BlogCadre - retro

Classic Polaroid Instant Film Cameras Making a Comeback

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:13:56 +0000

Polaroid came to their senses and announced that they will be bringing back the classic instant film cameras. Thanks for not stopping production on those bad boys! Link

Yearbook Yourself 2009

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:24:52 +0000

The cool cats over at Colle+McVoy launched a new and improved Yearbook Yourself for 2009. This time around, you can add your friends to group photos in the new "Student Life" section and easily upload your Yearbook Yourself photos to your Facebook profiles. Give it a whirl! Link

Previously:
Colle+McVoy's "Yearbook Yourself" wins People's Voice Webby - Link

Candles, stop motion and classic gaming

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:45:23 +0000

Alejandro Sanchez of La Buhardilla animada created a stop motion animation of classic games using candles. Enjoy!

Retro Cherry Coke Commercial

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:04:25 +0000

Cherry Coke may be "outrageous", but 80s fashion.... not so outrageous. Link to commercial.

Previously:
Coca-Cola commercial done GTA style, Commercials from the 80s: Atari, Nintendo and Wendy's (LwL)

Online Skee-ball

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:35:36 +0000

Over at The Jersey Shore website you can play online skee-ball. [via MeFi]

Share your highscore in the comments!

Cartoonists draw popular characters while blindfolded

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:44:13 +0000

Some famous cartoonists were asked to draw their popular comic strip characters while blindfolded in a 1947 issue of Life Magazine. See how they did. [via digg]

Classic Game Show Clips

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:42:03 +0000

Here are five television game shows from the 70s and 80s -- the good, the bad and the ugly.

Press Your Luck
Hosted by Peter Tomarken, Press Your Luck is a game show cult classic. Contestants collected spins by answering various trivia questions and then used the spins on an 18-space gameboard, which was full of cash and prizes. Whomever collected the most in cash and prizes won the game. The show is best known for the infamous Whammy, which would take all of your cash and prizes if you landed on one on the gameboard. "No whammy. No whammy. Stop!" Link to game show clip.

Love Connection
Love Connection was hosted by Chuck Woolery in the 80s and made a brief return in the 1998 - 1999 season, hosted by Pat Bullard. In the show, a single tried to find his or her best match among three men or women. The audience would also vote for whom they thought would make the best match for the contestant.

Here is a classic video clip of a man named Robert Baker who thinks women are turned on by his barking.

Original 60s and 70s Vintage Posters

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:10:24 +0000

Check out the vintage original 60s and 70s posters over at L-dopa. If your interests lie in travel, advertising, sports or just plain cool things, you will want to check out these galleries.

Previously:
Vintage Cigarette Ads, Vintage Drug Ads, Vintage Children's Books, Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters, Vintage Folgers Coffee Commercials, USSR Propaganda and Advertisement Posters from 1917 to 1991

1960s Commercial: Cock O' The Walk low calorie fruit cocktail

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:04:52 +0000

There are so many things wrong with this 1960s Cock O' The Walk commercial.

The commercial begins with two overweight twin women happily dancing around to a jingle that goes like this, "Rolly-polly you're gonna be eating all the sweet stuff with the high calories..." The jingle goes on and a new shot comes in of the product -- Cock O' The Walk low calorie fruit salad. Of course they have to show someone enjoying this low calorie snack so they have a skinny "weight-watching" man eating big scoops of peaches right out of the can.

Check it out.

[via digg]