Top Songs for 1980
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen
Upside Down by Diana Ross
Another Brick In the Wall by Pink Floyd
Magic by Olivia Newton-John
Lady by Kenny Rogers
Funkytown by Lipps, Inc.
Call Me by Blondie
Starting Over by John Lennon
Rock with You by Michael Jackson
Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
1980 Prices
Bread: $0.51/loaf
Milk: $1.60/gal
Eggs: $1.33/doz
Car: $7,574
Gas: $1.22/gal
House: $76,400
Stamp: $0.15/ea
Avg
Income: $23,974/yr
Min
Wage: $3.10/hr
DOW
Avg: 964
US President
Jimmy Carter
US Vice President
Walter F. Mondale
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture:
Ordinary People Directed By Robert Redford
Best Actor:
Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
Best Actress:
Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter
On TV in 1980
| Mork & Mindy |
The Rockford Files |
Happy Days |
| Little House on the Prairie |
Barney Miller |
The Waltons |
| Hawaii Five-0 |
Hot New Toys in 1980
Magna doodle
Top Books in 1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal,
1830-32 by Joan W. Blos