Nostalgic objects around the world

as an American gay…. REBOOT is AWESOME!!!

I Remember Trips To Vancouver B. C..
The People Were Out of Sight in the 80s.
I would go in the Summer. Vancouver Island
is nice in the Summertime!

I've got a highly specific one for you. Vendors in Grand Forks, North Dakota sell merchandise commemorating a water tower. It was called Smiley on account of it having a smiley face painted on one side. This isn't totally unique, there's about 20 such in the US today including a new one in Grand Forks. The old one was torn down in 2010 after having been up for many years and that's the one people commemorate.

The Bon Jovi inspired haircut just makes this video better

In Ohio I feel like there is a lot of nostalgia about the sohio brand. I don’t even know what they did or if they are still around, but I always feel an odd sense of nostalgia with sohio.

UK – fairy liquid dish soap in the big white bottle.

I feel like at least a bit of Canadian kids TV rubbed off on the US, or at least those of us in border states perhaps. I live in Washington and loved Sharon, Lois, and Bram's Elephant Show as a kid.

The Canadian music producer Nicholas Craven used the 2:03 maple syrup label for a cover art for the album "Fair Exchange, No Robbery" by Detroit rapper Boldy James. I just so happen to be wearing a hoodie of that album right now

In Iceland, there's a brand of juiceboxes called Svali, and I think it was in 2020 when there was a scare about them stopping production so people started stockpiling them. I think the company that owns Svali decided to keep making them

In Mexico we have a more centralized country-wide education system. Which means that we all get the same books in the country, no matter where you lived.

The era of (spitballing) 1995-2005 books have become very iconic in this nostalgic way, because their covers werre this pretty iconic yellow with a square for an art piece depending on the grade and subject. Especially the 1st grade Reading book, which has a painting of a dalmatian with colorful spots; nowadays that dog is used for nostalgic stuff

A funny thing about the indian patriotism is that these days india actually has international brands of its own.

At my local supermarket in the Netherlands an entire there are a lot of fruit drinks from an indian brand called maaza

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With your note on American nostalgia largely being global cultural phenomena and the solo cup pattern being, it would be interesting to hear which American cultural traditions actually ARE uniquely American that those of us living here may not even realize are unique.

One thing that comes to my mind is the fact that many foreign visitors to the U.S. have shared on social media that they were excited to see yellow school buses in real life, which I think we as Americans see as so quintessential we don’t even realize they are largely a uniquely American concept. I thought that was really interesting

OMG I completely forgot about YTV! I remember when I was young they were definitely in my big 3 TV canon for the channels I watched. But along the way, I somehow forgot about them and only remembered watching TVO kids, Disney channel, Nickelodean, TreeHouse, and the like… ;-;

Man, those Dr Mario viruses are my nostalgia item.

Australian artist Callum Preston’s work is very much in the realm of Australian consumer nostalgia. The first work I saw from him was showa-style poster prints with iconic consumer products like Smiths Crisps, but he’s expanded out to have a whole art installation based on the traditional Australian milk bar (aka corner store, or ‘dairy’ for kiwi neighbours). Worth looking into. He’s recently done a whole video-store installation which represents a more general sense of nostalgia rather than being super Australia-specific.

In my home country of Colombia the so called “buseta signs” became a very nostalgic thing. They were basically the signs the old buses used to have on the windshield to tell when they were heading. They were super Colorful, packed a lot of information (they had the name of a lot of the areas, landmarks and neighborhoods they passed by) in an incredibly readable way and were done just by non professional people back in the day. They became so obiquitous in every city of the country and are even studied in modern graphic design classes. The nostalgia of finding the sign for the bus you used to catch when going to school is amazing and nowadays you can find cup holders, posters, postals and everything with them.

Look for “letreros de buses Colombia” on google.