The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s

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The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s

1John5918
Déc 8, 2023, 11:53 pm

Obviously he is not over sixty, but we over sixties may remember elements of this lifestyle!

The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s (BBC)

Callum Grubb is only 19 but he lives his life as if it is the 1940s. Nearly everything he owns is from the time period, including his clothes. The teenager drives a black 1938 Austin Cambridge, only uses a telephone from the 1940s, and rides a 1952 Raleigh bicycle... He now collects everything related to the period, such as oil lamps and a vintage record player that he uses to listen to his favourites like Vera Lynn, Anne Shelton and Frank Sinatra... However, Callum told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme - via his 1940s Bakelite rotary-dial telephone - that there is one thing from the post-war period he definitely does not do. "We don’t ration,” he says. “I like my food too much for that"...