25 photos that show what life looked like in 1983

Before anyone called it the eighties, it was just life. These 25 photographs capture 1983 the way most people actually lived it: backyard barbecues and basement stereos, kids with boomboxes and moms on dirt bikes, dorm rooms and diners, and a parking lot in Jersey City with the Twin Towers glowing pink in the background. No headlines, no think pieces. Just the clothes, the cars, the hair, and the people who wore all three without thinking twice about it.