nostalgia

Before he became famous, Robin Williams was in a commercial for Illinois Bell.

If you have a nostalgia for video stores as they used to be 30 to 40 years ago, you have to see what explorers found inside an abandoned Illinois video store.

I remember going to Mid Rivers Mall in St. Peters, Missouri on days when it was so busy you'd have to park a mile away and then you were elbow-to-elbow with other shoppers inside. Not so much anymore, but this Missouri mall isn't dead yet.

Do you miss the era when Radioshack stores were in nearly all Missouri cities? Now you can relive that time by checking out 8 decades of Radioshack catalogs.

Oh, to be a time traveler and go back to when this era was happening again. A retro 1972 ad shows how inexpensive it was to eat out at a pizza joint 52 years ago in Missouri.

Let's face it. The era of thriving malls in America is probably in the rear view mirror now, but it didn't used to be that way. There are two malls that are considered among the worst in America that used to thrive but 'fell into ruin' and they used to call Illinois home.

Retro characters, a walk-up counter and a museum make this one of the most unique dining experiences for McDonald's lovers.

It's the diner everyone who watched TV in the 1970's knew even if they didn't know exactly where it was. Yes, the diner where Rosie showed everyone why Bounty was "the quicker picker upper" that originally was born in New Jersey is now incoming to the middle of Missouri.

There's nothing like the refreshing taste of an Ecto-Cooler or ice cold Crystal Pepsi to take you back to the '90s.

Airbnb is giving you a chance to stay in an actual, real-life Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse located in Malibu, California.