What gives you that vintage feeling?

[ghettoguy]

Anything that has been influenced more by human design,desires and craftsmanship than by lawyers and computers

 

[2jakes]

Sheets flapping on a Clothesline.....

.... also for me, the smell of the rain as it begins to fall upon the earth
in the summer time, freshly mowed grass & the gardenias in the garden,
reminds me of my Grandmother & gives me a good feeling !

 

[LizzieMaine]

The smell of fresh newsprint.

 

[rjb1]

Printing Black & white photos - in the darkroom - using real paper and chemicals...

 

[stevew443]

I get that vintage feeling every time I look in the mirror. I see my father staring back at me.

 

[Mystic]

The fit and smell of a quality vintage fur felt fedora.

 

[Hercule]

I get that vintage feeling every time I look in the mirror. I see my father staring back at me.

I know that particular feeling very well. It gives me solace.

 

[St. Louis]

My neighbor just poked her head out her back door and observed that my yard needed a good raking. Sigh.

Anyway, it was good for a vintage-feeling-moment ...

 

[LizzieMaine]

What gives me a real vintage feeling is to say to that neighbor "MIND YER OWN BIZNESS!"

 

[St. Louis]

:eusa_clap

If I only had the noive!

 

[2jakes]

My neighbor just poked her head out her back door and observed that my yard needed a good raking. Sigh.

Anyway, it was good for a vintage-feeling-moment ...

My son-in-law lives in east St. Louis. Said that it was 10º last week.
Is it snowing ? And if so...how can your neighbor know that the yard needs raking ?

 

[TomS]

My vintage fedora, and WWII militaria.

 

[CONELRAD]

Nothing gives me the vintage feeling quite as much as listening to my old 78 records, especially "The Glow Worm", "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!", and my fairly worn copy of "Sentimental Journey", but any of them will do the trick just as well.

 

[GlamourDaze]

Interesting question - I guess it's a beaded dress from the late 1920s.

 

[Duke of Buckingham]

Starting the day by shaving with a vintage razor (not a straight, but either a Gem or an open comb Gillette). It never fails to amaze me that something designed a hundred years ago or so perfectly fits the hand, whereas computer designed modern equipment is just a bunch of straight lines.

Then putting on a jacket and a tie. I know, not necessarily golden era, but I live in Vancouver, BC, the worst dressed city in North America. People see me in a tie and ask, without a hint of sarcasm, when the job interview is. And that's wearing but thrift store vintage!

Drop a Parker 51 into the inside pocket, reach for the trench coat, and I'm running for the bus.

I actually work in the former terminal of the BC Electric Railway Company, which was built as a trolley hub in 1912. There is a great deal of period detail remaining even though, sadly, the street cars are long gone.



Gillette NEW 1939 sailings by Matthew Wild, on Flickr

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

The sound of a screen door slamming, and then getting yelled at for letting it slam.

later

 

[docneg]

Hi

The sound of a screen door slamming, and then getting yelled at for letting it slam.

later

Ha! It would be worth getting yelled at again just to hear that sound. And that door has a spring, youngsters--not a hydraulic closer!

 

[LizzieMaine]

You haven't felt truly vintage until you've gotten your hair caught in that spring.

 

[2jakes]

The crackling ,hissing, humming,lighted dials &
smell of the radio tubes...

 

[TSP13]

For me its a fedora, My WWI 1911 pistol, and my semi auto Thompson, all those put me in a 1930s frame of mind....

If I read correctly WWI 1911... you sir are living the dream.