Citations:retrophile

Noun: "one who loves that which is from or characteristic of the past"

 * 1992 — Sandra Crockett, "On the music charts, Details magazine rates Baltimore at the top", The Baltimore Sun, 18 June 1992:
 * Top Cat Record and Novelty Shop, 2001 W. Pratt St., is described as "heaven for retrophiles" and "best place to cadge a 7" of the Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster."
 * 1993 — Scott Wilson, "Button up your overcoat . . . make that overcoats", The Baltimore Sun, 21 October 1993:
 * Three-quarter-length coats -- intended to be worn over business attire -- are already all the radically chic rage among Europe's retrophiles.
 * 1996 — Marina Pisano, "Everything old is cool again", San Antonio Express-News, 10 November 1996:
 * As retrophile Ryan Parker, a 22-year-old graphic artist, puts it, "It's anything that's old and cool. Like James Dean is cool. And Brando. I'm not consciously going out trying to look like them, but - whatever."
 * 1999 — Jennifer Wilson, "Tomorrowland", Los Angeles Magazine, December 1999:
 * We wager that even the retrophiles on your gift list will be taken by these thoroughly modern material goods.
 * 2004 — Brian M. Wiprud, Pipsqueak, Bantam Dell (2004), ISBN 0440241871, page 155:
 * You don't know firsthand that the dead woman on your stoop was Marti Folsom, and even if you did, that doesn't have any direct connection to these retrophiles.
 * 2007 — Nairne Holtz, The Skin Beneath, Insomniac Press (2007), ISBN 9781897178393, page 159:
 * A pair of chunky leather sandals from the '60s complete her retrophile look.
 * 2011 — David Kipen, "Introduction", in Los Angeles in The 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels, University of California Press (2011), ISBN 9780520268838, page xxix:
 * Idea bin for historical novelists, iffy crib sheet for fact-checkers, God's gift to narrative historians, Los Angeles in the 1930s is a wayback machine for retrophile Angelenos everywhere.