by Shawn Robare | Aug 10, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I recently picked up a big run of Muppet Magazine and while flipping through the issues I was astounded by the number of awesome advertisements. I figured I’d share some of them here and there, and this week I thought it would be fun to take a look at some...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 6, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
To cap off the E.T. theme this week, here’s a better look at the wax wrapper from that Buster Browns shoe ad I shared on Tuesday. E.T Topps bubblegum cards, circa 1982.
by Shawn Robare | Aug 5, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I think I’ve written about this before, but there’s aspect to American pop culture that I find endlessly fascinating; this deep need for sustainable continuity. Though we’re fanatics for origin stories, once an idea is set into motion we very...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 3, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
T.L. over at Flashlights are Something to Eat has been posting a bunch of vintage E.T. goodness that I’ve had a lot of fun reading, so I thought I’d take a second and riff off that today. Watching E.T. in the theater was one of those seminal...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 30, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
To sort of keep this week’s McDonalds posts going I thought I’d take a minute to share some awesome trading cards from the impressive collection of the one and only Brandon of the Waffle Whiffer Zone. Brandon’s site and Flickr feed have been a...
