Really old stuff that you dig

[Queen Michael]

I just sat down with a Thimble Theater collection. For those of you who aren't lovers of classic comic strips, Thimble Theater is the comic where Popeye made his first appearance. And then it struck me that pretty much everything that people ever discuss here is really new. So now I figured that we'd talk about old stuff we like. Thimble Theater is from the twenties, but I'll set the limits around the 1950's.

So what kind of stuff do you like that was invented before then? Movies, comics, books, music... Anything will do. And just to be clear, it can be from an earlier century, from an earlier millennium, and so on.

Spoiler: Also, here's an old Thimble Theater page for those of you who are interested

It holds up pretty well today still, I'd say. Of course, since most of the comic strips nowadays aren't that good, that's not hard...

 

[Cabisco]

I like really old books, there is something about the fact they have been around for so long that I find great. Perhaps it's the idea that someone will be have been flipping through the pages over a hundred years ago who knows but I love me some old books

Also, steam trains and Sailing ships. They just look a hell of a lot more aesthetically pleasing than the metal boxes we have today, more personality.

 

[ellers07]

I love German Expressionist films. They had a look that you couldn't get away with these days. Movies like the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis come to mind. They're just kind of creepy, unsettling, and absolutely wonderful.

I also get a kick out of old postcards. Antique stores always have boxes of them and it's pretty cool reading messages from decades ago. I'm sure the people that wrote them never imagined I'd be reading them and I'm not sure they'd be pleased to know that I was, but I find them fascinating.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Old movies. I sat through Birth of a Nation, which lasts about 4 hours, on my own in front of the TV and loved it, barring the hideous moral dissonance of that movie by modern day standards. Anyway I'm always going to this old movie theater a few blocks from home, every month they show old 35mm prints of a specific director. Last couple of months were F. W. Murnau and Kaneto Shindo. There're maybe 10 of us at the screenings