The Eighties

The Philadelphia Regional In-Home Sports and Movies network (PRISM) was premium cable TV channel in the Philadelphia metropolitan area that launched in 1976. PRISM was known for its telecasts of sporting events, including the MLB, NHL, and NBA, as well as theatrically released movies....

The San Antonio Dragons played in the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1996 to 1998. They were established in 1982 as the Peoria Prancers. In 1984 they (wisely) changed their name to the Rivermen. A new version of the Rivermen plays in the Southern...

These old school Halloween costumes from the late 1930s to the late 1980s, were one of the three largest Halloween costume manufacturers in the U.S.

The color brite costumes with the ventilated masks were the "spookiest" costumes to Trick-or-Treat with from 1950 to 1980.

The Syracuse Salts, Syracuse Salt, were a professional softball team based in Syracuse, New York who played at Hopkins Road Field in Liverpool, New York in the United Professional Softball League (UPSL) in 1981. OS16181

This Baltimore Skipjacks design features the inaugural Skipjacks logo used in the 1981–82 season while they were in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. OS16152

The Baltimore Skipjacks were a minor league ice hockey team and was renamed from the Clippers to Skipjacks in 1981. The Skipjacks went on to play the following season in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League and continued played after for eleven seasons as members of the American Hockey League (AHL), from 1982...

The New York Stars were one of the earliest women’s professional basketball teams in the United States, formed in 1978 at the inception of the Women’s Professional Basketball League (1978-1981). Although the Stars existed for just two years, they had a league championship and doubleheaders with...

The Houston Astro-Knots played in the second incarnation of World Team Tennis that began in 1981. The original league played from 1974 to 1978. The Astro-Knots joined the re-tooled league in 1982 and folded after the 1983 season.

The program known as 120 Minutes ran on Music Television from 1986 to 2003. It was cancelled abruptly but returned in 2011 on the channel's sibling feed where it ran for two more years. After the channel became more mainstream in the 1980s, thanks...

The New Orleans Pride was a Women's Professional Basketball League team from 1979 until the league folded following the 1980-81 WBL season. For both seasons, the team was coached by former NBA player and coach Butch Van Breda Kolff.  OS15946

The Philadelphia Firebirds were a minor league professional ice hockey team from 1974 to 1977 in the North American Hockey League (NAHL). The franchise later moved to Syracuse, New York, and played one final season as the Syracuse Firebirds. After the NAHL folded in...

The Columbus Metros were members of the minor league Midwest Football League from 1978 to 1980.

Since we're going all retro in our fashion and culture, let's extend that to the economy! OS15201

The Stingers were Cincinnati's only major league hockey team. The team played at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena) from 1975 to 1979, and they were members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). When the WHA merged with the National Hockey League in 1979,...

Channel 64 first hit the airwaves on January 18, 1980 as WBTI. During the daytime, it was garden-variety independent TV station, carrying a mix of reruns, old movies, syndicated talk shows, and the like. At 7:00 p.m., the signal was scrambled and receivable only...

Channel 64 first hit the airwaves on January 18, 1980 as WBTI. During the daytime, it was garden-variety independent TV station, carrying a mix of reruns, old movies, syndicated talk shows, and the like. At 7:00 p.m., the signal was scrambled and receivable only...

Long live the Iceman!OSS17497

Pixelated madness meets vintage horror vibes. This tee features a stitched-style design of a certain axe-wielding winter caretaker, complete with a REDRUM forehead, a haunting grin, and a background of the most obsessive typing ever. Creepy, cozy, and just a little unhinged—perfect for your...

Toast to the golden era of professional softball with this Kentucky Bourbons jersey. A nod to Louisville’s beloved team from the beer-league boom of the late ’70s, this throwback is all about crushed homers and crushed cans. Perfect for the diamond, the bar, or...

Take a deep breath of nostalgia. This cheeky tee features a classic NES-style cartridge and the iconic fix we all remember: “If not working, blow.” Perfect for retro gamers and anyone who grew up saving the day with a puff of air. OS17755

Are we not style? We are vintage. This electric yellow tee throws it back with a retro-futuristic graphic, complete with a certain red dome you might recognize and the phrase “Try to detect it, it’s not too late.” Perfect for fans of synths, signals,...

That was easy. OS16055