Quotes About Vintage

So he repeated the same made-up crap he had lived on then, about bubblegum machines and Cadillacs with fins, and endless sunshine, and drive-in movies and waitresses on roller skates, and cheeseburgers and cold Coca-Cola in green glass bottles, and baseball on AM radio, out of Kansas City, static and all.

was an aesthetically pleasing, yet highly functional, combination of old and new.

This car was a Rover 90, made in 1955, and therefore very old.

Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

I have one of those real old American-built cars. The kind that just punches through accidents.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

In our home we have many movie props from old film productions.

The very weather seems to have a quality of the past, faded weather like that of old photographs.

I am fascinated with times past.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

The 1950s is my favourite era.

I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

I've always wanted to live in the '60s and '70s and wear wide pants, knee high boots, and oversized denim jackets.

I use Wikipedia and eBay; I look for singles for my 1950s jukebox.

If I'm wearing a vintage '50s-style dress, I'll wear some funky, wild shoes by a contemporary designer.

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

vanilla and turf smells of old books.

White Christian America had its golden age in the 1950s, after the hardships and victories of World War Ii and before the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. June Cleaver was its mother, Andy Griffith was its sheriff, Norman Rockwell was its artist. and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale were its ministers.

Some people said our clothes looked like the 1950s; others believed the 1940s were our era. I wasn't sure. All I knew was that my clothes didn't go out of style because they'd never been in style in the first place.