Popular Nostalgia

We have made the categories to include as much as possible from popular culture, but if all else fails, you’ll find it here!

There aren’t too many of us country music fans up here in New York, but I grew up listening to Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, and Bonnie Raitt. One of my absolute favorite country music songs, though, is by a much lesser known band called The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. As a kid, The Nitty Gritty […]

Being young in the 70s meant finishing school and going straight out after a bite to eat and going on the nearby football pitch to play footy until dark and beyond. It also meant going into the woods close to the fields and playing at commandos running around with sticks for make believe guns, we […]

Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed […]

Before the time when everyone had a Tv in their room, on their phones, on their computers, maybe even attached to their face.. kids used to read. Kids used to read all the time. (I’m sure they still read a lot now… I’m sure they read this website ;)) The mothers helper, the baby sitter, […]

Look at these old fashioned sweets online. Nipits were around after the war. Now their is an old classic. The choice of sweets is great and some great memories to be had. From kola cubes to buttered brazils. This post was submitted by Glen Neilson.

The whole reason we have 999 -the circular dial telephone took aaaaages to return to start before you could turn the next number in. People didn’t make so many phone calls because it was actually less effort to run round to your mate’s house or write a letter to your granny. I’m not quite of […]

During the late nineties, somebody started a rumour that got old the middle-age technophobes into something of a bind. Fear spread like the plague that everything electrical would explode when the countdown reached 2000. Just as people were buying revamped copies of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince (or squiggle) ‘s “We’re gonna party like […]