Description: The Boston Red Stockings formed as the charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871, and several name changes later, The Boston Braves were born in 1912. The Boston franchise played at South End Grounds from 1871 to 1914 and at Braves Field from 1915 to 1952. The franchise would go on to move from Boston to Milwaukee, and then again to Atlanta, making it the oldest continuous professional baseball franchise in the country.
Description: Gambler Chassis Co. designed what would become one of the most popular new outlaw sprint racing chassis designs in decades in 1980. The chassis thoughtfully laid out to be both extremely rigid and modular for repair work or even customization. The success of the Gambler-based cars led to countless copycats and many of the original design features are now standard among modern chassis builders. While Gambler built sprint cars are long out of production, most of those they made are still tearing up the track and are hardly sought after by racers, so when one comes up for sale, it's safe to say that it doesn't stay on the market for very long.
Description: James Heddon came upon the idea for an artificial fishing lure in 1894 when he threw a stick he had whittled into a local lake known as Mill Pond and watched as a bass hit it. His original lures were frogs carved from broomsticks and, over the next several years he shared them with fellow fishing enthusiasts in his Dowagiac, Michigan community and used their feedback to further refine his designs. By 1900 he was selling his lures locally, but as word got out, he formalized things and founded the Heddon Company in 1902. . He continued to make every lure by hand in the Heddon family kitchen, but by 1904 he opened a new factory in Dowagiac. By 1950 the Heddon name was well known and the company would go on to other peripheral fishing gear.
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: Rust-eze is a medicated bumper ointment with a specialized rear end formula for cars with rusty bumpers wanting to eradicate rust. Rust-eze was created in 1990 by Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze and quickly grew to become the top-selling bumper ointment in the United States. In 2016, it was sold to a businessman, named Sterling, though he only held on to it for one year before selling it to Dinoco.
Description: Q*bert /ˈkjuːbərt/ is an arcade game developed and published for the North American market by Gottlieb in 1982. It is a 2D action game with puzzle elements that uses isometric graphics to create a pseudo-3D effect. The objective of each level in the game is to change every cube in a pyramid to a target color by making Q*bert, the on-screen character, hop on top of the cube while avoiding obstacles and enemies. Players use a joystick to control the character and when Q*bert collides with an enemy or harmful object in his path, he 'swears' by displaying a comic-style speech bubble and utters an incoherent phrase made of synthesized speech generated by the game's soundchip.
Description: Formed in 1987 under the moniker Katzenjammer, Kyuss would go on to be the coolest band during their lifetime. With scorching-hot riffs, serpentine grooves, and no rush to get anywhere faster than absolutely necessary, they truly encapsulated the vastness of the California desert from which they hailed, which makes their unique cult following all the easier to understand.
Description: Hee Haw was an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop. It aired first-run from 1969 to 1971, in syndication from 1971 to 1993, and on again from 1996 to 1997.
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Description: Described as "the most phantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything," Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical-fantasy film about down-on-his-luck inventor, Caractacus Potts. He turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. Whether you're into classic movies, old cars, or campy musicals, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has something for you!
Description: Before there was a mouse, there was a rabbit, and his name was Oswald. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was created in 1927 by Ub Iwerks for WDC. This familiar-looking rabbit was a precursor to the anthropomorphic rodent that would become known worldwide, but had the distributor of Oswald's earliest cartoons not surreptitiously claimed the rights to the character, guests at the most magical place on earth would be welcomed by a rabbit and not a mouse...
Description: Willy's Wonderland was a once-successful family entertainment center in the remote desert town of Hayesville, Nevada. Following the '80s era Showbiz model of greasy pizza, arcade games, and animatronic characters who perform musical numbers at regular intervals, Willy's felt plenty familiar to locals and tourists alike. Of course, the animatronic characters at Willy's Wonderland had a secret... original owner, Jerry Robert Willis, a notorious serial killer, and his psychotic partners, who often murdered unsuspecting families for their own twisted enjoyment, performed a satanic ritual to transfer their souls into the animatronic characters giving Willy's something the other places definitely didn't have!
Description: Heavyweights is a '90s comedy that focuses on a group of plump kids who get lured into joining a posh fat camp with the promise of quick weight loss and good times. The kids quickly learn that the facility is a woodland hellhole run by a psycho ex-fitness instructor, Tony Perkis, and that they are now subject to his over the top 'Perkis Power' fitness program.
Description: The Overlook Hotel is the centerpiece of one of the greatest horror tales of all time, The Shining, by Stephen King. Located in Estes Park, Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains, it's real life counterpart is where King went to get away from it all, only to be inspired by this remote and magnificent location and his own situation, leading him to pen The Shining. This version of the Overlook Hotel tee features a nicely aged, vintage look with plenty of distressing, giving it that age-old souvenir shirt look.
Description: Peaches Records & Tapes was a Los Angeles-based chain of record superstores, some as large as 15,000 square feet. They were known for its vast selection, with many locations in buildings the size of a typical grocery store, reportedly stocking $500,000 in inventory. Peaches were also known for in-store events with bands and artists, huge murals of the latest album covers on the side of its buildings and for selling records from fruit-crates. The first store opened on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1975 and later that year, a second was opened in Atlanta. At its peak, Peaches had 50 stores in 22 cities with over 2,000 employees. In June 1981, Peaches filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 citing $20 million in debt
Description: Manny's Musical Instruments and Accessories, Inc., or more commonly, Manny's Music, was a New York City music store that claimed to have 'everything for the musician,' and from what we've heard, that was very true. Since opening their doors in Midtown Manhattan in 1935, Manny's amassed a client list of big names in the music industry and they adorned their walls with nearly 75 years of photos of artists and producers who frequented the store. Whether you were a local looking for your first guitar or a drummer in town on a national tour in need of a few new cymbals, Manny's was the place to go until they sadly closed their doors for good in 2009.
Description: Commodore was a North American home computer and electronics manufacturer. Commodore development of the home–personal computer industry in the 1970s and 1980s. The company developed and marketed one of the world's best-selling desktop computers of all time, the Commodore 64 (1982) and released its Amiga computer line in 1985, both of which still have extensive legacy followings to this day. This version of the Commodore C shirt features a nice dose of vintage wear and tear to make it look like it's been around since the 80s.
Description: Danzig is the self-titled debut album from Glenn Danzig's bluesy hard rock band that was released in August of 1988. The album was the first release on producer Rick Rubin's new label, Def American, and was slower, harder, heavier, cleaner, and more sonically spacious than anything Danzig had recorded with his previous bands. The album was reissued in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1998 and it remains the band's best-selling album to date, having been certified Gold in the U.S. in 1994, and having since been certified Platinum. Danzig promoted the album with a successful world tour in 1988–1989. Although the record sounds like a lot of classic hard rock today, Danzig seemed almost unclassifiable at the time.
Description: During the mid-seventies, this fuzzy little monster started flipping everyone off and nobody really knows why. He started on decals, then t-shirts, and even as graffiti, but nobody really knows the true history of this little guy and how he came to be. He was usually standing on his own and often accompanies by the phrase 'this ones for you, baby,' but was always holding his middle finger up high with his signature IDGAF expression.
Description: "Hold me closer, Tony Danza." This one is a play on one of the more commonly misunderstood lyrics out there. With retro mall iron-on style lettering and a vintage pic of the man himself, this one's a throwback special riddled in obscurity that will have people asking WTF!? This version of the Hold Me Closer tee includes a tasteful vintage effect, including plenty of cracks, chips and fading making it look like you picked it up in the 70s.
Description: The Seattle SuperSonics, commonly known as the Sonics, were a professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington. The SuperSonics played in the National Basketball Association as a member club of the league's Western Conference Pacific and Northwest divisions from 1967 until 2008. The SuperSonics won the championship in 1979 and overall, the franchise won three Western Conference titles: 1978, 1979, and 1996. The franchise also won six divisional titles, their last being in 2005, with five in the Pacific Division and one in the Northwest Division. After the 2007–08 season ended, the team relocated to Oklahoma to play under a new name.
Description: Johann Braun opened City Brewery in 1846. Valentin Blatz established a brewery next door in 1850 and merged both breweries upon Braun's death in 1852. After a fire destroyed much of the original brewery in 1872, Blatz was able to enlarge and update his facilities with new brewing technology. In 1875, Blatz was the first Milwaukee brewery to have a bottling department to package beer and ship nationally. It incorporated as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889. In 1891, the company sold part of its brewing interests to an English syndicate. By the 1900s it was the city's third-largest brewer. During Prohibition, Blatz produced non-alcoholic beverages such as malt soap, sodas and near beer, from 1920 to 1933. In 1933, Blatz was issued U-
Description: Ghoulardi was a fictional character created and portrayed by voice announcer, actor and disc jockey Ernie Anderson as the horror host of Shock Theater at WJW TV in Cleveland, Ohio, from January 13, 1963, through December 16, 1966. Shock Theater featured B-grade science fiction and horror films and aired in a Friday late-night time slot.At his show's peak, Ghoulardi scored 70 percent of Cleveland's late-night audience, outperforming national programming. Fans sent up to 1,000 pieces of mail a day and the Cleveland Police Department even attributed a 35 percent decline in juvenile crime on Friday nights as kids were all home to catch Ghoulardi on Shock Theater.
Description: The Seattle Pilots were an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. The Pilots played their home games at Sick's Stadium and were a member of the West Division of Major League Baseball's American League. On April 1, 1970, after just one season, they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin before being renamed as the Brewers. The "Pilots" name originated from the owner's part-time job as a harbor pilot and the city's association with the aviation industry. The team colors were royal blue and gold (with accessory red in the logo: helm and baseball seams). Seattle had long been a hotbed for minor league baseball and was home to the Seattle Rainiers, a successful team in the Pacific Coast League (PCL).
Description: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert and himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985 (with new episodes being produced sporadically during that time frame). The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Fat Albert (known for his catchphrase "Hey hey hey!"), and his friends who routinely gathered in a North Philadelphia junkyard to play a song on their cobbled-together instruments.
Description: Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chain of chicken restaurants founded in 1991 by country musician Kenny Rogers and former KFC CEO, John Y. Brown, Jr. While the restaurants were relatively short lived in America, they continue to flourish in Asian countries. This design is based on one of the original '91 logos (yes, there were several) and is coupled with the fictional "It's the wood that makes it good" tagline made famous by the '96 Seinfeld episode, aptly titled 'The Chicken Roaster' in which a Kenny Rogers Roasters sets up shop across the street from Jerry and Kramer's apartment building. Unfortunately, their unusually large chicken sign causes problems for everybody as it's warm glow fills their apartments with 'red death.'
Description: Glenn Danzig originally planned Samhain as a side project with Eerie Von, though after the Misfits' contentious 1983 dissolution, Samhain became Danzig's full-time band. Samhain is the least-celebrated of Danzig's major musical outlets and catalogs a transitional period in his musical career, bridging the gap between the punk rock of the Misfits and the dark, heavy metal, and blues-influenced sound of Danzig.
Description: Poovey Farms is Pam Poovey's family dairy farm in rural Brown County Wisconsin where they raised Holstein cattle and produced milk, cheese, and other dairy products. This design includes an authentic Poovey Farms Racing logo with plenty of wear and tear to give it plenty of street cred.
Description: "Bluth's Original Frozen Banana" is a frozen banana stand started by George Bluth in 1953 as part of the Bluth Company. It is located on the Oceanside Wharf boardwalk, on Balboa Island in Newport Beach. This version of the Bluth's Original Frozen Banana design includes a nice vintage treatment giving it a well seasoned look.
Description: Black Death Malt Liquor is a fictional brand of bottom-shelf alcoholic beverages that came to popularity thanks to being one of WKRP's Doctor Johnny Fever's favorite t-shirts. This handmade recreation of Johnny's t-shirt features a realistic vintage treatment with ample wear and tear to give it a genuine '70s vibe.
Description: “Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person.” — Phone Guy, Five Nights at Freddy's. Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is the name of several fictional restaurants appearing in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. Freddy's is a family restaurant established in 1983 shortly after the closure of Fredbear's Family Diner, reminiscent of ShowBiz Pizza Place and other '80s family entertainment restaurants, in that Freddy Fazbear's Pizza provides entertainment via singing animatronic mascots. What differentiates Freddy's is that during the night, it's haunted by the animatronic mascot performers.
