Nostalgia
Billy Edd Wheeler: Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
A romantic tribute to outhouses.The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 17, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Hillbillies, Country Bumpkins, Ruralism and Flyover Country, Hygiene, Music, 1960s, Nostalgia
HemisFair 1968
These types of ancient festivals seem all but extinct, making them seem weird to our 2023 eyes. Will they ever happen again?The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 09, 2023 -
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Category: Regionalism, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, 1960s, Nostalgia, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Currier and Ives Toiletries
Many cultural touchstones of my youth have vanished, and mean nothing now to new generations."Currier and Ives" is one such.
At one time this name meant "nostalgic popular culture invocations of the nineteenth century." But given that meaning, what kind of smells would you necessarily associate with it? Horse manure? Coal fires? Unwashed longjohns? Was that what was meant by "manly elegance?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 29, 2021 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents, Nostalgia
Unauthorized Dwellings 12
Once Manhattan was home to squatters. Go to article link for readable text.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 20, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Urban Life, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1920s, Nostalgia
Merry Christmas, 2019!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 25, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Holidays, Children, Nineteenth Century, Nostalgia
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 28, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Celebrities, Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Eccentrics, Entertainment, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Superstition, Television, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1970s, LGBT, Halloween, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust, Nostalgia
Commercials from 1979
The concerns of forty years ago seem idyllic by comparison to the present.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 15, 2018 -
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Category: Advertising, 1970s, Nostalgia
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