Think back to December 31, 1989...where were you when the 1980's ended forever???

I was 8 years old at the time, and I remember being at home, but it was very special because it was the first year I was allowed to stay up past midnight...I watched the ball drop on Times Square commemorating New Years Day 1990, and I was just in awe...I wished I could have been down there, and my goal is to make it to NYC some New Years Eve to celebrate.

Until then, I have my TV!

So, where were you?

I was in Minneapolis, MN, having flown there to see Louie Anderson's New Year's Eve show. It was also the first time I saw John Pinette. It was a fabulous show and I drove back to my hotel, ordered a club sandwich and called my husband at midnight (there is a one hour time difference between MN and NY, so I got to celebrate the New Year twice!)

Originally posted by purrsyn9
I was in Minneapolis, MN, having flown there to see Louie Anderson's New Year's Eve show. It was also the first time I saw John Pinette. It was a fabulous show and I drove back to my hotel, ordered a club sandwich and called my husband at midnight (there is a one hour time difference between MN and NY, so I got to celebrate the New Year twice!)

Sounds like a great night...I wish my New Years parties were more exciting! :(

I was living in Arlington, TX at the time. I remember being rather excited about a new decade (boy was that a BIG dissapointment). It ended up being the worst decade of my life so far! I remember me and my boyfriend at the time and two other friends watched "Heathers" that night on cable.

I dont remember but I wish I could party like it was 1989!

Seeing that I was two years old in 89, I was probably all sound asleep. *awww* :D

This is a good question, so it prompted me to get out my diary I had kept in 1989. (Only did that for 1988 and 1989).

Hmmmm. It seems that on the last night of the decade I was at home reflecting on what a lousy decade I had. So I obviously wasn't doing anything special that night. :( :lol:

Hard to believe that the 80s for me was a real lousy decade to live personally, but there is so much about it that is good that I just can't help but love it. And plenty of highlights too.

The 80's are over? Say it isn't so!! :cry:

As the decade came to a close, I was home still living in the gutter :lol: I was only 12, so there wasn't too much I could really do past midnight for New Years :lol: '89 was a fun year though....I remember being a bit apprehensive about heading into the 90's...I just didn't want the 80's to end even then...guess my subconcious knew bad things were afoot :p

I was 19 at the time. I was at a bar in Columbus. (using fake id-:D) I want to say it was called Alantas?? Been awhile! :p

I never kept a diary. I had two brothers--as if they needed was more ammo! :eek:

I was at a party at my best friends house. On a second date with my boyfriend, who is now my husband. Nothing spectacular happened that night, it was just the typical drunken-teen party...:wacky:

I wish I knew, but I don't! :( I was only 3 years old at the time, so I was most likely at home watching TV. :D

And, wait, you mean the 80's are over? :( I'm in denial!

I don't believe they ended yet. :D But, I can't remember 1989. LOL I remeber bits and pieces of 1990 though. :p I guess I was in diapers when the 80's ended. LOL

I was babysitting my cousins son at the time. I remember my friend Glen ( :( ) was there with me and my cousin bought us some alcohol and we played "1999" at midnight. It would become the worst decade of my life as I started to grow up and have more responsibility. My friend never made it out of the 90's passing away a year later on his 21st birthday.

It was such a blur.... I really shouldn't even post it. Dec. 31, 1989....I was 27, six months pregnant, and had been a widow for 11 days. I don't even remember that New Year's Eve.

Originally posted by LOSTNTHE80S
It was such a blur.... I really shouldn't even post it. Dec. 31, 1989....I was 27, six months pregnant, and had been a widow for 11 days. I don't even remember that New Year's Eve.

I'm so sorry to hear that.:(

I didn't mean to bring up bad memories.:(

....Ty Jughead..... I knew I shouldn't have even posted it. The story gets better with time though.....Now it is 2002, I have remarried (to my true soulmate) and we have 2 daughters. Life is really wonderful now. I am still very close w/ my 1rst husband's family and they have welcomed my current husband into their family with arms wide open.
:)

I'm glad that life is better for you now, Lostinthe80s! :)

New Year's Eve, 1989. Let me see... I was living in Charlotte, NC, going to college. A gang of us headed to First Night in Uptown Charlotte. I remember it being bitterly cold, but we kept ourselves warm with Peppermint Schnapps and Brandy. It was a fun evening, but nothing spectacular. In hindsight, had I truly appreciated that the 80s were drawing to a close, I would have done something a bit different! ;)

Jughead....
You didn't bring up bad memories...you had no way of knowing. It's just that I saw this thread and thought, "What in the world WAS I doing on that N.Y.Eve?".... then I remembered.

I don't remember exactly. I'm going to have to follow Recker's lead and get my diary out from 1989. :) I was 14, a freshman in high school. I remember 9th grade as a really fun year.

Following the usual New Year's activities from early high school, I was probably at my grandparents' house, sitting up late with my 11-year-old cousin, watching Dick Clark and drinking that sparkling apple cider stuff. ;)

I'd rather not talk about it. I'm still in denial that the decade ended.

Oh hell I don't even remember. I was in my sophomore year going to the high school I wish I had stayed at, but we moved and I had to go to another school that sucked.

I have no clue what I was up to on 12/31/89, but towards the night I was probably watching the NYC countdown to New Years.

1989 was a great year for me! :)

I had started dating my wife on Oct. 31st, and we stayed out with our friends all through the night. Didn't get home till 9:30 the next morning. I almost missed the Rose Bowl game:( .

I don't even remember it was that exciting. It was my senior year in highschool so I must have been at a party someware.

I cried when the 80s ended. Maybe because I knew that the 90s sucked.

On New Year's Eve 1989 I was with my family, visiting my grandparents, who were then living in LA. At that time I was a sophomore in college and had gotten through my freshman year pretty well. All things considered then, the decade had closed out pretty well, and I was feeling pretty cocky entering into the 90s.

Things went downhill from then....

On December 31, 1989 I was with my family celebrating the end of the year, not really realizing I was saying goodbye to a decade that would never be again! Well....except here in the 80sxchange, that is!! :)

I was staying at home "babysitting" my 15 yr old cousin while my parents went out to a NYE do at the club. My cousin was watching a cricket match on TV in a time zone 3 hrs behind us so he missed it !!! hehe, I was stuck by the radio listening to whatever the radio plays to bring in the new year and I was thinking one decade to go to Year 2000.

I snuck into a bar with my friend. We were happy at the time. I guess we had no idea what the 90s had in store for us!:rolleyes:

I was a baby. i was born December 16, 1989 so then i was probably eating, or sleeping.

I was 14 in 1989. I was at home watching Dick Clark's NYE party. I remember seeing Richard Marx on TV and Dick Clark rattling off events that occurred in the 80's.

I was at home on December 31, 1989/January 1, 1990. :)

I don't remember wha I was doing, but I was surely at home. My memory can't go back that far. :lol:

I was 17 years old as the decade came to a close. I was living in St. Louis, Missouri at the time. The local top 40 station, hits 106, was playing back the top 100 songs of the 1980s. My sister and I had the radio up loud playing back all the songs that made that decade so good. Also spent a lot of time reflecting back on the decade and getting excited about the 90s. I kept thinking "if the 80s were that good then I can't wait to see what the 90s are going to be like!!!" I even remember the shirt I was wearing, Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls" concert t-shirt.:cool:

You already know what I was up to because you posted the same question on YL and I answered that one. I'm not going to repeat myself so I'll keep it brief. Since it was the first year I was legally old enough to drink there was alchol involoved, but I didn't get drunk, just lightly buzzed. I had a fun night with a group of friends. We went out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, partied at one of the local bars, and a group of us went to somebody's house after the bar closed for more partying. It was a fun night!!

Boy, was i sentimental back then, i did not like the thought that the decade would end, it was a feeling of something good being over and the world would change. And looking back on the pop culture of the 90s i was right. :(

I spend New years eve with my sister at the place of people i did not know before. You surley know the feeling, beeing dragged along to a party by your parents. Well fortunatley the houseowners had a son in my age with a great video collection, so we watched movies like Roger Rabbit.

In Austria we used to have a yearly Top 50 every New Years eve and i borrowed a tape player and taped it. The evening passed, it was midnight, champain bottles were opened and fireworks sent off and the 80s were history. The 90s musically started with Laura Brannigan and "Self Control" for me. :)

I remember just feeling sad as I felt (for the first time) that my childhood really was gone! Time to grow up DJ! I had become a dad very early in 1989 (just 18 you know) and somehow had managed to avoid feeling old. That all ended here...I have been in a funk ever since until I found all of you! I can't express how great it is to have people that think like I do to bounce things off of. Thanks!

I remember it well I was at a party we were watching Dick Clark we had been drinking for quite some time we all were watching the ball drop with great anticipation (not knowing what the 90’s had in store) when the ball finally dropped we all cheered and sang auld an sine and from that point on my life began to change dramatically the music I loved so much was no longer getting air play it was being replaced with this music called grunge and Hard rock and Metal were on the outs. That’s when I began feeling older and very nostalgic and that feeling hasn’t stopped till this day.:cry:

I remember it quite well, too. It was my senior year of college, semester break. I was working as a projectionist for Hoyts that night. I think I bailed out someone by agreeing to work, and she met me upstairs in the projection booth with a couple of Coronas halfway through my shift. I remember using the underside of the table as a bottle opener. I hid the empties in the wastebasket by wrapping them in a long sheet of brown paper towel.

When midnight struck, I was shutting down one of the projectors, and watching the two ushers on duty cleaning up one of the theaters from the projection booth window. I remember they threw popcorn in the air like confetti. I think we were the only three left on duty besides our manager.

After I clocked out, I gave one of the guys a ride home, then went to Coco's to meet my friends, who had stopped by the theater on their way out to let me know where they were going. Of course, since it was well after midnight, they were all ready to go home. I got a flat tire on my way home - thankfully it happened like a block from my dad's house.

Lot of fun, good times.

I was five and behind the Iron Curtain most likley watching Dynasty re-runs

I was a college senior attending a New Year's Eve Party still thinking that the world was going to roll over for me when I graduated.

I was only 4 so I don't really remember what happened. I think I was watching TV and listening to my walk-man though.

BBC2 in the UK screened an evening's worth of 80's videos, primarily performances from Top of the Pops, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Cameo and Dead or Alive.

Looking back at that night was truly special. I ended the 90's gigging in a pub in East London. It was just NOT the same.

I was in Saudi Arabia just over the border from Kuwait on gaurd, waiting for orders to move into either Iraq or Kuwait. Not a pleasant memory standing there alone with my thoughts, watching my squad try to get some sleep in between the jets flying overhead.

No booze either.

Sorry that was 90. 1989 I was in Northern Ireland patroling down a street listening to everone in the pubs singing and wishing I was at home with the family.

This new years will always stay with me! I went to a friends uncles party. We both "acquired" some cans on the way and decided to see just jow quickly we could dispose of them.

Needless to say we didn't make midnight before I redecorated the uncles prize flowerbed & denz coated the driveay???

Learned to hold my beer since then thank god!

Y'know - I can't remember what I was doin as th'80's ended. I know I was in London then, an I was prob'ly pissed as a newt. Musta had fun, tho - cause I don't remember anythin bad either! ;)

Originally posted by True Rebel
Y'know - I can't remember what I was doin as th'80's ended. I know I was in London then, an I was prob'ly pissed as a newt. Musta had fun, tho - cause I don't remember anythin bad either! ;)

hmmm that means Rebel was being bad. :eek: :lol:

Heh. Well, Shortie-love - let's jus say that what I -do- remember I can't tell you fer another few years at least. ;)

since I was only 3 in 1989 ,I probably was sleeping.
I was really jipped out of the best decade ever,gee Iwish I was born sooner!

There's a song there Freak. "Why was I born too late?"

Just for interest, the page below shows the lyrics and plays the tune. No idea who sang it.

http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/madchester/salsa/49/abc/born_tl.html

When the 80's ended, I was living with my aunt's boyfriend. My brother and I were moved out of our parents' home due to family problems. I think that I went with my aunt to her mother's house to watch New Year's Eve.

The (ex) wife was asleep, my oldest son had finally quieted down and went to bed, I had sat alone in the living room drinking with my good buddy Jose Cuervo and I thought as the hour approached I should really do *something* to commemorate the event, so at precisely 11:59:50 p.m. December 31st 1989 I began to take a whizz that lasted right on into 1990. Just remember, you asked! :D

I was 15 years old. We were at some party that got raided by the cops. So, basically i was running from the police when midnight hit. That should have told me right there that the 90's were gonna be awful

;) I was at our family home out of town, still hanging around after Christmas. I was 18, and had just finished a semester in college. It was a pretty solemn feeling for me... This was, after all, the decade I finished growing up in...

Lets see in 1989 my son was born, i graduated high school in Ky, my marriage was going down since my ex cheated on my that year but i was a fool to think things would come around. The only great thing that happened that year was that my 2nd son was born.. my sunshine :p

I think I was watching cartoons with my best friend. He lived in a house in front of mine. I'm sure 'twas a reeeeeeeeeeally good night !!! I was 9.

For 1989, I remember I got my left ear pierced on my 9th birthday (one month later, I had a little gold dolphin on my first ear ring ever :p), and got a beautiful white car with a radio controller, you know? I don't know the word in english... Pretty cool car !!

I can't remember. I'll bet i had a good time :angel:

I remember EXACTLY where I was on 12/31/89. HAHA! I was supposed to go out with friends and ended up coming down with Pnemonia (sp?) and since I couldn't go out, I went to the video store and rented all three Faces Of Death movies and watched them laying in my bed. Needless to say - I was totally grossed out! :ill:

I was home on winter break from college. My girlfriend and I fell asleep on the floor watching TV in my parent's living room. Didn't even get to see Dick Clark and the ball drop in NYC.

Yeah, I was really pumped for the 90s!!

I was in Germany, with a girlfriend's family. Read my post on 'Where were you when the Berlin wall came down?' if you want a good laugh. I remember blacking out after drinking so much. Good times, man, good times!

In the 2nd grade :p

That's a good question...I was a few months shy of my 21st birthday. I have a feeling I had to work that day or evening -- probably getting a lot of X-mas returns. (I worked in a local department store in Honolulu which is now owned by Macy's -- selling perfume.) I was either in the Pink Cadillac night club in Waikiki or I was nice and spent it with my parents. -- I think.

I was at my second-cousin's house, playing Nintendo, drinking chocolate malts, and listening to the local radio station, that was broadcasting mostly 80's tunes. It was very memorable, because of the laughs we all shared that night. (Hehe, rubber band fight!:D)

I was at home with my 7 month old daughter....eating junk food and watching tv until midnight.

I Was 11yrs old and my Mom Let me stay up late to watch the Ball Drop. When it did i just went into my room & Cryed cuzz My #1 Favorite Decade Just Ended :(

I was 17 years old, and at my boyfriends apartment. He had a bunch of people over and we were drinking and partying. :drunk: :angel: I don't remember much more than that LOL

I was in the Air Force in Okinawa Japan.. about to return back to the states.

I had just graduated and was basicly just bumming around that summer without any "adult" supervision. Eighteen and free and looking for a way to pay for college. The night itself is a bit of a blur cause it was a stellar party! I do remember shortly after joining the army which (unknown to me) led me to the first Gulf War. Talk about paying for college the hard way!....hehe

Lord Jay

Yanno I really can't remember where I was...hell I was only 12 so was probably at a friends' house or something. It wasn't one of those things I really felt I would need to remember because it wasn't anything big to me then LOL
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I was five years old at the time when the 80's ended. Don't remember much about December 31, 1989, but was probably sleep.

If i remember right we were @ my grandparents house for new years eve :)