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thenewgreen  ·  4373 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Essay shows everything that's wrong about Instagram

Enjoyed the photos, thanks. It's funny what becomes "nostalgia" and what becomes repellant. "shitty photos" as you describe them do feel like part of my childhood. I would include polaroids in there too and those old school hanimex cameras (see below)

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I think of these things along the same lines as shag carpet, cigarette purses (little coozies for your smokes that were all the rage), Stained glass lamps etc. All things I have a fond nostalgia for but then there is the cigarette smoke, the shitty jug wine that I have no nostalgia for but were equally as pervasive back then.

Hell, this has been a fun post. I've enjoyed this run down memory lane. Makes me want to play horse shoes, use an encyclopedia to source information and go night swimming. --and take "shitty photos" of it all.