‘Growing Up In Arcades’ — Flickr Account Dedicated To 80s Teens And Vintage Games
If I had to guess the amount of time, and number of quarters, I spent in arcades as a kid both numbers would be roughly the same. That number is A MILLION. For about ten years there wasn’t a business in the world without a video game in it — restaurants, shoe stores, movie theaters, barber shops — and where there were video games there were teens killing time, blowing allowances and burning through cigarettes...
Life Lessons Everyone Should Learn From ‘The Breakfast Club’
Over thirty years ago, five high school students, all from different background and social circles, showed up to their high school on a Saturday morning to serve detention. After some incredible soul searching, a lot of arguing, laughing and dancing — the five emerged as unlikely friends after eight hours stuck in a library. The Breakfast Club is the quintessential movie on teen life and the film’s themes and issues are still as...
Remember The Shanty Town In The 1980 Movie Popeye? It Was Never Torn Down And Look At It Now
Usually the day after a movie wraps up production, the elaborate and expensive sets are torn down or abandoned. The small village from the 1980 live-version of Popeye still lives on, however, and has become a huge tourist destination in Anchor Bay, Malta. Directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams, Popeye was a disappointment at the box office, making just $49 million, but the shanty town constructed for the film is now...
This Instructional Video On How To Send Email Is From 1984, And Yes, They Had Email In The 80s
This clip first aired on the Thames TV computer program Database back in 1984. In this clip, Database host Tony Bastable demonstrates the art of emailing and how to send email — 1980s style — when overseas and WOW did it seem like a complicated. That’s a ton of work, couldn’t he just call and leave a message? I could listen to Bastable say words all day. Words like “modem” and...
The Greatest American Hero Debuts On ABC — Today In History
The Greatest American Hero Debuts on NBC on March 18, 1981. A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close encounter in the Southern California desert one night with “little green men”, who give our heroes a red superhero suit. The suit works only for Ralph, and the two, accompanied by Ralph’s cute lawyer girlfriend Pam, reluctantly team up to battle...
