Retro Cafe Blog: 1987

Today's featured year in the Retro Cafe blog is 1987. Average household income was about $26,061. The average price of a new car was $7,012, and you could still fill it up for under a buck a gallon. You could grab a $2.28 gallon of milk on the way to your new home, which set you back just over $127,000 (on average).

60% of Americans had microwaves, but spent 40% of their income eating out.

Single-use disposable cameras were hot. "Cheers" kept cheering and we watched the Seavers air their "Growing Pains" on TV.

Thirtysomething won the Emmy for Best Drama and Britain's Kim Wilde rebooted The Supremes with "You Keep Me Hanging On".

Sam Malone, Magnum, P.I.'s Tom Selleck and Police Academy's Cadet Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) took breaks from their day jobs to work hard as roommates and single parents in "Three Men and a Baby". On the flipside, Diane Keaton was doing the same in "Baby Boom". Max Headroom hit it big and Spuds Mackenzie was an advertising spokes-star.

Share some memories you have from 1987 in the comment section below. Remember to tune in to 104-5 KDAT, every weekday at Noon for a full hour of music from the '80s on the Retro Cafe.

[Via 1980sflashback.com, inthe80s.com]