by Shawn Robare | Jul 28, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Since I decided to empty my backlog of McDonalds related ephemera this past Monday, I thought I’d also spend a little time talking about the weird craziness of the fast food giant trying a bit too hard to reach out to kids and families in the 80s. On...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 26, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A Little while ago I shared a vintage McDonalds calendar from 1979. I actually managed to get that calendar in a lot with others from the early 80s, so today I though I’d share some more. Most of these calendars had some sort of gimmick (like the...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 23, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Today on Wax Paper Pop Art, Indiana Jones. The first wrapper is a little boring, if only because Topps/O-Pee-Chee used a glorified photocop in the artwork instead of loosely re-drawing the image. I’m much more interested in the crude, simplistic...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 21, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Thinking about some magical food moments from my past I can’t help but immediately gravitate towards the splenderferious invention that graced America’s freezers in 1982 (by my best educated guesstimates), the Pudding Pop. Sure, there are other...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 19, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
While flipping though a bunch of old Boy’s Life magazines recently I came across a couple Toys ‘R’ Us circulars that had some interesting stuff. In the 80s toy companies had a leeway with products that you just won’t ever see again. In...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 16, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This wrapper reminds me that there are still a few sets of sticker cards I still need. Also, this is an example of a Canadian Topps wrapper which is distributed under the name O-Pee-Chee. Jaws 2 from Topps (O-Pee-Chee in Canada), 1978.
