Blast from the Past store logo
The display window of the store, with various items from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The Grays Sports Almanac can be seen between the 'antique computer' and the Magnavox.
Marty handles the almanac.
Blast from the Past was a memorabilia/antique store in 21st century Hill Valley, which bought and sold items from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 2015, one of its customers was Marty McFly, who sold his pocket change and dollar bills as antique currency and purchased the Grays Sports Almanac.
Alongside the almanac in the display window were several other items, including (in no particular order):
- a Betamax VCR
- a JVC television set
- a frisbee
- a bust of John F. Kennedy
- a JVC camcorder from 1988
- the Jaws NES game licensed by LJN
- the BurgerTime NES game
- a VHS copy of National Lampoon's Animal House
- a VHS copy of Dragnet
- a Black & Decker DustBuster from 1988
- a Black & Decker Clothes Iron
- a record player
- a Ronald Reagan picture disc record, titled The President's Album
- a VHS copy of Stand-up Reagan
- a large bottle of Pepsi-Cola (with the drink still inside)
- a Magnavox
- a Super-8 movie projector
- a lava lamp from circa 1967
- a Macintosh computer from 1984 with keyboard
- a giant peanut
- a white and blue soup tureen
- a The Cardinal of the Kremlin book by Tom Clancy
- a Pac-Man lunchbox
- a Berenstein Bears lunchbox
- a Who Framed Roger Rabbit plush doll
- "very rare" smiley faces from 1972
- a Barbie Cool Times doll
- a Barbie Ken California doll
- a bunch of vintage 1982 Perrier water bottles (with the water still inside them)
- a Guess two-tone blue denim jacket, complete with "Art in Revolution" button
- a Sanyo Orange RPT 1200 Phonosphere (70's)
- a VHS copy of Jaws 2 (1978)
- an R.C. PRO - AM NES game (1988)
Behind the scenes
The futuristic-looking receipt that Marty received with the almanac.
- The unnamed saleswoman is played by Judy Ovitz.
- Roger Rabbit was a Robert Zemeckis film that also starred Christopher Lloyd. The title character was voiced by Charles Fleischer, who was Terry in Part II. As the old man who tells Marty that he wishes he could go back in time to bet money on the Chicago Cubs winning the 2015 World Series, Terry inspires Marty to return to the Blast from the Past store to buy the almanac. It is also interesting to note that the original Jaws is a Steven Spielberg film and a sequel appears before that in the film.
- The window display also includes (behind the DustBuster and the computer monitor), on a mannequin, a Guess two-tone blue denim jacket with an "Art in Revolution" button. This is the same outfit that Marty had been wearing in 1985, and was included as an in-joke.