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Wrestling’s Black Saturday
Imagine sitting down at 8 PM, turning on the CW to watch Arrow or The Flash. Instead of your favorite member of the DC Universe, a new yet familiar face appears. Stan Lee is introduced CONTINUE READING…
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The Fall of Hills Department Store
Or, Hills is where the toys were. Recently on the Retro Network podcast, Jason and Mickey talked about stores from their childhoods. Take a listen to Episode 10 if you haven’t already. I was CONTINUE READING…
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Batmania: Revisiting 1989’s Batman
It might be hard today to fully grasp just how big a cultural moment it was when Tim Burton’s Batman opened in theaters thirty years ago this month. You couldn’t go out of the house without CONTINUE READING…
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WWF and MTV: The Brawl to End it All
Way back in 1984, the World Wrestling Federation put on a three-hour show in their home arena, Madison Square Garden. The live event featured a battle royal plus all three men’s titles were defended. The CONTINUE READING…
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A Day in the Life of a 90s Kid
There were so many great things that made the ’90s memorable and fun to grow up in. But since there were so many memorable things, we took them for granted, and rarely “stopped to smell CONTINUE READING…
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Downhill Daredevils
Like many other kids growing up in the 80s, the holidays were a huge deal to me. Christmas was the big one as it lasted a whole month, and Thanksgiving served as the kick-off to CONTINUE READING…
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Big City Summer
I grew up in a small town/city in upstate New York with my mom and brother. In my 16th year my dad invited me to spend the summer with him in Maryland. What conversations took CONTINUE READING…
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The Summer Of Batman: No Batdancing at Boy Scout Camp
The summer of 1989 was truly one of the most memorable times for movies. I was 13 and can vividly remember watching many films in the theater, five in particular that were released in June. CONTINUE READING…
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90’s Summer Reloaded
My childhood was spent in Southern California, the home of palm trees and endless sunshine. While most folks imagine a California summer filled with surfboards, bikinis and Beach Boys tunes, I grew up just 20 CONTINUE READING…
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My Summer of Batman
Thirty years ago this month, Batman hit theaters and kicked off a summer of Batmania from which many of us didn’t recover. Most people I know have stories about this film and how it consumed CONTINUE READING…
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Event(s) of the Week Proms 1994 and 1995
Events of the Week: Junior and Senior Proms (May 1994 and May 1995) Why did I choose this event? My original intent was for this article to drop last week before the anniversary of my CONTINUE READING…
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The Beach Boys 25th Anniversary Concert from Waikiki
A few weeks ago, in my article about my first (Le Clic) camera, I mentioned that the camera had been purchased for my fourth grade field trip to Rock Eagle. When I returned home from CONTINUE READING…
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My Christmas Memories: 1980
1980, the beginning of the most awesome decade in pop culture history. Ronald Reagan just began his first term as President. Disco’s popularity had pretty much come to an end and music was getting ready CONTINUE READING…
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When Toys ‘R’ Us Came To Spartanburg, SC for Christmas 1985
If you were a kid in 1985 and lived near Spartanburg, SC, the excitement of the holiday season had to be intense! While flipping through Google’s Newspaper Archive recently, I happened to notice that “The CONTINUE READING…
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Batman: The Long Halloween
Batman: The Long Halloween takes place in the early days of Batman. It follows Batman: Year One and sets the stage for all the super villains Batman fights throughout his career. Batman: The Long Halloween CONTINUE READING…
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The Day After The Cup: My First Pirates Baseball Game at Three Rivers
A little over 30 years ago, I attended my first major league baseball game. Living in central PA, I grew up a Pittsburgh Pirates fan and was a faithful one throughout my childhood until the CONTINUE READING…
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Dancing at the End of Summer Sock Hop
One of my favorite youth group events at our church was the annual family sock hop. The sock hop was in our recreational building, which we affectionately referred to as “The Tin Tent”. It had CONTINUE READING…
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White Water Atlanta Memories
White Water is a seventy-acre amusement park in Marietta, Georgia. It opened in May of 1984 as White Water Atlanta and was owned by a company. In 1999, it was brought into the Six Flags CONTINUE READING…
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Being a Girl Scout in the ’80s
Earlier this week, my mom came from my brother’s house with the Girl Scout cookies I ordered from my niece earlier this year. My younger niece enthusiastically informed my mother that the cookies they were CONTINUE READING…
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Footage from the 1990 Nintendo World Championships
The Nintendo World Championships in 1990 was the first nationwide video game competition hosted by Nintendo. Throughout the year, the tournament visited 30 cities in America and gave players a chance to compete for a CONTINUE READING…
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A Road Trip To Happy World Land
Last week, The Retro Network dropped the Preview Episode for a new podcast debuting on the platform. Titled Rental Return – Tales From the Video Store, the show will chronicle the lives of former store CONTINUE READING…
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Remembering the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Tuesday, 28 January 1986 In January 1986 I was in 7th grade, attending a private Christian school. On a normal day we would start out with Math class. Tuesday, 28 January 1986 wasn’t a normal CONTINUE READING…
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CD Shopping On New Year’s Day in the ’90s
Back in the late 1980’s through much of the 1990’s, compact discs were still a fairly new innovation in audio entertainment and were considered gift items. Stores that sold music would have big sales on CONTINUE READING…
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My Christmas Memories: 1982
As you should already know, I can’t get enough ’80s nostalgia the whole year, but Christmas is an especially nostalgic time for me. Here I share a personal photo snapshot that takes me back to My CONTINUE READING…
