Du Jour

It seems that all of us vintage lovers heard the same NPR story about this Korean television set. It also seems we were all so uber excited with it that we are all blogging about it. I hope we get this in the US soon because I have the perfect place for this set!

The mid-century aesthetic is really getting a lot of love. I recently found a computer styled to look like a Predicta attached to a vintage typrwriter keyboard. I don't know if I am 100% into the look but I can see how it might look nice on a Heywood-Wakefield desk. I think there should be more a merge between the new technology and old aesthetics. I'm not too crazy about the whole steampunk look though. I'm talking about what they quite frequently do in the UK.

Actually, I wouldn't mind a rotary Princess phone sans any upgrades sitting on my desk. Rotary phones gave you a few more seconds to think of what your going to say. I loved hearing the sound the dial would make as it ran over all the numbers. There was a heaviness to the dial.

Philco PC from Dave Schultze on Vimeo.

Yesterday, as I was driving, it occurred to me that my husband and I had John Lennon until we were nine years old. It's weird to think of all those born after he passed.  There is something really poignant about having been able to live in a world that still had John Lennon if only for the first nine years of our lives.