Comments on: Plaid Stallions!!

Plaid Stallions!!

pearlybob — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:12:27 -0800

All Kinds of 70's awesomeness!! Plaid Stallions!!

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:15:46 -0800

Wicked!

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:24:17 -0800

Gnarly! Wait, was that the eighties? I don't really know.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:56:03 -0800

*adjusts sideburns*

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:01:08 -0800

Good god that's awesome. Memories, they are flooding over me. Space:1999! Evel Knievel awesomeness! Batman & Robin! Sweet, sweet innocence of youth.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:03:23 -0800

The associated blog was posted previously, but this domain makes it easier to go directly to some of the more memorable toys. (My gripe about websites that plaster their name on scans of copyrighted material which isn't theirs, especially when they're also running banner ads, still stands.)

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:03:44 -0800

I'm almost positive Cisco fortified wine didn't appear until about 1991. I remember watching an incensed Bryant Gumbel on TV describe how people were ending up in emergency rooms after "overdosing" on "liquid crack"... Old catalogs are great. I'm afraid my favorite find is not from the 1970's, but from the 1980's. It appears to be an alternative to the Sony Walkman; the Record Muncher.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:42:16 -0800

I'm almost positive Cisco fortified wine didn't appear until about 1991. I read that as Crisco-fortified, and my heart stopped for a moment. Clogged, probably.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:53:37 -0800

Fun site, and it reminds me that I REALLY need some over-the-top seventies clothing (flared trousers or leisure suit, polyester print shirt with big collar, white shoes, tinted teardrop-shape glasses) for a gig I have coming up next month: I have to sing an evening of Chicago (the group) cover tunes from the 70's. Yes, I despise Chicago. That's why I'm doing it: to confront some part of my hideous radio past. Or something like that. But I need the CLOTHES! If anyone has any super-70's items as listed above and wants to help the flapjax look the part for the gig, please MeFiMail me.

By: sien

sien — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:53:38 -0800

70s idolisation is so 90s.

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:02:25 -0800

This website is a waste of cyberspace. The first thing to enter my mind when I clicked through to the link was that I could not believe anyone took the time to critique 70's catalogue pages when there are only 24 hours in a day and we only expect to live to about 80. And, I am 70's man according to my wife stuck in the decade of my youth. Could she be mocking me?

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:02:03 -0800

Man did you notice the resemblance of this guy to Obama? It's UNCANNY.

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:16:07 -0800

I thought I was over fetishizing 70's stuff until I saw the Big Jim toys, which brought back enough memories to make click on some of the other links. Damn you! Or, in the spirit of the era - up your nose with a rubber hose!

By: MikeMc

MikeMc — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:17:25 -0800

Ahhh,...sweet, sweet memories of plaid, polyester,disco and the toy section of the J.C. Penny catalog. OMG!! the Kenner Real West action figures! My friend Roy had some these, I loved those those guys!!!

By: MikeMc

MikeMc — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:21:47 -0800

Upon further review they may have been the Johnny West cowboys, the time frame would have been just right. Where have all the cowboys gone?

By: emjaybee

emjaybee — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:23:39 -0800

Speaking of 70s nostalgia, watched Life on Mars last night. Or as we call it "Law & Order: Sideburn Squad." Except for Harvey Keitel, though, it really sucks, even aside from the get-hit-by-a-car-go-back-in-time premise. But nothing brings back the 70s like my bootleg Star Wars Christmas Special videotape. The Hungry Man ads! The "Buy American" GM ads! The promos for insanely awful variety shows! Oh, and the special itself, of course, but we all knew that.

By: The Ardship of Cambry

The Ardship of Cambry — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:50:25 -0800

Wow, even Pulsar gets some love. Nice.

By: MikeMc

MikeMc — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:34:19 -0800

Wow, even Pulsar gets some love. Not only Pulsar but Space 1999 as well, I mean who didn't want a Martin Landau action figure?

By: Nauip

Nauip — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:58:17 -0800

Supersonic Electronic. Kinda 70's-ish... I think.

By: O9scar

O9scar — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:16:23 -0800

Wicked? More like boss. Or solid. Or right on.