We would also like to thank our agent, Uwe Stender, and our more-awesome-than-Choco-Diles editor, Meg Leder.
PHOTO CREDITS
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HOTOGRAPHED items are from the authors' personal collections unless otherwise noted.
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Atari: Clio McLagan
Barrel of Monkeys: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Benji: Mulberry Square Productions Inc.
Big Wheel: Clio McLagan
Candy cigarettes: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Charlie's Angels
cards: Red Box Pictures
Choose Your Own Adventure
cover: Chooseco LLC;
Space and Beyond
: Chooseco LLC.
Dapper Dan: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Dynamite
: Red Box Pictures
Fisher-Price Little People: Red Box Pictures
Free to Be . . . You and Me
: Red Box Pictures
Funny Face: Red Box Pictures
Gee,Your Hair Smells Terrific: Red Box Pictures
G.I. Joe: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Halloween masks: Clio McLagan
Hal Needham Stunt Set: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Hugo: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Love's Baby Soft: Red Box Pictures
Malibu Barbie: Red Box Pictures
Metal lunch box: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Mr.Yuk: Pittsburgh Poison Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Mystery Date: Red Box Pictures
A Nightmare on Elm Street
(Freddy Krueger doll): Ensemble Creative & Marketing
O'Boisies: Red Box Pictures
The Osmonds cartoon show: Rankin/Bass Productions / Rick Goldschmidt Archives
Pepsi Light: Red Box Pictures
Pop Rocks: Red Box Pictures
Pop Shoppe:The Pop Shoppe
Pudding Pops: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Quisp: Red Box Pictures
Rankin/Bass (Rudolph): Rankin/Bass Productions / Rick Goldschmidt Archives
Sassy
: Red Box Pictures
Saturday Night Fever
clothes: Bob and Karen Bellmont
Scratch 'n' sniff stickers: Red Box Pictures
Shrinky Dinks: K&B Innovations Inc. (USA)
Six Million Dollar Man: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Sunshine
: Red Box Pictures
Super 8 movies: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Sweet Valley High
: Red Box Pictures
Tiffany Taylor: Red Box Pictures
Transistor radio (Panapet): Ensemble Creative & Marketing
Underoos: Bob and Karen Bellmont
View-Master: Red Box Pictures
Wacky Packages: Red Box Pictures
Weebles: Ensemble Creative & Marketing
INDEX
Abdul, Paula
Adamson, George
Adamson, Joy
Aero bar
After School Specials
Aguilera, Christina
A-ha
air hockey
Alda, Alan
Alfred E. Neuman
All in the Family
Amazing Race, The
American Idol
American Top
Anderson, Melissa Sue
Andre the Giant
Andrews, V. C.
Ants in the Pants
Apocalypse Now
Arabian Knights, The
Archie comics
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
(Blume)
Arthur, Bea
Asteroids
Astin, Sean
Atari 2600,
A-Team, The
Atlas, Charles
Austin Powers
Australia Mania
B.J. and the Bear
Back to School
Bad News Bears, The
Bailey, John-Anthony
Baio, Scott
Baldwin, Alec
Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The
Bananas
Bantam Books
Bar None candy bar
Barbeau, Adrienne
Barbera, Joe
Barbie
Barrel of Monkeys
Bart Simpson
Basinger, Kim
Bateman, Jason
Battle of the Network Stars
Bazooka Joe
Beatles, The
Beauty and the Beast
beer can collections
Beethoven
Benatar, Pat
Benji
bicentennial mania
Big Boy
big families
Big Wheel
Biggie
Billingsley, Peter
Bird, Larry
Birnbach, Lisa
Bixby, Bill
Blume, Judy
Blythe dolls
Bonne Bell
Boo Berry cereal
Born Free
BottleCaps candy
Bourke, Ace
Brady Bunch, The
Bratz
Breakfast Club, The
Brolin, Josh
Bub's Daddy gum
Buckley, Betty
Buggles, The
Bugsy Malone
Burger Chef
Burnett, Carol
Burton, Tim
Bush, George W.
Cadbury's Curly Wurly bar
calculators
Camp, Joe
Campbell's Soup
candy cigarettes
Cannonball Run, The
Cap'n Crunch cereal
Carey, Mariah
Carney, Art
Carson, Johnny
Carver, George Washington
Cassidy, Shaun
Cerealicious
Chamberlain,Wilt
Chamillionaire
Champs-Elysées
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Brown
Charlie's Angels
trading cards
Charlie's Angels
Charo
Chase the Chuckwagon
Cheerios
Cheers
Cheetos
Cher
CHiPs
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Choco'Lite candy bar
Choose Your Own Adventure
Christine
(King)
Chunky
Cinderella
Clockwork Orange, A
Clooney, George
Cody, Diablo
Colbert Report, The
Colbert, Stephen
Columbo
Comaneci, Nadia
comic book ads
Connect Four
Conrad, Robert
Consumer Product Safety Commission
“Convoy,”
Cootie
Coppola, Francis Ford
Coraline
Cosby, Bill
Costner, Kevin
Count Chocula cereal
Cowell, Simon
Crabbe, Buster
Cracked
Cracker Barrel
Crazy Eights
Criss, Peter
Crissy dolls
“Crocodile” Dundee
Cronin, Kevin
Crosby, Cathy Lee
Crunch bar
Curious George
Dahl, Roald
Dancing with the Stars
Danger Island
Dangerfield, Rodney
Dapper Dan
Dark Shadows
Davidson, John
Davis, Bette
Davis, Chip
Dawn dolls
Day After Tomorrow,The
Days of Our Lives
Dearie, Blossom
DeBarge, El
Debbie Gibson
décor mistakes
DeGeneres, Ellen
Dennis the Menace
Denver, Bob
Denver, John
Depp, Johnny
Disney
Dixie Riddle Cups
Dolenz, Micky
Don't Break the Ice
Donny & Marie
Dr. Demento Show, The
Dr Pepper
Dragon's Lair
DreamWorks
drive-in movies
Duffy, Patrick
Dungeons & Dragons
Dynamite
magazine
Easy Rider
Ed Sullivan
Eight Is Enough
eight-tracks
Electric Company, The
Empire of the Ants
Encyclopedia Brown
encyclopedias
Englund, Robert
Entertainment Weekly
Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
Extra
Facts of Life, The
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantasy Island
Farr, Jamie
fascination with the 1950s,
Fashion Plates
Fawcett, Farrah
FDA
Feldman, Corey
Ferrell, Will
Fey, Tina
Fisher, Carrie
Fisher-Price
Flash Gordon
Flip and Fold Fashions
Flowers in the Attic
(Andrews)
Fly, The
Fonda, Peter
Forever
(Blume)
Forever Yours
Foster, Jodie
Fowler, Jim
Franken Berry cereal
Frankenstein's monster
Frann, Mary
Freakies cereal
Freberg, Stan
Free to Be . . .You and Me
Freeman, Morgan
Friday Night Videos
Fries, Bill
Frito-Lay
Frogger
Fruit Brute cereal
Fruit of the Loom
Fundex
Funicello, Annette
Funny Face drink mix
G.I. Joe
Gabriel Toys
Galaga
Game of Life
Garan, Gina
Garanimals
Gayle, Crystal
Gee,Your Hair Smells Terrific
General Mills
Gilbert, Melissa
Giorgio Beverly Hills perfume
Glenn, Christopher
Glitter
Godfather, The
Goldberg, Whoopi
Gong Show, The
Goonies, The
Gosselin, Jon and Kate
Goulet, Robert
Grand Theft Auto
Grease
Gretzky, Wayne
Guinness Book of World Records
Gyllenhaal, Naomi Foner
Haley, Jackie Earle
Hall, Arsenio
Hall, Deidre
Halloween candy paranoia
Halloween costumes with unbreathable plastic masks
Hal Needham Stunt Set
Halston
Hamill, Dorothy
Hamill, Mark
Hamilton, Scott
Hanna, Bill
Hanna-Barbera
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hardee's
Hardin, John Wesley
Hardy Boys
Harlem Globetrotters
Hartman, Phil
Hasbro
Hawaiian Punch commercials
Henson, Jim
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Here's Boomer
Hershey's
Hewett, Christopher
High School Musical
Highlights
magazine
Hill, Jonah
Honeycomb Hideout
hoopskirts and camisoles
Hopper, Dennis
Hostess Choco-Diles and Choco-Bliss
Houston,Whitney
hover hockey
Hughes, John
Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces
Hyland, Diana
Ice Capades
“I'm a Pepper,”
In the News
Indiana Jones
Inside the Actors Studio
Intellivision
iPad
iPhone
iron-ons and patches
Jackass
Jackson, Jermaine
Jackson, Kate
Jackson, Michael
Jackson, Peter
Jaws
Jell-O
Jell-O Pudding Pops
Jell-O: A Biography
(Wyman)
Jem and the Holograms
Jenner, Bruce
Jersey Shore
Jessica McClintock
Jewell, Geri
Jim Rose Circus
Johnson, Lynn-Holly
Johnson, Magic
Jolt cola
Journey Escape
Joy of Sex, The
Just One of the Guys
Kangaroo
Kaplan, Gabe
Karate Kid, The
Kasem, Casey
Kasem, Jean
Keebler
killer animal movies
King, Stephen
KISS
Kives, Philip
Klein, Norma
Knowles, Beyoncé
Knoxville, Johnny
Koogle
Kool-Aid Man
Korman, Harvey
Krackel bar
Krofft Supershow, The
Krofft, Sid and Marty
K-tel
Kubrick, Stanley
Ladd, Cheryl
Laff-A-Lympicsi
Lassie
Laura Ashley
Laverne & Shirley
lawn darts
Learn to Dress Elmo
Lehrer, Tom
Lembeck, Michael
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Les Misérables
Lincoln Logs
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,The
Lip Smackers and Lip Lickers lip balms
Lipton, James
Liquid Paper
Little House on the Prairie
Little Shop of Horrors
Lorenzo Lamas