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San Jose Nostalgia
Comfort and nostalgia delivered to SF with the click of a mouse
lanz nightgowns
October 13, 2010
Serene Comfort is a website worth a love letter. I wrote it, and I’ll tell you why. Because of the astonishingly cold spring and summer we...
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Great footage of San Francisco, circa 1905, where liberty and commerce flourished
Politics
January 11, 2010
During my daily visit to the great LRC blog, I stumbled across a video clip of what downtown San Francisco looked like in 1905. The first thing I...
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The Waitress Project at the SF Public Library
Home & Living
March 2, 2009
Waitresses are the stuff of nostalgia--the one that works at your favorite local diner, the one that remembers your name, serves your favorite...
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ACT's nostalgia-fest Maple and Vine runs through April 22
Nostalgia
April 13, 2012
Were the good old days of 60 years ago really all that great? Would you trade your favorite oxygen bar and online gaming for a pre-dinner martini...
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Customer service in the 60's
customer service
October 7, 2010
In what seems like a distant memory, the way customer service has evolved since the 60's and 70's has been nothing short of amazing. Some...
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Ghosts of Pan Am: chasing the legacy of America's flag carrier
Pan Am
May 3, 2012
A lot of attention has been paid to Pan American World Airways lately. Although the iconic airline ceased operations in 1991, renewed interest in...
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Crawling inside the TV set with an old movie
old movies
January 8, 2012
From the time I was tiny, old-movie-watching was a disease in our household. My father, a lover of television and communication technology in any...
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Futuristic cyber-comedy moments
Movies
December 1, 2011
“Hey listen to this! The entire work force of the state of Virginia had to have ‘solitaire’ removed from their computersbecause...
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Why nostalgic thoughts are almost always positive
Nostalgia
September 3, 2011
“The good old days”, “golden age”, “simpler times” , and so on. Phrases like these often get used whenever...
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Thank God we've come a long way, Baby ...
changing times
April 3, 2011
For those of you who yearn for the good old days,Madmencan be a weak imitation when compared to a single romantic comedy made in the 1950s. I...
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