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Christmas

The Golden Age of Department Stores at Christmas

Mickey Yarber

In today’s world of specialty shops, discount superstores, and all the choices we have online, it’s hard to imagine the role the department store once played in American life.  Each town had one of these CONTINUE READING…

'80s

A Brief History of Battle Beasts

Mickey Yarber

“Fire burns Wood! Wood floats on Water! Water puts out Fire!” Battle Beasts finally gave us the answer to a question that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time: If animals were bred into CONTINUE READING…

Rollerjam
'90s

RollerJam – Pro Wrestling on Wheels

Jeff Sheldon

Like everyone else in the late ’90s, I was hooked on professional wrestling.  I had been a fan going back to 1989 or ’90 when I was 5 years old and had found WCW on CONTINUE READING…

Features

Elvira’s Haunted Hills Review

Jeff Sheldon

Most of you already know of Elvira, be it from her cable show Elvira’s Movie Macabre her or 1988 feature film Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, but what most people aren’t familiar with is her CONTINUE READING…

'80s

Crunch for Your Life! The Top 5 Halloween Cereals of All Time

TRN Staff

This is a guest post by Dan Goubert from Cerealously.  For the absolute best coverage of old and new cereal, visit him on the web and follow him on Twitter. What’s the most “Cereal Holiday?” CONTINUE READING…

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