In this thread, we’ll post about things that are old that we really like. Things our elders would have had, and would probably approve of us having, too. To set a limit, nothing goes in the list that existed before after 1970, giving us a 40-ish year buffer.

I’ll start ...

Tommy-era pinball machines, for style

1957 portable Smith-Corona electric typewriter, for words

The 1969 Volkswagon Bus, for awesome

The Velvet Underground & Nico’s debut album (1967); The MC5’s Kick Out The Jams (1969); and the whole of the Beatles, The Stones and the whole of the Motown catalog up to that point.

A vintage and functioning suitcase record player, to go in the bus.

OK, your turn.

I was going to put me on the list, but I existed before 1970.

I’d like a model 5 underwood…that works.

You’d qualify. I messed up the intro. It’s been fixed.

Ingrid Bergman, in mint condition, or near mint, or fine, or whatever…

80 hour work week for children

physically abusing women

some minority servants

TB

Garrison Keiler.

Women who don’t shave..love that woman smell ( I do believe not shaving may be back in style but I have not had a recent opportunity to verify this for sure)

Stingray Bikes

Cast iron engines..they last forever

Fresh French Fries

Girls that say no when they mean yes…I think that has fallen out of favor with the incredibly aggressive women of the new millennium, you young boys don’t stand a chance.. the cat is waaay out of the bag..

Fruit that tastes orgasmic( some fruit ya get these days is tasteless)

richey - 05 June 2009 04:02 PM

Women who don’t shave..love that woman smell ( I do believe not shaving may be back in style but I have not had a recent opportunity to verify this for sure)

Stingray Bikes

Cast iron engines..they last forever

Fresh French Fries

Girls that say no when they mean yes…I think that has fallen out of favor with the incredibly aggressive women of the new millennium, you young boys don’t stand a chance.. the cat is waaay out of the bag..

Fruit that tastes orgasmic( some fruit ya get these days is tasteless)

huh?

rape is so old school.

Kinda weird ... Not so much down with the “no means yes.” I like it when “yes means yes” and there’s no jail time afterwards.

i was not aware that women in asheville said “no”

So ... any other stuff on the wish list?

That someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

A Wurlitzer jukebox

A 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle

My very own fallout shelter…fully stocked

And one of these:

I want this T bird. I want to know what it was like to be young in 1956.

Barfly - 09 June 2009 05:35 PM

I want this T bird. I want to know what it was like to be young in 1956.

When gas was cheap and emissions standards were as foreign an idea as sushi.