There have been plenty of toys that allowed children to put their natural creative energies to work. Legos, Erector sets, and countless other similar items let kids build elaborate kingdoms and complex machines to satisfy the need CONTINUE READING…
Oh, the anticipation! Any minute, that door was going to open, and your destiny would take its form. Would it be the hunky bowler, that adorable ski boy, the beachgoing dreamboat, that dapper young dancer CONTINUE READING…
Even if you have never watched The Love Boat you know the show takes place on a ship. The iconic vessel is displayed prominently in the opening credits, serving as a backdrop to the frenzy of CONTINUE READING…
Ever since enterprising toymakers hit on the gimmick of combining electricity and sports, many a fan has whiled his rainy-day hours away over miniaturized electric versions of his favorite outdoor games. Few U.S. sports are CONTINUE READING…
For a lot of people, their first experience with any kind of video game football was the classic Mattel Electronics Football. CONTINUE READING…
“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each CONTINUE READING…
“Marshall, Will, and Holly,On a routine expedition,Met the greatest earthquake ever known.High on the rapids, it struck their tiny raft,And plunged them down a thousand feet below,To the Land of the Lost.” As the theme CONTINUE READING…
When the Star Wars wave hit in the late 1970s, science fiction rode that crest back to the major media in a major way. Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century took most of the TV sci-fi glory, but CONTINUE READING…
Based on Charles Moulton’s 1940’s comic superhero, Wonder Woman first hit the live-action airwaves in a 1974 made-for-TV movie, starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the great one and Ricardo Montalban as her enemy. Another TV CONTINUE READING…
Deep in the corridors of the Hall of Justice resided some of DC Comics’ greatest superheroes: Superman, Aquaman, Batman & Robin, and Wonder Woman. Collectively, these crimefighters were known as the Justice League of America, based on the DC CONTINUE READING…
If you took any pride at all in your toy chest—and we hope you did—it surely contained a View-Master. When the action figure war simulation wound down and you needed a short intermission before you CONTINUE READING…
If you weren’t an avid viewer of WKRP in Cincinnati during its original four-year run, you should have caught it in reruns. And if you didn’t do that, after you’re done giving yourself a swift swat on CONTINUE READING…
Most of us who grew up during the ’70s and ’80s very likely have had the experience of wearing a Ben Cooper Halloween costume. You might not necessarily know them by the brand name, but CONTINUE READING…
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