nostalgia

I stumbled on this video of drive along Arrowhead road back in 1990. It will take you back for sure.

I vaguely remember seeing these back in the day, but we had some listeners call in this morning and share their horror stories about them being used.  Watch the commercial, and ask yourself why anyone would have ever bought this?

I don't exactly remember how it came up this morning on The Breakfast Club, but we started talking about the old Pamida stores.  I remember the one in Virginia, MN.  Cathy remembers the one in Cloquet, and not long ago there was one in Two Harbors.  Some of the Pamida's were bought out by Shopko, but there are still some out there.

The Palace Theater opened in Superior Wisconsin back in 1917.  It operated as a theater until 1982, when it was then used as a church.  Not long later it became vacant.  The city took possession of it, and it ultimately was demolished in 2006.  This video tour was taken before it was demolished, and shows what the Palace Theater had become.

Nothing quite makes you feel older than when you realize these movies came out 20 years ago this summer.  Take a trip down memory lane with these blockbusters!

My guess is that if you grew up in the late 70's or early 80's  you probably drank from these at one time.

Yesterday I helped move some items out of my Grandmas house.  (She moved into an apartment closer to family.)  I found quite a few odd things, and this gem:  A Schmidt "Whopper" Beer Glass.  28 ounces baby!

Remember these?  I used to drink them all the time, and they were THE preferred juice box in grade school.  Someone ended up hanging onto one of them, unopened!

If you were born in the 70's or 80's, odds are you or one of your friends had one of these original gray box Nintendo Gameboys.  I happened to find mine in an old box in my dad's attic.  I was helping him move when I spotted the black carrying case.   "No way!"  I thought to myself, "It can't really be in there and still work!?"

Huge, doesn't properly discribe the vehicle I had to take my driver's ed test in.  More like humugi-mammoth!  Parallel park?  It was like docking the Vista Queen in the Duluth Harbor wearing blinders like those of the  horses that pull the carriages in Canal Park.  Here's a video that will give you a walk-around view of a Mercury Marquis.

Before there was Scotty McCreery, Carrie Underwood or even Kelly Clarkson, another country act got a start on a television singing competition. Ed McMahon's 'Star Search' named its first Vocal Group winner in 1983, and helped launch the career of a pack of hitmakers as reliable as any in the early to mid-90s.

Somehow I stumbled on this on youtube and just had to share.  It's fun to take a trip down memory lane, and this will bring you back 22 years to 1991 where Duluth was just finishing up the lakewalk.  To highlight grand opening events, they came up with "Luke Lakewalker" Star Wars promos.  It's ridiculously funny.