Christmas lights cover the walls and a soundtrack of old-timey jazz plays as you eat.

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Google Maps is following up last year's 8-bit maps overlay with an old-timey treasure map.

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This is partly because new organizational structures are much more fragmented and spontaneous than the old-timey factory business model.

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And who better to enforce this anti-Washington law (with its old-timey, anti-Easterner resentment) than that iconic Western figure: The Sheriff.

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The notions selection might be mass-produced, but it's useful, and adds to the old-timey aesthetic that's so hot right now.

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Ms. Fiorentino came out to play bingo because "it feels old-timey" and to support Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who owns the tea shop and in February created a monthly bingo night, led each time by a different local celebrity.

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If a full-fledged media blackout isn't feasible, then at least limit yourself to the stations that are least likely to air anything having to do with modern times: the radio stations that play big band music and old-timey radio programs.

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It's like the old-timey times.

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The product, developed in that very space, offers up a cool take on the desktop lamp, fitting it into a wooden, old timey-looking book form.

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