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...
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...
