by Shawn Robare | Apr 9, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When I was a kid I had some really weird interests. For instance, whenever my mother would get a survey to fill out, I was always right there tugging on her arm with a pencil in hand, begging her to let me fill it out. I’m not sure what it was about them, the...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 7, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
One of my absolute favorite pastimes, specifically when it comes to working on this site, is to dig into the history of brands that were launched during the decade, and to research a bunch of imagery from my collection of mom-magazines (like Working Mother or...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 6, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Listen
On this latest episode of the Branded in the 80s podcast I take a minute and give a little appreciation to one of my favorite animation writers, the great Michael Reaves. Though he may not be a household name, he worked on a ton of the cartoons of the 70s, 80s, and...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 2, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
With all of this quarantine time that a lot of us are mired in, I’ve been trying to be as productive as possible around the house. One of the things that I’ve been doing in the mornings is going through boxes and drawers of paper ephemera that hasn’t...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 31, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Listen
On the latest episode of the show I take a few minutes to talk about the underlying happiness and oft ignored sadness of nostalgia, and try to relate a couple instances where my experience with 80s era junk has led to unadulterated bliss. In one story I talk about the...
