happy nostalgia

• a comeback by sweater vests
• Charlie Chan's number one son, Lee
• Gerald Ford, former president, throwing a baby and kissing a snowball
• velour against your skin
• Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas
• flashcubes and the 110 camera
• midnight birthday suppers
• toga parties
• being given a rosebud
• Pete Rozelle
• the Fender Stratocaster
• the bite-sized nuggets of information in Encyclopaedia Britannica
• the World Almanac
• Oliver's Story (film)