The excellent retro-site Plaid Stallions recently featured a post on the 1978 Mattel Electronics catalog. Mattel’s hand-held games; Football, Basketball, Auto Race and Space Alert are shown. I had each and every one of these Mattel hand-held games and enjoyed … Continue reading
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Filmation’s Fabulous Funnies originally ran for a single season from September to December, 1978. A total of 13 episodes were produced and featured newspaper comic strip stars such as Alley Oop, Broom Hilda, Nancy and Tumbleweeds. The fantastic June Foray … Continue reading
Rod Stewart’s “Hot Legs” first appeared on the November, 1977 L.P. Foot Loose & Fancy Free and was released as a single in early 1978. The tune (co-written with Gary Grainger) hit #28 on the Billboard US 100 and #5 … Continue reading
Time for some Rad Ads from the 70s. Today, we crack open some road-worn issues of American Motorcyclist, the official magazine of the American Motorcyclist Association. Let’s investigate half a dozen choice magazine ads from 1976 through 1978. Vroom, baby! … Continue reading
Seeing as how it’s Saturday and this evening you may be in need of some ancient commercials (it could happen!) – here’s a set of spots that ran in August of 1978 during NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. The … Continue reading
On a fine Thursday morning such as this I like to settle into my La-Z-Boy recliner, pull the tab on a Fresca, crack open an old magazine and travel back in time.* The May 1st, 1978 issue of People Magazine … Continue reading