Retro Charmers Gifts

'I didn't know you could get electronic pipes too! Whatever next!'

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

WW2 fighter pilot with emoji kills

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

Fossil record player.

Mary Tyler Moore: Spot the Difference

'Mom, Dad... we found out that in a previous life, Sheila was a dog and I was a tree. That's why we decided to marry to continue this promising relationship!'

Colonial Larrysburg.

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

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

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

'Like many studs of my generation, I have always had a love affair with the harmonica.'

'Each one is signed and numbered.'

"While he was in Paris, Warren knew Picasso, Miró, Hemingway, Stravinsky, Cocteau, and Fitzgerald. Nothing ever came of it."

'I don't think I've ever heard of the Geezer Scouts or Geezer Scout cookies.'

Groovy Baby

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

Young Elvis

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

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

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!

Old Book Smell

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

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."

A child with a parasol is blown off the Chain Pier in Brighton

Hippie Edibles Co.

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

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

"Late Jurassic is so Retro..."

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

Beachcomber sees that smartphone displays 'message in a bottle.'

"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?