things to be nostalgic about

• old fancy two-piece pool sticks
• Over the River and Through the Woods, a Thanksgiving song by Lydia Maria Child, originally a poem, published in 1844
• real cream in real coffee
• Bennetton's multicolored sweaters
• SEALAB, experimental underwater habitats
• Jules Leotard, who introduced the flying trapeze
• a square deal
• Old Farmer's Almanac
• external kitchens
• Ben Franklin eyeglasses
• milk toast
• thatched roof cottages
• old-fashioned griddles
• VCRs and video cameras