We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It was the decade of big hair, jazzercise, scrunchies, and MTV — that's right, we're talking about the totally tubular '80s. Everything was ...

It was the night before Thanksgiving, 1980. An unexpected blizzard had coated central Missouri in inches of snow. And John Morris’ car had just spun off an icy road and into a ditch. John was still ...

In 1980 middle-class families lived in a world of Atari consoles, rotary phones and station wagons with wood paneling. The median U.S. household income was $21,020, enough to buy a modest home, a ...