1985 Retro Kmart Ad (1985 is retro now?) 😲

[IcyPeas]

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[TexasTowelie]

1. Yes, I've seen the mid-80s considered to be "retro" for almost a decade.

I have a lot of clothing in the closet available for the appropriate occasions. I weigh 2-3 pounds less than when I graduated from college so nearly everything fits.

[dmr]

3. I had that digital alarm clock

Or, at least it looks just like the one I had. I gave it to the Salvation Army a few years ago.

[localroger]

5. That was a very popular form factor in the 1980's

In the 1970's the digital clock would have used flip digits instead of LED's, and in the 1990's the radio would have been digital too. I had a radio like that that I got IIRC at Goodwill in the mid-1990's and used for a few years.

[dmr]

7. I had the flip digits, too.

It made a little flippy noise as ot flipped. I remember thinking it was pretty cool at the time. New things were very cool back then. Starting with transistor radios in the 60s, up to the insta camera with the cubed flash ... whatever that was called.

[Not Heidi]

13. Ah, transistor radios!

Never forget KHJ. "93 KHJ!" "Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!" The silly things they put on AM radio.

[wnylib]

10. I still have one.

[localroger]

4. It's nearly 40 years ago

It's like asking, in 1985, would 1947 be retro? Of course it was.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I still have/use that GE digital clock radio.

[Blue Owl]

8. And I'm pretty sure I had that exact model boom box radio!

Oh the good ol' days of blue light specials, Cherry ICEEs, and Ms. Pac Man & Galaga video games by the checkout counters....

[Tommy Carcetti]

9. I saw a mid 90s Mazda Miata with classic car license plates

And I felt very old.

[wnylib]

11. Hmm. Imagine how I feel when I see

1958 long, big fin cars at antique car shows that remind me of my family's 1958 two tone Ford Fairlane that was too long to fit in our garage.

[Not Heidi]

12. Suddenly depressed.

Wow. K-Mart. Last time I was at a K-Mart it was with my psychotic lover who would not let me go, threatening suicide every time I tried to break up with her. She had a meltdown in the K-Mart cafeteria. God, what a horrible, spirit-killing time.

[Polybius]

15. I'm lucky enough where I still can go to K-Mart

There's one in NJ.

[Not Heidi]

16. Do they still have the Blue Light Special? n/t

[Polybius]

18. Not sure, but I will check next time I go

I'm going to be in NJ next month and plan on going. From Staten Island, it's less than an hour away if I recall.

[Polybius]

14. Of course it's retro

We were little kids in '85.

[Brother Buzz]

17. OMG, we have that same under-the-counter (cabinet) GE radio

Second hand, and it's never been attached to anything, but it works splendidly. Bummer, the top plastic dial thingy fell off just last week, so I gotta score some sort of glue to stick it back on.

[jcgoldie]

19. never had an undercounter radio but...

I'm fairly certain I owned all 3 of those other exact items.