Mostly actually things that I was not alive to experience but really totally wish I was. Also most of them are completely outdated and have their serious problems but WHATEVER I STILL LOVE THEM WITH SUCH ROMANTIC VIGOR.
- fountain pens
- little boys in shorts
- when black people called each other “brother”
- when non-black people called each other “brother”
- tea time as a universal institution
- piano bars
- live Harlem Renaissance music
- avocado-green furniture
- the old Castro
- actual burlesque
- GO-GO DANCERS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
- DANDIES, FOR THE LOVE OF OSCAR WILDE
- horn-rimmed glasses
- anything that cool old English professors still use/wear
- flappers and everything about them
- prohibition, kind of
- '70s punk scene
- mandatory awesome hat wearing
- the world of Holly GoLightly
- semicolons used properly
- zoot suits (?)
- silent movies (I still want to be in them)
- ancient Greece (too obvious)
- ladies from the 1930s
- widespread afros
- smoking indoors, at least in some places
- drive-in movie theaters
- TYPEWRITERS
- gay porn socks
- film
- VINYL RECORDS
This is by no means complete and will no doubt be added to at some point. Feel free to add your own odd nostalgiasticz.
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