A Nostalgic Look at Mail Ships, Lost Hotels, Classic Cars, and Drive In Cinemas

By R. Paul Stevens

I'm nostalgic for things past...life moves so quickly and not always for the better. I reminisce about pipes, hats, hotels, flying boats,mail boats, and stamps. Enjoy!

[Article - 1500 words]

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Paul Stevens
• Release date: Jan 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301491940

R. Paul Stevens

R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.

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A Nostalgic look at Mail Ships, Drive In Cinemas, Classic Cars, and Lost Hotels

Look, I’ve lived long enough to be nostalgic about certain things. As life goes on, it leaves phases, customs, habits and norms in its wake, and often not for the better. Only the other day I remarked to my wife how rare it is to see a man smoking a pipe anymore. Of course smoking isn’t good for you, and that’s maybe a good thing, but at one stage pipes were very fashionable and now they have all but disappeared, though cigarette smoking is still going strong. Another thing that has disappeared almost entirely is men’s hats. A hat used to be a key fashion accessory for a man. Nowadays, it’s quite rare to see anyone on their way to the office wearing a hat. It’s out of fashion. At what point did that happen? You can’t quite pin it down, one day all us men were wearing hats, then the next day suddenly all the hats disappeared. Or was it a gradual decline into hatlessness? I can’t be sure. Nowadays maybe it’s