This is a series of posts that will talk about some of my favorite songs by Power Pop bands. See if you agree with any of these!
“Shine a Light” is an upbeat indie-pop/psychedelic pop song by the American band The Apples in Stereo, written by the band’s primary songwriter Robert Schneider and appearing as track 4 on their 1997 album Tone Soul Evolution; its bright, jangly production and simple, affectionate lyrics about going outside, seeing someone special, and letting light and optimism in
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite stores that no longer exist.
Cobb Center was a shopping mall in Smyrna, Georgia, originally opened as the Cobb County Shopping Center on August 15, 1963, making it the second mall built in Georgia. Inside they had a rare, Milton Bradley retail store! During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Milton Bradley was far more than a board game publisher,
Star Baby, flashy little shiny little two-timin’ mama
Star Baby, shiny little flashy little lovin’ machine
The Canadian rock band The Guess Who originated in the fertile but geographically isolated music scene of Winnipeg, Manitoba, during the early 1960s. Like many young North American groups of the period, the musicians were deeply influenced by early rock
A cooperative cash discount system that would reward customer loyalty
The history of S&H Green Stamps begins in 1896, when Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson founded the Sperry & Hutchinson Company in Jackson, Michigan, with the idea of creating a cooperative cash discount system that would reward customer loyalty. Operating under the formal corporate name Sperry & Hutchinson,
A bone spur is a bony outgrowth that develops along the edges of bones.
What is a Spur? It can be many things. Found in the world of horses, railroads, medicine, and even topology. Here I’ll look into those four, and give a little information on each one.
A small purple dragon who has come to symbolize imagination itself for generations of visitors to EPCOT.
Figment is one of the most beloved original characters ever created specifically for a Disney theme park, a small purple dragon who has come to symbolize imagination itself for generations of visitors to EPCOT at Walt Disney World. Figment made his debut on October 1, 1982, the opening day of EPCOT Center, as the co-star of the Journey Into Imagination
The film itself is a clever and self-aware examination of marital anxiety and male fantasy.
The Seven Year Itch, released in 1955, is one of the most enduring romantic comedies of the 1950s and remains inseparable from the image of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate as her white dress billows upward. Directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Charles K. Feldman, the film was adapted for the screen by Wilder and George Axelrod from Axelrod’s successful 1952 Broadway play of the same name.
Flamboyant and futuristic style of mid-twentieth-century American commercial design.
Googie architecture is a flamboyant and futuristic style of mid-twentieth-century American commercial design that emerged in Southern California during the late 1940s and flourished through the 1950s and 1960s.
Four more losses to reflect on here in 2026.
These individuals were a singer, songwriter, musician and film composer, who was the lead singer for the group Country Joe and the Fish; a singer, who was the lead vocalist for the rock band Boston from 2007 on; a singer in the Hi-Fives, Starliters, and the Rascals; and was a movie/TV star known for Ghostbusters and Charles in Charge.
Around 1919 he began developing a device that would toast bread on both sides simultaneously and, most importantly, shut itself off automatically.
The history of the automatic pop-up toaster begins with the broader electrification of the American home in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before electricity transformed kitchens, toast was made over open flames, on long-handled forks, or in hinged metal frames held over stoves. Early electric toasters appeared in the first decade of the 1900s, but they were crude devices that toasted only one side of a slice at
