Description: Baron Von Redberry was a cereal that launched in 1972, featuring a World War I era German pilot, presumably modeled on “Red Baron,” Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen. The cereal itself consisted of berry-flavored oat cereal with sweet berry marshmallows and tasted strongly of fruit punch. Baron Von Redberry was the nemesis of Sir Grapefellow, mascot of Sir Grapefellow cereal. In the vein of the cereal rivalries like Quisp & Quake bickering over which one was better, Redberry would proclaim, "Baron Von Redberry is der berry goodest!" and Grapefellow would counter, "Sir Grapefellow is the grapest!" in their various TV spots and print ads.
Description: Bugstars Pest Control is the fictional exterminator company from Los Santos in a game universe. Their blue vans feature their tagline of "Putting the FU in fumigate," you can tell they mean business when it comes to killing bugs and other pests. The red uniforms worn by employees resemble those of the equally fictional Dale's Dead Bug out of Arlen, Texas. So if you're anywhere in the greater Los Santos area, remember, just call 1-999-BUGSTAR to ensure your pests are put down for good.
Description: As cars became increasingly more common, people's desire to modify them grew. And hot rodding vehicles for more power and better performance wasn't just limited to American coupes and flathead V8's. As economical imports made land in post-war America, they received the same treatment, and in the mid-'60s, Andrew's Air Cooled Performance of Bakersfield, California opened their garage doors with a goal of squeezing as much performance out of compact air-cooled engines of German origin, and from what we've heard, they were very, very good at it.
Description: Founded in 1968, Wichita Southeast Kansas Transit (WSKT) was a privately held trucking company that started as a certificated Kansas Intrastate Carrier, serving Wichita and Southeast Kansas with overnight freight service. WSKT grew their network to 46 terminals in a closed loop line haul configuration across fifteen states. WSKT offered LTL Interstate and Intrastate, Pool Distribution, and Time Definite Delivery services and continued their reputation of guaranteed overnight service up until the end when they were sold in 2005.
Description: Mariana’s Cócteles 1974 if you ever find yourself in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras, and wishing you were in a more Polynesian setting, you're in luck! Mariana’s Cócteles is Tegucigalpa's oldest (and only) tiki bar. Serving up tropical cocktails coupled with a menu of traditional Polynesian dishes, Mariana’s stands out from the crowd and is a wonderful respite for those seeking out something a little different.
Description: Black Hearts & Jaded Spades is the third album by English hard rock band Tokyo Blade, released in 1985. The keyboard-laden compositions of this album and the strongly down-tuned guitar sound, marks the complete detachment of the band from their new wave of British heavy metal roots. It was interpreted as an attempt to conquer the American and Japanese markets, where glam and pop metal acts dominated the charts, but instead, it was poorly received. Existing fans were confused by the drastic shift in sound, and first time listeners just found it a little strange, something the album cover should have tipped them off to.
Description: As the van craze of the '70s began was waning, Van World Magazine decided to expand their reach by retooling themselves as Van, Pickup, and Off-Road World Magazine. As the mouthful of a name might imply, the magazine still carried some van-related content, but the magazine largely shifted focus and embraced the growing interest in pickup trucks and off-roading. Coverage included new vehicle tests, reader's rides, how-to pieces, and occasional coverage of racing events and shows. Numbering continued from Van World, and a total of 11 issues were printed between May 1979 and March 1980 before the title was shelved.
Description: Skippers was a fast food chain founded in 1969 by Herb Rosen in Bellevue, Washington with a menu of chowder, fish and chips, and other fried seafood. Skippers grew rapidly during the '70s, with new restaurants being opened in multiple western states and British Columbia, Canada, until peaking at around 200 locations in the early '80s. In 1989, growth had slowed, and the chain was sold, resulting in the closing of several locations. Having been largely stagnant, Skippers was would be sold several more times before filing for bankruptcy in 2006. 14 of the 58 remaining stores were sold ahead of the bankruptcy, and after the sales of individual units, the remaining stores were closed and Skippers ceased to exist.
Description: Formed in Sydney, Australia in 1985, Sadistik Exekution was an extreme metal band known for their outrageous live show antics, notorious behavior, non-conformist attitude, and their own extreme form of death metal. While the band has firmly stated they should not at all be confused with or labelled as black metal, they're ironically credited as being a key influence of early Scandinavian black metal bands. Sadistik Exekution released five albums and two singles, and called it quits in 1999.
Description: If you were a BMX rider in the '80s, you probably recall Rockville BMX. Based in Rockville, Maryland, even if you weren't a local or even a north easterner, you definitely saw their ads in every major BMX magazine, and probably even sent away for their catalogs. Whether you were into freestyle, dirt jumpers, or traditional racers, Rockville BMX had you covered. In addition to their general catalogs, Rockville also published several dedicated catalogs for most manufacturers, as well as some for the aforementioned styles of BMX. The shop hosted countless trick shows and exhibitions in their parking lot, and being a well known national mail order operation, took the show on the road as well.
Description: Founded in 1964 in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwise was a chain of auto parts stores in the United States. In 1974, Nationwise partnered with Columbus-based engine builders, The Rod Shop, sponsoring a series of highly successful drag racecars. In stores, a Rod Shop section was created as kind of a speed shop inside of a parts store. In addition to go fast goodies from all the big names, Nationwise also sold Rod Shop branded performance parts. These parts were typically embossed with NRS (Nationwise Rod Shop), making them easy to identify by collectors, even decades later. The Rod Shop partnership ended in 1987, and less than a decade later, Nationwise became insolvent, and closed all stores on Sunday, October 15, 1995 at 3:00 PM.
Description: Moosehead Lake is the largest lake in Maine, and as such, it was one of the most frequented areas by sportsmen in the nineteenth century. The earliest written description of Moosehead Lake comes from British Col. Montressor, who canoed down the Moose River, down the lake and then down the Kennebec River in 1767. Located at the foot of the lake, the town of Greenville was settled in 1827, and with the addition of hotels, it became the starting point for supplies for lumbermen, tourists, and sportsmen, and this great lake remains a popular destination to this day.
Description: Do bears shred in the woods? They apparently do in Wyoming! Founded in 1983 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Bearas Skates was for the longest time the only skate shop around. Fondly referred to as 'Bare Ass Skates' by locals, Bearas was a hole in the wall type shop, but managed to stock a large selection of decks, wheels, trucks, and other accessories to keep locals and tourists rolling along.
Description: The Hunger is a 1983 erotic horror film that is a loose adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name. Its plot concerns a love triangle between a doctor who specializes in sleep and aging research and a vampire couple. After premiering at the Cannes, The Hunger was released in the spring of 1983. Though it received a mixed critical response, the film has accrued a cult following within the goth subculture in the years since its release. The film feels like a dream-like arthouse horror flick, but with diamond-studded production values that somehow makes it work as a beautiful piece of cinematic history.
Description: Far Rockaway High School was a public high school in New York City, at 821 Bay 25th Street in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, in Queens. The school was in operation from 1897 until 2011, ultimately closing as students' average grades continued to decline. Far Rockaway stopped accepting students in 2008 and closed for good on June 27, 2011 after the final class graduated. This design is based on a late '50s era artifact that was most likely standard dress for P.E. or a practice shirt for any number of athletic programs.
Description: The F.W. Cook Brewing Company was founded in 1853 by Frederick Washington Cook and Jacob Rice in what was then a cornfield just outside of downtown Evansville, Indiana. F.W. Cook brewed several beers under their Cook's brand over the years, and in the early '50s, they added their first ale. Naming it Cook’s 500 Ale after the popular race that took place every year a couple of hours north in Indianapolis, the new ale was another hit for F.W. Cook. Sadly, workers went on strike in 1955, at which point the brewery's owners ceased operations. The brewery closed its doors for good in September 1957 after selling all of the beer it had already produced, including the very last batch of Cook’s 500 Ale.
Description: Topo was a series of robots designed in the early '80s by Sunnyvale, California's Androbot for the consumer and education markets. It was wirelessly programmable via computer with a modified version of BASIC called TopoBASIC (and later Forth, with TopoFORTH). The program allowed the robot to perform a set of geometric movements, to move about a room and perform tasks. Topo was like a servant robot, although it didn't truly meet the requirements of a robot, as it had no sensors to receive input and then make decisions accordingly. It also couldn't communicate any information back with the computer, nor calibrate its own motors to ensure an accurate task was being performed. The robots were sold commercially starting in May 1983.
Description: Under the Flag is the third studio album released on September 1, 1982, by experimental electronic artist Fad Gadget, the stage name for Frank Tovey. Recorded at Blackwing Studios in London, the album largely focused on his fear for the future of the world, in light of having just become a father. He was apparently afraid of the world his daughter was going to grow up in. Sampling was new technology back in the early '80s, is incorporated into the album, and sequencing is also heavily used.
Description: A taper is a person who records musical events, often from standing microphones in the audience, for the benefit of the band's fan base. Fans would share their tapes through trade, creating a unique sub-culture where no money was exchanged, just copies of live shows swapped among fans. Taping was popularized in the late '60s and early '70s, and while bands initially attempted to thwart it, most eventually embraced tapers. While audio recording was largely tolerated, it wasn't officially allowed until the creation of a 'tapers' section' that was usually located behind the soundboard in the '80s where tapers could do their thing. Taping setups are generally portable, with condenser microphones, phantom power, a preamp, and a recording device.
Description: Larry Flynt was a self-made millionaire that built an empire on adult entertainment. From his first strip club in Dayton, Ohio, to his explicit adult magazines that rocked the industry, Flynt was known for pushing the envelope in everything he did. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and was paralyzed from the waist down from a 1978 assassination attempt. He was notoriously liberal, and frequently attacking conservative politicians and their values, so he threw his hat into the ring in the 1984 presidential elections, running as a Republican.
Description: Without question, the '70s was the single most influential decade of rock music, as guitar driven tunes ruled the radio dial. While Rock n' roll didn't die, but the reign of rock did crumble as the airwaves of the '80s and '90s gave much larger shares to hip hop and new wave, but a large segment of the population continued to rock on!
Description: Werewolves on Wheels is a 1971 American exploitation that blends two genres: the outlaw biker film and the traditional horror film. The film sees a biker gang comes across an old church, where they encounter black-robed devil worshipers. The satanists place a curse on one of the biker's girlfriends, leaving her not only possessed, but a werewolf. This transformation has dire results for the biker gang, as the possessed woman infects her boyfriend. Other than key actors in primary roles, Werewolves on Wheels used real bikers with no experience or training in acting. Much of the footage is just of them going about their lives as normal, so much of the film is regarded as an early experiment in reality as entertainment.
Description: Robert Johnson was an itinerant Delta blues singer and guitarist who lived from 1911 to 1938. He recorded 29 songs between '36 and ‘37 for the American Record Corporation, which released eleven 78rpm records on their Vocalion label during Johnson's lifetime, and one after his death. Like many bluesmen of his day, Johnson plied his craft on street corners and in juke joints, ever rambling and ever lonely, all while writing songs that romanticized that existence. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Johnson accomplished this with such an unprecedented intensity, marrying his starkly expressive vocals with a guitar mastery, that his music has endured beyond his short life.
Description: Cabo San Lucas is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Rated as one of Mexico's top five tourist destinations, Cabo is known for its beaches, scuba diving locations, Balnearios, the sea arch El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, and marine life. The waters around Cabo are home to marine wildlife including rays, sharks, mahi-mahi, and striped marlin. With a population of about 200k, Cabo San Lucas together with San José del Cabo are collectively known as Los Cabos, together forming a metropolitan area of about 350k. The Los Cabos Corridor has become a heavily trafficked vacation destination for tourists, with numerous resorts and timeshares along the coast.
Description: A boogie van is 50% muscle car, 50% rolling room, and 100% party. Whether it's cruising the local strip, or hitting the highway for an extended road trip to nowhere, the classic boogie van aims to please. So be sure to batten down the hatches and secure your load, and let's boogie!
Description: The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is an underground comic about three stoner freaks (similar to, but distinct from, hippies) from San Francisco. The trio first appeared in The Rag, an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas, beginning in May 1968, and were regularly reprinted in underground papers around the United States and in other parts of the world. Later, their adventures were published in a series of comic books. The lives of the Freak Brothers revolve around the procurement and enjoyment of recreational drugs, particularly marijuana. The comics present a critique of the establishment while satirizing counterculture. The freaks consist of Freewheelin' Franklin Freek, Phineas T. Phreak, and Fat Freddy Freekowtski.
Description: Rocky Mountain High is a 1972 folk song about the serenity found in the Rocky Mountains. The song was controversial when the FCC was permitted by a legal ruling to censor music deemed to promote drug abuse. Numerous radio stations cautiously banned it until the son'g author explained that the "high" was an innocent description of the sense of peace he found in the Rockies. Of course, that doesn't stop recreational drug users still maintaining an association with the song, one that was only reinforced when Colorado legalized marijuana in 2012. Regardless of what your high is, you can't beat experiencing the Rockies from Colorado, home to Rocky Mountain National Park as well as the range's highest peak, Mount Elbert, at 14,440 ft.
Description: Gordon Lightfoot was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the '60s and '70s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter, and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend. His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.
Description: Beginning with a single store at Century Plaza in Birmingham, Alabama in 1977, Just For Feet became one of the largest and fastest growing athletic chains in America. By 1999, Just For Feet had over 140 superstores in 25 states. Several features helped to distinguish Just for Feet stores from its competitors, including in-store basketball courts, walls of TVs airing sporting events, in-store appearances by professional athletes, loud rock and dance music setting the scene, and in-store snack bars. Despite things looking up for Just For Feet, a 1999 game day TV spot ended up being their undoing after the ad was decried as being racist. The sharp decline in sales helped to expose widespread accounting fraud, leading to Just For Feet's demise.
