Play this song with your eyes closed, and it transports you right back to the 80’s. Hey, it’s a lot easier than what they did in “Avengers: Endgame” (2019).
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Throwback Thursday: Thanksgiving Super Sale at The Wiz (1985)!!!
The Wiz might be something only my fellow New Yorkers will remember — it was a regional electronics chain in the metropolitan area. Get a load of that electric typewriter for just $99.00.
Though everyone in my Long Island neighborhood saw commercials like this on TV, there weren’t any Wiz locations near us. That territory had been firmly staked out by the far older P. C. Richard and Sons, The Wiz’ competitor.
Be warned — the jingle here is an earworm.
Throwback Thursday: this ad for the WOR-TV Channel 9 Thanksgiving monster movie marathon!
Here’s just a nifty newspaper advertisement for WOR-TV Channel 9’s annual Thanksgiving monster movie marathon — about which I’ve posted once or twice before.
I actually remember nearly all of this lineup from watching in the 1980’s! The three big-gorilla flicks came first, in glorious black and white, with the Godzilla entries after. (The only movie below that doesn’t ring a bell for me is “Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster.” I must have missed that one.
Throwback Thursday: this 1983 commercial for General Mills Monster Cereals!
Here’s a weird bit of pop culture — a 1983 ad for General Mills Monster Cereals. I might never have actually had Boo Berry — and I remember eating Franken Berry only once or twice? But Count Chocula was a sugary morning delicacy in my household growing up.
It frequently had the best toy surprises waiting at the bottom of the box too. (Do cereals still have those?) I was utterly thrilled that one summer when I got my hands on the the Monster Cereals ink stamps — though, if memory serves, I actually had to save some proofs-of-purchase or something and send away for them in the mail.
Anyway, thanks to the SaturdayMorningFever Youtube channel for this upload.
And if weird Monster Cereals trivia is your thing, then you ought to read up on Quentin Tarantino’s reverence for Fruit Brute.
Throwback Thursday: “Dark City” (1998)!
“Dark City” (1998) maybe wasn’t quite as perfect as its most ardent fans make it out to be, but it was still a damned good film — creative, original and caliginously artistic. (It occasionally suffers somewhat in comparison with its spiritual cousin, “The Matrix,” which changed the very medium of movies only a year later.) And what a cast — William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland and Rufus Sewell!
I saw this movie on VHS around … 2001, I think. I remember being eager at the time to see the inimitable Hurt — I’d grown up with films like “Gorky Park” (1983) and “The Accidental Tourist” (1988). It was only later in life that I really became a fan of Sewell — after his tour-de-force performance as the Nazi villain in “The Man in the High Castle” (2015-2019).
And how can you beat Connelly as a nightclub crooner? My girlfriend sent me a gem that she found on Youtube — Connelly singing an alternate version of her musical number in the movie, Giovanni Polimeni’s “Sway.” (It’s the second video below.)
By the way, I am linking tonight to Media Graveyard and Polimeni’s Youtube channel.
Throwback Thursday: a lost art form.
Throwback Thursday: Queensryche’s “Silent Lucidity” (1990)!
Classic early 90’s tune.
Throwback Thursday: this 1985 ad for Toaster Strudels!
Enjoy.
(And be sure to check out the Youtube channel for Chuck D’s All-New Classic TV Clubhouse, from which this came.)
Throwback Thursday: “The Adventures of Superman” (1952-1958)!
No, I was not alive when “The Adventures of Superman” first aired in the 1950’s. But I could swear that I remember seeing reruns on local New York broadcast TV when I was a tot in the 1970’s.
I could be wrong! It’s possible I’m remembering some other iteration of the character in film or television. My instincts are telling me that this is the show, though.
Comic book fans will recognize George Reeves in the iconic title role.
I am linking here, by the way, to Steven Brandt’s Youtube channel. Thanks, Mr. Brandt.
Throwback Thursday: this 1979 Pop Rocks commercial!!
Pop Rocks!!! These fizzy little candies had a genuine mystique to little kids in the late 1970’s — and they were pretty damned good too! (I am linking here to the Bionic Disco Youtube channel for the video.)
Of course, no reminiscence about Pop Rocks could leave out the morbid, wide-eyed awe we kids felt at the fate of poor Mikey, the beloved little brother in the classic Life Cereal commercials. The finicky tike had perished horribly after a concoction of Pop Rocks and soda had literally exploded his stomach.
It was all bullshit, of course — and maybe the first example of pervasive “fake news” affecting me in my lifetime. But the bizarre and grisly myth got the harmless candy yanked right off the market after sales plummeted.
