I don’t know about you, but commercials can often take me back to my formative years as quickly as any song or movie can. That is why we will continue this semi-regular feature on ’80s commercials CONTINUE READING…
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…
The Retro Network has partnered with Fun.com to offer some of the best gifts of the holiday season at a special rate for fans of TRN. From now through Christmas, you can use our link CONTINUE READING…
When I interviewed the late Deon Estus (former Wham! bassist), I asked him about 1984’s holiday single “Last Christmas.” His response was, “Every artist has to do a Christmas song. It is one of my favorites to this CONTINUE READING…
1. Herself the Elf Herself the Elf and her friends were characters created by American Greetings. Yes, this is the same company that brought us Strawberry Shortcake, the Care Bears, Madballs, and My Pet Monster. CONTINUE READING…
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…
Now that I have a family of my own, the notion of community, tradition, faith, and the holidays mean so much more to me. “Roseanne” was never a show my family watched when I was CONTINUE READING…
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…
TRN Time Machine gets in the holiday spirit this week with our Christmas edition of Retro Rumble! Jason welcomes his Thrift Store Horde pals Adam Pope (@Hojukoolander) and Kevin Decent (@MaskedLibrary) to the show in CONTINUE READING…
If you’ve walked into a Wal-Mart this Holiday season you might have been surprised to see a forgotten 90’s icon on toy shelves. No, not Furby. Not a GigaPet. Not even the juggernaut that was CONTINUE READING…
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