SylK's Playground: 1980s

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Feb 13, 2019

Thanks Video Aspirin - Now I have a headache

This is hilarious, from the 80s, CALM ... let your body heal itself!

Wow! 'Aspirin'. A case of misleading advertising.

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Dec 31, 2017

There's always hope

How silly it may look, but there's always hope. This Greenhouse Helmet is invented and patented in 1986 by Waldemar Anguita (Brooklyn, NY). Yes, patented.

"A principle object of the present invention is to provide a greenhouse helmet designed to contain plants secured within and the helmet worn completely over the head of a person so that the person can breathe in the oxygen given off by the plants.

Another object is to provide a greenhouse helmet that has air filters so that ambient air containing carbon dioxide will be filtered therethrough and mixed with the carbon dioxide breathed out by the person to be used by the plants.

An additional object is to provide a greenhouse helmet that will contain hearing and speaking devices so that the person can hear within and speak out through the helmet.

A further object is to provide a greenhouse helmet that is economical in cost to manufacture.

A still further object is to provide a greenhouse helmet that is simple and easy to use."

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Sep 17, 2017

New York City in the 1980s

Do you want to take a walk down memory lane? A street view of the 1980s, NYC.

Jul 27, 2017

The 1987 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Time flies. I have to smile.

Apr 2, 2017

Iggy Pop's Letterman appearance in 1982

After writing his book 'I need more - The Stooges and other stories' Iggy Pop made his first appearance at the David Letterman show (notice David Letterman's hairdo).

"I’m very terrified of this country, the USA…some of the values are so foul and so wicked… It’s very wicked the way people are restrained, and I’m in favor of something else."

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Feb 26, 2017

I love low budget commercials

Michael Minions has a playlist on YouTube with low budget commercials from the 1980s. I couldn't stop checking them out.

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May 29, 2014

Robert Smith Going Round ... And Round ... And Round ... And ...

Respect! It's difficult to concentrate if you give an interview while you're on a playground with screaming kids going round and round ... with big hair. An interview the front man of The Cure gave in 1985.

Apr 28, 2014

This Made Me Smile

The lounge version of Duck Tales.

Apr 23, 2014

Very Dramatic

Yello live in NY, 1983. Very dramatic. Very experimental. Very avant-garde. But hey ... video's. That's nice.

Jul 8, 2012

1986 Apple Merchandising

Apple fashion statement from 1986. Uhm ... interesting.

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May 12, 2012

Apple’s 1984 Worldwide Sales Staff Meeting

This is a 4-minute, uncut version of "Blue Busters", a 1984 takeoff on 'Ghostbusters' that Apple produced to show at the opening of its worldwide sales staff meeting in Hawaii in October 1984. The video includes a cameo appearance by Steve Wozniak.

Also shown at that meeting was another film in which Steve Jobs impersonates FDR. A 25-second clip of Steve Jobs playing Franklin Roosevelt in an Apple in-house video from 1984 used to help inspire Apple's international sales team.

Apr 2, 2012

Another Russia

“The “Another Russia : unofficial contemporary photography from the Soviet Union.” (1987) exhibition travelled around the world visiting Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and France. It was that popular because it revealed what had been concealed from both people from other countries and those from the totalitarian state.”

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