Vintage revival underway ?

Subject: Re: Vintage revival underway ? Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:08 pm

My mother and I were just discussing some of these points... one of them was the economy, and how people in the past addressed hardship so much better than the entitlement attitudes of today. Her cousin, who's got a terminal illness and is slowly dying over time just had her food benefits cut from $100 to $30 a month. She volunteers helping the homeless and likes to make them food, and she won't stop even now in her dire circumstance. She's a great example of someone who will always give to those less fortunate, even at this incredibly unfortunate stage of her life. But she said, "I don't know how people did it in the Depression... how people got through..."

I pointed out that they didn't always. There were soup kitchens, children went hungry and were often given up by parents who couldn't feed them, a lot of people didn't make it, and maybe that close memory is why the people of the forties were able to aproach rationing and the war shortages with such a genuine dedication and attitude of pulling together. Because they remembered. But today, most people don't remember much other than good times. And some of us remember the odd-even days of gas rationing in the 70s here in the US. I was a child, but I recall it.

I'd like to see a vintage revival... maybe if it happened, even in media, people would realize how lucky we are in this day and age. I'd like to see the best of the past brought forward, and the worst remembered as lessons. Unfortunately, the only vintage revival I see in my town is a small stirring of 'he who dies with the most vintage toys wins', and looking down at those who don't have the style even if they have the soul of a retrophile. My friends in the rockabilly scene have mentioned this many times, they lament the lack of grace and manner in their subculture, and the way style has become a way to one up the next guy or gal.

I do tend to live like I'm in rationing... but that's because since the roomie got laid off, we pretty much are rationed!
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Subject: Re: Vintage revival underway ? Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:34 pm

I'd like to see a vintage revival... maybe if it happened, even in media, people would realize how lucky we are in this day and age. I'd like to see the best of the past brought forward, and the worst remembered as lessons. Unfortunately, the only vintage revival I see in my town is a small stirring of 'he who dies with the most vintage toys wins', and looking down at those who don't have the style even if they have the soul of a retrophile. My friends in the rockabilly scene have mentioned this many times, they lament the lack of grace and manner in their subculture, and the way style has become a way to one up the next guy or gal.

EX-Actly. Amen.

Sooo sick of that, and that is about the extent of the "scene" here in Baltimore, too...Ick.
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Subject: Re: Vintage revival underway ? Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:16 pm

I've been thinking a bit on this as well, and I'm hoping that in the long term we'll see a revival of some of the things that made the past good. Like passenger train travel and ocean liners- at some point those may be cheaper options than driving or flying, just as they were in the 40s. And with a continued emphasis on the carbon & fuel costs of importing goods from halfway around the world, perhaps we'll see a resurgence of American Industry- at least we can hope!

Subject: Re: Vintage revival underway ? Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:53 pm

I think there is a revival in collecting vintage items but not much of a revival in vintage ways of thinking.

Subject: Re: Vintage revival underway ? Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:49 am