In a scene where the Byers' house is being guarded by local cops, Jonathan sneeringly asks Mike and Will if they're worried about "Ponch and Jon out there." Ponch and Jon, of course, were the stars of CHiPs, the drama about two hunky members of the California Highway Patrol. If I had a dollar for every time I loaded the reel in upside-down, I could've probably bought a house at 1986 prices. Yes, that's how we used to research things back in the day before newspapers put much of their archives online. Nancy and Robin head to the public library to look up the Creel murders on microfilm. Kennedy is eternally president.ĭon't blink or you might miss it: A Rubik's Cube shows up in front of Steve in a second-episode scene at the video store. In the set of World Book encyclopedias that my parents had, printed in 1962, John F. (Ask any 1980s kid who had to do a last-minute book report after the library was closed.) They were helpful as heck, but became outdated before they hit your shelves. Telemarketing was one of the few jobs that could be done from home back in the 1980s, and encyclopedia sets were still something many homes had. Joyce Byers is seen desperately trying to sell encyclopedias over the phone. I remember owning a heart-shaped cloissone lapel pin with a rainbow and my name (misspelled, duh), and putting a rainbow sticker in my bedroom window, much to my parents' chagrin when it was discovered it didn't really peel off easily. Long before the rainbow became associated with the LGBT community, it had a renaissance in late 1970s/early 1980s decor. Young Eleven and the other experiment kids have a playroom called the "rainbow room," for its colorful wall paint.
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