I was so disappointed by this month’s newspaper. It’s 500 and something pages of mostly very dark microfilm scans of salespapers. 

(source, L.A. Beast) 

Teddy Ruxpin was the big toy that year. Also, Herman’s screwed up. 

Does anybody know the episode of The Purple Stuff Podcast where Matt & Jay discuss a Teddy Ruxpin commercial where the boy has a very Staten Island accent? 

“He tawks...” 

Here are more details from the L.A. Times about the Foxes struggle living in the Elmwood neighborhood: 

A black couple, Marietta Bloxom, a 25-year-old department store supervisor, and Charles Williams, a 23-year-old worker at a fast-food hamburger chain, learned this the hard way when they moved to Elmwood from an apartment in a black neighborhood Oct. 31.

So, too, did Gerald and Carol Fox, a black man and a white woman who moved in 2 1/2 weeks later and three blocks away. Bloxom said she was unprepared for the hostility that greeted them: windows shattered by BBs, bottles tossed at the house, a demonstration by 400 whites outside the house Nov. 20.At the Fox house, where 200 whites milled about and chanted the following night, vandals had by then already axed kitchen cabinets, destroyed a lamp, a clock radio and the water and oil heaters, and left behind a broken bottle stuffed with a rag soaked in gasoline. The night of the demonstration, reporters watched deli workers pass out free coffee to protesters. Bloxom and Williams’ home was later gutted by fire from an arsonist, even they were packing to leave Elmwood. The Foxes, however, say they are staying. 1

Someone get Malloy and Reed on the case! I love that silly show so much, Adam-12. I watch it every day after work on metv. 

OH, YOU DON’T SAY. 

I included that Canon ad because I love that building. I think this was around the area where I went to that ripoff for profit school after high school. 

Guess what, chicken butts. From here on out, its just gonna be salespapers. 

My parents have those marble top tables, and who knew they came from People’s Drug?!

Mmm, I don’t like the name of those lights. 

I had a tiny chuckle when I saw that Sherwin Williams the paint store at one time had a drugstore. Then, I got bored to death reading about the history of the store.

Remember when Rob from Theadbanger on YouTube had a robot? I think he’s the $50 one, modified: 

(Montgomery Ward)

I had NO clue that Furskins were THIS expensive. I feel like I had a little one from Shoneys? I want to say?  It was Wendys! 

I love the ripoff that is the Cabbage Patch Twins. You’re getting two of the same doll for $70. This had to be around the time that the Cabbage Patch craze was dying down, too. 

I was wondering why these were NINETY DOLLARS. Then I saw the little girl! Don’t you want that giant Garfield?! I know I do! 

The PEN-GUIN bathroom. 

DUCK bathroom. 

I said this a few years ago, but back then we flew too close to the sun with the microwave back then. 

I love that a fancy store like Thalhimers sold bag clips. I’m fascinated by the potato baker. Also, I didn’t know salad spinners existed back then!

Aaaaghg I want to see this in color so bad!  (Murphy’s Mart)

omg I want her, she’s so adorable! 

More crap that didn't work for the microwave. 

We all know that this is just the “do not eat” packets that come with shoes. 

Things that wouldn’t fly in 2021. 

This looks ingenious, but I feel like with today’s packaging, you couldn’t use it. 

Years ago, I posted a similar ad on my Flickr, and I though the idea was gross, reusing your teabags. I got attacked so bad! I can’t be the only one who doesn’t reuse their tea bags, because they get weak, you know? 

(Herman’s)

I’ll be back ... next month with another newspaper.

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