Friday Favorites - Retro Paris Edition

 images above by adam bartos

      Paris in the 70s - source

paris 1970 source

*Flash back to Paris in the 1960s 

*Retro Paris 1976

*A few favorite movies set in Paris:

1. Belle de Jour 
2. Bande à part
 3. À bout de souffle
4. A Little Romance
5. Charade

*An retro Paris apartment

*Dream Paris

* Vintage French Children's Furniture

* Mark Shaw's fashion photographs capture 1960s glamor

From flickr, all taken in Paris in the 1970s:

1. paris France, 2. Paris 1977, 3. Tour Eiffel, 4. Paris 1977, 5. the louvre, 6. Debbie (I think) outside the Palace of Versailles, 1973, 7. Ferry Hotel 1979, 8. 1975 Paris, 9. Avenue De Friedland, Paris, France, 10. 07 Paris 1974, 11. 23 Paris 1974, 12. 1973/10-19, 13. 1973/10-12

You're Gonna Make it After All

artwork by el lohse

Am I weird? Sometimes a tv show theme song can actually make me cry. It happens with movies all the time. When I went to see first of the new Star Wars trilogy, The Phantom Menace, I cried while the opening played. Of course, by the end of the movie I was pretty pissed at George Lucas, but that's another story.

I guess I'm overly sentimental about my childhood, but I'm not sure why. I certainly didn't have that Brady Bunch upbringing. Maybe I'm sentimental about what I wish my childhood was or maybe lines like, "you're gonna make it after all" are just so hopeful they can't help but bring me to tears.

I was too young to watch a lot of these when they were new, like Mary Tyler Moore and The Brady Bunch, but I watched a LOT of tv as a kid and the late 70s and early 80s were rerun heaven.

Some theme songs are unbelievably awful. I'm talking about (click at our own risk) The Love Boat, Eight is Enough, Alice, The Greatest American Hero , Three's Company, WKRP in Cincinnati, Family Ties to name a few.

The Waltons theme song was okay, but it really has little effect on me since I was a Little House on the Prairie girl and never watched The Waltons. Maybe because I watched about every episode of The Jeffersons, Taxi, Good Times (who's theme is awesome, by the way) and Sanford and Son they just don't have much of an emotional effect on me now. Wonder Woman, The Muppet Show and the first season of Happy Days are some of my favorite openings, but these below are the tearjerkers.
Do you have a favorite/least favorite television theme song?


Mary Tyler Moore

Laverne and Shirley


Mash (excuse the poor quality)


and, maybe my favorite of all time, All in the Family: