$1,000 INVESTED IN COKE STOCK (KO) IN 1980
WOULD HAVE MADE YOU $275,420 IN THE 2025 DATASET
Min Wage Hourly$3.10
Median Home Price$47,200.00
Gas Price Avg$1.22
Bread Price Avg$0.50
Movie Ticket Avg$2.78
First Class Stamp$0.15
Milk Price Avg$2.15
Top Movies From 1980
Show screen release and event cards
1
The Empire Strikes Back
2
9 to 5
3
Stir Crazy
4
Airplane!
5
Any Which Way You Can
6
Private Benjamin
7
Coal Miner's Daughter
8
Smokey and the Bandit II
9
The Blue Lagoon
10
The Blues Brothers
The Fog
Windows
American Gigolo
Cruising
Hero at Large
The Last Married Couple in America
Midnight Madness
Little Darlings
Friday the 13th
The Long Riders
Where the Buffalo Roam
Don't Go in the House
The Black Marble
The Shining
Fame
Bronco Billy
Urban Cowboy
Can't Stop the Music
Caddyshack
Dressed to Kill
Xanadu
My Bodyguard
The Hunter
Divine Madness
Motel Hell
The Electric Horseman
The Black Hole
All That Jazz
Being There
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Jerk
The Rose
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Inventions & Breakthroughs of August 1980
Gadgets, lab surprises, odd bets, and future-shocks from this slice of the calendar.
1 
Portable Personal Computer
2 
Compact Disc (CD)
3 
Charge-Coupled Device Camera Expansion
4 
Medical MRI Scanner Commercial Use
5 
Digital Signal Processor
6 
Electronic Spreadsheet Software
7 
Home Video Game Console Expansion
8 
Industrial Laser Cutting Systems
9 
Automatic Blood Glucose Meter
10 
Satellite Navigation Expansion
The Sounds of
Popular recordings and roots/country selections associated with the year
Headlines From August 17, 1980
Full News Archive
- Headline: The Iconic 'Smokey and the Bandit' Journey. Impact: In a bizarre twist of fate, the successful transport of that elephant inspired a generation of children to dream about becoming animal couriers, leading to a future where circus animals occasionally filed lawsuits for better working conditions. Who knew a truck and a trunk could change the world?. Fact: Did you know that transporting an elephant is only slightly less complicated than trying to find a decent parking spot in downtown? Spoiler: both end with a lot of honking.
- Headline: 'Willie and Phil' Explored. Impact: The film 'Willie and Phil' unintentionally sparked a mini-renaissance of love triangles in cinema, resulting in a decade-long obsession with awkward threesomes and relationship advice from questionable sources. Thanks, Mazursky, for making us all awkwardly contemplate our romantic entanglements!. Fact: Did you know that 'Willie and Phil' was so meta that it practically invented the concept of watching a movie about watching movies? Next up: a movie about making a movie about watching a movie. Can’t wait!.
Wall Street Time Machine
The Right Call: A historical $1,000 investment comparison using the stored long-range dataset.
Rank #1
AAPL
Apple
Price in 1980
$0.10
Stored value
$2,766,454
Apple - If you invested $1,000 in 1980, it would be worth $2,766,454 today (2766.5x return)
Rank #3
INTC
Intel
Price in 1980
$0.18
Stored value
$199,890
Intel - If you invested $1,000 in 1980, it would be worth $199,890 today (199.9x return)
🦸 Top 5 Comics
The New Teen Titans #1
$75
The X-Men #137
$400
Savage She-Hulk #1
$276
Dazzler #1
$900
The Untold Legend of the Batman #1
$20,000
🧸 Top 5 Toys
Rubik's Cube
$150.00
Atari 2600
$2,500.00
Star Wars Action Figures
$300.00
The Empire Strikes Back Tauntaun
$150.00
LEGO Space Sets
$400.00
🎮 Top 5 Video Games
Pac-Man
$50.00
Centipede
$95.00
Missile Command
$33,400.00
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
$212.30
Rogue
$100.00
⚾ Top 5 Trading Cards
1980 Topps Baseball Rickey Henderson Rookie Card
$138,000
1980 O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky Card
$125,000
1980 Topps Larry Bird / Magic Johnson Rookie Card with Julius Erving
$500,000
1980 Panini Soccer Stickers Diego Maradona
$250,000
1980 Donruss Golf Jack Nicklaus Card
$0.00