Ancient Groove Lover Gifts

Hieroglyphic disco dancer

"The good old days of eating the washing off the line are all gone methinks: The farmer has bought an electric dryer..."

"Thank you for letting me listen to my oldies. Let's start with some Jimi Hendrix."

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

Mary Tyler Moore: Spot the Difference

Fossil record player.

'Look, can't we just build the damn thing next to the quarry?'

Colonial Larrysburg.

"This woman's lib is getting beyond a joke!"

StonesHendge.

In case of funky emergency, break glass

"D'you remember caramel before it all became 'salted?'"

'Cool! Where'd you learn the new step?'

Dance.

"All this online learning sort of makes you miss the head lice days, huh?"

'Each one is signed and numbered.'

Groovy Baby

"Oh no, we've been inned."

Young Elvis

'Hey, Akhem, a Sphinx-er says what?'

Welcome to a parallel universe. It's like 50 years ago, man. Coffee costs a quarter, tie-dye is groovy, there is a draft. Lots of differences: Free love, man. Corporations are evil. And some similarities. Joy is a new 8-track player. Shut yer #@$% yapper!

"You must be patient, Mrs. Wast fall. Rome wasn't built in a day, you know."

“Hold on—wait until those people are out of the way.”

"Yes, we do fix phones. But, what is that?"

Luthier

"I think you're suffering from nostalgia, Mr. Prentice."

Too young for the sixties, too squeamish for the seventies, too unambitious for the eighties, too technophobic for the 90s, too poor for the '00s, too old for the 'teens."

"It's a sad state of affairs when Lever House begins to seem like a warm old friend."

F&E International. I miss the days when the import/export business was easy come/easy go.

"Late Jurassic is so Retro..."

"I love blue Martinis. It's like the fifties and the nineties all mixed up together."

"The record player is skipping again."

Hippie Edibles Co.

In the eighties, Americans knew how to be Americans. Big cars. Big radios. Big hair. Everything was big. Unfortunately, I was so buff that all my huge stuff looked tiny in comparison. So I would loan my stuff to the skinniest, wimpiest kid I could find. Hold this. Let me reminisce vicariously through you. (Sigh.) Those were the days. Is it working?

'I miss the great depression.'