December 2nd, 2009 
rberry I was looking through some old ads from a 1980 magazine to put on retroCRUSH and at first glance, this SAAB ad just looked like any other boring car ad from the time, until I took a look a closer look at the driver.
Holy crap! Is that Michael Myers behind the wheel? Why on earth [...]
October 20th, 2009 rberry Randy’s finally lost it, folks! He’s been hanging out in thrift stores for so long, that the combined stench of Lysol, dead ticks, and used underwear has begun to rot his brain. How else can you explain this twisted look at pictures from a 1963 issue of Farm Journal?
“This seasoning is so [...]
October 20th, 2009 rberry While browsing through an old makeup book from the Thrift Store I realized that fashion for women in the 80’s was all about scrunching, and teasing your hair to unbelievable heights by utilizing every hair product known to mankind. Then [...]
October 20th, 2009 rberry Once again, its time for retroCRUSH’s furniture experts, Randy and Robert, to explore the mostly bizarre, often hideous, but always hilarious furniture and decor of yesteryear! This time, they’re taking a special look at the most sacred of places, the bedroom!
RANDY: Dark Dingy bedrooms of the 70s. I remember sneaking [...]
October 20th, 2009 rberry The 70s were certainly the most colorful decade for furniture the world has ever seen. Certainly in no other time period in history, would anyone dare a lime green with zebra motif. After purchasing the 1970 classic “Decorating Ideas For Every Room In Your Home”, I was amazed to see such [...]
October 20th, 2009 rberry Having a friend like Randy is great because he always finds the craziest things at thrift stores. Like this book, “The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating” published in 1970. It’s as if an evil [...]
August 7th, 2009 rberry When I was growing up, most of the kids in my neighborhood were fairly uncreative. Instead of thinking long and hard about what you wanted to be for Halloween, you’d run with your parent to the store at the last minute, and grab a prepackaged costume made by Ben Cooper or Collegeville of some famous [...]
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Tags: costumes, halloween, worst costumes 
5 Comments » August 6th, 2009 rberry I’ve come across some pretty crazy craft books in my day in my numerous thrift store exploits, but never before have I seen the likes of Pop-Topping! Mostly in the 70s and before, soda [...]