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Updated July 8, 2025

Not an exhaustive list — just a helpful guide to some of the "best" of YesterYear!

Click any category below to explore my best writings about restaurants, commercials, holiday TV episodes, defunct brands, wrestling, cartoons, and more!

🍔 Restaurants, Food & Brands of YesterYear

• Howard Johnson's Restaurant & Motor Lodge
• Bennigan's
• The Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouse
• Kenny Rogers' Roasters
• Roy Rogers
• Crystal Pepsi
• Pizza Hut's Bigfoot Pizza
• The History of Tide Laundry Detergent and NASCAR
• The History of Caldor

📺 Commercials of YesterYear

• "Beautiful" Mount Airy Lodge
• "Catch the Spirit" on Spirit Airlines
• Pace Salsa... from New York City?!?
• Kiwi Airlines
• Motel 6 - We'll Leave the Light On
• Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!
• Nobody Beats the Wiz!
• Time To Make The Donuts with Dunkin' Donuts
• 5 Spooky Halloween Commercials
• 5 Classic Christmas Commercials
• 5 Classic Christmas Commercials Part 2
• 5 Classic Christmas Commercials Part 3
• 5 Classic Christmas Commercials Part 4
• Mr. Italy and Perillo Tours
• Go Greyhound!
• Millford Plaza - The LullaBUY of Broadway

🍪 Lunchbox Snacks of YesterYear

• Hostess
• Drake's Cake
• Little Debbie
• Entenmann's
• Rival Snacks

✈️ Airlines of YesterYear

• AccessAir
• Business Express Airlines
• Spirit Airlines
• Kiwi Air
• National Airlines of Las Vegas
• Vanguard Airlines
• Pro Air
• The Trump Shuttle
• ValuJet and AirTran

🛠️ The Holidays On Home Improvement

• Christmas on Home Improvement
• Thanksgiving on Home Improvement
• Halloween on Home Improvement

🌹 The Holidays On Roseanne

• Christmas on Roseanne
• Thanksgiving on Roseanne
• Halloween on Roseanne

🍷 The Holidays On Frasier

• Christmas on Frasier
• Thanksgiving on Frasier
• Halloween on Frasier

🏠 The Holidays On Full House

• Christmas on Full House
• Thanksgiving on Full House
• Halloween on Full House

👨‍👩‍👧 Holidays on Everybody Loves Raymond

• Halloween on Everybody Loves Raymond
• Thanksgiving on Everybody Loves Raymond
• Christmas on Everybody Loves Raymond

👨‍👩‍👧 Holidays on Family Matters

• Halloween on Family Matters
• Thanksgiving on Family Matters
• Christmas on Family Matters

🎄 Holiday Cartoons

• Top 5 Christmas Cartoons
• A Flintstone Christmas
• A Jetson Christmas Carol
• Garfield's Halloween
• Garfield's Thanksgiving
• Garfield's Christmas
• Disney's Halloween 1983
• Disney's 1952 "Trick or Treat"
• Yogi Bear's First Christmas
• 1998's Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving

📺 Nick-At-Nite Tributes

• A Look at 35 Years on Nick-At-Nite
• The Nick-At-Nite Summer Block Party
• Nick-At-Nite's TV Land
• Hi Honey, I'm Home!
• The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
• Nick-and-Nite and Me in 1993

🧛 Elvira

• Elvira's Haunted Hills
• Elvira, Mistress of the... Wrestling Ring?
• Fox's Halloween Bash with Elvira and George Carlin
• How Elvira Helped Coors Become the Official Beer of Halloween
• Go Psycho With Elvira and Pepsi!
• Elvira's Top 5 Guest Appearances
• Elvira's Movie Macabre

📸 Personal Memories of YesterYear

• New Year's Eve Memories
• Christmas Memories
• Thanksgiving Memories
• Halloween Memories
• Summer Music Memories Part I
• Summer Music Memories Part II
• Hockey, Me, and NHL's Wild 3rd Jerseys of the 90s
• The Summer 1997 Tamagotchi Toy Craze
• My Five Favorite Goosebumps Books from the 90s
• $1 Dollar Video, My Neighborhood Rental Store
• Five Years of YesterYear Retro

🎬 Movie Tributes and Reviews

• North by Northwest
• The Long, Long Trailer
• Tiny Toon Adventures - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
• Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Turns 35!
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 30th Anniversary
• All of the Postcards From National Lampoon's Vacation Opening Sequence
• Elvira's Haunted Hills
• Matinee (1993)
• Camp Nowhere (1994)
• National Lampoon's Vacation Turns 40!
• Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!
• Dutch - John Hughes' "Other" Thanksgiving Movie
• EuroTrip's Importance to Millenials
• A Goofy Movie Turns 30

🤼 Pro Wrestling

• Wrestling at the Arcade: WWF Wrestlefest
• 1996's WWF Summerslam
• Summer Wrestling Memories
• Hulk Hogan Makes Wrestling Cool with the nWo
• Elvira: Mistress of the... wrestling ring?
• 2014's Wrestlemania 30
• 1994's Wrestlemania 10
• 1989's Wrestlemania 5
• 2004's Wrestlemania 20
• 1993's Wrestlemania 9
• My Favorite Retro Royal Rumble Moments
• The Finger Poke of Doom and "Butts in Seats"
• 10 Times Christmas Collides With Pro Wrestling
• Wrestling on Thanksgiving: Starrcade vs Survivor Series
• Survivor Series 1989 Review
• Starrcade 1989 Review
• WCW Saturday Night and Fall Brawl 1995
• 30 Years of Monday Night Raw
• WCW's Summer at Disney World in 1996
• WCW vs nWo: World Tour for N64
• Hulk Hogan on Nickelodeon's "Stories from Growing Up"
• WWF Shotgun Saturday Night
• Jay Leno Wrestles at WCW Road Wild 1998
• The Lex Express

🎭 Actor Tributes

• 5 Memorable Roles of Ernie Sabella
• 5 Memorable Roles of Larry Hankin
• 5 Memorable Roles of Edie McClurg
• Alice Nunn is Large Marge
• Au Revoir, Pee Wee - Honoring Paul Reubens
• It's "That Guy!" Dick Miller
• 5 Memorable Roles of Doris Roberts

🎵 Songs Turning 30, 35, and 40 Years Old

• Songs Turning 30 in 2025
• Songs Turning 35 in 2025
• Songs Turning 40 in 2025

🎥 Movies Turning 30, 35, and 40 Years Old

• Coming Soon!
• Coming Soon!
• Coming Soon!

🖌️ Retro Ramblings Show & Tell Group Blogging Event

• 01: Board Games at Granny's
• 02: My Top 5 Favorite NES Games
• 03: TV's The Dinosaurs Kept Me Company on Vacation
• 04: Turtle Pizza

📺 Retro Television

• All of Jerry's Girlfriends on Seinfeld
• Why Do TV Shows Use "Greek" Coffee Cups?
• Garfield in Paradise
• John Candy's Camp Candy
• My Top 5 Hanna Barbera Cartoons
• The Sopranos Turns 25: My Top 5 Episodes
• The Pat Sajak Show
• The Golden Palace
• Men of a Certain Age
• 40 Years After Hart to Hart
• 25 Years After Home Improvement
• The First Subway Series
• 30 Years Since ABC's Dinosaurs
• Doug's Move From Nickelodeon to ABC
• 180 Bits of Trivia from 180 Episodes of Seinfeld
• Wings 35th Anniversary
• Ten Sitcom Characters We Never See

🌟 Popular Culture

• Creepy Clown Sightings of 2016
• Five Hit Songs from Summer Blockbuster Movies
• Last Christmas by Wham!
• The History Behind 20 Common Sayings and Phrases
• The History Behind 20 Common Sayings and Phrases - Part II

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