The singer-songwriter known only as "Melanie" has died at the age of 76, according to her publicist Billy James, who reported the news to the Associated Press.
There was a Sears department store in every mall throughout New York state when we were growing up. Around Christmas time, our parents would always take out the Sears Holiday Wish Book catalog and tell us to circle what we wanted Santa to bring us. Here is a catalog from the 1980s for you to flip through and take a trip down memory lane!
Well I had no clue this was a thing in Albany. But now I'm excited about it!
Scrolling through events for the summer, I stumbled upon 'Retro Video Game Night' posted on Albany.com, happening every Thursday. According to Albany.com, it's hosted by The City Beer Hall (42 Howard Street) in Albany...
With vinyl sales skyrocketing and many other things of yesteryear coming back to popularity, its seems obvious to me that this will be all the rage very soon.
Back in the day there was no such thing as Photoshop because computers were as big as a room and their main function was adding two plus two. Pin-up girls were not just an artists imagination or fantasies though - they were based on photographs of real models, and then drawn into the iconic images we fondly remembrer today.
I don't remember the exact events of that morning, but I do remember the feeling I had as I ripped open the wrapping paper on a great big box and seeing that picture of the iconic Atari 2600 with the square plastic game cartridges floating next to it. I remember the feeling of joy as I read the directions on how to connect it to my parent's TV and started playing Target Fun and Video Pinball. I wa