Vintage Aficionado Gifts

'Detroit will try anything to become profitable again.'

"But this is the way we've always done it."

Dog with an ear trumpet listening to the gramaphone.

'I remember when all this was books...'

The Bottle - Bailiffs Repossess Furniture- Drinking Continues

"Now then, what does Madam desire?"

An old-fashioned printer using an Albion press.

"And they provide a good deal of insulation, of course."

"Mommy, look! Tablets from olden days!"

Clock Ventriloquist - 'I can see his pendulum moving.'

Lost.

The Nice Little Couple

'I'm thinking of going back to a jacket and tie. I'm tired of being in style.'

A burgandy from when the dow hit a record high.

'Wow, I can remember when they made novelty toilet paper out of fake dollars.'

Early photo booths - "...and now one with your eyes closed."

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

Punk rocker passing punk codger in street.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

'I googled it and apparently it's something called, a book.'

Antiques

Mangle

'All my men wear English leather.'

"Gee, Mr. Babick!"

Seventies heartthrob

5 & 10 store

"Wow!"

When I put a to-do list on a wall, I didn't get my security deposit back.

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?

Butler

"Is it cold in here or is it just the Ice Age?"

"The butler did it."

"Then he said that people are supposed to forget conventions in times like these."

Post Office

A Betty Grable statue reads "July 1943."