re: What was the peak year of the 80’s?

84 or 85, if we only knew how great we had it back then. The biggest stain on the 80s was AIDS, many young lasses tightened up their legs a little.

The other very minor stain was Reagan's war on drugs.

Too tough to call. From late 83 all the way through to the end of Desert storm in 91 the bar was very, very high.

Pick any year from 82-84.

For me it was 1987. I was ten years old and just being a kid living in a small country town. The next year all the small schools were consolidated and we were bussed miles away to be in school with a bunch of kids we didn’t know all in the name of a desegregation lawsuit.

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 got accepted to LSU

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In another thread several LSU posters said that during this era all one had to do to get accepted to LSU was graduate from a Louisiana high school.

I upvoted every one who mentioned 84 because they’re correct.

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Classic 80s TV: A-Team, Cheers, Knight Rider, Family Ties, Miami Vice, Who’s the Boss, Airwolfe, Cosby Show, Growing Pains, Moonlighting, etc.

The Smurfs, He-Man, She-Ra, Transformers, My Little Pony, and Thundercats

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Ho could you leave out the Dukes of Hazard?

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In another thread several LSU posters said that during this era all one had to do to get accepted to LSU was graduate from a Louisiana high school.

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That's actually pretty much true. However, I graduated from a Kentucky high school. I did have a friend at LSU who "graduated" from H.L. Bourgeois H.S. and was completely unable to read at a second grade level. Each semester was the same for him - repeating Remedial English 0092 and forgetting everything he learned over the break at the end of the semester.

I don't blame him. He had a real learning issue when it came to reading. Apart from that, he functioned pretty well. The problem I have with it is that the high school awarded him a diploma at the age of twenty just to get him out of the school system. Then LSU dropped admission standards low enough to allow students with an ACT score of 8 (and this is after having the questions read to him because he couldn't read them himself) to the university.

He was a good guy but he had no business being admitted to the flagship university if the state. Louisiana is, unfortunately, paying for these past actions and failures in its education system today and it hurts me to see it. Louisiana was always my adopted home state. It was heaven on earth for me.

I'll never say anything bad about the people or the traditions and culture of Louisiana, but I can't say the same for the politics that have caused the state such great harm over multiple decades.

For me, 1980 (Steelers win final Super Bowl under Chuck Noll), 1981 (graduated from high school and joined the Army), 1986 (got married - been with my wife since) and 1988 (selected for Army ROTC scholarship).

The 80s were very good to me.

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"graduated" from H.L. Bourgeois H.S. and was completely unable to read at a second grade level.

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he was probably valedictorian of HL that year!