Let the Retrification Begin

"Nostalgia -- it's delicate, but potent. In Greek, it literally means 'the pain from an old wound.' Nostalgia is almost like a twinge in your heart. It's far more powerful than memory alone. It lets us travel like a child. Around and around, and back...

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Borinage Belgium 1959

Photo: Frank Horvat 

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My “hoe” is always ready.

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frailty of.. death?

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So round, so firm, so fully packed -- so free and easy on the draw

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Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Charade, 1963

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Michał Mozolewski

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L.A. 2013

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Haha

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Woman checking her post office box, 1960s (Utah State University)

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A milkman delivering on a London street devastated during a German bombing raid. 1940. Photograph by Fred Morley

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Stocking the shelves, c. 1960s

Minimum wage topped out at $1.00 in the 1950s and that dollar’s top value was $5.39

Minimum wage topped out at $1.60 in the 1960s and it’s value was $6.84

Minimum wage today, 2012 is $7.25 and its value is $4.97

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Record shopping in 1953. Photo by Nina Leen.

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