Tag Archives: 1977

THE PONTIAC 455 V8: THE GTO AND FIREBIRD BRAND’S LAST “BIG BLOCK”

Of the three 455 cubic inch V8 engines offered by General Motors in 1970, the [...]

Now we’ve got two Starchilds, and we just look like a bunch of idiots

Shorty before this photo was taken: “Goddamn it, Kevin, you were supposed to be the [...]

Alucarda: Demonic possession, Satan worship, vampirism, and nunsploitation!

Alucarda is a 1977 English-language Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Juan López Moctezuma, and [...]

Revisiting Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Doomed ‘Street Survivors’

Street Survivors was going to be the album that would make Lynyrd Skynyrd even bigger [...]

Suzanne Somers Was My First TV Crush

As a ’70s kid, the funny blonde caught my eye as my folks were watching [...]

Drivers’ Cinema: Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

The late, and often times great, stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham guided 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit [...]

Skateboarding’s First Half Pipe

The skateboard ramp made headline news 45 years ago, when it was just 8 feet [...]

Sinclair Microvision MTV1B in 1966

After its abortive launch in 1966, the Sinclair Microvision miniature television disappeared into Sinclair’s development [...]

70 1/2 Pontiac Trans Am Dream Lot

70 1/2 Pontiac Trans Ams were rare right from day one, with only 3,196 built [...]

This Queer Punk Movement From the 1980s Is Still an International Inspiration

When the Polish musician and writer Ola Kaminska was 14 years old, she figured it [...]