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Vintage. Pop Culture. Old Hollywood. Nostalgia is my Zen. GenX. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ally. Women’s Rights. Spoonie 🩶 Books, old movies, cats, nature, travel. On 🧵s as @nostalgiapix25

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Nov 12

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808).

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 16

Just be your true self! 🐈

Says: Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you.
(Power of Positivity)

Cartoon cat hanging upside down on tree branch

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 16

Same

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 16

Tantalizing! Enjoy that refreshing new feeling with a 'float with Coke' ....mmm yummy! An ice cream float! (1961) #VintageAd

Filled Coke glasses with ice cream at top

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you. She’s very affectionate, but only to me. We’ve had her since she was 2 days old. Long story….shes 8 now.

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 16

Happy Caturday! 🐈

Cat on sand & pepples, made out of stones & rocks.

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 16

Good morning! ☕️
Enjoy your day! ☮️🌻😊

Hippy woman holding sunflower under mushroom - VW bus in background

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 12

Actress Danielle Spencer, best known as Dee from ‘What’s Happening!!’ (1976-79), has passed away at the age of 60 from cancer. After her acting career, she went on to become a veterinarian.

June 24, 1965-Aug 11, 2025 🦋

May She Rest In Peace 🕊️

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 8

Astronaut Jim Lovell has passed away at the age of 97.

Mar 25, 1928-Aug 7, 2025 🦋

May He Rest In Peace

www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97

Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.

www.nbcnews.com

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy #InternationalCatDay 🐈
My sweetie Cleo

Sandy colored cat trying to sit in a box much too small for her

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you. You too. 😊

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good morning! ☕️ It’s Friday! 😊

Floral pattern with coffee mug

‘Good Morning’

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 3

Loni Anderson, best known for her role on “WKRP in Cincinnati”, has passed away today at the age of 79 following a prolonged illness - per her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan.

Aug. 5, 1945- Aug. 3, 2025 🦋

May She Rest in Peace 🕊️

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 3

Kraft Cheez Whiz 🧀

‘The Whizard of Ease’

#VintageAd (1970)

Kraft Cheez Whiz Ad

‘The Whizard of Ease’

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 3

‘I Dream of Jeannie’

1965-1970 NBC 📺

Barbara Eden & Larry Hagman

#ClassicTV

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Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 3

‘Bosom Buddies’ 📺

1980-82 ABC #ClassicTV

Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari

Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari in dresses, wigs, makeup with purses

Barbara’s Nostalgia @nostalgiapix25.bsky.social · Aug 3

‘We get the funniest looks from every one we meet

… Hey, hey, we're the Monkees and people say we monkey around

But we're too busy singing to put anybody down’ (1966) 🎶

‘The Monkees’ (1966-68) NBC

Top down: Peter, Davy, Michael, Micky

#ClassicTV 📺