Weekend Reading 06/12/22

Every weekend, I like to share a curated list of retro & nostalgia-themed articles, stories, and posts that I’ve come across in the last week. It gives you a chance to grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, sit back and pass the time reading about the good old days. So with that in mind, here are some things I wanted to share with you this week.

• NASCAR and Hollywood Were Never the Same After Days of Thunder (ESPN)

• 15 Weirdest Dick Tracy Movie Merchandise Items (The Retro Network)

• The Best Hannah-Barbera Cartoons, Ranked (Movie Web)

• The Great Pudding Pop Wars of 1982 (Branded in the ’80s)

• 10 Mistakes That Still Haunt Sega (CBR)

• Oh, I Had That: Magic Johnson Double Jam (Middle-Aged Fat Kids)

• Farewell Howard Johnson’s (News From ME)

• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

And in case you missed them, here are the latest features that I dropped here on Retro Ramblings this week…

• Cool Kid’s Meal Toys – a look back at some of my favorite kid’s meal toys and premiums from fast food places other than McDonald’s.

• Construx Were One of the Best Toys of the ’80s – fond memories of the Construx toys line from the ’80s and just how cool the toys were and some of the things I used them for to enhance the play of other toys.