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Not long after his arrival in Los Angeles three decades ago, Nathan Marsak bought a 1949 Packard, the kind of car best suited for old-timey gangsters and detectives, not an architectural historian who left Wisconsin to move to the city of his dreams.

Tucker Wetmore performed on the main stage in front of a digital mock-up of an old-timey saloon complete with a mounted deer head, several American flags — and a sign advertising the canned vodka seltzer sponsoring his summer tour.

By being set in the 1920s, the land can turn on its old-timey charm, and if you’re lucky, you’ll encounter wandering street musicians and actors playing wizarding students.

What with World Tuberculosis Day this week, and the release of John Green’s new book Everything Is Tuberculosis last week, TB, which is often thought of as an old-timey disease, might seem to suddenly be a concern once again.

And wouldn't you know it, but the prescribed way to "protect" children just so happens to be giving up hopes of having a career or even much of a life outside of the home, so that women can dedicate themselves full-time to elaborate food preparation and home remedy routines for the inevitable old-timey diseases kids get when you refuse to vaccinate them.