24 Vintage Photographs of Cher in the 1980s

It is without a doubt that Cher is in a league of her own, with a decades-spanning musical and acting career. 

With decreasing album sales and a lack of commercially successful singles at the beginning of the eighties, Cher decided to further develop her acting career. In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and later starred in its film adaptation. 

Cher earned her first Oscar nomination for her performance as a plant co-worker and Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in Silkwood (1983). Her next film, Mask (1985), was Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress. Her role in the film also won Cher the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 1987 she subsequently starred in three films: Suspect, The Witches of Eastwick and Moonstruck, the last of which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Cher revived her musical career in 1987 by recording her eighteenth studio album Cher. Despite facing strong retail and radio airplay resistance upon its release, the album proved to be a commercial success, certified platinum by the RIAA. Her next album, Heart of Stone (1989), was certified triple platinum by the RIAA.

Take a look back at the icon in the eighties through these stunning pictures:

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Amazing Photographs of Jim Henson Posing With His Muppets From the 1970s and 1980s

Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), the man behind the Muppets, began working as a puppeteer in college, creating characters like Kermit the Frog. He worked as a producer on Sesame Street, a popular kids’ show that launched in 1969, and created The Muppet Show in 1976. The Muppet Movie, the first of many movies featuring Henson’s famous characters, appeared in 1979. Henson received several accolades for his work, including Emmys, Grammys and a Peabody Award.

James (Jim) Henson began developing puppets in high school. He created Sam and Friends (1955–1961), a short-form comedy television program, while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park in collaboration with Jane Nebel who was a senior. A few years later the two married. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics, after which he and Jane produced coffee advertisements and developed experimental films. In 1958, he co-founded Muppets, Inc. with Jane, which became The Jim Henson Company.

In 1969, Henson joined the children’s educational television program Sesame Street (1969–present) where he helped to develop Muppet characters for the series. He and his creative team also appeared on the first season of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (1975–present). He produced The Muppet Show (1976–1981) during this period. He won fame for his characters, particularly Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog and Ernie. During the later years of his life, he founded the Jim Henson Foundation and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

On May 16, 1990, Henson died in New York City at the age of 53 from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. He posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, and was named a Disney Legend in 2011.

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30 Fabulous Photos of Beverly D’Angelo in the 1970s and ’80s

Born 1951 in Columbus, Ohio, American actress Beverly D’Angelo began acting in the theatre, appearing on Broadway in 1976 in Rockabye Hamlet, a musical based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She made her television debut in the first three episodes of the TV mini-series Captains and the Kings in 1976.

After gaining a minor role in Annie Hall in 1977, D’Angelo appeared in a string of hit movies in the late 1970s including Every Which Way But Loose, Hair, and Coal Miner’s Daughter, the last earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Patsy Cline. She won a Country Music Association award for Album of the Year.

D’Angelo also received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1984 TV movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her other film roles include Sheila Franklin in Hair (1979) and Doris Vinyard in American History X (1998).

Take a look at these fabulous photos to see the beauty of young Beverly D’Angelo in the 1970s and 1980s.

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30 Vintage Photos of Vanessa Paradis in the 1980s

Vanessa Paradis (born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model, and actress. She was a teen pop sensation in her native France in the 1980s. At the age of 14 she recorded a pop single about a Paris taxi driver, titled “Joe le Taxi,” which spent eleven weeks at at the number one spot in France and became an international smash hit as well.

Paradis, who uses her given name, was born in Saint-Maur-Des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Her parents ran an interior design business, and her uncle, Didier Pain, was an actor who moved on to record producing. Thanks to Pain, she won a spot on a television talent showcase at the age of seven, singing a song called “Emilie Jolie.” When she was 14, Pain introduced her to Etienne Roda-Gil, a well-known figure in French pop music who had written a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s. He penned a song about a Parisian taxi driver for Paradis, and “Joe le Taxi” swept the French pop charts in 1987. It also reached number one in 13 other countries––even in Britain, where French-language tracks rarely do that well on the charts.

Paradis went on to record a full-length LP, M&J (for Marilyn & John), released on Polygram’s French subsidiary in 1987. Her young, vixenish looks made her a star, but the sudden fame also made her a virtual outcast at the Paris school she attended as a teen. She was roundly slammed in the press and even jeered at in public. “People started to react in a really mean way, and it was really disproportionate to what I was and what I was doing––this teenage girl singing this cute little song,” she recalled in an interview with Nui Te Koha of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun. It seemed even odder when she considered her country’s history of producing sugary pop ditties sung by kittenish teenaged girls. “They’re left alone ... even if their music is worse than mine or their personality is worse than mine,” she told Koha. “I think people attacked me because the song was so successful, so you have to bring it down, drag it down. It’s a human thing.”

Paradis made her film debut at age 16, starring in Noce Blanche (“White Wedding”) as the mistress of a middle-aged man, and even won a César award, France’s Oscar equivalent, for Best Newcomer in 1990. Despite the honor, she suffered renewed public criticism. “Women hated me,” she recalled in an interview with journalist Caroline Graham of London’s Mail on Sunday. “People had this image of me as someone completely cretinous. It was a shock. I never understood why. They would write 'slut' on the walls of my house and call me names.”

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Photos of Chris Stein and Debbie Harry During Their Romantic Relationship

Chris Stein was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, and attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, but was expelled for wearing long hair.

While in Blondie, Stein and the lead vocalist of the band Debbie Harry maintained a romantic relationship but never married. In 1989, the couple went their separate ways but have continued to work together on a professional basis.

In 1983, Stein was diagnosed with pemphigus vulgaris, a rare autoimmune disease of the skin. He was cared for by his then-partner Debbie Harry and he has since regained normal function. Stein had developed a mild form of the disease, and was able to control it with a program of steroids. As of 2016, he was still touring and recording with Blondie.

In 1999, Stein married actress Barbara Sicuranza, and they have two daughters, Akira and Valentina.

These photos captured beautiful moments of Chris Stein and Debbie Harry during their romantic relationship in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Photos of 40 Scariest Santas of All Time

You DON’T want these Santa Claus’ coming to town!

Nowadays, everyone knows well the Christmas Santa in his red suit with a kind smile and his sack full of gifts. However, more than 50 years, the old bearded paunchy did not have the same nice look that we see today. For the proof, we let you discover these Santa Claus with absolutely creepy looks and clothes.

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Fascinating Photos Capture Street Scenes of the Chinatown From Between the 1960s and ’80s

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable Chinese enclaves within San Francisco.

Chinatown, San Francisco from 1969 through the 1980s

Since its establishment in 1848, it has been highly important and influential in the history and culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants in North America. Chinatown is an enclave that continues to retain its own customs, languages, places of worship, social clubs, and identity. There are two hospitals, several parks and squares, numerous churches, a post office, and other infrastructure.

Recent immigrants, many of whom are elderly, opt to live in Chinatown because of the availability of affordable housing and their familiarity with the culture. San Francisco’s Chinatown is also renowned as a major tourist attraction, drawing more visitors annually than the Golden Gate Bridge.

These fascinating photos were taken by Dave Glass that show street scenes of the Chinatown from 1969 through the 1980s.

Chinese Times Publishing Co., 117 Waverly, San Francisco, 1969

Chinese Times Publishing Co., 117 Waverly, San Francisco, 1969

Dupont Market, Grant and Pacific, San Francisco, 1969

Dupont Market, Grant and Pacific, San Francisco, 1969

Hang Ah alley, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1969

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Amazing Polaroid Shots Taken by Maripol on the Set of ‘Downtown 81’

In 1977, young stylist and jewelry designer Maripol and her then-boyfriend Edo Bertoglio moved from Paris to New York. The self-described “new pioneers of a decadent decade” fit right into a city that had been abandoned and left to fend for itself, its denizens reveling in the limitless creativity that freedom often brings.

Polaroids taken by Maripol on the original set of Downtown 81.

That December, Bertoglio gave Maripol a Polaroid SX-70 camera for Christmas. Long before digital revolutionized the industry, the Polaroid offered instantaneous results, producing a unique print within minutes.

As art director for Fiorucci, the hottest Italian fashion house of the time, Maripol became a fixture on the scene, collaborating with the likes of Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Madonna, Sade, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who went on to star in Downtown 81, a film she produced and art directed.

“There was a curiosity towards Polaroid. Everyone wanted to know, ‘What is that?’ It’s not like point a camera with a huge lens like Ron Galella. It was more natural,” Maripol recalled.

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Amazing Black and White Photos of Hong Kong in the 1980s

1980s in Hong Kong marks a period when the territory was known for its wealth and trademark lifestyle. Hong Kong would be recognized internationally for its politics, entertainment and skyrocketing real estate prices.

Hong Kong’s population topped five million just at the beginning of the 1980s, and rose at an annual average rate of 1.3% over the next ten years. The additional 700,000 residents raised the population to 5.73 million at the end of the decade.

There were public outcries in the early 1980s over decreasing wages due to the large influx of mainland immigrants raising supply against demand. On the other hand, citizens of Hong Kong were beginning to emigrate to the UK, Canada and United States in large numbers due to the uncertainty of the handover in 1997. From 1980 to 1986, an estimated 21,000 people left Hong Kong permanently every year. Beginning in 1987, the numbers rose sharply to 48,000 people a year.

These amazing photos were taken by Dave Glass that show street scenes of Hong Kong in 1986 and 1987.

Chung Yeung Street at North Point, Hong Kong, 1986

Chung Yeung Street at North Point, Hong Kong, 1986

Chungking Mansion, located at 36-44 Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1986

High-rise residential housing, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1986

Hong Kong tram No.68, Queen's Road, Hong Kong, 1986

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