If you had any amount of independence in the 1980s, you probably spent a ton of time at the mall. In those glorious days, the mall was your town’s heartbeat. Everybody was there, all the time. But ...

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While the 1980s are often defined by decadent pop culture, shifting social norms, and the beginnings of the kind of modern technology that’s now just a fact of life, the more distant parenting styles ...

What were the best rock music videos for each year of the 1980s? It was a decade that set the standard for what the music video can be and we saw the growth explode over the course of the 1980s.

Driveways were still filled with boxy sedans and station wagons, not unlike the ’70s, but now they came with more gadgets, buttons, and futuristic “automatic everything.” Teens practically lived at ...

Popples was a Saturday morning cartoon, based on the Popples toys, that aired in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The pilot was a live-action Shelley Duvall special, in which they were puppets and ...

Introduced in 1986 by Those Characters From Cleveland and manufactured by Mattel, Popples launched with nine characters. It ran for two years as a toy line and animated series. Over the years, Popples ...

“The Italians have a way of making everything easy,” WWD wrote in 1980, marking the rise of Italian luxury ready-to-wear and Milan’s emergence as its design center, taking over from Rome. Established ...

We recently highlighted the iconic cars of the '70s and the magazine ads that sold them, so it only makes sense to do the same for the '80s. The cars of the '80s may not have had the boat-like flash ...

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What's the best metal album of each year of the 1980s? Let's find out! Building off the collective foundation laid by '70s legends such as Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Led ...