In November, this blog’s Facebook page will turn 10 years old! To celebrate this milestone, I’m giving away an Enfain USB 3.0 Flash Drive 16GB Retro Mixtape USB Memory Stick. There will be more giveaways between now and the end of the year! Best Song On Your Old Mixtape All you have to do to […]
ICYMI: The Late Gen-X Actress Rebecca Shaeffer Featured on 20/20
Nearly 30 years after her tragic murder, beloved Gen-X actress Rebecca Shaeffer has been featured on 20/20. You may remember Shaeffer as Patty, the younger sister on the hit series My Sister Sam, which starred Pam Dawber of Mork fame. I watched the episode last night and posted it about it on the blog’s Facebook […]
Holly Hobbie Returns on Hulu Starring Ruby Jay
Holly Hobbie, the patchwork girl with the giant blue bonnet, has returned. Created in the late 1960s and widely marketed to Gen-X girls in 1974, she now appears as a member of Generation Z in the new Hulu series. Ruby Jay is Holly Hobbie Instafamous Ruby Jay, 14, landed the leading role in Holly Hobbie, […]
Boomers in Ugly Bridesmaid Dresses + Gen X Flower Girl
Get a load of these ugly bridesmaid dresses, would ya? They’re downright amazing, right? Wow! The light blue and avocado green color combination vaguely reminds me of the algae growing in my auntie’s pool. I remember it, terrifying as it was, from my days as a little kid living in Hacienda Heights, a very 1970s […]
San Gabriel Valley Boy Scouts, Vintage Years
Going through my mother’s cedar chest, we found our old Girl Scout and Boy Scout uniforms. My mother loved being a Girl Scout leader, and of course, she was awesome! Here’s my brother’s San Gabriel Valley Boys Scouts of America cub scout shirt. This was back when we were all, quite literally, Valley Girls. I […]
Family’s Lost 8 mm Memories, 1976-77 (Rocky View)
Frank went to a flea market in search of an 8 mm projector. He found one, and inside the case was a family’s lost 8 mm memories from 1976 and 1977. He uploaded the vintage film to YouTube in 2013. It doesn’t appear that anyone has laid claim to it yet. The collection of short […]
Goodbye, Circus.
Baby saw the day they pulled the big top down. They left behind her dreams among the litter. And the different kind of love she thought she’d found Was nothing more than sawdust and some glitter. —Don’t Cry Out Loud, Words by Elkie Brooks The big top will come down one last time this May […]
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