Diff’rent Strokes, 1978 – 1986
If forced to pick five favorites from among the great TV shows of the 80s, Diff’rent Strokes would definitely make the cut. The show wasn’t just about laughs, it was about breaking social and cultural barriers while learning about the important things in life – and, of course, it had Arnold’s catch phrase, “Whatchou talkin’ bout Willis?” (see video below). Diff’rent Strokes first aired in 1978 and...
80s Nostalgia Question Solved: The Hugga Bunch
We regularly get questions about a toy, song, movie, video, etc from the 80s; the reader will remember some details, but can’t figure it out. We are happy to help! With crowd-sourcing on our Facebook page, there are few 80s questions that can’t be answered! This reader’s question and the answer are shown below. Original Question: I recently bought the phantom tollbooth on eBay and even though it was from the...
Friendship Pins in the 1980s
by Jeffrey A. Garoutte If you were a girl during the 1980s, you probably were given friendship pins . . . and, more than likely, you created a multitude of your own and gave them away to all of your girlfriends as well. Friendship pins have been a long-standing, easy craft item for decades and, even today, there are web sites dedicated to nothing but friendship pins and the patterns that the tiny beads can make by placing several of...
The Lost Boys, 1987
by Jeffrey A. Garoutte Corey Haim and Corey Feldman worked together for the first time in one of the greatest modern day teenage vampire movies of all time . . . The Lost Boys. These were the days before vampires could leave the lair during the day, and they certainly didn’t sparkle in the sunlight. Instead, they were scary, motorcycle-riding, night-terrorizing, day-sleeping-upside-down-by-horrific-toenails gangs of very bad...
80s Time Capsules
There’s nothing better than cracking open a time capsule and reminiscing about times gone by, especially when it’s all about the 80s! Each yearly capsule provides lots of information — nuggets on the good, the bad, and the ugly of history & politics, music, movies, television, sports, people who died and people who were born. So dive on in, remember the totally bodacious 1980s, and maybe even learn something new!...
