Three Ads Too Good Not to Share #2
It's time for another excuse to finally post some obscure ads I grabbed a while ago that have been floating around on my computer. No re...
Retro Product Fail #1: Sun-In
Of all of the beauty products I saw advertised in the pages of Seventeen magazine as a teen and that I actually bought, I wanted Sun-In hair...
Separated by a Past Life Retro Couple: Me and Mary Travers
Throughout the years I've been told I resemble a number of blonde female celebs, including Cameron Diaz, Uma Thurman, and Gwyneth Paltro...
Two Forgotten Friday Favorites: The Mills Brothers
Never heard of The Mills Brothers? Well, neither did I until I looked up the song "Glow Worm" on YouTube, as it's one of my fa...
Happy Birthday, Jaws!
It was the summer of 1975, I was three and a half years old, and my brother took me to the movies. It was not to see a Disney cartoon or any...
Two Forgotten Friday Favorites: Roy Orbison
There really needs to be a movie made about Roy Orbison's life. In recent years we've seen Ray Charles, Bobby Darin, and Johnny Cash...
Truly Terrifying PSAs
Truth be told, I don't remember a lot of PSAs that were being shown when I was a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s. The only one that st...
Bad Cover Art: The Let's Get Physical Edition
Trying to work out to a 45 record seems to defeat the purpose: you can't *see* how to actually perform the exercises, you just have to u...
Two Forgotten Friday Favorites
I'm starting a new recurring feature on Go Retro: Two Forgotten Friday Favorites. Every Friday, I'll choose two songs that never see...
Childhood Comfort (Junk) Food
To look back on my top five favorite childhood junk foods, you might think that I was an unhealthy child. Nothing could be further than the ...
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