15 Signs Your Family Was RICH in 1980s America

Remember the house every kid on the block wanted to visit? Fifteen everyday clues that told you a family had money in the 1980s, from the first VCR to a phone inside the car. This video counts down fifteen things American kids noticed in the eighties: the country club, the pony on the shirt, the big projection TV, the Mercedes, the CD player, the HBO box, the satellite dish, a flight to Disney World, and the backyard pool. It also looks at the squeeze behind them, with mortgage rates near eighteen and a half percent and a minimum wage that sat still for the whole decade. Whose house was the one everybody wanted to go to on your street, and what did that house have? Tell me in the comments. Sources and References U.S. Department of Labor, History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Freddie Mac, Primary Mortgage Market Survey Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor Review, 1983 Federal Reserve History, Recession of 1981-82 Federal Reserve History, Stock Market Crash of 1987 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Consumer Price Index U.S. Census Bureau, Computer Use in the United States: 1989, 1991 IBM, The IBM PC Sony Group, Product and Technology Milestones Ralph Lauren, The World of Ralph Lauren Timeline Jacuzzi, The History of Hydromassage Disney D23, Epcot Origins: Becoming EPCOT Center, 2012 Mercedes-Benz Club of America, Buyer's Guide: 1981-1991 W126 S-Class Wikipedia, Car phone Wikipedia, History of HBO #1980s #Nostalgia #GrowingUp