I love shaving with my 1940s Star and Gillette safety razors. What other things can I do that will link me to times- gone-by? For example, I keep my shave tools and soaps in a 1930s cigarbox and I repurpose old bottles (I put whickey, Listerine and dish soaps in them). Do any other things come to mind?
Vintage watches Vintage fountain pens Old Time Radio Vintage cuff links Vintage audio (victrolla-type) etc.
That was mine ^ I suggest you go to The Art of Manliness. It's a very cool site that talks about old timey manly things.
Still spinning those big black vinyl CDs… Dual CS-5000 (circa 1983) ...and curing & smoking meats the way it's been done for hundreds of years. Pork loins being transformed into Canadian bacon
i ride one of those really high bikes with the large front wheels while wearing leather soled boots with them fancy brass hooks for eyelets
Vintage sewing machines Books from the Victorian age Old pocket watches vintage fountain pens family heirlooms vintage ice skates old fashioned gentlemanlike behavior
I didn't feel too Old School until Kevin posted. As I sit here getting ready to light up a cigar looking at my stereo rack with the cassette player and turntable in it, I suddenly feel older and left behind?
In Carolingian script with drop cap illuminations. w00t. I think it's just sad that my nephew (12 yrs) has no idea what a cassette tape or an 8-track is. When he was younger, my mother taught him how to use a rotary phone, "just in case." He never got the hang of it.
This got fairly silly fairly quickly, but there are some good ideas in here. This is kind of generic, but how about just making things? Anytime you can make something with your own hands instead of buying it, that's a good thing and a throwback to more self-sufficient times, regardless of your methods. And to highlight how much of a dork I am, I like to play old versions of table games/card games that have morphed into modern mass-marketed versions.
My aunt had one in her house that belonged to my great grandma. It wasn't serviceable, but me and my sister used to play with it along with her slot machine she used to own.
Both! Got a 15th century facsimile edition of the Tyl Uilenspiegel stories. The original edition was printed by Plantin in Antwerp (a famous printer in his days), using wooden blocks. Then there's the early edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House and A Tale Of Two Cities . Oh and two nineteenth century French books.. Cyrano de Bergerac (the play) and a book with letters by Cyrano himself. Man! The man had away with words! Oh, and two facsimile editions of descriptions of Zeeland and an original early 19th century book on the English expedition to Zeeland in the Napoleon age. A few months ago Iwas in a shop which sells vintage photo. and film gear. They still use an old bakelite rotary telephhone!
Granny had a slot machine? Sounds like a fun granny! Yeesh! and Wow! You realize that native English speakers find even Victorian English tedious, right? Understandable, yes, at least 95%, but still tedious. Pat yourself on the back for reading it and understanding it. Now... how are you at Shakespeare? (which is tedious and pretty much incomprehensible without study)
Oww. Entirely forgot the great Bard! Shame on me! Got an edition of the complete works. Read a few plays (Twelfth Night Or What You Will, The Tempest, The Comedy Of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing) . So only the light stuff so far. It has been some time, though . I really should take it up again.
