1920's Living History Couple

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Oh wow Gingerella........ Those two are wonderful!! Thank you for sharing that video.

I wonder if they're loungers??

 

[Miss Stella]

That was great! Next time I occupany my son to Oakland, I will keep my eyes open got them!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

What a wonderful couple! I would love to sit down and talk with them. They would be absolutely fascinating!

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

I remember coming across this a few months back and I thought it was neat that they started to 'live the '20s' during the '50s. Pretty cool couple.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I remember coming across this a few months back and I thought it was neat that they started to 'live the '20s' during the '50s. Pretty cool couple.

Kind of puts the lie to the whole "if anybody in the past went around dressed like they lived in the past they'd be locked up" canard we occasionally hear around here. No doubt they were considered eccentric, but there's nothing wrong with that. There was actually a big resurgence of interest in the twenties during the fifties -- all those middle-aged shieks and flappers reminiscing about the good old days, so it's no surprise there were younger people who took up an interest in the period.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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In the '50s there were plenty of folks in rural areas who were living much as they did during the '20s. Come to think of it, there are folks today in rural communities (Hemet, California comes to mind) who live as if it's still the 1980s.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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But Lizzie is right. Retronauts (as I call them) have always existed, and they always will. They are a facet of human nature.


Retronaut: From the Latin prefix retro, meaning "backwards" or "in past times", and the Greek word naut, meaning "sailor".

 

[Dated Guy]

Yeah, I mean people didn't die from boredom back then. I knew a couple who just kept themselves entertained taking turns reading, mainly from the bible, while working on their crafts/ hobbies in the evenings.

Plenty of people now days throw out their television, don't own a computer, don't get magazines or the newspaper, and yet are perfectly content and not in the least bored.

I didn't exactly throw my tele out, but I sold it, any thing printed that is supposed to be up to date and topical is already history before anyone reads it, plus of course it is sensationalised out of all proportion usually. I own a computer but mainly use it to write stuff with, and no, I do not miss any of it one jot... I learn languages, read, write, paint, converse and generally have a solid lifestyle.... why be a mass produced clone is my motto..!!

 

[Shawnie MacAlpine]

That's really cool!

 

[suits lover]

Really interesting! I'm happy to have see this video. Even in 1958 they were people wo were living like if they were in a another decade.