On This Day: June 17, 1994 — OJ Simpson’s White Bronco Chase
On June 17, 1994, 95 million Americans watched a white Ford Bronco roll down the 405 at 35 mph. The OJ Simpson Bronco chase rewrote television.
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On This Day: June 15, 1992 — Dan Quayle Misspells Potato
One letter, one classroom, one career. On June 15, 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle walked into a sixth-grade spelling bee at Luis Munoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey, and walked out with the most famous misspelling in American political history. A 12-year-old named William Figueroa had just written “potato” on the chalkboard, exactly…
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On This Day: June 7, 1990 — Universal Studios Florida Opens
June 7, 1990: Spielberg cut the ribbon, $631 million went online, and three of the headline rides immediately broke. Inside Universal Studios Florida’s legendary disaster of a grand opening.
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Bondi Blue iMac: 7 Bold Choices in Apple’s 1998 Reveal
The Bondi Blue iMac went from prototype to standing ovation on May 6, 1998, when Steve Jobs pulled a sheet off a glowing translucent computer at the Flint Center in Cupertino and quietly told the world Apple was back. The first iMac was the machine that saved Apple from bankruptcy, killed the floppy disk, made…
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The Night Hip Hop Was Born: What Really Happened in the Bronx
The history of hip hop begins on one specific night: August 11, 1973, in the recreation room of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx. An 18-year-old Jamaican kid named Clive Campbell — who the neighborhood would soon know as DJ Kool Herc — hooked up two turntables, grabbed a microphone,…
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Arachnophobia 1990: 7 Terrifying Reasons This Spider Movie Still Haunts Us
Arachnophobia 1990 is the movie that made an entire generation check their shoes before putting them on. Released July 18, 1990, Frank Marshall’s horror-comedy delivered exactly what the title promised — relentless, squirm-inducing, laugh-out-loud spider terror that hit different when you were ten years old in a dark movie theater. It wasn’t the first creature…
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Tremors 1990: The Ultimate Cult Classic Still Worth Watching
If you grew up renting movies from the video store in the early 90s, you probably encountered Tremors 1990 sitting in that slightly dog-eared VHS case somewhere between the horror section and the comedy shelf. It didn’t quite belong in either. That was always the genius of it. Ron Underwood’s monster movie was something the…
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Strength Shoes: 7 Things Every 90s Baller Remembers
Strength Shoes were the 90s basketball training obsession that promised every gym-rat and blacktop baller a ticket to Dunk City. They were those wild-looking high-tops with a thick rubber platform bolted to the front, forcing you onto your tiptoes 24/7 — and half a generation of basketball kids begged their parents for a pair. Every…
