by Shawn Robare | Apr 29, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a collector of 80s era stickers, one of my absolute favorite sticker producers has to be the Topps Chewing Gum Company. Whether it was the plethora of sticker subsets that came in packs of their movie and television trading card sets, Garbage Pail Kids, or a number...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 28, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When you run a website steeped in nostalgia you never know exactly where the hunt for content will take you. In my quest to catalog and discuss a bunch of the stuff that I loved as a kid I’ve accumulated all sorts of weird and wonderful ephemera along the way...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 27, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
In July of 1990 two essential things happened in my life. The first was turning 13 years old and achieving my peak level of childhood experience where I was just old enough to appreciate most of the wonderful things that life has to offer and yet was still young...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 21, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Branded in the 80s is an unapologetic, love letter to everything that I adore about the 80s, in particular the stuff from my childhood. That being said, I was one of those kids that never really “grew up” a whole heck of a lot over the years, and I managed...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 21, 2020 | Look
One weird and fun side effect of this pandemic quarantine is that I’ve found myself with a lot of extra time to work on this site. Between my wife and I having our first child, crazy work schedules and just life in one’s 40s, I haven’t had as much...
