Citations:retrophile

English citations of retrophile

Noun: "one who loves that which is from or characteristic of the past"

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• 1992 — Sandra Crockett, "On the music charts, Details magazine rates Baltimore at the top", The Baltimore Sun, 18 June 1992:

  Top Cat Record and Novelty Shop, 2001 W. Pratt St., is described as "heaven for retrophiles" and "best place to cadge a 7" of the Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster."

• 1993 — Scott Wilson, "Button up your overcoat . . . make that overcoats", The Baltimore Sun, 21 October 1993:

  Three-quarter-length coats -- intended to be worn over business attire -- are already all the radically chic rage among Europe's retrophiles.

• 1996 — Marina Pisano, "Everything old is cool again", San Antonio Express-News, 10 November 1996:

  As retrophile Ryan Parker, a 22-year-old graphic artist, puts it, "It's anything that's old and cool. Like James Dean is cool. And Brando. I'm not consciously going out trying to look like them, but - whatever."

• 1999 — Jennifer Wilson, "Tomorrowland", Los Angeles Magazine, December 1999:

  We wager that even the retrophiles on your gift list will be taken by these thoroughly modern material goods.

• 2004 — Brian M. Wiprud, Pipsqueak, Bantam Dell (2004), →ISBN, page 155:

  You don't know firsthand that the dead woman on your stoop was Marti Folsom, and even if you did, that doesn't have any direct connection to these retrophiles.

• 2007 — Nairne Holtz, The Skin Beneath, Insomniac Press (2007), →ISBN, page 159:

  A pair of chunky leather sandals from the '60s complete her retrophile look.

• 2011 — David Kipen, "Introduction", in Los Angeles in The 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels, University of California Press (2011), →ISBN, page xxix:

  Idea bin for historical novelists, iffy crib sheet for fact-checkers, God's gift to narrative historians, Los Angeles in the 1930s is a wayback machine for retrophile Angelenos everywhere.