12 Things You'll Remember If You Grew Up In The 80s In Nebraska

Runza was the first outside food company allowed to operate within the stadium, and it has since become a staple of game day.

Plummeting crop prices and climbing debt saw the family farm run into serious trouble in the '80s. Many families lost their property and the generations of history that went along with it.

Kay Orr and Helen Boosalis made history when they campaigned against one another in 1986. Orr won, taking office in 1987.

Ok, that's not what the album is about. But that's what we all hoped for at the time.

The Night of the Twisters occurred on June 3, 1980. No one could have been prepared for the wreckage caused by this unprecedented storm system.

Much of the movie was shot around UNL. You can bet that most Nebraskans watched that movie when it came out to see how many locations they could identify.

Watching the Bruno barn moving never gets old.

This was almost exclusively an eastern Nebraska experience, but it had to be mentioned. It was such an important part of so many of our lives.

Reports of a child prostitution ring that reached all the way up to the upper echelons of our government rocked the state - and the country - to its core. To this day, the details of the coverup remain mostly cloaked in mystery.

A small group of survivalists took over a pig farm northwest of Rulo, led by Michael W. Ryan. The cult was involved in crimes both large and small, but the most heinous of these were the torture and murder of two cult members, one of them five-year-old boy.

When the area of land that contained Chimney Rock came up for sale in the 1980s, developers planned to swoop in and build houses near the monument. Local man Gordon Howard decided that he couldn't let that happen, so with some creative negotiating he got the local bank to finance the purchase. He saved the monument from the interests of modern man, later donating an eight-acre parcel to the Nebraska State Historical Society for the visitors center.