April 17, 2013 If you were born in the 70's or 80's, odds are you or one of your friends had one of these original gray box Nintendo Gameboys. I happened to find mine in an old box in my dad's attic. I was helping him move when I spotted the black carrying case. "No way!" I thought to myself, "It can't really be in there and still work!?"
March 3, 2013 Huge, doesn't properly discribe the vehicle I had to take my driver's ed test in. More like humugi-mammoth! Parallel park? It was like docking the Vista Queen in the Duluth Harbor wearing blinders like those of the horses that pull the carriages in Canal Park. Here's a video that will give you a walk-around view of a Mercury Marquis.
Before there was Scotty McCreery, Carrie Underwood or even Kelly Clarkson, another country act got a start on a television singing competition. Ed McMahon's 'Star Search' named its first Vocal Group winner in 1983, and helped launch the career of a pack of hitmakers as reliable as any in the early to mid-90s.
February 21, 2013 Somehow I stumbled on this on youtube and just had to share. It's fun to take a trip down memory lane, and this will bring you back 22 years to 1991 where Duluth was just finishing up the lakewalk. To highlight grand opening events, they came up with "Luke Lakewalker" Star Wars promos. It's ridiculously funny.
June 16, 2011 So many people dug the Panapet and remembered having one (my sister STILL has hers), that I couldn't resist blogging about The Toot-a-Loop Radio or Panasonic R-72. It's a novelty radio made by Panasonic in the early 1970s. My husband had one and still wishes he kept it...it twists and the dials are on the inside of where it breaks apart.
