1986

Fun Filled Facts!

• Hands across America was “attempted”

 

• Everybody was “Walk(ing) Like an Egyptian” thanks to the Bangles hit song

 

• A hairy cat eating Alien Life Form (ALF) took over the Tanner family’s garage

 

• Ferris Bueller took his infamous day off…to the delight of movie goers everywhere

 

• Run DMC and Aerosmith showed us how to “Walk This Way”

 

• “Dirty Harry” was “feeling lucky” as he was elected Mayor of Carmel, CA

 

• Swatches was a MUST have for every wrist

 

• Teddy Ruxpin broke out as a teddy bear with a heart of gold and a stomach of tape decks

 

• Janet Jackson broke out of her image of “Michael’s little sister” and took the music charts by storm

 

• A group of kids broke the rules when they went looking for a dead body in Stand By Me while Tom Cruise’s Maverick had the need for speed and broke out of his father’s shadow in Top Gun.

 

• The Cosby Show broke into a huge hit

 

• Robert Palmer broke just about every feminist rule in the book, as he placed a group of sexy, similar-looking women behind him in his famous video Addicted to Love