Roses

On New Year’s Day, for years and years, local independent television station KTLA has been broadcasting the Tournament of Roses parade. This year, in the hours before the live broadcast, the station replayed the 1984 and 1994 parades.  The more I watched of the 1994 one, the more I realized how much happened that year:

• There are no websites mentioned or associated with any of the floats or companies. The World Wide Web was around in 1994, but still very new.
• One float celebrated the upcoming World Cup, which was to open on June 17. Unfortunately upstaged by O.J. Simpson’s slow-motion LAPD chase. (And evidently that’s not all that happened that day.)
• For the first time, Disney had a float in the parade, promoting Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland. It had been opened barely a year before, five years after the release of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
• A few weeks later, the Northridge Earthquake would rock Southern California, affecting areas as distant as Santa Monica, Santa Clarita, and Anaheim.

Which events, interesting as I find them, aren't necessarily tied to the Crisis, although these items of interest seem so innocent compared to events in more recent years.