FST TimeTravel................1979

Show pictures or share stories about where you were in 1979.

I was twenty and just finished nursingschool and started working in a

psychiatric postcare facility in the city where i lived. I remeber i loved the

fact i didn't have to wear a white uniform anymore.

I remember listening to jazzrock with my mates and visiting heaps of concerts.

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The conservatives won the elections in the UK and Margaret Thatcher

became prime-minister.
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag...etThatcher.jpg

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My fav drink back then was Pernod, with water and ice.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/suikyo...8/e82154f8.jpg

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The shah flee from Iran and Iran became an Islamic state.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x-Khomeini.jpg....took over.

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That year i went on holiday to Montmedy, an old city in the north of France,

http://www.montmedy.com/images/petit_montmedy.jpg

where we worked on the restoration of the Citadelle (Citywall) in exchange

for food and shelter. We slept and lived in the Pigeoniere, a really big pigeon-

house.

Celebrating the 14 of July with the locals was one of the highlights.

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Bernard Hinault wins the Tour de France that year.

The Album top-ten that year:

Breakfast In America - Supertramp
Voulez Vous - ABBA
I Am - Earth, Wind & Fire
Dynasty - Kiss
Outlandos D'Amour - The Police
Babylon By Bus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Manifesto - Roxy Music
Variaties Op Een Dame - Flairck
Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
Emociones - Julio Iglesias

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Ich múss doch erst michselbst befreien, vor die erste kinder schreien....

(First i have to free myself, before my first baby cries....)

Sings Nina Hagen, who i first saw in Berlin that year.
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/glamrockbe...en,%20nina.jpg
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In december Russia invades Afghanistan.

In august the first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.

http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Travel/...udistBeach.jpg


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The house where i rented an apartment burned down in september,

after the owner of the surfstore under the apartments had set fire to his

store.

I lost everything exept for some photo's of my youth.......:cry:

(though the insurance pay out was really nice....:) )

Happily my two cats were outside when it happened.

And the short fling i had with the female police officer who helped us out

after the fire was really nice!!! :naughty:
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In november In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist

Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of

Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally.

In Juli the Marxist Sandinistas take control of Nicaragua.

The Deer Hunter gets the oscar that year.

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My fav TV-shows of that year were a.o. Soap, All in the family, Fawlty

Towers, http://www.fawltysite.net/Images/cast.jpg, Van Kooten

en De Bie/Simplistisch Verbond, Taxi, The Muppet Show, Mash,
http://images.art.com/images/-/MASH--B10042107.jpeg

Benny Hill :blushing: , Derrick, etc.......

My club Ajax did the double(championship and national cup) that year.

And with the team i played in we became champion of the 4th class KNVB,

wich was never matched after that year.

(The club's owner payed us 50 guilders after a win, wich wasn't allowed,

as we were amateurs.....In 91 the club was put back 4 divisions after they

found out......)

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YoNostalgia

probably i was just an idea my parents had while drunk.


in fact. my parents didn't know each other then :dabs:

i think my mum always planned 4 children though. so i was an idea :unsure:

I was one. :mellow:

the year I was born

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a fine year :w00t:

my dad was in college and mom in college.

I had me first wet dream about Kim Wilde :naughty:

I mastered the art of dribbling.

77 > 79 :snooty:

any body remember

THe Clash-1979?

my ma did The Clash. :snooty:

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Originally Posted by Lilmiss

my ma did The Clash. :snooty:

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The whole band? :naughty:

uh huh.
that's why i have so many papa's. :smug: :happy:

Baby girl????
I was a roadie for the Clash about then!!!