Nostalgia can be intoxicating. It is so easy to look back on the “better times”, especially once we are in the present and those times are at an end. I am guilty of this myself—I look back on the mid-’00s, my adolescence, as the good ol’ days now. Instant messenger was my obsession, I was learning to drive, I didn’t have to pay rent or bills— it was awesome.

Back in the ‘90s, there was a lot of nostalgia for the ‘50s throughout culture—Pleasantville was a hit film, ‘50s style diners started popping up left and right and the sound of swing music floated on the summer breeze. Those times were neither simple nor as clean-cut as popular culture would have us believe of course, but it was a salve for some people trying to cope with a rapidly changing world.

-Erica Lourd

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