Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer to the area--Shake, Rattle and Roll--seeks to capitalize on the Baby Boomers' nostalgia for 1950s memorabilia. Whether it succeeds in the market or not, perhaps the store's presence, located next to The Friendly Eating Place and down the street from the gleaming new condo complexes, is itself a metaphor for the changes that Mass. Ave. is undergoing...
...with commentary from Directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Jay Sandrich. Model costumes of the stars, like Marilyn Monroe's dress from The Seven Year Itch, before a fun-house mirror. Lay your own sound effects over the dialogue of a TV commercial or movie clip. Browse through the media memorabilia of a zillion middle-class childhoods: the Cisco Kid coloring book, the Partridge Family lunch box, a Donald Duck board game, the Welcome Back, Kotter paper-doll set. And when you need a rest, stop by AMMI's two state-of-the-art theaters and catch a full-length movie...
...want to throw away silly memorabilia--the leaf he gave you, the grass she threw on your head--while putting away meaningful mementos in a box you won't open for several years. Don't spend Saturday night re-reading old letters. Remember: there are many fish in the sea, including some with sexy scales and friendly fins...
...Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup can and Brillo pad artworks. For others, it was a microcosm of one man's obsessive greed. Either way, marveled Writer Fran Lebowitz, wandering around in the nearly two acres of memorabilia was "like being in a theme park...
Time and again, Andy's kitsch -- "collectibles" was Sotheby's more tactful label -- fetched upscale prices. A Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog beach towel and other Muppet memorabilia went for $1,760. A Fred Flintstone quartz watch, still bearing its original Bloomingdale's price tag of $20, and two other cheap cartoon watches sold for $2,640. "It's not the article, it's who it belonged to," explained Steve Taenaka, a hair stylist who bid $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch and lost. He settled for the auction's six-volume catalog, a relative bargain...