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Your Veterans Day Stories

By Matt

Posted Nov 11, 2009 – 2:10 pm | 4 Comments »

Retroland.com is all about celebrating the formative experiences that made us into the people we became. Today, in particular, we celebrate the formative experiences of veterans, and we do so through the story of one particular World War I veteran... told to us by Tiki Lounge Conversations' own ... More »

Hey Boo-Boo! We’re In the Movies!

By Matt

Posted Nov 6, 2009 – 2:05 pm | 5 Comments »

Variety reports that the Hanna-Barbera classic character Yogi Bear is headed to the big screen, with some big names in talks to be attached! Anna Faris (every "Scary Movie" installment to date), may play a documentary filmmaker visiting Jellystone Park, where apparently the bears wear neckties and only eat from ... More »

Red Cape Versus White Hood – Guess Who Won?

By Matt

Posted Nov 2, 2009 – 4:16 pm | No Comments »

From the quirky and wonderful Mental Floss comes this story full of everything we love: retro, old time radio serials, the triumph of good versus evil, and Superman! Check out the remarkable story of how a young writer took his hard-fought inside information about the Ku Klux Klan to the ... More »

A New John Hughes Documentary

By Matt

Posted Oct 30, 2009 – 5:23 pm | No Comments »

Author and friend of Retroland James Melzer tipped us to this worthy project: "Don't You Forget About Me: A Tribute To John Hughes." Here's the trailer: We love the idea that, first of all, so many people agreed to talk with these indie filmmakers... and that the film isn't just ... More »

Retro Art Bonanza

By Matt

Posted Oct 19, 2009 – 10:45 am | No Comments »

Three wonderful retro art resources have come to light recently. Together, they capture the 20th century (and even a little of the 19th century!) from three different perspectives - air travel, politics and satire. Fly Now! The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has an incredible archive of posters and other ... More »

To A Top Scientist: Childhood Letters To Your Heroes

By Matt

Posted Oct 14, 2009 – 11:28 am | No Comments »

Fellow travelers in the time machine, if you were ever like us, you wrote letters to your heroes when you were a kid. And we're talking about letters, painstakingly, lovingly crafted with pencil and paper, or maybe in pen, or maybe you borrowed your parents' typewriter and hammered out ... More »

A Munchkins Reunion

By Matt

Posted Oct 13, 2009 – 2:48 pm | 2 Comments »

Newsweek gathered together the last five surviving actors that portrayed the Munchkins in 1939's "The Wizard of Oz," including Ruth Robinson Duccini, Meinhardt Raab, Margaret Pellegrini, Karl Slover and Jerry Maren, for reminiscing and even a little music. What strikes me most about this delightful segment is the pride these five ... More »

A Daily Celebration of the Great American Songbook

By Matt

Posted Oct 12, 2009 – 4:06 pm | No Comments »

Friend of Retroland Emma Wallace's interview with Brian Solomon calls our attention to Solomon's Standard of the Day blog, where a different American standard is examined and celebrated nearly every day! Most posts on Standard of the Day focus on a particular song. You get the lyrics, a little background ... More »

Just Like Mother Used To Make

By Matt

Posted Oct 7, 2009 – 5:06 pm | 3 Comments »

If you miss the seafoam salad, corn fritters and other worthy fare from your childhood dinner table, Coralie Cederna Johnson has you covered with her Charming Vintage Recipes blog. The Michigan public speaker is serving up daily scans of free recipes that could have easily come from my mother's ... More »