Shopping for Christmas is incredibly difficult these days. There are so many destinations for shopping, and millions of items to choose from right at our fingertips. So sometimes the whole experience can be a little CONTINUE READING…
1990’s Sitcom television’s version of Halloween depicts how I feel Halloween should have been in real life. Dressed up in cool costumes, the characters on the show attended heavily decorated Halloween house parties and were CONTINUE READING…
If you grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, then surely you’re familiar with the Mistress of the Dark, Elvira. Elvira got her start after winning an audition to replace former “Fright Night” host Larry CONTINUE READING…
Twenty five years ago, Independence Day was released in theaters and a new modern classic was born. Even though most everyone who visits The Retro Network has likely seen the film, there may be some CONTINUE READING…
You can guess the title of most songs just by listening to them. Most songs have the song’s title in the chorus or at least somewhere within the lyrics. But there are a small group CONTINUE READING…
Most sports movies have coaches in them, some beloved and some not so much. During the ’80s, there were several coach characters in movies and on television, some more memorable than others, and I have compiled CONTINUE READING…
More often we remember songs that reached #1 on the pop charts. But what about those songs from the ’80s that were good enough to make it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 but just couldn’t make CONTINUE READING…
Since 1968, Hot Wheels have been a favorite toy of kids and adults the world over. Even as popular as they have been for over fifty years, there’s probably a few things you still don’t CONTINUE READING…
The Goonies was a 1985 film by Richard Donner about a group of adventurous kids who discover an old pirate map and follow it into an underground cavern in search of treasure to save their CONTINUE READING…
In the ’80s, you had the Moonwalk, the Running Man, the Cabbage Patch, the Roger Rabbit, the Kid n Play kick-step, the Robot, the Worm, the Wave and all sorts of break-dancing among others hitting CONTINUE READING…
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