Five Reasons Why the American Mall is Dying
The Esplanade Mall in Kenner, Louisiana as photographed in 1988 (and which is now closed.) Photo via @ the_80s_interior on Instagram . For s...
Showing posts with label 1990s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1990s. Show all posts
10 Underrated Queen Songs in Honor of Freddie Mercury's Birthday
Heads UP, peasants. It's the Queen of Rock's birthday today! So to celebrate what would have been Freddie Mercury's 72nd ...
Heartbroken Over a Heartbreaker: RIP Tom Petty
In recent years we've lost an awful lot of notable musicians and actors -- particularly those that were at the top of their game in t...
Beauty Salon Dropout: Why I Cut and Color My Own Hair In the Year 2017
A (very purple!) 1980s hair salon. Image via Scanagogo A few months ago I made the difficult decision of emailing my hairdresser to le...
Jürgen Prochnow Should Have Been a Huge Star In the States
Hey Germany, let's make a deal. I'll trade you George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, James Franco, Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling, Joh...
Why I Simply Cannot Stomach The English Patient
In my last blog post I raved to you about a movie that totally won my heart, Das Boot . In today's blog post, I'm going to gripe,...
America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park: Action Park
If you were a kid growing up in New Jersey in the '70s, '80s, or '90s, there's a good chance you visited Action Park in V...
Elle Macpherson Kicked My Butt: My Favorite "Vintage" Workout Tape
Side note: here we go again; the blog template put the entire post on the homepage (grrrrr.) To leave a comment, here's the actual li...
An Ode to A Fallen Retail Giant: Kmart
"Attention, Kmart shoppers! This is your blue light special..." Although Kmart has tried on and off through the years to res...
Stop, Look, and Listen With Willy Whistle
From straight out of the '90s comes this unintentionally funny and contrived PSA about road crossing safety (all of things) from the ...
Not How It Sounds...Five Songs Whose Singers Fooled Me
Have you ever listened to a song for a while or even years and because you've never seen the music video or a recorded performance of...
Pokemon No Go: Why the Pokemon Game Craze Is Stupid
You knew this blog post was coming, didn't ya? I'm sure I'll catch some heat for saying this, but Pokemon Go is a stupid game...
9 Songs Written By Prince Covered By Other Artists
Not long ago here on Go Retro I lamented about how homogenized pop music has become...every song and performer sounds the same to me. Not...
Movie Review: Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
(Spoiler alert: I reveal the movie's ending towards the end of this post!) In 1990, two romantic movies involving a deceased boyfrien...
Meet Tula, One of the World's First Transgender Models
During the late '80s or early '90s one of my sisters brought over a knitting book she had recently purchased of sweater pattern...
Whatever Happened To...The Family TV Drama?
Have you noticed something missing from this year's fall network TV line-up? We have a surplus of crime/murder/detective shows alon...
I'm Your Vehicle, Baby: 10 Sexy Songs About Cars/Driving
It's now mid-November, so the last thing any of us in my part of the country would be doing right now is going for a drive with the to...
How to Be a Bond Girl
My best Bond girl "impersonation." What should my name be? Wait -- I shouldn't ask that of male readers! I guess you can...
Does Darth Vader's Theme Have Its Roots in the 1930s Dance Band Era?
Vader artwork by Terry Fan for Monde Mosaic No judgment, but every time the official trailer for a new Star Wars movie was released, I ...
100 Years of Halloween Costumes in 3 Minutes
Mode.com has been giving us some great videos this year showing the evolution of style during the past century. Their latest, 100 Years o...
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