memories of the ’70s – The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

An avid reader of the stories of The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, I was happy when the sleuths came to television in 1977. Each week, Frank & Joe Hardy or Nancy Drew would be drawn into a mystery they would handily solve by the end of the hour.
At the library, I had been encouraged [...]

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memories of the ’80s – Keith Haring

American artist Keith Haring was a distinct voice in the materialistic 1980s. Living in New York and hanging out with the downtown art crowd of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, Haring was praised by the established fringe like Andy Warhol and William Burroughs for his inventive art.
Performance artists, grafitti artists and those who made up [...]

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memories of the ’70s – Van Halen

Although they were the kings of the 1980s, Van Halen was formulated in the hard rock era of the ’70s, grabbing gigs at rock clubs in small town California as they developed their unique sound and stage theatrics.
Formed in 1974, Van Halen was born out of the ashes of Monmoth, a band formed by Eddie [...]

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memories of the ’80s – Adam Ant

Were you an Ant person? Did you have Ant fever? I did – I was an Ant person!
Born out of the punk movement of England in the late ’70s, Adam Ant aka Stuart Goddard, formed his band, Adam and the Ants after attending a gig in 1977 by punk faves Siouxsie and the Banshees in [...]

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memories of the ’70s – Teen Beat Magazine

Adults had a myriad of sources for things they wanted to know, but teens of the ‘70s fixated on Teen Beat for their celeb needs – a magazine that showed them the ‘real lives’ of the popular film, tv, and music idols of the day.
Founded in 1975, Teen Beat went up against Tiger Beat and [...]

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memories of the ’80s – Pac-Man

The 1980s started with the development of video games – and one of the most popular was Pac-Man. At the time most arcade games relied on space as its medium (ie. Space Invaders, Asteroids) or sports games, while Pac-Man went for another tactic – the maze.
Pac-Man was created by Japanese game company NAMCO in 1980 [...]

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memories of the ’70s – Cheryl Tiegs

Fashion magazines of the 1970s were graced by many beautiful women, and this fresh-faced girl from Minnesota became one of the mainstays- Cheryl Tiegs.
Tiegs graced the covers of Glamour, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and most women’s magazines of the ’70s, starting her career as a model for Teen Magazine  when she was seventeen.
Chosen for the cover of Sports Illustrated’s [...]

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memories of the ’80s – Flashdance

Did you want to sweat your way to a dance scholarship? Did leg warmers mean more than fashion to you? For many, Flashdance was a fashion icon of the 1980s, but for some it was the hard path of a dancer from the wrong side of the tracks.
Debuting in 1983, Flashdance was the first film [...]

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memories of the ’70s – Hawaii 5-0

Police dramas of the 1970s were in high demand by viewers, but especially the tropical setting of Hawaii 5-0, starring Jack Lord.
And yes, I do realize the series started in 1968, but to this wee child of the 1970s, it only hit my consciouness half through its successful 12 seasons.
Filmed on the island of Oahu [...]

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memories of the ’80s – Color Me Beautiful

Are you a Winter? Summer? Spring? Autumn?
At the beginning of the 1980s, fashion and style took a dramatic leap to the extreme – wanting to shed the casual style of the previous decade. As the number of women increased in the working world, as did the need for guidance – and the publication of Color [...]

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