What things leave you nostalgic for the past?

Jello 1-2-3.

Anything about The Beatles.

The current US Supreme Court

Dime store perfume gift sets.

[quote]The current US Supreme Court

Nostalgia has been pretty strong in recent years, but I bet it'll get even stronger over the coming years with everything happening in your country. It's a way for people to try and gain some comfort that when things were bad before, they eventually went right again and maybe that will happen again. Nostalgia brings a kind of hope in people.

When I remember that there was a time before Britney Spears was famous, I get nostalgic.

abortion rights

Hugs from overseas, rescue-chick. That sounds so impotent, but I'm so sorry to read the news today.

thanks r8, I am just emotionally raging all over the place tonight.

on topic, 80s pop music makes me hella nostalgic

New wave or pop 80s music. I was a child in the 80s, and my mom was super into pop. Every time I hear the Go-Go's, Pat Benatar, the Cars, etc. it puts me in a good, nostalgic mood.

Reasonably priced gas with full service.

manners

R12, I know it's often said that people were just "more fake" in the 50s and 60s but I do think there is value in being genuinely kind and polite.

Farting on students

Glory holes.

The present.

War weapons only available to the military.

R5- Nostalgia began as early as the early 1970's with the movie American Graffiti (1973)

R11- Where I grew up we had very few self serve gasoline stations well into the 1980's.

Big American cars with big bench cloth seats- LOTS of legroom, shoulder room and thigh support.

[quote] "The present."

Thread closed @R16.

Never look back.

Respect for the court

Not worrying about dying every year

Good music

Nostalgia started before AG. It started in the very late 60s off Broadway with Dames at Sea. Then the revival on Broadway of No. No, Nanette was a huge success bringing Ruby Keeler a very big star of the early 30s back into Broadway stardom all over again, causing a big sensation and appearing on national talk shows. Dick and Pat went to see it and that was national news. The following year Grease opened and that turned into a tidal wave.

By the way why is the local movie house in American Graffiti showing Cabaret?

People were more fake in the 50s and 60s? Who says that? And why would they?

That's pure craziness.

R25, loads of people say that people weren't really nice or kind in those decades, they were just more passive aggressive and superficially "polite". I've read and heard those things from people who lived in those decades. I did not live in those decades so I can't make my own comment on it. But I will say that I think that being genuinely kind and polite is an underrated trait. I don't know why more people don't act like it. Maybe it's because a lot of people equate being kind with being vulnerable and being taken advantage of? No idea.

I can't tell you about the 50s but I was a small boy in the 60s and I remember people being mean and shitty. Yes and phonies. But people are just as phony today. And I remember old people being REALLY mean. They HATED kids and made no bones about it. They were worse then. Of course not all of them.

R27- And now YOU'RE old and HATE kids.

Pictures of JFK Jr in the 90s

Princess Diana

the Olympics

90s soft rock they play in the grocery store

Ye Olde Underground where you had to show your paper to the (usually) quite witty fellow in the booth.

Air travel before it became so dehumanising.

No social media.

^*paper ticket

R28 Ha! Kind of. But I don't show it the way they did back then. I remember how evil I found them when I was a kid. I wish I had talked to the nice ones about what the US was like before WW l. But who thinks of these things when one is a child? These people were never young, they were always old.

[quote] "People were more fake in the 50s and 60s?"

Values were different, buy there was definitely a lot more artifice in the 1950s & early 1960s. So if that's what was meant by that statement (though not very well-worded), I agree. Otherwise, I don't know what it was supposed to mean.

Life before 2016..

Suzanne Somer's Lifesavers commercial