1980's

From the fruity smells of Lip Smackers before that awkward first kiss to the school supplies that made us a little dizzy, let’s take a nostalgic whiff down memory lane.

Go back in time and flip through the 1980s Sears Holiday Wish Book pages. Remember circling those special gifts that you hoped you were good enough all year so that Santa would bring them to you?

There was a Sears department store in every mall throughout New York state when we were growing up. Around Christmas time, our parents would always take out the Sears Holiday Wish Book catalog and tell us to circle what we wanted Santa to bring us. Here is a catalog from the 1980s for you to flip through and take a trip down memory lane!

If you’ve been asking for less guitar and more synthesizer, you’re going to love dancing the night away to the Great New York State Fair’s newest addition.

Competitors will be in the Capital Region this July to try to play one-handed and even blindfolded.

Oh, how the times have changed. While 1986 doesn't seem all that long ago for a lot of us, this video proves just how long ago it really was. From the hair styles, the fashion and the song itself nothing more 80's has ever taken place in Albany!

It has been 33 years since the doors of Crossgates opened to the public, how much has changed?

Were you born after 1985?  Well, Kevin Bacon has a message for everyone who was - you have no idea what it was really like to grow up in the 1980's. Kevin covers how difficult it was to ask a girl out before the internet, how scary Russia really is, and how comfortable Parachute pants really are...