101 Once-cool Things We Secretly Wish Would Come Back From The Dead

1) "Where's The Beef"
2) Crystal Pepsi
3) The Krofft Superstar Hour
4) The Safety Dance
5) Breakdancing
6) The Lucky Nun art gallery (R.I.P.)
7) Neon Socks
8) Bolo Ties (gotta have something to laugh at in the malls)
9) The L.A. Dream Team
10) OP corduroy shorts
11) The Dream Syndicate (if mentioned in enough articles, it just might happen)
12) New Romantics
13) New Wave
14) New Coke
15) Valley girls
16) "I Want My MTV!"
17) MTV worth wanting
18) Mr. T.
19) Dr. Ruth
20) Sticker collections
21) Tetherball
22) Roller Derby
23) Live shows at the John Anson Ford Theater
24) Zoom
25) John Hughes movies about kids not in diapers
26) Mindy Cohen
27) Colorforms
28) Chinese jacks
29) Badges and pins with band logos on them... covering your entire jacket
30) Guest VJ's
31) Vinyl. Vinyl. Vinyl.
32) Top-loading VCRs
33) Beta
34) Pac Man (and siblings)
35) Sweatbands
36) Atari 2600
37) Live Aid
38) Telling someone "you've got the eye of the tiger!"
39) Rude boys
40) Club Scream
41) Judy Blume novels
42) Underoos
43) Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
44) Pee Wee Herman
45) Trucker CB lingo
46) Gazzari's
47) Swatch collections
48) "Unplugged" as hosted by Jules Shear (remember...)
49) "You look mahvelous!"
50) Pop Rocks
51) "Nanu-nanu"
52) After School Specials
53) Smokey and the Bandit movies
54) Denny Terio's Dance Fever
55) Club Odyssey on La Cienega
56) Pong
57) Dolfin shorts
58) "Don't eat Pop Rocks with Coke! That Mikey kid from the LIFE cereal commercials DIED doing that!"
59) Real People
59) Burger King's "Who's Herb?" ad campaign
60) Tube tops
61) "Going with" someone
62) Feathered hair
63) Crimped hair
64) New wave hair
65) Prince with the Revolution
66) Velour
67) Buster Brown shoes
68) Divine
69) Nagel (kidding)
70) Jane's Addiction (Porno for what?)
71) Izod shirts
72) Lacrosse shirts
73) Local video stores (Blockbuster is EVIL!)
74) BIG shoulder pads
75) The Miami Vice look
76) Intelevision
77) The Unknown Comic
78) The Muppet Show
79) Clove cigarettes
80) Zeitgeist
81) That guy in TV commercials who talked REALLY fast
82) "Night Flight" on the USA Network
83) The Gong Show
84) Cooties
85) V.D. as the worst thing you could get on a date
86) Casablanca Records
87) Frogger
88) Lite Brite
89) That's Incredible!
90) Mad Libs
91) The Athens, GA music scene
92) The Journey Through Inner Space ride at Disneyland
93) Meco remixes of movie themes
94) Star Wars... and its sequels
95) Pinto jokes
96) Macrame
97) The $1.98 Beauty Pageant
98) Solid Gold
99) Black lite posters (of KISS, ideally)
100) Sugar Smacks... not the deceiving "Super Smacks"
101) Yaz