If you guys want an amusing and bittersweet trip down memory lane, of what U.S. consumerism life was like, growing up in the mid '70s to late '80s, I highly recommend you getting your hands on a copy of this book...
Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s (from Afros to Zotz)
(The image may be too small for you to make it out, but that's a flaming disco ball. LOL.)
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Valley girls. Quaaludes. Howard Cosell. K-tel Records. In today's pop -culture spin cycle, the seventies and eighties rule -- as evidenced by everything from reruns on Nickelodeon and VH-1 to Brady Bunch movies and New Wave theme parties.
Now, at last, there's Retro Hell -- a sassy, knowing travelogue through the best and worst of these unforgettable decades. Orchestrated by the editor of Ben Is Dead, winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Awards 1995 Best 'Zine of the Year, Retro Hell both sends up and celebrates the cultural landscape of our misspent youth. Thirty Ben Is Dead writers and hundreds of readers helped assemble the nearly 1,000 sharply opinionated alphabetical entries and loopily authoritative sidebars. The icons, the eccentricities, the excesses, the kitsch -- it's all here, from alligator shirts, breakdancing, Earth Shoes, and Farrah Fawcett to bumper stickers, eight-tracks, Schoolhouse Rock, and John Travolta.
Illustrated throughout with 100 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, Retro Hell is the definitive compendium of recent pop-culture arcana -- a fresh, funny look back for everyone who survived the seventies and eighties.
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amazon.com: Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80S (from Afros to Zotz) - Editors of Ben is Dead Magazine
Although this book is out of print, you can get a used copy in pretty good condition at a reasonable price. I've had my own copy of this book for several years now, and I've perused it many, many times. (Once, while eating a bowl of good ol' Quisp cereal, which I happened upon in a grocery store, a few years ago.)