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or some reason the first thing that comes into my head when I think of the word “nostalgia” is Nineties pop legends Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Weird I know. The line from their hit single ‘Summertime’ : “the smell from a grill sparks off nostalgia” has stuck with me forever. I’m not sure why, but do know that psychoanalysis would probably not work at this late stage. Horrifically, the song was released in 1998, making it sadly fitting to this vintage issue. Since when did Jazzy Jeff become vintage? There will be a helpline for anyone over the age of 30 at the end of the article. So what is nostalgia anyway? The dictionary says it’s a…
“wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time...”
Hmmm…..seems quite serious to me. Anything wistful makes me think of Scarlett ‘O’ Hara, which is best avoided. As is “wisting” in general – it is passive and insipid. I’m all for remembering the past over a cup of real tea, but what is this happiness bit all about? Does it suggest that you can only find true contentment when remembering the smell of your primary school toilets or the time you really did see Father Christmas clambering on your rooftop? I’m only playing devil’s advocate here, but is recalling the moment you were caught snogging by the Head of Maths, really the root to blissful serenity? And what about the here and now? Does nostalgia mean there is no happiness in your present life? I for one know that my TV will say differently. It witnessed my near spontaneous combustion when Mo Farrah won the 5000 metres. What’s with all this yearning and longing anyway? It sounds painful to me. A slow, drawn out type of pain, one that might take hold if you happen to get strung up by one of those Ye Olde Victorian torture devices. I prefer Jazzy Jeff’s idea about sniffing barbeques. Olfaction (the brilliant word for sense of smell) is supposedly the most evocative of our senses. It’s to do with important things in the brain which I am not qualified to talk about.
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THE NOSE TEST…. Here is a fun and easy experiment that Dr Rachel Herz of Brown University, USA suggests. Try at home, but only if you promise to eat your vegetables first, floss afterwards, and are not at risk of a diabetic coma.
The 40s wasn’t a culinary decade for obvious reasons, so Spam, Del Monte Tinned Peaches and Cocoa was about as good as it got back then. Gordon Ramsey would never have survived.
1. Buy a bag of assorted jelly beans of sufficiently high quality.
With meat now on the menu, 50s dishes started to become more interesting. The thrill of a good hot dessert: semolina, tapioca or jam sponge, still prevails to this day. Fish Fridays began.
2. Sample all the flavours in the bag systematically until you are sure you appreciate just how distinctive each one is, because expertise is important and you may never get another excuse this good. 3. Now, pinch your nostrils shut and do the sampling routine again. Notice the differences? That’s right — now there are none. Every bean still tastes sweet, but absent a sense of smell and you might as well be eating sugared pencil erasers. And if in mid-chew you release your nose? At once, you can tell your orange sherbet from your soured cherry.
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Y NAN USED TO SAY THAT BACK IN THE DAY THE ISLE OF MAN WAS THE PLACE TO BE AND BE SEEN. SHE SAID THAT DOUGLAS PROM WAS A HIVE OF ACTIVITY AND THAT YOU COULDN’T GET A DECK CHAIR ON THE BEACH FOR TRYING. MY BEST FRIEND’S FATHER IN LAW WENT AS FAR AS TO SAY IT WAS THE AYIA NAPA OF TODAY. I’M NOT SURE WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS, BUT SINCERELY HOPE HE WAS JUST GETTING HIS POPULAR MEDITERRANEAN BEACH RESORTS MIXED UP AND THAT IN FACT, HE MEANT MONTE CARLO. So what was happening here in the years gone by? What were we wearing? What were we eating and most importantly….what were we doing?
Jazzy Jeff Helpline…. youareoldgetoverit@gmail.com
THE WAY WE LOOKED…
Suffice to say, if you happen to find yourself staring out of the window, caught up in the throes of nostalgia and “wisting” and yearning to be back in the halcyon days, grab a tissue and clear your nose. You never know what you might sniff out. Perhaps the day you became laughing stock for not being able to do long division will be recalled with warmth, humour and generosity of spirit.
July 5th 1946, the bikini was born! 50s glamour saw women clothed in poodle skirts, hats and wrist length gloves. The hair was curled and the lipstick red. Femininity reigned supreme. Men cut dashing figures in pork pie hats, grey flannel suits and penny loafers Hair was flattop or quiff. Pomade (hair oil) kept everything in place. As the 60s came in, the skirts got short and the beehive grew. Men’s collars got pointier and the less conservative embraced bell bottoms with gusto!
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In the 1960s £2 bought a week’s shopping for a family of five. Frozen food took on a life of its own with the help of Bird’s Eye and Findus Ross. The rise of the white loaf began and Angel Delight became a household favourite, next to Fray Bentos pies and Smash. THE WAY WE LIVED… The now defunct Palace Lido was the place to be and be seen in the 50s and 60s. The largest ballroom in Europe at the time, it housed up to 4500 people and played host to The Who, T –Rex, and The Stones. On weekends, crowds would also gather at the Villa Marina for outdoor beauty contests and at Port Erin beach for long summer days, when you really could rely on the weather… In the 1930s, the glorious Majestic Lido Hotel was built – “the only hotel in Douglas with a bathing pool.” Open all year round, it was floodlit with sunbathing lawns and waiters to fetch drinks. Best of all, it had the famous “La Tonelle Ballroom” The only ballroom in the British Isles with a telephone on each table to ask a potential suitor to dance. Perhaps modern day romance really is dead…
WHETHER YOU’RE FASCINATED BY LOCAL HISTORY, WANT TO DISCOVER YOUR MANX CONNECTIONS OR RECOLLECT YOUR MEMORIES FROM THE PAST, YOU CAN FIND IT ALL IN MANX NATIONAL HERITAGE’S iMUSEUM. SITUATED IN CENTRAL DOUGLAS, JUST A SHORT WALK FROM THE MANX MUSEUM, THE iMUSEUM IS A DIGITAL RESOURCE GIVING YOU UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE ISLAND’S PAST, PEOPLE AND PLACES. THE iMUSEUM PLACES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS OVER 20,000 PHOTOGRAPHS, FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS AND ISLE OF MAN NEWSPAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS AS FAR BACK AS THE 1700S ALL SEARCHABLE BY KEYWORD. JOURNEYING INTO THE ISLAND’S PAST HAS NEVER BEEN SO REWARDING OR COMPELLING… Find out more at www.manxnationalheritage.im iMuseum is open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Thursday until 7pm.
Photographer | Stuart Bedford Hair & Make up | Utopia Salon Models | Daniella, Diane, Kayleigh, Chloe, Courtney
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he sun was shinning at the Jurby festival this year. The event is now the largest one-day show for motor transport in the Isle of Man. Thousands of
people visited and enjoyed walking around and taking photos of the Vintage and classic machines on display. The Vintage Motor Cycle Club featured a series of parade laps
by classic motorcycles and a number of star TT and Manx GP riders were seen walking around taking in the atmosphere and that unique smell of Castrol R.
ISLAND AT WAR - AGAIN
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he Isle of Man was called to arms once again for the annual Island at War event over the weekend of 18th and 19th August with many choosing to enlist and dress up for this 1940s wartime event. Douglas steam railway station was guarded by a newly formed local Home Guard unit, who erected barbed wire barricades, and checked passengers identity and travel papers before they were allowed to board their trains. These spot checks proved very successful with a couple of spies being arrested and escorted away. In addition to the Isle of Man Home Guard Re-enactment Society on duty, there was an air raid shelter for the loco crews on the platform and a display of period vehicles.
THE FESTIVAL OF JURBY 2012
Panoramas - Privacy - Perfection Meanwhile, members of the Black Knight Historical, who are events specialist based in Norfolk, camped out at Castletown Station. The whole station area was taken back to the 1940s with various period items including an unexploded bomb complete with a disposal team. While a military medical team and nurses had also commandeered the station’s booking hall. Stepping on to the platform was like taking a step back in time with most people at the station dressed in wartime uniforms or civilian clothing. The capture of a German naval officer and his armed escort
The whole station area was taken back to the 1940s with various period items including an unexploded bomb complete with a disposal team.
performed by the Black Knight Historical was so realistic that many travelling passengers at the station thought it was real! The action packed schedule continued at Port Erin station with a 1940s style tea party, while special displays took place at Cregneash on how the land army dug for victory. During the evening there was an Evening at War Hangar Dance, which took place in a secret location.
AN EFFORTLESSLY STYLISH REINTERPRETATION OF A TRADITIONAL MANX FARMHOUSE
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reemskerry Farm is a sumptuously appointed residence set in 22 acres, presented in immaculate order throughout, and offering breathtaking countryside and coastal views. Located deep in the Manx countryside the estate, through which a small river flows, enjoys unique privileged access to a private halt on the vintage Manx Electric Railway. Extending to some 8000 square feet the property has been built to an uncompromising specification featuring bespoke joinery and elegant, generously proportioned accommodation that includes a 60’ reception hall, magnificent triple aspect kitchen/breakfast room, oak beamed galleried family room and study, drawing room, dining room, snug, gymnasium, sumptuous master suite of bedroom, dressing room and lavishly appointed bathroom/wet room and three further bedrooms, all en suite. Wi-fi throughout, garaging for three cars, twin heating systems. Illuminated formal gardens of approximately two acres with extensive terraced areas offering magnificent panoramas of unspoilt countryside and stunning vistas towards Maughold and Ramsey Bay.
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With elevations principally in mellow Manx stone reclaimed from the original buildings under a Welsh slate tiled roof the property blends discreetly into the landscape and is approached along a 250-metre brick-paved drive lit by wrought iron lamp posts and edged in wildflower borders.
The estate, which includes a small river that spills down through the grounds along the western border and the remains of two Manx stone cottages, extends to 22 acres, comprising eight fields and illuminated formal gardens of approximately two acres. Leading from the principal reception rooms are extensive raised and flagged terraced areas with a hot tub and bordered by bespoke wrought iron balustrading. The broad sweep of terrace to the rear of the property offers a breathtaking panorama of uninterrupted views of unspoilt countryside and stunning vistas towards Maughold and Ramsey Bay. The gardens surround the property on all sides and are laid principally to lawn, with a Manx stone raised pond, flower beds, wildflower borders, a children’s play area and oak framed, Welsh slate roofed gazebo for al fresco dining. A courtyard, enclosed by the property on three sides, features flagstone paving, flower beds and a lily pond. The grounds are completed by an oak-framed three-car car port with welsh slate roof and a garden workshop/shed.
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CONTENTS INTRO
Listings Things To Do The Vintage Years The Nose The Way We Were
EVENTS
Evita After Party Carlene & Paul Halsall Christine & Stuart Urquhart
UPFRONT
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Relative Values Relay For Life Community News in Numbers Stephanie & Steffan Hoy Me & My Pet
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CULTURE Arts & Culture Events Upload Manx LitFest 2012 Island At War
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FASHION & BEAUTY All Tressed Up The Great Vintage Debate Purite At Utopia Vintage For Men Wilkins New Shop Alternative Therapies What to Wear
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APPETITE Vintage Food Vintage - Harvest of Grapes
PLACES
Dreemskerry Farm Get Your Property Featured Vintage Furniture ManxMove - Claddagh Farm
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BUSINESS
Sheila Dean Equiom News Vintage Year For Gilts Movers & Shakers
HARDWARE
The Festival Of Jurby Phone Home
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ACTIVE Sunday League Spinning Classes
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PAPARAZZI 68 70 74 78
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The Creek Inn The Outback Jar Bar The Courthouse Artisan
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DIRECTORY
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BOARDOM
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