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Highlights From the 1990 JC Penny Christmas Catalog
In my neck of the woods, the Christmas season always officially kicked off with the arrival of the yearly Sears Wish Book and JC Penny catalog, which was usually sometime …
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Retro Ramblings
I Miss the Black Fridays of the 90s
I still remember the first time I truly understood what Black Friday was. It was the mid-90s, and I was standing in line outside a Walmart before the sun had …
Retro Ramblings
Blue Light Special on Nostalgia
As I was posting the news earlier this week about the closing of the last KMart store in the US, I started thinking back to the good memories that I …
Retro Ramblings
My Mall is Dead and These Are the Autopsy Photos
A few years ago my mall died. I know I’m not alone in this fact as numerous malls have closed all around the country in the last decade. For our …