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Nadia Comaneci scores a perfect 10 on the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.  This first time ever that someone had scored a perfect 10 in a gymnastics event.

Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celetano was made in 1972 and is considered by many to be the first instance of a rap/hip hop song

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I loved drinking ice wateer after eating one of these, totally cool!! Great commercial from the 80’s. Very retro, I remember most of them, What do you think?

Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight – vintage retro video

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Here is a vintage Datacomp 404 computer…it’s the most powerful computer ever….for it’s time!

Datacomp 404 computer ad

Here is a vintage Volkswagen ad that show a bit of sexism from back then.  The ad states “Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things”

old Volkswagen ad

Remember when cigarettes were socialally acceptable in mainstream media?  Here is a vintage ad of once actor Ronald Regan and his Chesterfield cigarettes.

Vintage Ronald Reagan ad

DO you know who Chuck Norris is?  Of course you do!  Here is a vintage ad for Chuck Norris action jeans

Chuck Norris Jeans ad

Alice in Wonderland (1903) – vintage retro video

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.

With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years.

To find out more about the film, visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/974410/

Starrig Andy Griffith and Don Knotts (rip)