I’m getting total Sweeney sisters vibes from the pink and white dresses.
Extra Special.
I can still smell these. Anybody else have to wear these for baton classes growing up?
Life before Spanx. (although I think S, T, and U are back braces?)
Why so many bows on maternity clothes back then?
Why were maternity clothes so … babyish back then. Those overalls are embarrassing. Those Keds can’t be good on those swollen feet.
A room perfect for Baby Sinclair. I’m old as dirt and I still want that lamp.
I’m not a baby person at ALL, but I’m impressed by this Paddington room.
I don’t know which one I like more, Joker or Taz.
These dresses look like womens’ dresses, but shrunk down. That fruit dress looks SO familiar–I feel like I had it?! I mean, it did come in Pretty Plus….
KAHULUI, HAWAII, APRIL 29 – Aloha Airlines flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing was in the first-class section of Flight 243, at 24,000 feet 20 minutes out of Hilo en route to Honolulu.
“She was just handing my wife a drink,” said William Flanigan, a 54-year-old aerospace engineer from St. Davids, Pa., who was on a 21st wedding anniversary trip to Hawaii.
“She had stopped and told us this was the last call. We were going to be descending. And then, whoosh! She was gone. Their hands just touched when it happened.”
A gaping hole had opened the roof of the Boeing 737-200 jet with an explosive sound as pressurized air in the cabin blasted into the atmosphere, apparently pulling Lansing, 55, to her death, and exposing the aircraft and 94 others aboard to a tornado of wind that quickly peeled back the top of the cabin from the cockpit to the wing, one witness said, “like a banana.” 2
I feel like I remember watching a reenactment of this on TV growing up. I just remember a show sometime in the early 90s where a flight attendant flew out of a hole in the plane. Clarabelle’s body was never found.
45. First women elected to the Friar’s Club
46. Sears caught selling lawn darts (in Puerto Rico)
If you want to learn more about a young girl who died from a Lawn Dart, this 60 Minutes piece is informative.
Of course, this was back when Joel & the Bots were on public access in Minnesota. My favorite MST3K from the year they were on KTMA is “City on Fire”, a made for TV Earthquake! knockoff. I like SST Death Flight too, it has Billy Crystal and John DeLancie in it!
48. First World AIDS Day (12/1/1988)
49. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson get married (4/30/88)
50. Casual Sex?
This movie would air on Comedy Central sometimes back in the early 00s, and I just remember one scene where one of the girls breaks the third wall and is relieved that the guy she was going to hook up with was going to use a condom, and she didn’t have to worry about sponges? Foam?
51. One of the earliest recorded car chases (2/9/88)
Philip Hutchinson had robbed a bank in Denver, Colorado, hit and killed a police officer with his car, and then ditched his chase car and abducted a man in a pickup truck.
A former police officer, and Vietnam veteran, Mike Silva was in a helicopter filming arial shots for a local news station. He heard about the car chase, and proceeded to follow Hutchinson’s actions up in the air. While the police could not find Hutchinson, Mike was right on top of him. Mike finally parked his helicopter in front of the truck to stop the madness and to alert the cops. The cops swooped in and Hutchinson was killed.
52. Supercarrier un-endorsed by the U.S. Navy
Producer Charles Fries said he and ABC thought action-adventure was the way to go with the new “Supercarrier” series. But the Navy didn’t think the scripts accurately portrayed it or its people.
And so, even though it had no objections to last Sunday’s opening episode, the Navy last Friday yanked its support of “Supercarrier” because of differences over future plots in the six other episodes still on tap.
The problem, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday, is that in the remaining shows the Navy “just becomes a backdrop” for action-adventure stories having little or nothing to do with the Navy or its mission.
The parting was not acrimonious, and there still is a chance that Navy support will be reinstated if there is a meeting of naval and Hollywood minds on future scripts for the series, emphasized the spokesman, Capt. Michael Sherman, director of the Navy’s West Coast information office.
He declined to be specific about plots the Navy had found objectionable, but laughed at a report that officials were disturbed at one in which the captain of the show’s aircraft carrier falls in love with a female jet pilot. “I never saw a story line like that,” he said. 4
KAHULUI, HAWAII, APRIL 29 – Aloha Airlines flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing was in the first-class section of Flight 243, at 24,000 feet 20 minutes out of Hilo en route to Honolulu.
“She was just handing my wife a drink,” said William Flanigan, a 54-year-old aerospace engineer from St. Davids, Pa., who was on a 21st wedding anniversary trip to Hawaii.
“She had stopped and told us this was the last call. We were going to be descending. And then, whoosh! She was gone. Their hands just touched when it happened.”
A gaping hole had opened the roof of the Boeing 737-200 jet with an explosive sound as pressurized air in the cabin blasted into the atmosphere, apparently pulling Lansing, 55, to her death, and exposing the aircraft and 94 others aboard to a tornado of wind that quickly peeled back the top of the cabin from the cockpit to the wing, one witness said, “like a banana.” 2
I feel like I remember watching a reenactment of this on TV growing up. I just remember a show sometime in the early 90s where a flight attendant flew out of a hole in the plane. Clarabelle’s body was never found.
45. First women elected to the Friar’s Club
46. Sears caught selling lawn darts (in Puerto Rico)
If you want to learn more about a young girl who died from a Lawn Dart, this 60 Minutes piece is informative.
Of course, this was back when Joel & the Bots were on public access in Minnesota. My favorite MST3K from the year they were on KTMA is “City on Fire”, a made for TV Earthquake! knockoff. I like SST Death Flight too, it has Billy Crystal and John DeLancie in it!
48. First World AIDS Day (12/1/1988)
49. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson get married (4/30/88)
50. Casual Sex?
This movie would air on Comedy Central sometimes back in the early 00s, and I just remember one scene where one of the girls breaks the third wall and is relieved that the guy she was going to hook up with was going to use a condom, and she didn’t have to worry about sponges? Foam?
51. One of the earliest recorded car chases (2/9/88)
Philip Hutchinson had robbed a bank in Denver, Colorado, hit and killed a police officer with his car, and then ditched his chase car and abducted a man in a pickup truck.
A former police officer, and Vietnam veteran, Mike Silva was in a helicopter filming arial shots for a local news station. He heard about the car chase, and proceeded to follow Hutchinson’s actions up in the air. While the police could not find Hutchinson, Mike was right on top of him. Mike finally parked his helicopter in front of the truck to stop the madness and to alert the cops. The cops swooped in and Hutchinson was killed.
52. Supercarrier un-endorsed by the U.S. Navy
Producer Charles Fries said he and ABC thought action-adventure was the way to go with the new “Supercarrier” series. But the Navy didn’t think the scripts accurately portrayed it or its people.
And so, even though it had no objections to last Sunday’s opening episode, the Navy last Friday yanked its support of “Supercarrier” because of differences over future plots in the six other episodes still on tap.
The problem, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday, is that in the remaining shows the Navy “just becomes a backdrop” for action-adventure stories having little or nothing to do with the Navy or its mission.
The parting was not acrimonious, and there still is a chance that Navy support will be reinstated if there is a meeting of naval and Hollywood minds on future scripts for the series, emphasized the spokesman, Capt. Michael Sherman, director of the Navy’s West Coast information office.
He declined to be specific about plots the Navy had found objectionable, but laughed at a report that officials were disturbed at one in which the captain of the show’s aircraft carrier falls in love with a female jet pilot. “I never saw a story line like that,” he said. 4
When it was announced in January of 1993 that the classic “big book” Sears catalog was folding people flipped out.
(That was pretty much 9 year old me upon reading the news back in 1993. My mom is Dr. Hibbert. I am Bernice Hibbert always.)
It was like a member of the family died, which I guess its understandable. The big Sears catalog came two times a year, then the WishBook with the toys would come in the mail in late August. So its like a relative coming over to visit several times a year. I know the catalog was a big part of my household. I seem to remember flipping through it a lot when Murphy Brown was on? Just randomly flipping through it, not even looking at toys, looking at fridges and cameras and wondering what’s it like to have a professional camera with that little puffy cleaning brush that probably didn’t do anything:
I think that Sears abandoned their catalog way too early. They really should’ve stretched the catalog out to at least ‘99, right before the internet and online shopping became more common in homes. However, according to articles I’ve read, the catalog had been flailing around for years prior:
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It was yet another boneheaded move by Sears.
In wake of the catalog being discontinued, people stocked up on extra copies, hoping it would become a collector’s item (spoiler alert: it didn’t really). 2 I think after a while, steep discounts began on items in the catalog, and I remember my mom being put on hold for ages when she tried to order things once the sales began.
One thing she bought me was a t-shirt with the members of the 1992 Olympic Basketball Dream Team.
If your local public library has an account with ancestry.com, you can look at these old Sears catalogs. You have to be in the library to use the system, however. Fortunately, I work at a library, but unfortunately, I work at a library and I don’t have hours to look at Sears catalogs. I could only like, glance five pages at a time while I cataloged James Patterson’s 50th book this year. To find them, search for, “Historic Catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1896-1993″
So Sears was pioneer in vanity sizing.
This outfit is the best outfit in the women’s section. It’s on page 7. The best outfit was on page 7. It’s all downhill from there.
See?
I feel like they used regular sized models to model these maternity swimsuits, and just stuffed them full of newspaper.
While Sears did make some boneheaded decisions, one great decision was to offer swimsuits for mastectomy patients with natural looking padding.
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