The Retro Blog

I’m always keeping my eyes open for inexpensive ways to go retro, so this atomic style clock made from easily found items jumped out at me. Very cute! [via craft]

Some people’s awkward years were far less awkward than your awkward years. See some smiling teenagers from vintage ads and book illustrations in the retro teen flickr pool.

Hey Coney Island fans! Today’s the 81st anniversary of the opening of the famous amusement park. To celebrate, Mental Floss has a quiz so you can test your Coney Island IQ. I got a only got a 50 :-(.

Well, as you can probably tell, I’m back from my little adventure. Still incredibly jetlagged though. Making my way through my back log of google reader feeds, and have found lots of fun retro related items. Here are some favorites:
Star Warsian Retro Vehicles
Organ maker’s basement “beast” (1960’s musical instrument DIY project)
Restored Ghostbusters Ecto-1 ambulance [...]

Ever wanted to speak ‘hip’? This hilarious 1958 record will teach you to be cool like a beatnik or juvenile delinquent. Modeled like a foreign language record, it’s quite informative, dig? The square instructor (John Brent) and the native hipster (Del Close) often stray from matters of vocabulary, such as when the square asks, “a [...]

The 1950’s was a time when people started to be a slightly less overt in ostracizing people different from themselves. I’m basing this solely on the fact that Coney Island closed down it’s famous freak show during this time. There’s a new post at mental floss about the Coney Island sideshow. It has some biographical [...]