Description: More American Graffiti is set over the course of four New Year's Eve holidays beginning in 1964 and tells four separate stories, one of which is that of John Milner, the head honcho of the racing scene in the first film, as his drag racing career advances. John's story follows him and the Milner Racing Team crew through a series of personal and professional ups and downs, culminating in a fatal finale. This Milner Racing Team design is a replica based on a screen used tee, ensuring it's accurate to those seen in the film.
Description: It features a rainbow graphic resembling seismic waves and the slogan "Shakin' It Up!" likely as a reference to San Francisco's many earthquakes. San Francisco hosts one of the oldest pride celebrations in the country, with a rich history that dates back to 1970, the year after the Stonewall Riots. Earlier iterations of the event were held under the name Gay Freedom Day and International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day, but the title changed over time to accommodate a wider range of LGBT identities until it was eventually just called Pride.
Description: This vintage tee was made by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to help promote and celebrate safe sex. The shirt includes a famous snippet from the Declaration of Independence "Life Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness" and depicts a gay couple wrapped in the American flag and holding up a condom. This t-shirt was designed to destigmatize gay sex in America and emphasize the importance of protection against venereal diseases like HIV/AIDS.
Description: This humorous vintage shirt features a pair of cartoon pigs and a delightfully dirty euphemism. The shirt shows the two barnyard animals copulating along with the slang "makin' bacon", a cheeky pig-themed colloquialism for sex. The cartoon is although this is a fairly common name, making it hard to determine the exact cartoonist responsible for this comical piece of work.
Description: The running boom of the 1970s occurred in high- and middle-income countries. It was particularly pronounced in the United States and occurred in other countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and in Europe. The boom was primarily a ‘jogging’ movement, in which running was generally limited to personal physical activity and often pursued alone for recreation and fitness. It was also associated with a growth in public participation in competitive road running during the decade, particularly in the United States, which spread to other countries in the following decade, including the United Kingdom. It is estimated that 25 million Americans took up some aspect of running in the 1970s and 1980s.
Description: This vintage tee is an eighties original featuring soft poly cotton and a good old fashioned dirty joke. The phrase captures the hilarity of adult humor, dubbing oral sex as a "dark & lonely job, but god damn it, somebody has to do it." This 1980s original would make a funny gag gift for that bold grown-up in your life or a hilarious present for yourself.
Description: Popples were plush toys manufactured between 1986 and 1988. Each toy had a pouch on the back that could be inverted, so the character rolled into the pouch and resembled a brightly colored ball. Popples resembled colorful animals with long, pompom-tipped tails. The name "Popple" is a reference to the popping sound they make when unfolding themselves from such a ball, or pulling objects from their pouches. In the cartoon series of the same name, Popples commonly pulled large items from their pouches that could not possibly fit inside. In the "Popples Alley" episode, one of the Popples' human friends looks inside one of their pouches and sees numerous objects floating in a large void.
Description: In 1983, big-name beers were spending hard to advertise around beer-buying holidays like Memorial Day, July Fourth, and Labor Day. The then young and fledgling Silver Bullet label wanted to own a holiday, but had to pick a less beer-centric one where they could afford to make their campaign dollars go farther and so they picked... Halloween. Yes, Halloween. Enter the BeerWolf - the hard-partying cousin of the werewolf who loved pounding beers at Halloween parties. Surprisingly, he was a hit and helped sell more beer. He was so popular, that he didn't go into hibernation after the calendar changed and actually started showing up for other holidays, events, and for no real reason at all. Here's to you, you crazy beer-drinking bastard.
Description: John Carpenter is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. With critical successes like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981) and The Thing (1982) and so much more. Show tribute to a true horror genius with this 100% cotton Directed By John Carpenter shirt.
Description: Originally published in 1989, GamePro Magazine provided feature articles, news, previews, and reviews on various video games, video game hardware and the video game entertainment industry. The magazine was published monthly out of San Francisco, with October 2011 being its last issue, after over 22 years of publication. GamePro is credited with coming up with the concept of the "Protip," a short piece of advice as if spoken by an expert usually attached to an image, which was explained as being part of their editorial process, they were encouraged to caption the three-to-seven images used in an article with such advice to help readers achieve something new in the title being covered.
Description: Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days to protest conditions on the reservation. This design is a reclaimed thrift store find that we've painstakingly recreated to remain true to the original marking the 100-year anniversary of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee.
Description: KLOL FM was a rock station in Houston, Texas that was on the air from 1970 until 2004. The last song broadcast by the legendary station was also the first it ever played, "I'm Free." Like many early rock stations, KLOL began as a free form/progressive outlet, then morphed over the years to AOR and then classic rock. KLOL now airs a Spanish Pop format as Mega 101.
Description: 2001's Ghost World is the story of neo-cool Enid and Rebecca, who, faced with graduation from high school, take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation, Josh, the girls' friendship is forever changed. This design is based on Enid's cool raptor shirt that she wears in several scenes of the film.
Description: Stay Puft Marshmallows are a fictional food in the Ghostbusters franchise. Their mascot is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Sometime during Ray Stantz's youth, he roasted Stay Puft Marshmallows at Camp Waconda and it remained his fondest childhood memory. In 1984, when Dana Barrett first encountered Zuul, her abandoned groceries included a bag of Stay Pufts, and sometime later, a sign advertising them was seen on the side of a building near the firehouse when the storage facility exploded. Needless to say, when it was time to think of the most harmless thing possible, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was top of mind for Ray and, well, we all know how that turned out...
Description: Pizza Planet is a family restaurant frequented by Andy Davis and his toys that is easily identifiable by its unique design employing a space theme. The building is shaped like the planet Saturn with the "Pizza Planet" logo on top, and to the left of the restaurant stands a rocket ship. The stylized rocket logo seen here is utilized everywhere, from employee uniforms and delivery vehicles, to cups and napkins inside the restaurant.
Description: RSO Records was a record label formed by rock and roll and musical theater impresario Robert Stigwood and record executive Al Coury in 1973. The letters "RSO" stood for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and the company's headquarters were located at 67 Brook Street, in London's Mayfair. In 1978, the label boasted an unprecedented six consecutive number-one singles on the pop charts, holding the top spot for 21 consecutive weeks. RSO would log a further 10 weeks at the number 1 position, giving the label a record of nine in one calendar year. This feat remains unduplicated by any record label to date.
Description: #1 Record is the debut album by Memphis-based rock band, Big Star, that was released on April 24, 1972. The minimalist album cover design included a neon sign of a star with the word 'big' at center. Critics praised the album's vocal harmonies and songcraft, but #1 Record suffered from poor distribution and sold fewer than 10,000 copies upon its initial release. However, the album gained wider attention in the late '70s in when it reissued it with Radio City as a double LP and is now widely-regarded as a seminal work in pop rock and power pop, and is included on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
Description: Bepsi is a fictional soft drink brand based on a well known real-world brand with a similar sounding name. It's best known for being featured in various anime and manga series as the character's beverage of choice, though the earliest and most regular use is the popular Japanese manga, Yowamushi Pedal.
Description: Fido Dido began life as a whimsical cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. Rose first sketched him on a napkin in 1985 and then she and Ferrone produced shirts with the slogan "Fido is for Fido, Fido is against no one" in New York City. He became a local favorite that gained enough of a following that he became the mascot for one of the clear sodas on the market in 1987. Outside of the New York market, he initially failed to gain popularity, though as the America ushered in the '90s, he became an instant hit with his trendy look, laid-back attitude and unconventional take on life that fit well with the new decade.
Description: Riverside International Raceway (sometimes known as Riverside, RIR, or Riverside Raceway) was a motorsports race track and road course established in the Edgemont area of Riverside County, California, just east of the city limits of Riverside and 50 miles east of Los Angeles, in 1957. In 1984, the raceway became part of the newly incorporated city of Moreno Valley. Riverside was noted for its hot, dusty environment and for being a somewhat complicated and dangerous track for drivers, but was also considered one of the finest tracks in America. The track was in operation from September 22, 1957, to July 2, 1989.
