October 30, 1978, WKRP’s station manager believed that he had come up with what was “the greatest promotional idea of all time” for Thanksgiving. This promotion involved hiring a helicopter to drop live turkeys at a local mall, but apparently, nobody involved was aware that turkeys are flightless birds: “Something just came out of the back of the helicopter. It’s a dark object. Perhaps a skydiver. A second. A third… No parachute yet. Oh my God! They’re turkeys!” They’re crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! The crowd is running for their lives!”
There are many copies and stolen versions of this design out there on cheap tee websites. Don't be fooled. The original "Visit Tatooine" shirt will have an attribution to FloresArts and TeePublic.
Ray’s Music Exchange. Inspired by the 1980 movie “The Blues Brothers”.
Please note that the print is deliberately distressed to give an aged, retro appearance.
Bruce Leroy Academy - The Last Dragon - 1985 an American martial arts comedy produced for Berry Gordy by Rupert Hitzig and directed by Michael Schultz. The film stars Timak, Vanity, Julius Carry, Christopher Murney, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Faith Prince. Choreography by Leicester Wilson and Lawrence Leritz.
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1980s, 1985, 80s movies, bruce leroy, comedy
Verve Records was founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, widely acknowledged as the most successful impresario in the history of jazz. The label was home to the world's largest jazz catalog which included some of the greatest jazz artists of all time. Verve also absorbed the catalogs of Granz's earlier labels, Clef, founded in 1946, Norgran, founded in 1953, and material previously licensed to Mercury. In addition to his extensive work in promoting jazz music, Granz was known for his anti-racist positions and for integrating jazz audiences in a time when integrating anything was pretty unheard of in a lot of places.
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jazz musician, jazz lover, record label, music, record store
Elsinore is the fictional brand of beer that the 1983 Canadian comedy movie Strange Brew is centered around. The story focuses on two unemployed brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, who place a live mouse in a beer bottle in an attempt to blackmail the local beer store into giving them free Elsinore beer, but are told to take up the matter with management at the Elsinore brewery. Their plan doesn't quite work out as instead of getting free beer, the brothers are given jobs on the bottling line inspecting bottles for mice which is almost as good, right? Needless to say, hijinks ensue and make this ridiculous movie into the cult classic that it is.
