Apparently, people didn’t listen to Bob Hope. So many years of buying shoddy merchandise from China and other countries has decimated our manufacturing base in the United States. Our economic situation would be much stronger today if we hadn’t destroyed our own workforce.
This television commercial dates to 1986.
Amanda Lear in 1986 singing “I Need a Man”. Some say she once was a man. Some believe she is a natural-born woman. In any event, 1986 is too late to be playing disco diva, and she does look suspiciously like Loni Anderson with breast reduction.
So the Yugo television commercial from 1986 claims the Volkswagen Beetle is “homely”. If only we could compare the Yugo to the Beetle. Of course, while vintage Beetles are plentiful, finding a Yugo outside a junkyard is like finding a unicorn.
“Pretty in Pink” from 1986. Molly Ringwald is the misfit that every man wants. A wildly successful movie with actors who are still working today.
Here is the preview trailer for “Top Gun”, 1986. A more innocent time, before Tom Cruise traded his good wife for an odd wife, and traded the odd wife for an easily manipulated wife. What happened?!
