Throwback Thursday: Easter in the 80s
We’re going to show you sunrise services, Easter bonnets, singing crosses, a different Pope, pop stars, and kids painting Easter eggs.
We’ll start in 1980.
Reporter Tom Hogue shows us Easter services here at home and at the Vatican.
They include a sunrise at the National Cemetery.
Also Easter suits, dresses and bonnets at a downtown church.
Plus we get an Easter musical in Red Bank that includes a singing cross.
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Our second story comes from 1985.
During the Easter season Pop stars in Great Britain and the U.S. teamed up to raise money for hunger relief.
We Are The World was a followup to the "Do They Know It’s Christmas" single.
Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson put this one together.
For our story, reporter Terry Lewis shows you WDEF disc jockey Harve Bradley playing the song, album sales at local record stores, and then the video.
How many of the stars can you identify 30 years later?
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And finally, we head to 1989.
Do kids still paint hard boiled Easter eggs?
They still did in 1989.
Our story is a musical tribute to local kindergarten students struggling with their egg painting.
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