Modern Retro Lover Gifts

"And our charging station, also a period piece. . ."

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

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

Snoopy with Laptop

Mary Tyler Moore: Spot the Difference

Fossil record player.

"So what if people do laugh? The world can use a little more laughter, can't it?"

Why Do Old Hippies Smile?

1930's Lady.

Colonial Larrysburg.

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

'Each one is signed and numbered.'

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

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

"You love anything tacky, don't you?"

In case of funky emergency, break glass

Groovy Baby

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

Vintage Dresses: Your Frock Exchange

Mid-century Father

Young Elvis

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?"

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

Old Book Smell

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."

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.'