Dia Duit! (May God be with you!) For a moment, take your mind off of the COVID19 and enjoy some St. Patrick's Day photos from the 1970s and 80s. I had fun hunting these down and hope you like them. I hope they put a smile on your face during these challenging times....
TILT tennis shoes from 1979 are a rare find. Famolare, the iconic 1970s fashion footwear brand, designed them in celebration of the movie, Tilt, starring Brooke Shields. Continue reading to learn more. I recently bought my 7th grade daughter a pair of FILA tennis...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The circus, the big top will come down one last time this May on Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. The iconic, 146-year-old circus will shutter operations for good citing high costs and declining tickets sales. Also, they're blaming the elephants. In May, they...
Look at all the beautiful, young Gen X girls with their feathered hair, tanned skin and designer jeans. This picture was taken in the early 1980s at the Sunshine Skateway roller rink in South Florida. The adorable blonde-haired boy in the picture is the administrator...
A Brief Memoir of 1970s Christmas A Guest Post from Mughi Reposted With Permission From the Writer Christmas always seemed to take a thousand years to actually get here. As it got closer and closer, and time off school commensurately so, more and more excitement would...
A few years ago, I scored a Wolverine tin doll house at a local flea market / swap meet in Oklahoma City. I finally got around to taking pictures of it along with all the cool little furniture that came with it. Tin Doll House Value I did some checking and this...