Classic Cars From the ’70s and ’80s That Are Now Cool
To quote Piper Laurie as Carrie’s mother in the 1976 classic Carrie: “They’re all going to laugh at you!” Okay, fine, strange way to start an article about cars. But if that phrase had been uttered even once to the…
Childhood Myths We Believed as Truth (and Still Might)
It’s 11:11. Make a wish. Go ahead. Nobody’s watching. If you were a child of the ’70s or ’80s, or even later, you probably didn’t think about it. Catching the clock at 11:11 meant something. In fact, so did 1:11,…
’80s A-to-Z: Discover Atari to ZZ Top’s Impact
I consider myself an expert on the ’80s for one simple reason: I loved it. I wore parachute pants, carried my Trapper Keeper, and wore out the batteries on my Walkman more times than I can count. Even back then,…
Real Photos From the Decade Without AI Assistance
If you’ve spent five minutes on social media lately, you’ve probably seen the trend of people feeding their faces into an AI generator and having it show what they would look like in the ’80s, complete with feathered mullets and…
’70s Living Room Essentials You Might Have Forgotten
Salon lat 70. był dziką, unikalną przestrzenią, znajdującą się pomiędzy czasem wielkich zmian a jeszcze większymi zmianami — mówiąc technicznie — zmierzając do lat 80. Choć istniała wyraźna paleta kolorów (żółć zbiorów, zieleń awokado i wypalona pomarańcza rządziły dniem) oraz…
Real Life Appearances Revealed
TV houses are funny things. It was, and still is, rare to film a TV show in an actual home that it is based in, especially the ones filmed (say it with me) “in front of a live studio audience.”…
Bigfoot and Killer Bees: Fears That Haunted ’80s Kids
When it was announced recently that Columbia House — yes, the “this many records or tapes for a penny” people, which was still around — is officially shutting down for good, my heart jumped. Not from shock that it was…
Life in the ’50s and ’60s, Beautifully Captured in Color
Recently, I was sorting through boxes of old family photos, which unfortunately signifies one thing: I was gathering photos for a celebration of life. In this instance, it was for my mother, who had recently passed away. Although it is…
24 Meals We Miss as Adults That We Complained About as Kids
There’s a saying floating around the nostalgia corners of social media: you don’t actually miss a place — you miss a time you can’t get back to. Turns out that if you want to time travel (in lieu of an…
’70s Objects That Would Baffle Gen Z Today
What you see here is not a letter opener (remember those?) or some kind of medical equipment — it’s a rotary dial pen, and if your mom took pride in her nails in the ’70s, this was sitting next to…
Rarely Seen ’70s Celebrity Photos You Won’t Want to Miss
Before the highly orchestrated red carpets of today, gaggles of publicists controlling every interaction, and camera phones turning every living moment into a performance, the 1970s actually gave us something much rarer: quiet, unguarded moments of honesty. Not a lot…
79 Photos of Real-Life Fashion Choices
If you grew up in the 1970s, you know that fashion wasn’t just something you threw on in the morning — it was, on some days, a full-on challenge that required 100% commitment. Between the horribly itchy (and pretty flammable)…