I started this blog to write about things I enjoyed or remembered from my youth. I hoped to combine several bits of information from various sources and make one solid article where EVERYTHING is in ONE place. Sure, it makes some really long articles sometimes, but I hope you can easily find what you need in a one-stop-shop type right here at YesterYear Retro.
I don't consider myself a "saint" for writing here, like those who post "how-to" videos on YouTube, but I hope that, in some way, my articles can help you find that long-lost memory you've been looking for.
One of the biggest topics I wanted to cover right out of the gate was Nick-At-Nite's Block Party Summer. It was such a big deal to me as a kid, and nobody had assembled an exhaustive history and guide. Up to that point, it required the most research I'd done since college and several weeks of putting it all together, but when it was completed, I was shocked that my little website was the number one search in Google for Nick-At-Nite's Block Party Summer.
It's since fallen a few pegs down from "first" as the "newness" of my article has worn off and been replaced by Instagram and TikTok posts. Still, I'm just delighted to be one of the top articles people see looking for their favorite summer marathon!
This article represented so many summers from my childhood and so many hours of great classic television. Television that I spent watching with Dad, as we laughed into the night so hard, as I often say, that Granny could hear us next door!
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Thank you, Saint Jeff, for all the interesting articles you write and post here. I find them both entertaining and depressing because reading your articles brings back many fond memories from my younger days while also constantly reminding me about how old I am.
ReplyDeleteYou say your articles aren’t as helpful as the “how to” videos are, but I literally used your postcard article to help map out parts of my family’s cross country road trip last year. Without your article our route would have looked very different, because I honestly could not find anything remotely as informative about those things anywhere else on the internet.
Thank you also to Saint Nick (the follow.it guy, not Santa Claus) for the email notifications that let me know when Saint Jeff is posting sneaky Friday updates.
Sorry I'm late responding to this, I've spent some time away from the site to recharge a bit while I write during my off-time. I'm hardly a Saint, but thank you anyway. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for reading this site weekly. The site turns 5 years old in October!
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