Tag: nostalgia

Photo Friday, No. 644

Current Photo Friday theme: River

Okay, waaaaay back, to when we were becoming post-hippies, I received my first camera for high school graduation from Cousin Bruce and his wife April. Lynne got married not long afterward at the groom’s family home on the Coosa River in Alabama.

Photo just blatantly taken from the Internet, no idea whose it is.

They make filters now to create photos with this vintage look, bless them. I was just a chick with a little Kodak kit very much like this one (except my camera was all black, I think) using 110 film with a four-flash wand. That baby and my poor photo skills took me all the way through college.

Photo Friday, No. 623

Current Photo Friday theme: Motion

This record on 45. There are some songs that define an entire time for you. “Tighter, Tighter” came out in May of 1970 and reached its highest point on the chart in August. Never mind how old I was that summer–I’m 135 now, so you do the math. But I can tell you that it was one of the most amazing times of my life. Music, TV, friends, books–everything I did that summer and everywhere I went was fun and magical, and I seem always to be hearing this song in my memory. Naturally in the great scheme of things, there are more significant songs than this one-hit wonder that Tommy James delivered to and produced for the band Alive And Kicking. And the 1960s and Summer of Love are part of the soundtrack of my life, too, but…

But 1970 marked not only the start of a new decade, it was the growing into a new me. I still hold those people and summer days and nights in my heart and will always. Some of them are still around and know who they are. Some are gone, but they are never really gone.

You know I got to show you
Nobody else before you
Ever gave me such
A beautiful feeling…

Wayback Wednesday?

They were safe during the flood, stashed in old shoeboxes on the upper shelf of a closet. Out of sight, out of mind saved them.

My old 45 records. When the bin came home from storage that they’d been put in as we cleared the house, I decided they needed a really solid and classy case of some kind, befitting vintage survivors of the storm. I found these online–mostly used by deejays and musicians and collectors of rarities, I suspect, but my records are just as special to me. There are a LOT of good memories etched into that vinyl along with the music.


Their new home to be.


Ready for sorting.


When it comes to band names, the alphabet is hard.


Little Eva Destruction (that’s what Tim calls her, so it’s her new DJ name) our foster dog says, “What can I spin for you?”
Wouldn’t it be funny if you asked and I had it. No, Marika, I DON’T have that. Not on 45, anyway.

I FOUND SOME!

Y’all, almost nine years ago, I blogged one of my rambling, nostalgic posts about plastic cars. Go ahead; you know you want to relive those halcyon days when I had the time to write about nothing in some Seinfeldian way and also when there was a Hump Day Happy. I’ll wait.

….

Guess what I found on eBay? Work is crazy busy so I can’t play with them, but they are little and cheap and just as I remembered them and wanted them to be. I know an eBay seller who’s going to get ALL the stars for all the cars.