Retro Collector Gifts

The Shape of Progress.

'Yeah, I'm getting ready to make the announcement that the company is getting rid of our landlines and going exclusively cellular."

He claims he brings them home to fix them, but they only end up all over the yard.

"And to my Cousin Ernie I leave my leisure suit."

"You get old and somehow hunting and gathering turns into knick-knack collecting."

'I keep the class on task through inexpensive incentives. Last week I gave out some 8-track tapes and a few wide neckties that I purchased on eBay.'

Sam & Irma's Antiques - 'Hey, Irma! Our first computer!'

"No, 'Disco Fever' isn't a Discovery Channel medical drama video. It's part of my old 8-track tape collection that I keep in the garage. Why do you ask?"

Phone Call

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Diner.

The Missing Sock Returns

"It only goes forwards and backwards. So, you won't need a GPS."

"Remember that time you tried to kill me?"

"And this is our media room."

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

Photographer Phone: 'Okay everybody, SMILE!'

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

"The following film has been formatted to fir the screen of the newer and more expensive television set."

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

The original paperless office

Early Colour TV

Instructions for Bow Tie Wearers

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

Computer Class.

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

"If there's any one lesson we've learned from the eighties, it's how to shop!"

“I have to warn you - my parents are a bit old-fashioned.”

Edison invents the personal stereo

The fate that awaits us all: creeping Rooneyism

T-Shirt: 'Been there done that but I'd do it again.'

Pre-Television Man Caves

'It's an antique!'