Let's Bring Back

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
-"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell


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Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t enjoy living in an age of instant-this and digital-that, smart-this and techno-that. Nor would I care to return to an era before civil rights, gay rights, or women’s rights.

But from time to time, Mistress MJ hearkens back to days of yore and wonders about some of the things we’ve given up along the way in our modern world.

In her book, “Let’s Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By,” author Lesley M. M. Blume celebrates objects, ideas and people from bygone days that should be reintroduced to society.



Over the course of the next week or so, Mistress MJ will be posting (based on some of the items listed in the book) a number of things we should consider bringing back. I couldn't narrow it down to just a few items because I concur with many of the author's choices. Therefore, I'll be posting the lists in installments.

We’ll start with Part One on Sunday.

We hope you’ll join us!

NOTE: The top photo depicts a drive-in waitress or carhop. Carhops aren't listed the book but I'd bring them back anyway. And of course they'd wear roller skates!