one. lol

[MRSOUND]

I was graduating high school. Driving a 78 mustang cobra II and jumping into the working world full time. School is just a memory, beat the crap out the car and sold it, but just can't seem to get rid of that working thing. Would love to go back!

[dcreel]

My first year of high school..

I taped Motoworld every week on a HUGE VCR.. lol

Making mix tapes off KROQ 106.7 in OC every sunday with Rodney on the Roq and my old tape deck..

Waiting for the next trip to Glamis..

Collecting riding gear and parts catalog's through the mail...

[sweetip2000]

I was totally stoned. My binge started in 1979 and I drank a case of beer a day until 1989.
Coke weed ect..... cant believe I am still alive

[Matrix]

Are you trying to make a point here?

Why is this guy turning into such a whining trailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro?

[blkstangman88]

That was the year i was hanging out with my dad, went to a movie with him and went home with my mom!