Originally published at: Watch this video to see how Laci Fay and her family live every aspect of their lives like its 1958 | Boing Boing
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I’m kind of afraid to ask how they react when a Black person tries to get a seat at that soda fountain.
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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about a black neighbor moving next door.
Just how far and deep does this (apparently white) effort to recreate the 1950s go for this couple? 
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Only a white person would do this.
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Doesn’t seem right for someone living their life in the past. Shouldn’t it say something like “she’s never stopped looking back since” or “she’s never looked forward since”?
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Um, just curious… does Laci Faye use/have any kind of access to the internet?
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Interesting, for about a second.
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Indeed. I get my 50’s fix from Psychobilly shows and Mrs. Maisel.
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Word… watching her glibly gush about how “great” the 50’s sounded to her was cringe-inducing.
I also like retro fashion (when it comes to clothes) but I would never want to live in those times, for obvious reasons.
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Hopefully they are “vintage style not vintage values” people.
And yes that is a whole thing with vintage enthusiasts, and yes there are LGBTQ and BIPOC people who do stuff like this.
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You and me both Sister.
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Absolutely; it’s just the cluelessness of her obvious White privilege that is so jarring.
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Ah gushing is cringy.
Whiter people are less likely to have the more nuanced takes for obvious reasons.
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Exactly.
When discussions of time travel come up (as they do amongst us nerdy folks) it’s always a bummer to acknowledge that even if it were possible to do without wrecking the space-time continuum, I still wouldn’t ever be able to safely travel to certain periods in American history…
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I’m just wondering how faithful this person is to their ‘idealized lifestyle’ when most modern tech that we now find indispensable didn’t even exist back in 1958.
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Perhaps something along these lines, maybe a lesson in establishing one’s – position? – early on: For ~30 years, the proven best hands-on, go-to, engine pump tech at Rocketdyne (Shuttle Main Engines) happened to be an Hispanic American. Call him Danny. He once told me of an encounter he had with a new neighbor (lady next door) who one day saw him working in his backyard. She struck up a conversation with him. She laughed at his funny observations; Danny could always do that – stranger or not – and had the gift of gab. It was later that the lady met Danny’s wife… who happens to be White. Said the lady to Danny’s wife: “Your gardener is so funny!”
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Like Civil War and WWII German soldier re-enactors.
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Maybe she just loves all the legal amphetamines.
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Why 1958, though? Why not, say 1954?
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