The Good Ol' Days?

Will we look back at our advertising, thirty or forty years from now...
and have the same reaction as we do when we look back at ads
from the forties and fities? (see below)


http://adsoftheworld.com/blog/chris/2007/may/14/the_good_old_days

Albany, NY is a retro haven...

I love this website (www.RoadsideFans.com) which encourages a following to meet, greet and eat at local retro restaurants, and photographs great roadside retro places across the country!

Here are photos of great retro places in the Albany, New York area...
enjoy!

http://www.roadsidefans.com/troy.html

Retro Ad Art

There are lots of great retro resources out there. One of my favorites is a links site called www.RetroAdArt.com

do check them out when looking for retro fonts, inspirational design ideas (or even great retro - style birthday cards!)

-NKRQ Chatty Cathy

Beatniks... pure fifties/with a 21st century twist

(Ned Flanders experiences a flashback on The Simpsons- recalling his beatnik parents!)


Have had a flood of memories of beatnik references (brought on in great part by googling (dare one google and "gargle" at the same time?) Here's some great references...

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik
and stay hip... (even if yours is plastic at this point!)
NKRQueen

My first "bongos"...

I saved up my babysitting money (at 50 cents an hour) for quite some time before I had enough to buy my first purchase - bongos. Yes, I was a young fan of Maynard G. Krebs... and my first purchase as a budding consumer, bongos. He was the first beatnik to make it on prime time back in the 1950s, complete with snapping fingers, a goatee, and a very relaxed attitude about work (He disdained it!)... I remember loving his attitude, in spite of )or BECAUSE of the overly developed work ethic in my family of birth. So.. what was your first purchase as a budding consumer? I took those bongos with my to college years later. Wish I had them still... but I cherish the memory of Dobie and lighter times.

Welcome to this new blogspot!

This blogspot is a means by which those of us captured by the retro look can share their enthusiasms large and small. My interest began when asked to re-paint some old retro lawn chairs for a friend. I will soon list my accumulation of favorite retro sites, and invite you to share your love and passion - and where to find great retro items, both vintage and reproduction!