Forward to the past, or 9 examples of how modern people are stuck in bygone eras

Someone is trying to keep up with the times, someone is in a hurry to live, and someone likes to while away the century the old-fashioned way in the entourage of bygone eras. In our review, there are nine amazing stories of people who can be said to be "stuck in the past." And it's worth noting that they don't really want to get out at the moment.

The Keenan family from Sydney still lives in the 1950s. Their house has antique appliances and furniture, which has already turned 60 years old. Their outfits and hairstyles also reflect the style of that era. Mother-of-two Pixie Keenan has been living this way for over 30 years. The 46-year-old woman was only six years old when she fell in love with the era of the 50s — then her parents took her to an Elvis Presley concert taking place in Las Vegas.

Now Pixie has her own business — Boogie Bop Dames: she conducts seminars where she talks about manners, hairstyles and makeup. She also works in a vintage photo studio, where she edits photos of clients, giving them the look of the 50s era. Her husband, 42-year-old Aron, is the lead singer of a rockabilly band. He can be recognized from afar by his sports retro-style and sideburns. In the evenings, the family goes to a local disco or has dinner at home (dinner, of course, is also themed).

Ursula Forbush, a 48-year‑old resident of Bristol, fell in love with the era of the 1960s, while still a 20-year‑old girl in the 1980s. Somehow she was sorting through her mom's record collection, after which she got hooked on The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Her obsession with the 1960s came after this music.

Soon Ursula went around flea markets in search of retro clothes. When she bought her first house, she completely furnished it in the style of the 60s. Ursula doesn't like modern things, but from a purely practical point of view, she uses a new washing machine and TV.

Michael Arenella, a jazz musician and jazz bandleader from Brooklyn, looks like he arrived from the 1920s on a time machine. Every summer he holds the annual Jazz Age Lawn Party, where he sings and plays the cornet-a-pistol. Michael not only studies music of the 20s and early 30s, but also wears the appropriate clothes of that time - hats, cufflinks and ties.

The musician has as many as seven retro autos, including a red 1930 Buick roadster, which he calls Cherry, and a 1925 Studebaker, nicknamed Tudie. Arenella wears modern clothes only when jogging.

Ray Frensham, who calls himself "the only living representative of the Victorian era," feels increasingly disconnected from the modern world. He once worked in the music business, was a screenwriter and a teacher, but now he is the coordinator of the London Society of lovers of the Victorian era. The members of the group wear exclusively the clothes of that time. Ray emphasizes that such a lifestyle has become natural for him.

Ben Sansum is fascinated by the 1940s and has spent years transforming his home into a true retro sanctuary. A British Airways flight attendant lives surrounded by furniture and household appliances that have turned 70 years old. His interest in that era began at the age of just 12 when his uncle gave him an antique radio. Since then, he has filled almost every corner of his house with antiques, and most of them came to Ben from relatives.

Because of the age of some things in the house, Ben has to make concessions to modern life. For example, Ben has an old phone, but he uses it only to receive calls, and he calls on a modern phone. It also has a modern refrigerator, a flat-screen TV and a washing machine.

Although it's already 2015 on the street, some still live in the 1950s. There is a whole community in Indiana that lives in the rockabilly style. They not only dress like in the 50s, but also drive perfectly preserved cars of that era and furnish their homes with retro furniture.

Most of the true members of the community are real specialists in repair and reconstruction. They have a sharply negative attitude to modern disposable things, which are contemptuously called "Made in China".

Like most little girls, Claire-Violet Hanley always dreamed of becoming a princess and wore long dresses. When Claire got older, she found a hobby that became the meaning of her life - the work of Jane Austen and things from the Regency era.

Hanley, 36, who works as a social anthropologist in Southampton, has more than 50 Regency dresses and knows many customs, songs and dances of those times.

Although Aaron Whiteside wears modern clothes, he literally plunges into the era of the Great Depression (1930s) every time he crosses the threshold of his house. Aaron loved this era so much from early childhood that he furnished his house in Blackpool, England, with furniture and decor from the 30s. He bought a house that had been empty for 10 years for 80,000 pounds eight years ago. Since then, Whiteside has been relentlessly scouring flea markets, real estate auctions and eBay in search of the perfect setting for his home. Now he plans to lay out a whole garden in front of the house.

Since 2012, the couple has been fascinated by the jazz era. Since then, they have been constantly wearing clothes from the 1920s and 1930s, restored the old house in which they now live, and drive a 1929 Buick sedan. And it all started with the fact that they somehow started dancing swing.