Reminiscing Stuff - Bilge

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 1:32 PM On 2006-02-06 06:25, Gigantalope wrote: Was this trend so abundant and fervent in prior to this? I can't gauge how abundant or fervent or trend-like it might have been for those a few generations before us, but I do know that my own grandparents have always had a lot of nostalgia for the times of their own childhood and earlier. They have old antique cars, mostly. Walt Disney was famously nostalgic for his own midwest childhood, which resulted in movies like So Dear to My Heart & Pollyanna, and the appearance of Main Street at Disneyland. My gut feel is that our desire to put our headspace in a semi-fictional idea of the past is nothing unique to our generation.

On 2006-02-06 06:25, Gigantalope wrote:
Was this trend so abundant and fervent in prior to this?

I can't gauge how abundant or fervent or trend-like it might have been for those a few generations before us, but I do know that my own grandparents have always had a lot of nostalgia for the times of their own childhood and earlier. They have old antique cars, mostly. Walt Disney was famously nostalgic for his own midwest childhood, which resulted in movies like So Dear to My Heart & Pollyanna, and the appearance of Main Street at Disneyland. My gut feel is that our desire to put our headspace in a semi-fictional idea of the past is nothing unique to our generation.

Post #213008 by Humuhumu on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 1:32 PM