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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

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

Lunchbox Snacks of YesterYear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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