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Tag: Time Trip
Time Trip – Geekdom, by Decade, Part 1
For a few Time Trip posts (not necessarily the next few–those are gonna take lots of research) I thought I’d take a look at all things geek throughout the decades of the
Time Trip – Fill ‘er Up!
I am old enough to remember gas station attendants. Barely. Here’s the procedure for getting gas during the 70s, as I recall it: Pull up to the pump. Wait. Boy
Time Trip – Home Entertainment Back In the Day
When one mentions “home entertainment”, they often think of electronics. But when I was a child, there was more to it than that. When you really only have 4 TV
Time Trip: Changing the Channel
When I was a kid in the 70s, we had a great stereo. It was capable of booming out Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra (aka the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey) at
Recent Research – An Eyewitness Account of Florida in the 20s
Last week, I ran across an old email, and promptly went online to eBay, created an account, and purchased a treasure-hunting DVD, packed full of information. Have a taken up
1920s Pop Culture – Swoonworthy Leading Men
In order to make East of Yesterday a fully immerse experience, I decided to look up some 1920s eye candy, and what better way to start than with Hollywood? Rudolph
A Moonstruck Time Capsule Geek-Out
Back in the 70s, my family would occasionally have Saturday Night Slide Show night at our house. Dad would pull out the slides and we’d spend hours munching on Mom’s
Rest in Peace: Bayard, Florida
On the first post of this blog, I said that I would be going off-topic more often, and making this blog a bit more personal. This is the first of