Whatever Happened to the Quiet Library?
I know just how Uncle Sam feels...he probably visited his local library. If you were born in the 70s or earlier, I'm certain that you...
Go Retro's Retro Hottie of the Month: Jack Vincennes
I have been WAY behind posting the monthly Retro Hottie of the Month. I'm now eleven days late with this one, and thought perhaps this t...
The Saucy Love Life of Julia Child
There's a famous saying that says in order to keep a man, a woman must be three things: a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitc...
To All the (Celebrity) Men I've Loved Before
Celebrity crushes: we’ve all had them. But can whose image graced your bedroom walls or locker as a child/teen reveal anything about what yo...
Swine Flu Deja Vu
You may think that swine flu is a term unheard of before 2009, but in 1976 a swine flu outbreak in the U.S. caused then President Gerald For...
Don't You Forget About John Hughes
This has just been an unbelievable year for celebrity deaths, but I'm particularly surprised and saddened about the sudden death of movi...
To Be-atles or Not to Be-atles
If you're a Beatles fan and you've never seen this skit before, then you are in for a treat. When I was in college, my English teach...
Good Jeans
You don't see too many commercials for jeans on TV nowadays, and I'm not sure why that is. I thought it might be because there weren...
Win a Trip Back to the Sixties!
OK, not exactly, but this is as close as most of us will get to reliving the early 60s: Banana Republic is giving you the chance to win a wa...
It's a Wrap: Thousands of Retro Movie Props and Furniture Up for Auction
When a movie prop supplier goes out of business, it's bad news for them, but good news for us retrophiles. 20th Century Props, which pro...
WIlly Wonka and the Chocolate Ecstasy Factory
When Gilligan over at the excellent blog Retrospace posted about the many supposed drug references in the late 60s/early 70s children'...
Whatever Happened to Imagination in American Television?
I've gotten hooked on the new summer NBC series "Merlin", about the old story of King Arthur, and I've gotten a friend hoo...
Oh, Bee-Hive!
I've been seeing this product on TV for a while and it looks too good not to mention. It's called a bumpit and it basically gives yo...
Bad Cover Art of the Day: Europe
Last week I picked on Hall & Oates for their heavily made-up look on a 1975 album. I realize now that their cover looks like a masterpi...
A Tale to Tell About a Gold Monkey
I don't have much luck with ABC's shows. Earlier this year, they canned the well-acted and imaginative "Life on Mars" (whi...
The Real Man Who Discovered the Beatles
Last night I watched a pretty interesting retrospective of Walter Cronkite's career and I learned something that even I as a huge Beatl...
The Hippie Music of Bobby Darin
Faster than you can say, “tune in, turn on, drop out” the Mack the Knife crooner did just that. Bobby, looking just like Kevin Spacey with a...
The Wunnerful, Wunnerful Lawrence Welk
As someone who was born to middle-aged parents (mom was 42 when she got pregnant with me; a victim of the low-dose birth control pills they ...
Bad Cover Art of the Day: Daryl Hall and John Oates
For a while now I've been wanting to start a new regular feature of this blog, called Bad Cover Art of the Day, because as much as I lov...
Huey Lewis Is Still Heart and Soul
If music has the power to bring us back to an earlier and often happy time in our lives, then there's no question as to why I won't ...
If You Believe They Put a Man on the Moon
Woodstock has been in the news a lot lately because of the upcoming 40th anniversary, but another humongous 60s event took place in 1969 as ...
Senator Al Franken's Jumping Jack Flash
Now that former SNL alumni Al Franken has officially been declared Senator of Minnesota, I couldn't resist looking up old clips of him f...
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