Retro Pop Culture Gifts

Marilyn Monroe

Meet Me Outside St. Louis

"I only like their bad albums – the good ones are too commercial."

"I see Joe Bosco passed away." "Yeah. I heard he laid down the boogie and played that funky music til he died."

"Sklar, Liebowitz, Rubin and Kaminsky... Attorneys a go-go."

"Remember that '70s TV show 'What's Happening'!? Did they ever come up with an answer?" "I don't know, but it makes me wonder if Marvin Gaye found out what's going on." "The black hole of cannabis-induced queries"

'My axe is all dull! -- Have you been using it to shave your legs again?'

"Today's special is we'll pull the plug on the jukebox if someone else's music annoys you."

"The next song is for all you unreconstructed commies, who are still in love with their tractors."

Robert Drake

"I saw Elvis kissing Santa Claus."

Hippie Edibles Co.

"I just don't know what we'd have done without our subscription these past 25 years."

Sunny and Chair

'Sir, we're just not reaching them. Only a small percentage of people own vinyl records, and hardly anyone thinks to play them backwards.'

Have you ever sued anyone for slander or libel, Randy? Indeed I have, little buddy. It was 1979. Francis Melba stood up in the middle of the cafeteria and accused me - in front of all the other kids - of being "nothing special." So I stood atop my table, ripped my shirt in two, slowly smoothed out my mustache, and then proceeded to flex my pecs, one at a time. HOJ. The sunlight streaming in through the windows scattered off my bouncing pecs like a disco ball. That's when Melba knew he was toast.

"We call this Casual/Retro dining. You get up and make your own PB&J back in the kitchen."

"No worries, that's not COVID 19 fever, it's Saturday Night Fever."

Emergency: "Waiting long?"

'Fancy coming back to my room to have a look at my collection of 78's ?'

"My, grandma, what big hair and shoulder pads you had!"

'Not the Adam Ant!'

'Cookery is the new rock n' roll'

Today, this humble feature attempts to answer one of the great quandaries of modern times. Is it Louie Louie, oh baby, my hair gotta grow? Wrong! What are the lyrics to the Kingsman's Louie Louie?* *Must be gleaned by listening. No peeking on the internet!

"Mom, does granddad want me to run away? He's playing that Disco music again!"

'You'd be surprised how many people comment on my resemblance to Elvis.'

COVID-19 fever

Hippy at office desk with: 'Tune in/ Drop out' in/out boxes.

At the park, 1979

"Have you given any more thought to my idea of using a sword?"

"I wish we could go back to waltzes - this boogie woogie is killing me."

My grandparents used this to play music. It actually has a needle that allows a track around the record surface. Oh, it's groovy!

Jackie Gleason's Old Desk: Trays read: InOutPow, right in the kisser.

'Jeez, grandmom, here's your problem...you connect to WiFi, not HiFi!'

'All you do is stare at the TV. When I was a kid we have to be content with staring at the radio.'