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Hitting stores in 1986, Legions of Power was a series of toys that you assembled yourself to form the various outer space combat vehicles featured on the box. The basic core frames of the vehicles were usually a dull gray color, but kids accessorized them with various detail pieces that were in either blue or red, as well as some that were glow-in-the-dark. More importantly, certain pieces were motorized, and when attached wheels, tires, legs, and other pieces, you would be able to actually make your vehicles move. With action figures, robot and mecha themes, and a functional building set, Legions of Power hit on all cylinders as a true cross segment toy.

At the age of 15, Rocky Panzo and his family moved to Chicago from Italy in 1914. Rocky began working as a commercial perch fisherman to help support the family, and eventually opened his own bait shop. Located on Chicago's famous Navy Pier, long before it would be transformed into the polished tourist attraction it is today, Rocky's Bait Shop was a favorite of both commercial fishermen and amateur anglers alike. Rocky's relic of a shack at 138 N. Streeter Dr. sat amidst the ramshackle area that made up the water’s edge for decades, providing fresh bait and, as Rocky called it, questionable advice. Eventually, Rocky's sons joined up, adding a fried seafood trailer and changing the name to Rocky and Sons Fish House in the early '60s.

Imperial Airways was an early British commercial airline, operating from 1924 to 1939, principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia, and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong. On May 1, 1927, Imperial introduced its “Silver Wing” service on the London to Paris route, establishing the first ever luxury in flight service. Operated with a dedicated fleet of three silver Armstrong Whitworth Argosy triple engine aircraft, the planes featured spacious silver and gray interiors with upgraded seating, a full bar, and a steward to serve a four-course lunch during the two and a half hour flight. This design is based on a 1935 advertising poster promoting the London to Paris flights.

Silly novelty tees never go out of style, and this mid-2000s 'shit happens' design is no exception. Beyond the obvious, we're not sure exactly what this cartoon duck's problem is, but it's strangely relatable.

Founded in 1962 by the F. W. Woolworth Company, Woolco was an American retail chain. Unlike Woolworth's five-and-dime stores, Woolco was a full-line discount department store, and the creation of the new format coincided with the expansion of suburbia. At its peak, Woolco had hundreds of stores in the US, as well as in Canada and the UK. Woolworth's flagship stores were still doing well, but the company wanted to tap into the growing discount department store market without diluting its dominant position in the variety store business. The first Woolco was located in Columbus, Ohio, and by 1966, there were 18 in the US, and nine in Canada with plans for 30 stores to be added per year.

Calig Steel Drum Co. was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania back in 1910. There's not a whole lot of explaining needed as to what they did, since it's literally in their name, but for those who are slow on the uptake, Calig Steel Drum Co. made steel drums. Made with premium Pittsburgh Steel, Calig's drums were first-rate and preferred by a wide range of manufacturers. From petroleum refineries to chemical manufacturers, Calig's steel drums could be found from coast to coast and beyond, and were made for the better part of a century.

Starsky & Hutch is an action television series, which consisted of a 70-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a Movie of the Week entry) and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each, broadcast from April 1975 to August 1979. The show focused on tough Det. Sgt. Dave Starsky and educated Det. Sgt. Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson are plainclothes cops taking on dope dealers, muggers, and other thugs. Aided by their souped-up red-and-white 1974 Gran Torino and informant, Huggy Bear, both bachelors’ private lives played as interweaving threads in the drama.

In the early days of personal computers, most computer stores were small, independent shops, and not exactly friendly to first time buyers. Doppler Computer Superstores attempted to change that in 1993 with a single retail location in Vancouver, British Columbia. Set up like more of a traditional consumer electronics store, the brightly lit, spacious interiors carried everything a PC user could want, and had a knowledgeable staff that was happy to help. From that single location, Doppler grew to become a retail giant with locations in both Canada and the US with sales in excess of $150 million. In the '90s sci-fi TV series, Sliders, Quinn and Wade both worked at the Doppler Computer Superstore, Quinn as a technician, and Wade in sales.

Splicing the '70s slavesploitation genre with supernatural eroticism wasn't exactly common, but The Wild White Witch did just that. How successful it was depends on who you ask, but the novel definitely made some waves when it was released in 1973. Written by author Paul Tabori, written under the pen-name Peter Stafford. The story takes place on a Jamaican plantation in the early 1800s, owned by the aristocratic uncle of the novel’s protagonist, Jeremy. The latter is a young Scot who’s been invited to take his uncle’s place... hi jinks of sex magic ensue!

Nevada Bob’s Discount Golf opened their first store in Las Vegas in 1974, and 25 years later, had over 230 stores nationwide. That number was comprised of more than 80 company-owned stores and over 150 franchised locations, with the largest single concentration being 30 stores in California. Nevada Bob’s eventually added tennis to some of their stores, calling them Nevada Bob’s Discount Golf & Tennis, but were always very much gold focused. By the year 2000, a downswing in recreational golf appeared to be more permanent, and the company soon found itself in trouble. Bob’s began cutting underperforming stores loose, but ultimately ended up reorganizing in bankruptcy. Things began looking up for a while, but eventually Bob's would fail again.

Windsor Forestry Tools was founded in Milan, Tennessee in 1948, specializing in the manufacturing of products for chainsaws. Often referring to their product line as 'The Windsor Cutting Train' in marketing materials and catalogs, Windsor's primary product line consisted of chainsaw bars, chains, and sprockets for all major manufacturer's chainsaws. The company continued to produce their line for decades until being acquired by a Swedish firm in the mid-'80s, something that would be repeated several times before the company's demise some time around 2010.

In 1921, Harry Zabarsky and his brother, Mickey, started St. Johnsbury Trucking (SJT) with a single truck, and within a few years, had a growing fleet. Based in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, SJT grew to serve the northeastern U.S., and much of eastern Canada. The company grew and expanded heavily through acquisitions of trucking companies, operating terminals throughout Delaware, New England, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. The mid '80s saw fortunes turn for SJT in a post deregulation trucking industry, and by the end of the decade, it was clear the company was in trouble. After more than seven decades of business, St. Johnsbury Trucking officially closed its doors on June 14, 1993, leaving 4,400 hardworking people out of work.

If you were a young boy in the '70s, there is a high chance that you had a shirt and/or pajamas with this 'Astro Pilot' design.

The San Fernando Valley, known locally simply as 'The Valley,' is an urbanized area in Los Angeles County, California. Situated to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it contains a large portion of the City of Los Angeles, as well as several unincorporated areas; and the incorporated cities of Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale, Hidden Hills, and San Fernando. Much in the same way that New Yorkers bag on New Jersey, the San Fernando Valley gets dumped on by those who live in the Los Angeles Basin. Reasons range from "there's no culture" and "it's too damn hot," to "it's too far away" and "everyone who lives there is lame." This '80s 'Nuke The Valley' design was a popular one that L.A. Basin dwellers could be found wearing with pride.

Founded in 1935, Harbor Tug & Barge Company was one of San Francisco Bay's first dedicated tugboat operators. In business for over half a century, at its peak, Harbor Tug maintained a fleet of 15 high-powered tugboats, and over 70 barges. Aside from guiding freighters in and out of the bay, Harbor Tug's barges were used for everything from waterfront construction and demolition projects, to the haulage of bulk materials and garbage.

Schraderbräu is a homebrew beer lagered by DEA Agent Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad, which he says is "brewed to silky perfection." His home brew is a Märzen style beer that measures a 13 SRM, with 26 units of bitterness, and 6.2% alcohol by volume. We're first introduced to Schraderbräu in Season 2, Episode 13, "ABQ," as we find Hank bottling his latest batch in his garage. This is the day he called in sick after receiving a promotion to the El Paso Intelligence Center, which disappoints his wife, Marie.

Mao Zedong introduced his idea of paper tigers to Americans in a 1946 interview with journalist Anna Louise Strong: "...he outcome of a war is decided by the people, not by one or two new types of weapons. All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful." A decade later, Mao was interviewed by Strong a second time, and invoked the concept again: "In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of; it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe that it is nothing but a paper tiger."

Danger Doom was a hip hop project consisting of Danger Mouse and MF DOOM. Their first album, The Mouse and the Mask, was released in 2005, and followed by the Occult Hymn EP in 2006. MF Doom had stated that he hoped there would be a second Danger Doom album in which he would rap from the perspective of the cartoons and in their voices, rather than simply create stories around them. Danger Mouse was slated to reunite with MF Doom in 2008, though ultimately no reunion projects occurred before MF Doom's death in 2020.

Sometimes you run across a design that has you scratching your head, and this '70s imprint is no exception.

After a decade farming in rural Platteville, Wisconsin, Wilson J. Boldt joined Andrew Brothers in Platteville in a dual role as both farm and seed house manager in 1944. In 1947, he set out on his own by founding County Seedmen, and specializing in selling certified seeds and fertilizers to local farmers. Certified seeds are important to farmers as they are produced under strict seed certification standards to maintain varietal purity. Seed lots must also meet specified standards for other crops, inert matter, weed seeds, and germination. Boldt ran County Seedmen until selling it in 1968 to Dick Swart, who continued to operate County Seedmen for another 20 years until he retired.

Beneke Fabricators Incorporated is a fictional fabrication company that exists in the Breaking Bad universe, making its first appearance in the seventh episode of the second season on April 19, 2009. Located at 5208 Morris Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the company run by Ted Beneke, who assumed ownership from his father who had founded the firm. Skyler White had worked for the company as their bookkeeper when Ted's father was running things, but later returns to her old job working for Ted. The exterior shots of Beneke Fabricators were filmed at the real world location of 2241 Phoenix Ave NE in Albuquerque.

The Dorm That Dripped Blood is a 1982 American slasher film that follows four college students who stay on campus over the Christmas break. The students are tasked with cleaning out a condemned dormitory, when an unknown assailant begins stalking and murdering them. Filmed on a Los Angeles college campus in December 1981, the film was originally released in the United States and United Kingdom under the title Pranks in 1982. When its distributors found the title to not be conducive to box-office sales, the film was re-titled The Dorm That Dripped Blood and re-released in 1983. In the United Kingdom, it suffered significant censorship due to its graphic violence, earning its inclusion on the British film "video nasty" list.

The Atlantic Earth Festival was founded in 1989, in Rosebud, right in the heart of the southwestern Nova Scotia countryside. Attendees camped right at the festival site in a large field, enjoying a weekend of folk music in celebration of the earth. Held on the first weekend in June, the festival was used as a vehicle to celebrate the earth and create awareness for pesticide free farming and global environmental concerns. In 1992, the festival moved to Seaview Memorial Park in Halifax, and remained there until the final event in 1998.

Tower of Pizza opened its doors to the denizens of the Las Vegas Strip back in 1964. Behind the business with the iconic leaning tower neon sign was Gaspare "Jasper" Speciale, a well-known bookie and loan shark from New York. Serving traditional New York style pizza and authentic Italian dishes into the small hours, Tower of Pizza quickly became the late night spot for entertainers to grab a bite after performing at the casinos. The joint was also known as a mob hang-out where many deals went down in the dark corners and back rooms over the years. In 1979 Speciale sold the business to Bobby Capozzoli, the son of a California restaurateur who'd moved to Vegas. In the mid '80s, when the rent tripled, Capozzoli moved it out to Boulder Highway.

Hemp is a botanical class of Cannabis Sativa cultivars grown specifically for industrial and consumable use that was first spun into usable fiber 50,000 years ago. Along with bamboo, hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth, and also like bamboo, hemp be used to make a wide range of environmentally friendly products. It can be refined into a variety of commercial items, including paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, and animal feed. Despite hemp's limitless applications, the plant was first struck down by the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and then became a victim of the '70s 'war on drugs' in America due to its association with marijuana.

Founded in the mid-sixties in Overland Park, Kansas, American Freight System grew from a Midwest regional short haul carrier to a national long haul powerhouse inside just two decades. By the mid-eighties, American was operating close to 200 terminals from coast to coast with a fleet of 1,600 tractors and 5,200 trailers, making them the fourth-largest trucking company in the United States at the time. Unfortunately, the company sold themselves to an investment group in 1988 that promptly stripped the company for a quick profit, leaving American Freight System as a footnote in the history books.

Star Frontiers is a space opera role-playing game that is set near the center of a spiral galaxy. A previously undiscovered quirk of the laws of physics allows starships to jump to "The Void," a hyperspatial realm that greatly shortens the travel times between inhabited worlds, once they reach 1% of the speed of light. Four races — Dralasite, Humans, Vrusk, and Yazirian — have independently discovered this way of travelling vast distances, and in "The Frontier Sector," they form the United Planetary Federation (UPF). A large number of the star systems shown on the map of the Frontier sector in the basic rule book are unexplored and undetailed, allowing the game master to put whatever they wish there.

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” ― Mark Twain

Ripcord Games began as a publishing label of Panasonic Interactive Media in 1997, and is probably best known for Postal, its debut game, and the Spec Ops series. In 1999 Ripcord Games was spun off from the parent company and sold, but continued to operate as it had previously, but as a privately held company. The company partnered with Southpeak Interactive for publishing, but when Southpeak suddenly dissolved in November 2000, so did Ripcord's much needed funding. Although the company had the most experience publishing games for the PC, Ripcord had announced and promoted several console titles, but without the financial support it required, Ripcord shuttered their offices in 2001 and stopped publishing.

The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its supposed astrological character. Overcome by the power and clamor of Mars, Holst desired peace. Hence, ‘Venus, the Bringer of Peace. In Holst view on the progression of life, after all the clamor and anxiety of Mars, Venus would be clear to come next and give some calm. Peace can only reign supreme when the warring power of Mars has spent itself. The opening horn solo, answered by three phlegmatic flutes, is an invocation to peace...

The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold, and white. The North Stars played 2,062 regular season games and made the playoffs 17 times, including two finals appearances, but were unable to bring home the cup. After the 1992–93 season, the franchise moved to Dallas.

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (reporting mark KCS) was an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operated in 10 Midwestern and Southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. KCS had the shortest north-south rail route between Kansas City, Missouri, and several key ports along the Gulf of Mexico. The focus of the routes was the fastest way to connect Kansas City to salt water ports as it was 800 miles from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico compared to 1,400 miles between Kansas City and the Atlantic Ocean ports. KCS operated over a railroad system consisting of 3,984 route miles that extend south to the Mexico–United States border.

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics, and later rebranded as SGI) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer founded in Mountain View, California in 1981. SGI was dedicated to manufacturing high-performance workstations, software design, and supercomputers for professionals specializing in 3D graphics. At its peak in the '90s, Silicon Graphics had legendary status among 3D artists and graphic designers who leveraged the unique power of these workstations as they were at the bleeding edge of visual computing. The '90s also saw Silicon Graphics workstations become the go-to workstations in Hollywood, with SGI machines contributing special effects, post-production work, and 3D animation to over 40 major productions.

Based in Southern California, International Racing Enterprises Ltd. was an off-road race organizer and promoter behind several Baja style racing events throughout the '70s and '80s. Not much more info on them, but hey, it's an off-road racing design with a cool old school race buggy, so what's not to like?

This '80s animal lover design has been around for a while, and now it's been thoughtfully recreated to give it another run with a new generation.

Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California, between Carmel and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery, and has been called the longest and most scenic stretch of undeveloped coastline in the contiguous United States. The views, redwood forests, hiking, beaches, extreme surfing, and other recreational opportunities have made Big Sur a popular destination for visitors from around the world. With 4.5 to 7 million visitors annually, it is among the top tourist destinations in the United States. Despite its popularity, the region is heavily protected to preserve the rural and natural character.