Retro Communication Lover Prints

"Darren is still in the phonebook."

Next Year's Postal Service Marketing Campaign.

Text Smoke Signal.

"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'

Fossil record player.

Mary Tyler Moore: Spot the Difference

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

"Dammit all, haven't they heard of e-mail?"

Colonial Larrysburg.

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

Before social media there was sticky notes.

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

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

'Each one is signed and numbered.'

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

Groovy Baby

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

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

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

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!

Young Elvis

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

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.

'I miss the great depression.'

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

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

"Late Jurassic is so Retro..."

Luddite Zoom.

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

"The record player is skipping again."

Hippie Edibles Co.