This Week In The 80’s: Call The Police There’s a Mad Man Around It’s the second semester of my sophomore year, 1986. We’re a couple of weeks from summer break. Most of my friends and CONTINUE READING…
May kicks off the summer blockbuster season! We’ll see some great movies over the next four weeks. In May 1982 there was one movie theater in my home town. The big movies listed below made CONTINUE READING… CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The ’80s: I’ve Got A Pocket Full of Quarters… It’s May of 1982 and I’m a few weeks from finishing 6th grade. I’m just starting to get into music. We don’t have CONTINUE READING…
Next week, pop culture will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of Star Wars. The franchise marked a major turning point in pop culture on multiple fronts from cinema to toy marketing. My mom used to CONTINUE READING…
It’s an action packed month! There’s also some good comedies and thrillers and more action. High school reunions, epic team-ups, an international spy, giant snakes and heads in a duffel bag. I saw most of CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Walking Like a Man, Hitting Like a Hammer Spring of 1989. It’s the second semester of my freshman year of college. It’s a little over a month to the end CONTINUE READING…
In April 1992 I was living in a brand new city, Denver, for six months. I was still trying to find new friends, trying to figure out the dating scene and trying to figure out CONTINUE READING…
As I’ve mentioned in a few of my previous articles, many popular toy franchises of the 1980’s originated as greeting card characters. Rainbow Brite is no exception. However, instead of being a member of the CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: A Floating Amp, Lions, and Richard Marx April, 1988. Senior year. A month and a half from THE finish line and a few short weeks from a huge prom debacle CONTINUE READING…
April 1987 was a slow month for movies, only nine new movies released. One movie went straight to video due to other box office failures. Don’t let the low number of releases get you down, CONTINUE READING…
I can hear the hobby and professional photographers gasping for breath. No worries. I know a camera isn’t technically a toy. LeClic cameras were so much more than a camera and because I used mine CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Swaying Room As The Music Starts Freshman year of high school, 1985. Man, there’s so much GREAT music sitting in the Top 40 this week. Lots of great songs with CONTINUE READING…
We made it through the winter months of 1982. Spring is here with a fresh start. Like Spring the movies need time to mature, they don’t start out as beautiful flowers. But they’ll get there. CONTINUE READING… CONTINUE READING…
March is usually when movies start picking up steam as the studios get ready for the summer months. Unfortunately, March 1997 doesn’t help create interest, the month is full of mediocre movies. A handful of CONTINUE READING…
When I picked Hubert the Harris Bank Lion earlier this month, I knew I wanted to end the month with a lamb or sheep related toy. My mom told me that I used to have CONTINUE READING…
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