Since Nostalgia Central began in 1998, we have been fortunate
to receive a number of favourable mentions in newspapers,
magazines and at other websites such as the BBC and Yahoo.
In the firm belief that the only thing worse than being
talked about is not being talked about, we bring you a selection
of reviews from around the world.
So you're a fashionably dispossessed Gen - Xer who likes
retro music and style for the rehabilitative qualities or irony.
Want to know what it was really like being a kid back then?
Head to NOSTALGIA CENTRAL, where Brit David Turner reminisces
about growing up during the '60s in the north of England, with a
special emphasis on music, television and pop culture.
His writings are incisive and entertaining, and the site is
remarkably thorough for a personal page. There are also some
intriguing historical time lines, so you might actually learn
something
Yahoo Internet Life magazine. USA.
Do you remember Pac Man, the A-team and the Monkees? Relive
these elements of pop culture at Nostalgia Central. The site is
a trip down memory lane, detailing the music, movies and TV
shows of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Surf around and reminisce
about the good old days.
PeopleSpot. USA.
Nostalgiacentral.com is a fantastic collection of all that
was good and not so good in this illustrious decade. The year by
year news breakdown serves as a great reminder of some pretty
memorable world events, from the death of John Lennon to the
collapse of the Berlin Wall. But of course, the question on
everyone's lips in 1980 was 'Who shot JR?'! And if you don't
remember . . . this is the place to find out".
Sky TV.
www.sky.com
Nostalgia Central offers a funny and sentimental look at
American, British and Australian pop culture from the 1960s to
the '80s. There's a growing number of pages on mainstream and
cult classics in music, television and more.
The Sixties music section features the Beach Boys, the Who
and more obscure names like The Tremeloes. Read band biographies
and listen to music clips . . . The site includes priceless
pictures, albeit not always of the best quality.
Bottom line: Take a groovy trip through three decades of pop
culture,
Access Magazine. USA.
Children of the 1960s, don’t fret. Someone actually
remembers what happened in your golden decade. Matter-of-factly,
they recorded it all and archived it at "Nostalgia
Central."
Take a trip down memory lane, or figure out what to retro
next, at this site listing popular culture chestnuts from the
1960s, ’70s and ’80s. And, for some reason, children of the
1980s, the mullet isn’t listed as a cultural icon anywhere in
your decade. Hmmm…
Herald Dispatch, Huntington WV, USA.
David Turner’s major site for collective memory
encompassing TV, Music, Movies Comics etc. to be recalled if you
grew up in the 60’s, 70’s 80’s or 90’s. Andy Pandy’s
signature tune, a poignant farewell to us all, Time to go home,
echoes through time (as a .wav file) to ex-children
everywhere".
The British Council.
The British Council (www.britishcouncil.org) recommend
Nostalgia Central as a study link.
When Simone Signoret remarked that "Nostalgia isn't what
it used to be," we're pretty sure she hadn't yet seen
Nostalgia Central, a vast online tribute to what was going on in
the '60s, '70s, and '80s. All you Baby Boomers out there can
refresh your memories and bore your children with details of
popular culture that you lived through and forgot already.
You'll find plenty of facts and photos of your favorite or
not-so-favorite bands, TV shows, etc. arranged by topic, or you
can browse the year-by-year feature of major and minor events of
the decade in question.
The site tries to be more than a stroll down memory lane as
it traces political and social trends of English-speaking
countries - but with a decidedly left-leaning point of view. If
your nostalgia extends to Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher,
look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you need to remember why
exactly you loved "The Brady Bunch", this is a good
place to start. The sheer amount of material will keep the
nostalgic entertained for a good long while.
NetSurfer Digest.
www.netsurf.com
If you harbor fond recollections of a time gone by (whether
you were there or not), join me on a stroll down the Web's
virtual Memory Lane. Those were the days, my friends-they need
not ever end.
This site is centered around British, American, and
Australian TV, movies, music, toys, and popular culture between
1960 and 1989.
Reader's Digest New Choices.
If you're planning a different kind of theme evening - on the
sixties, seventies or eighties - find all the inspiration you
need at Nostalgia Central.
It has a section on each of those decades with TV, music,
movies, pop culture and news.
And because its creator comes from Yorkshire, it's not too
transatlantic either.
Youthwork Magazine, UK.
www.youthwork.co.uk
You'll love this site devoted to all things 70s. If you think
you have a good memory of 70s TV/films/music and fads, pop along
to this site and I'll bet webmaster David Turner will surprise
you with details of those you forgot about ! And if that
wasn't enough, he does the same for the 60s and 80s. A must see
site!
The Naff Caff.
www.naffcaff.co.uk
This colorful and extensive site lends itself to arbitrary
browsing. Along with each decade's introduction, the site
features a year-by-year guide, as well as a detailed exploration
of themes under such headings as Pop
Culture, Movies, Television, and Music. An alphabetical listing
of highlights for each decade spotlights figures like 60's
London icon Mary Quant to 1980's monster trucks.
The site is global in its coverage, looking at events from
the strange, 1967 disappearance of Australian Prime Minister
Harold Holt to the 1986 disaster at the Soviet nuclear power
plant at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine.
From serious to silly, it's all grist to the mill of
Nostalgia Central.
Freelists.
www.freelists.org
 For
David Turner, founder of the Nostalgia Central website, reliving
the past is harmless fun. Nostalgia Central is a "one-stop
shop for everything from the 60s, 70s and 80s", providing
potted, year-by-year histories of the pop culture, television
shows, fashion and movies of the modern era.
Turner says the people who visit his site enjoy it as
"pure nostalgic entertainment". All they want to do is
"cherish the memories of the three greatest decades of the
20th Century".
But according to Andrew Calcutt, a lecturer at the University
of East London and author of Arrested Development: Pop Culture
and the Erosion of Adulthood, young adults' obsession with their
80s childhoods suggests they might feel uncertain about their
own futures.
BBC News. UK.
news.bbc.co.uk
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