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'Sometimes if you stand further away from something, it does not seem as big. Sometimes you can stand so close to something you can not tell what you are looking at' is a 7” released by Cap'n Jazz in 1993. The Chicago emo band formed in 1989, and after a number of name changes, the band built up a solid cult following throughout Chicago and the Midwest. With one studio album, two singles, a bunch of complication appearances, and a posthumous anthology after the band's 1995 breakup, Cap'n Jazz was relatively short-lived, but made a huge impact on the emo genre.

If you lived in the great San Diego area in the '70s and '80s, odds are you remember radio, TV, and print ads for Beau Gentry’s Waterbeds. Beau Gentry was a retired western actor that lent his name to the enterprise that started up when America began going wild for waterbeds in the early '70s. Starting with one location in Lemon Grove, by the late '70s, they had four locations - Clairemont, Lemon Grove, National City, and Santee. Unlike a lot of the waterbed shops at the time, Beau Gentry’s actually made their own beds. They manufactured their own bed frames, bladders, and associated furniture, billing themselves as the biggest waterbed manufacturer on the West Coast. Sadly, the fad sprung a leak by the end of the '80s, it was all over.

The 1979 World Championship Series was played at the conclusion of the 1978–79 season. The Western Conference champion Seattle Supersonics played the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets, with the Bullets holding home-court advantage, due to a better regular season record. The series was a rematch of the 1978 Finals, which the Washington Bullets had won 4–3, though this time around, the Supersonics defeated the Bullets 4 games to 1 putting themselves in the history books as the 1979 World Champs. This design celebrating their win includes their mascot, Wheedle, of Wheedle on the Needle fame. He was their official mascot from 1978 through 1985 before being retired.

Earl 'Bud' Batteate was born November 20, 1918, and grew up on his father's Oakdale, California cattle ranch. He got the rodeo bug when he was just 7 years old and rode his first calf. Ten years later, Batteate was a young rodeo champ, got married, had a son, and decided to take up cattle hauling to support his new family. His dad transported cattle, but mostly for their own stock, so Batteate knew the business and undoubtedly had his dad's help in getting him going. Starting out with a single truck as Batteate Livestock Transportation Co., he grew his business to more than 30 trucks by the mid '40s, continuing to drive himself, while also riding rodeo nights and weekends for over 60 years.

"Hey baby, you going my way?" Beginning back in the Depression, it used to be very normal to see someone sticking their thumb out in an effort to signal that they needed a ride and get a passing motorist to pick them up. Whether people were just looking for conversation on a long drive, hoping to get lucky, or just being nice, hitchhikers were a ubiquitous sight across America. Nowadays, hitchhiking is perceived as dangerous, and few drivers are willing to pick someone up. Police discourage it, and many states ban it. Since the '60s, the percentage of households that own cars has steadily increased, and the proportion of those with multiple cars has grown even faster. As cars have lasted longer and gotten cheaper, fewer people need a lift.

Without question, Re-bar was one of the Seattle's most historic nightclubs, hosting countless local and touring bands over its three decade run. Born into the grunge scene in 1990, the building it called home at the foot of Capitol Hill was built in 1930, and certainly playing into the venue's quirky charm. When it wasn't hosting live music, this anchor of the alternative arts scene presented work from local artists, theatre and comedy, and held rocking dance nights. Re-bar was routinely filled to the brim with hipsters, freaks, geeks, artists, gays, intellectuals, punks, rockers, ravers, and clubbers – a true showcase of the eclectic diversity of Seattle. The fact that they made some mean cocktails was just the icing on the cake.

The Columbus Comets were a minor league pro basketball team out of Columbus, Ohio that played two seasons in the Midwestern-based North American Basketball League (1964-1968). The Comets featured top stars, including Gary Bradds. Bradds was a two-time All-America center and College Player of the Year for 1964. The Baltimore Bullets made Bradds the #3 overall selection in the 1964 draft, but he spent much of the mid-60’s bouncing around the NABL, which had bus league stops in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. The Comets sold Bradds’ contract to the Oakland Oaks of the new American Basketball Association in 1967, playing several seasons in the ABA. The Comets played a short scheduled of just 21 games in 1966-67 and 18 games in 1967-68.

Watergate was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon between 1972 and 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building. As the evidence piled up and impeachment was looking to be inevitable, the public voiced their opinion on the matter. Shirts and bumper stickers using the 'Jail to The Chief' slogan, featuring various caricatures of 'Tricky Dick' behind bars, were without question the most popular.

The Dungeonmaster is a gleefully bizarre example of a sci-fi/fantasy anthology film that refuses to play by its own rules. Divided into seven distinct story segments, each written and directed by a different person, it’s disjointed, and often incomprehensible, but full of imagination. The story is about a demonic wizard who challenges a modern-day computer programmer to a battle of technology vs. sorcery, with the programmer's girlfriend as the prize. The film features an appearance by the heavy metal band W.A.S.P. and is largely known by cinephiles for the line of dialogue "I reject your reality and I substitute my own." Filming began in 1983, but the film was shot and edited in 1988, but never completed.

Asia is the debut studio album by English rock supergroup Asia, released in 1982. I was the #1 album in the United States for the year 1982, and contains their biggest hit "Heat of the Moment," which reached #4 in the US on the Hot 100 charts.

The San Diego Sockers were a soccer team based in San Diego, California, that played from 1978 to 1996. The team played in the indoor and outdoor editions of the North American Soccer League (NASL) until 1984, as well as the original Major Indoor Soccer League and CISL. The Sockers are considered the most successful indoor soccer team. They made the playoffs in all but one of their 16 seasons of playing indoors. The franchise folded in 1996 and was the last surviving NASL franchise. This design is based on their 1980 logo that featured a scrappy cartoon soccer player ready to duke it out on the pitch.

Famous Roy's Pizza is a fictional New York pizzeria from the 1991 TMNT film, The Secret of the Ooze. The turtle crew frequently order from Roy's since it's close to April O'Neil's new Greenwich Village apartment, where they were staying until they found a new place of their own. Roy's Pizza is where scooter riding teenage delivery boy Keno meets April, and later the turtle's, who he helps in fighting the Foot Clan.

The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late '60s and continued well into the '80s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world. The WLM proposed socio-economic change from the political left, rejected the idea that piecemeal equality, within and according to social class, would eliminate sexual discrimination against women, and fostered the tenets of humanism, especially the respect for human rights of all people. The WLM's fight for greater equality in education, the workplace, personal finance, reproductive rights, and conceptions of the role of women was successful in getting a number of laws passed and making lasting changes to society.

People are preconfigured to try fixing things, even when there is nothing they can actually do about it, so sometimes 'let it be' simply is the best advice.

1942's Devil's Harvest is another film about the dangers of marijuana in the vein of Reefer Madness, or at least the dangers as they saw them back in the '40s. The story follows an undercover investigator who goes after the people corrupting the nation’s youth by spreading the weed of Satan – MARIJUANA!!! As one might expect, this movie is campy as hell. From the weed dealer using a hot dog stand as a front and serving up joints in the hot dogs, to high school girl Kay taking a single hit of the Devil's lettuce and tearing off her clothes to dance like there is no tomorrow, Devil's Harvest has it all. This movie is definitely worth watching, and probably showing to those you love before they inject just one marijuana and go insane.

Harvey Jones started a business hauling dry freight between Springdale, Rogers, and Fayetteville, Arkansas with two mules and a wagon in 1918. Jones bought his first truck in 1919, and when the M&NA railroad went on strike in 1920, Jones Truck Lines (JTL) began hauling freight between Seligman, Missouri, and Eureka Springs – a route that would have been served by rail. As the strike wore on for years, it was a catalyst for JTL's rapid growth, adding more trucks and routes. Post-war saw JTL buying up smaller lines, making them the largest privately owned carrier in the country in the '50s. As of 1990, JTL had 133 terminals in 23 states throughout the Midwest and South, with 3,300 employees and revenues of $240 million.

On June 6, 1990, 2 Live Crew's “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” became the first record to be declared legally obscene after being banned in many parts of Florida. The rap group went after the government in court, losing when Federal District Judge Jose Gonzales made the ruling that the album violated community obscenity standards across Florida counties. As a result, the album sold more copies than it probably ever would have otherwise, and various 'Censorship Is Un-American' efforts ensued across the country, including this one that has been recreated since free speech never goes out of style.

Night of the Cobra Woman is a 1972 American horror film starring Joy Bang, Marlene Clark, and Roger Garrett. The story starts when Lena, a young nurse in World War II Philippines, is bitten by a cobra which formally belonged to a snake cult, and which gives her the powers of eternal life, beauty, sexual prowess... and the ability to turn into a snake. When a pair of humanitarian aid workers, Joanna and Duff, encounter her many years later, Lena's snake is killed by Duff's pet eagle, leaving Lena no option but to feed on the life-force of young men by having sex with them, starting with Duff. Does this sound ridiculous and absurd? That's because it is. Shot in the Philippines, using what feels like a script on a bunch of mixed up napkins.

Demon Attack is a video game published by Imagic in 1982. Marooned on the ice planet Krybor, the player uses a laser cannon to destroy legions of demons that attack from above. Visually, the demons appear in waves similar to other space-themed shooters, but individually combine from the sides of the screen to the area above the player's cannon. Each wave introduces new weapons with which the demons attack, such as long streaming lasers and laser clusters. Starting in Wave 5, demons also divide into two smaller, bird-like creatures that eventually attempt descent onto the player's cannon. Starting in Wave 9, the demons' shots follow directly beneath the monsters, making it difficult for the player to slip underneath to get in a direct shot.

When you mention surfing, it's usually California or Florida that come to mind, but believe it or not, Texas actually has some pretty decent surf spots. Where this is surf, there are surfers, and where there are surfers, there are guys making surfboards. Such is the case in Houston, where McDonald “Mack” Blaker founded Blaker Surfboards in 1963. For seven years, Mack and his crew of shapers turned out custom Texas style surfboards that were made to order. They closed their doors in 1970, but many of these well-made boards are still out there and high desired by collectors and surfers alike.

F.I.S.T. (stylized on-screen as F•I•S•T) is a 1978 American neo-noir crime drama. The story centers around a Cleveland warehouse worker who becomes involved in the labor union leadership of the fictional "Federation of Interstate Truckers" (F.I.S.T.). This design is based on the fictional trucker union emblem as seen in the film.

Partners C.C. McDonald and Arthur Jennings opened Story Book Forest in 1956 on US Route 30 in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. Together, they built a beautiful attraction where generations of classic children's book lovers to enjoy their favorite stories while interacting with the characters from them. Guests often find themselves reciting nursery rhymes and humming along as they walk through the Story Book Forest, filled with fantastical recreations of locations and elements from the stories children have enjoyed for generations. Today, Story Book Forest still exists, albeit inside of a much larger amusement park that has grown up around it. The best part is that it is very much unaltered, and is exactly like it was back in the '50s.

The late '80s were saw skateboarding hitting its second stride, and crazy skater designs like 'Ramp Ratz' were everywhere. Goofy as this graphic is, if you had a local ramp or park that you frequented, the scene is probably rather familiar, as those places could get pretty crazy with kids flying everywhere pretty much all day long.

In the '50s, audio manufacturers employed the phrase high fidelity as a marketing term to describe records and equipment intended to provide faithful sound reproduction. Consumers found the difference in quality compared to the then-standard AM radios and 78-rpm records, and began migrating to high-fidelity phonographs and 33⅓ LPs. Audiophiles focused on technical characteristics and bought individual components, such as separate turntables, radio tuners, preamplifiers, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Shops specializing in high fidelity sound began popping up, such as St. Paul, Minnesota's Dad’s HiFi. These shops not only stocked the latest equipment, but also sold the components that allowed enthusiasts to build and mod their systems.

Karmelkorn was an American popcorn retailer founded in 1928 in Casper, Wyoming, by Mr. and Mrs. William O'Sullivan. The O'Sullivans patented their candy-coated popcorn in 1929, and initially, licensed the product to existing confectioneries before creating a chain of franchised Karmelkorn stores. Within four years, the O'Sullivans had 535 stores licensed to sell its product in North America, including candy stores and peanut/popcorn stands. Under new owners n the '60s, it began operating as Karmelkorn Shoppes, and dropped its licensing program and, instead, franchised the new Shoppe storefronts which were popular in suburban shopping malls. In the early '80s, the chain had 270 stand-alone shops in 43 states, and continued to grow.

Winged Devils (Italian: Forza "G", literally "G" Force) is a 1972 Italian adventure-comedy film directed by Duccio Tessari. The movie highlights the real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats, whose ground life is often more exciting than their flight maneuvers.

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours 39 minutes later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael Collins flew the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours 31 minutes on the lunar surface at a site they named Tranquility Base before lifting off to rejoin Columbia.

Frogger is an arcade action game where the object is to direct a series of frogs to their homes by crossing a busy road and a hazardous river. Originally released to arcades in 1981, the game began porting to home computers and consoles in 1982. By 2005, 20 million copies of its various home video game incarnations had been sold worldwide. Frogger is considered one of the greatest video games ever made, and has become a part of popular culture, and has had multiple clones and sequels over the years.

Armadillo World Headquarters (also known as The 'Dillo or Armadillo WHQ) was an influential Texas music hall and beer garden in Austin, Texas. Located in an old National Guard armory tucked behind a skating ring at 525 1⁄2 Barton Springs Road, just south of the Colorado River and downtown Austin, The 'Dillo flourished from 1970 to 1980. The venue officially opened on August 7, 1970, with Shiva's Headband, the Hub City Movers, and Whistler performing, and caught on quickly with Austin's counterculture thanks to the cheap admission and that the hall tolerated illicit drug use. The final concert at the Armadillo took place on December 31, 1980. The sold-out NYE show featured Asleep at the Wheel and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.

Tucson is very much a college town. Couple that with being a short drive to the Mexican border, and it should come as no surprise that there is no shortage of really good Mexican food options. In 1982, Dirty Sanchez Taco Shop added their name to the list of places to grab a bite. Located in the city's Barrio Hollywood neighborhood, Dirty Sanchez was an unassuming hole in the wall that offered traditional Mexican favorites. Their claim to fame was that they made everything from scratch using abuela's generational recipes. Nothing canned or microwaved – just made fresh daily Mexican food of a quality that rivaled pretty much everyone in town.

Unlike most of our designs, we don't have any real background on Hubbard's Lumber, but do know it was one of the first t-shirts we saw Charlie Kelly wear in IASIP S01E01, and love its understated greatness.

Gay Bob was a doll that was created in 1977 and billed as the world's first openly gay doll. Bob was created by former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg and marketed through his company, Gizmo Development. Bob stood 13 inches tall and came wearing a flannel shirt, tight jeans and cowboy boots with one ear pierced. He was sold in a box designed to look like a closet, and that proudly explained what “coming out of the closet” meant: "Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll. I bet you are wondering why I come packed in a closet. ‘Coming out of the closet’ is an expression which means that you admit the truth about yourself and are no longer ashamed of what you are..." Needless to say, Gay Bob is a gay icon.

Rites of Spring was an American punk rock band from Washington, D.C., formed in late 1983. Along with Embrace, and Beefeater, they were one of the mainstay acts of the 1985 Revolution Summer movement which took place within the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene. Musically, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore punk while simultaneously experimenting with its compositional rules. Lyrically, they also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, are often considered the first emo band, though the band always rejected the label. This iconic design comes from the band's only studio album, a self-titled effort from 1985.

Head shops have long been great sources for stoner parody designs, and this early 2000s Cat And The Hash one is no exception.

Founded in Holland, Michigan in 1929, Holland Freight spent decades serving the central United States. Long recognized for delivering the most next-day service lanes in its territory, Holland expanded into the Southeast, Midwest, and Canada's two easternmost provinces, bringing their on-time reliability to even more customers. From humble beginnings in a single truck driven by the owner, to more than 10,000 dedicated employees in the 2020s, Holland Freight was a regional success story in the LTL freight business.

The historic beachfront community of Westerly, Rhode Island was first settled by English colonists in 1661 and incorporated as a municipality in 1669, but had to wait until 2017 to get their own pinball bar. For those who don't want to do the math, that's a really long time to wait to flip some flippers. Located at 1 Railroad Avenue, Flip Side featured an array of old school pinball machines, a traditional jukebox full of real live 45s, and over 40 beers to choose from, making it the perfect hang spot for anyone who appreciated the finer things.