Everything was bigger in the '80s, and if you don't believe me, you should check out these 20 representative pics.
Aggressive policies of deregulation and economic expansion meant that the 1980s were a fantastic period for ambitious capitalists, and the beginning of a decline for everyone else.
Everything was bigger in the '80s, and if you don't believe me, you should check out these 20 representative pics.
They don't call it the "Decade of Greed" for nothing.
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In Pressurized Uniforms, 1980's.
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Northern Ireland during The Troubles, 1980s.
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An artist who designed numerous fonts, icons and images for Apple, Microsoft and IBM in the 1980s.
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Shipping Line And the Twin Towers, 1980s.
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The mines of 1980s Brazil.
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When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, gas stations in Toronto refused to gas Ladas (a Russian car), 1980s.
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In-front of the Soyuz rocket, 1980s, Baikonur, Kazakh SSR.
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With his pet crocodiles, 1980s.
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Flying past one of the 6th century Bamiyan Buddha statues, in the Bamyan Province, Afghanistan.
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Refueling a SAAB 105 jet in the 1980s.
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In the courtyard of the Louvre, 1980s.
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During the Iran Iraq War, 1980s.
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During rush hour, June 3, 1980. Photograph by Gary Fong.
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"Lun-class ekranoplan" testing one of the six top mounted rocket silos, late 1980s.
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Czechoslovakia, 1980s.
