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 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 29, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Looking back at the 80s, sometimes it can be difficult to rank the best or most influential movies of the decade. There’s so many factors to consider like box office numbers, sequels, was the movie attempted to be remade, was it spun off into a television series...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 27, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
In the world of collecting there are literally endless bits and baubles that one can obsessively horde until they find themselves reigning king or queen over a massive treasure trove. Maybe they’ll qualify for a Guinness world record, or have the acclaim of die...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 24, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
We live in a time of epic super hero crossovers and comic book cinematic universes that are managing to tie dozens of movies together into singular huge stories. There are television commercials that are mashing-up tons of pop culture characters, books that name drop...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 23, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Back in 1987, around the time I was nine or ten years-old and in the 5th grade, I was always in a mad rush after school. My elementary school let out at 2:30pm and my appointment television cartoon block started at 3:00pm sharp. I was lucky in that my school was...
