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| 1208 | Article | vkimo | That's hilarious about the TV set! I remember seeing the first Plasma TVs that came out with my parents at a high end electronics store. 10,000 dollars! It looked amazing then I bet a 200 Wal-Mart TV looks better now. It seems like the furniture market is dominated by a few large companies now. I remember back in California you could go downtown to San Francisco and get the cheap chinese furniture from various warehouse stores. I wish I had pictures of this stuff, the designs were outrageous. Zebra print couched, lamps with hydra like bulbs...it was great. | Sep 07, 2014 |  | |
| 1207 | Article | Vaporman87 | WOW! First of all, that furniture brings back a flood of nostalgia. Not just because we had all the same stuff filling up our house, but because I SOLD the stuff. Some of you may, or may not, know that prior to my business being strictly a propane business, we also had an entire furniture store (well, actually two) that lasted from the 50's until the 90's (when small furniture stores just started biting the dust). Seeing that furniture reminds me of my days standing around, waiting for somebody to walk in so I could put on my best "Goldberg" face and make a sale. My gosh... some of that stuff we had was just insane. Dining room suits were the worst. So much wood... thousands upon thousands of dollars for the good stuff. Giant, mammoth hutches and 15,000 leaf inserts to make your table big enough for the Duggars to eat at. Those were some interesting days. Then there are the electronics, which we also sold. Tube tvs that easily outweighed me, lifting them and moving them from one spot to another. shakin and I have discussed our fascination with the console televisions, with their wood cabinets and simple controls. Our first "big screen" television was one of the first to be commercially available... and it sucked. It was hidden inside a large wood cabinet. Then when you would turn the power on, it would lift up out of the cabinet and power on. If you tried watching from even the slightest angle, it just went black. LOL. You had to be DEAD ON centered to see anything. My friend and I watched many a Friday Night Videos episode on that screen. The clothes, of course I had them. My favorites being ones that I kept even until just recently (including a Spudz McKenzie shirt and an old Subway "Put a foot in your mouth" shirt. They had become so threadbare that my wife forced me to trash them. Also the armpit areas had become hard and crusty from all the years of deodorant coming in contact with them. LOL. And I had the toys for sure. While most of us might have suffered the fate of the poor sap who lost his sweet He-Man collection to you, I myself am to blame for my own losses. I willingly sold my He-Man collection and other toys at Garage Sales. Naturally I hate my pre-teen self now for committing such a blatantly stupid act. But hey, I wanted money for something. I have a feeling no Goodwill in my area is ever going to come close to offering the great stuff you've found here. More likely, they are going to be filled with beer t-shirts, crappy outdoor furniture, and hunting crap. Sadly, that's what you get for living in hickville. But at least I can live vicariously through vkimo. LOL And by the way, nice pic there at the end. ;) | Retro Thrifting | Sep 07, 2014 | |
| 1206 | Article | Vaporman87 | I'm pretty certain I never owned any Battle Beasts, though the seem familiar to me. Like you said, without a syndicated television show to go along with them, it would have been difficult to attract those He-Man and G.I. Joe obsessed kids like me. I did, however, have many, many, M.U.S.C.L.E. figurines. I had a pretty extensive collection of them, though several of those were doubles (sometimes triples). I have a very clear memory (one of only a few) of finding some of them at a department store here locally that is now closed (and turned into a flea market) called Big Wheel. Not long after that it became a Pamida. It was during those days that I found a nice haul of M.U.S.C.L.E. figures that I had yet to own. Miss M did a nice article that had info on the female equivalent to M.U.S.C.L.E. and Monster In My Pocket that I didn't even know ever existed. You can find that here: http://www.retro-daze.org/site/article/id/181 . So the "mighty minis" weren't just a boy thing apparently. :) | The Mini & The Mighty | Sep 07, 2014 | |
| 1205 | Article | Vaporman87 | Mmmm. Donuts. | TDitH goes Back to School | Sep 06, 2014 | |
| 1204 | Article | pikachulover | @Hoju Koolander It took a lot research to compile that song list. | The Summer of 1995 | Sep 06, 2014 | |
| 1203 | Article | Vaporman87 | Yeah Fulton, we have had crane games in our local Pizza Hut as well. Can't say I've had any problems like that with them though. I love the leaving a quarter for a tip story! | Pizza Hut Promotions | Sep 05, 2014 | |
| 1202 | Article | Fulton4V | Our Pizza Hut only ever had those crane games and it was a ripoff. You never one at it and it stole your quarter half of the time. I remember one time the game just stopped working while I was playing it. The crane just stopped moving and I asked for my quarter back and the man at the counter would not give it to me. I think the next time I was in there with my family my dad left that same guy a tip of a quarter! That was funny. | Pizza Hut Promotions | Sep 05, 2014 | |
| 1201 | Article | Fulton4V | There use to be a club downtown that me and my friends would go to in college called Good Times. They had a special drink called the Twister that they were known for and we would get those. It was torn down a long time ago and all that is there now is the concrete foundation. | Bouncing Around Nightclubs | Sep 05, 2014 | |
| 1200 | Article | Hoju Koolander | So true! I've always told my wife that when we get a bigger house, I'm getting one room to decorate with an 80's flare. I'm definitely going with the shag carpeting and wood paneling look, as opposed to the "modern" style of the decade. Or maybe I can do each wall in a different style. The only thing missing from your examples is a bean bag and some type of themed bunk bed. Good stuff. | Retro Rooms | Sep 04, 2014 | |
| 1199 | Article | ThatDudeintheHoodie | Yes they did. Also there was a doughnut eating contest with the doughnut on the string. | TDitH goes Back to School | Sep 04, 2014 | |
