The Retro Dad

by Darrin Vindiola So I recently flew back to Colorado for a week to help my parents with some pre winter projects on their house.  I was pleasantly surprised to be reunited with some old relics from my youth.  While working in my Dad's shed, I looked up on a shelf and noticed an old Disney lunch box. I could not believe my eyes, and was flabbergasted that my Dad had held onto it for so many years!  He simply said "I'm not sure why I kept it, I just felt like I needed to".  I immediately took out my phone and snapped some pics to post here and on social media. When dear old Dad saw me snapping pictures and fondly examining the details of the lunch box, he told me to take it home with me if I wanted.  I eagerly obliged and thanked him multiple times.  Check it out.. I always loved this lunch box. I believe it was made in the late 1960s.  I was a sucker for anything Disney (always have been) and this lunchpail is an absolute work of art, that ...

by Darrin Vindiola AQUA VELVA, Lectric Shave, and Old Spice I took this picture recently in Target, and had no clue that Aqua Velva and Lectric Shave was still on the market.  When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to grow up and start using all three of these.  After all.. the men in the commercials that used this stuff were highly popular with the ladies, so it would have to work for me too! For a time, I even dreamed about mixing these three aftershaves together to form a hybrid that no young lady would be able to resist! Like many kids, I used to love watching my old man shave in the mornings. It was a daily event that kept my undivided attention, and I vividly remember it as far back as three years old. My old man was a barber of 40 plus years, and had a ritualistic and methodical way of shaving. He would get his pores opened up by holding a damp piping hot washcloth over his face for a minute or so. He'd then liberally apply frothy shaving cream from his s...