I Love: The Revival of the Obsolete

Wow! What a title - but it really does say it all. I'm an introvert, sensitive person. As a general rule, folks like me have a difficult time with change. When I revisit a site from my childhood that has radically changed, it is almost like I've landed in a foreign country; I am confused, a bit anxious, and want my old, familiar surroundings back.

When CD players were introduced, my feeling of dread was palpable. I LOVE vinyl. I lived for my record players, the pops, the slight anomalies from one record to the next. I loved to feel them, put them on the record player, read the sleeves and paper in-sleeves. Then CDs had to come and wreck it.

Have you noticed how many style bloggers are writing about record players? Mostly the Crosley Stack-O-Matic (which I bought years ago when Restoration Hardware started carrying them), but also Fisher Price players, Wilcos, and all of them in great turquoise and salmon colors. Clearly I am not the only vinyl lover out there.

And typewriters. I will be the first to admit that word processing is infinitely more easy than type writing, but I miss the Clack, the Ka-Ching when the return button is hit, I even miss correction tape. I miss walking into a room at a business and hearing the cacophony of taps and zips that only a room full of typewriters can create.

And again, the stylistas are snatching them up! I don't know if they are actually using them, but there is something immensely stylish about a typewriter. Mostly I think they are being used as photo props; there is something romantic, though about the idea of sitting down and typing a letter or doing your daily writing at a typewriter.

Atari consoles are becoming collectors items, as are Commodore 64s, 1st generation Macs, and original Gameboys. I read a blog the other day about a site that is taking modern television shows and pixelating them into games with a distinct early Windows feel.

Is there something that you miss and wish would return? What are you happy to see again? Do you love The Most Interesting Man in the World as much as I do? Leave a comment!

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BTW - You may have noticed an absence of original photos. I CAN'T FIND MY CAMERA! I better do something about this before Creativity Boot Camp (which starts Sunday, all you creative types)! And I took the cutest pictures of Phillip the Hedgehog!