A look back in Time revisited

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Throw back Tuesday — Here is a post from 2016. Some feelings, more time. I don’t know if I still have the magazine. Maybe not. I’ve done some serious purges since then.

Courtesy: Time Magazine, cover by Neil Leifer

I like cats. (No, this isn’t about cats!)

I recently found an issue of “Time” magazine that a good friend gave me in December 1981. It had a feature story on cats.

I kept it all these years. (I also have the post office’s cat stamp from the same era.) Don’t ask, don’t judge.

Yo mama! I couldn’t help fingering through it.

The ‘80s were great. I loved the hair and the clothes. (For me that long layered curly look was a lot less work than today’s “natural” flat look. More attractive too.)

In paging through the articles and issues of the day, many weren’t that different  — concerns about the economy, jobs, government budget deadlocks. Missing was terrorism and public shootings.

Some surprises were the cigarette ads (more than one brand too). When was the last time you saw one of those? (The construction workers in the ad were really hot!) There were ads for Atari and lots of booze.

The Bethlehem Steel Corporation had a full-page spread touting its success and plans for modernization. This company has been closed for years. Something got short-circuited in their plans.

There were old familiar names like Brezhnev, Haig, Schmidt, Sakharov, and Khomeini.

There was an article on mail orders which were taking off. (Yes, that with catalogs – no internet!)

Nissans were Datsuns. Texas Instruments was losing its edge.

Queen Elizabeth looked young as did Ronald Reagan, Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Really young!

I got lost in a reverie for a while. (I just know I looked years younger too.)

I was going to toss the magazine. The cat article was not as great as I remembered but shucks, those were some of my good days!

How about you? Stumble over something that sent you into a reverie?

24 thoughts on “A look back in Time revisited”

  4. I always enjoy looking at old photos–old pictures of LA, stars, etc. I think the thing that stands out to me the most are the trees–both here and in New England. In New England, most of the old growth forests were clear cut for timber and farmland. In SoCal, there weren’t tree most places 100 years ago. Seeing how the city canopy had grown and how many trees came back to rural New England is a lovely thing.

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  6. What – me judge about keeping things for sentimental reasons? You’ll never get an argument from me over keeping anything. If you think I battle clutter now, I was the Queen of Memorabilia before I got the whole house insulation job in the Summer of 2017 and they made such a mess downstairs with the cellulose stuck everywhere that I had to move all the furniture and storage tubs (while cringing at what multi-legged creatures lurked behind or beneath what I moved – ugh). In the process I found a Rubbermaid Tote and halted all my cleaning efforts and instead spent a few hours going through it and even wrote a post about it. I get sidetracked easily. 🙂 I am writing a post about the Bicentennial year and it will be short, not long like my recent post about 1976, just a few thoughts about the Bicentennial and all the hoopla surrounding it that entire year. I went to visit one of the tall ships, the Christian Radich from Norway, as it was here for the Parade of Ships in New York. I saw it two different times, once in Detroit and once in Toronto. I have a picture on the boat, standing next to a young Norwegian sailor … I don’t even think he shaved, but a real cutie pie though. I sent the picture to them and asked if this young lad was a Captain now? So I spent a little more time reminiscing, as if I didn’t do it enough a few weeks ago. It’s fun to look back at stuff, the styles we had back then, especially.

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  7. Yes. That little cat that showed up reminds me a lot of Miss Biddy. She’s coming around and is now asking me for food. I fear she’s pregnant. I’m going to take her to the vet Friday to see and have her checked for a chip.

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  8. Oh I SOOOOO “get it”. Happens to me frequently. Once in a while I’ll watch an old program on TV like “Lassie” or something even older like “Our Gang” – we have a channel that runs the oldies all the time…..nostalgia is a reminder time passes quickly. I have copies of several old newspapers and you’re right about ads – things have certainly changed since the 50s/60s!!

    Hugs, Pam

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  10. Nicely done, Kate! Beautifully written and incredibly poignant.

    Let me see . . . . in 1981 I was a young 43 years old, living and working in Pittsburgh. Ahhh, the good old days! For a little while I, too, became lost in reverie: the Pittsburgh Pirates, Steelers, Penguins, and a bunch of other stuff – wonderful memories. If I could only go back . . . . .

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