About KoHoSo

KoHoSo was born in 1965 in a small log cabin hospital somewhere in the backwoods of Lexington, Kentucky.

After having lived in several different states and too many cities to even begin to list, KoHoSo currently lives in Crestline, California located in the San Bernardino Mountains. He now owns his own house that he shares with his wife Miss KoKo, their dog Oreo, and their cats Blue, Sam, and Alexei (all are rescues).

KoHoSo’s most noteworthy previous occupation was as a member of the radio industry, both on and off air. He has also worked in television production, sales, cooking, medical bill auditing, the satellite TV industry, and office management along with many other so-called "menial" jobs. This also gives KoHoSo a unique perspective as he has seen how many business operate from both the bottom and the top. Since December 2010 after being out of work for almost two years in the wake of The Great Recession, KoHoSo now works as a sales manager in the electronic components field in Diamond Bar.

KoHoSo first got online in 1998 with an old WebTV box and took to the Internet and computing like a duck to water. Within months, he had learned HTML and built his first website, "Uncle Fry’s WebTV Radio Links" which was wildly successful as almost one-quarter of all of that service’s subscribers visited it at least once. After getting a personal computer for the first time in 2001, he is now fully proficient in the areas of online security and even builds his own computers. He has also built several other successful websites over the years, both personal and for business. KoHoSo is a proud proponent of GNU/Linux and all open-source programs but keeps full tabs on Microsoft Windows to help his many friends that find themselves stuck in Bill Gates’ digital version of Hell.

On KoHoSo's politics...circumstances have moved dramatically since the first version of this explanation was written back in 2005. As attempting to explain would result in needing a whole other page if not a full section of this website, please let this gif explain.

Aside from Internet pursuits, KoHoSo’s main hobby is collecting music of almost all types. His love of music is reflected on this site at the Radio page where almost anything outside of the current Top 40 can be found and streamed.

About the Retro/Vintage Stuff

Now posting his extensive collection of curated retro/vintage/Americana mainly on Pillowfort, KoHoSo’s 1965 starting point is in many ways an odd one as it makes him neither a Baby Boomer nor a full part of Generation X. His early years living in the Commonwealth of Kentucky also gave him a unique perspective as he lived in the big, modern city of Louisville but traveled to see relatives in the eastern part of the state where a lot of things had not changed in many years or, in some cases, many decades. It was during those times and travels that KoHoSo began to realize he often liked the way "old" things looked over newer designs. KoHoSo does not live in the past but certainly likes to visit it and take others along on the journey.

As for the Retro/Vintage posts themselves, these can range from old photographs, new photographs of old commercial buildings or other such points of interest, magazine advertisements, postcards, and other similar items. This material is posted for any number of reasons including enjoyment of the design, personal fond memories, longing for a more carefree time in history, and humor.

The intent of these posts — beyond the prime directive of just having fun — is two-fold. First, it is KoHoSo’s goal to sift through the many sites devoted to various types of retro/vintage material and present his favorites, especially items that have not been seen elsewhere over 9000 times already. Second, it is to make sure those that do the yeoman’s work in scanning and photography are fully and properly credited for their work (even if the author creates a derivative of it) in the hope that his followers will visit the originating sites and find even more things to enjoy. On occasion, KoHoSo will also post original photographs and scans from his own collection of books, magazines, stickers, and fliers.

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