Tag Archives: Breakin’

Vans Breakdancing Shoes

Posted on January 13, 2011 by The Retroist

I never had a pair of Vans breakdancing shoes. I got one pair of sneakers a year and no way my Mom would have indulged me in shoes that would not have lasted 1 month (especially the way I wore … Continue reading →

1987 Anti-Alchohol PSA with Shabba-Doo from “Breakin’”

Posted on November 12, 2009 by The Retroist

Oh Shabba, I copied all of your sweet moves in the early and mid 1980s. I would like to apologize for forgetting about you around 1986, which I am sure led you to take any work you can and quite … Continue reading →

Recent Comments

Amy: This episode just aired on Antenna TV! Tonight in 2012 :) It was great.
ClaymationWerewolf: Haha! McDonald’s Napkin as child-tarp! Who knew?
Darrin: POST has made SO many variations of their Pebbles brand over the years! I wish I had saved some more of the...
Gavin Buckley: It’ll take me a little while (I live in a diff country to where all my old stuff is now) but...
Knusper: Well, but imagine if it would work… I would love to see these LEDs blinking :D
plcary: that would be a cool to use as a case for a cpu. i love those hacks where people use old technology and make...
CTD: It looks like the monolith from 2001.
Hollyfeld: I think the best thing about Firefox was the video game it spawned :)
The Retroist: @Gavin – I would like to hear some of that trashing.
The Retroist: It was a thing of beauty. It did not need to work. It existed simply to look beautiful.

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