days of yore

As if to punctuate his nostalgia, Lowe makes an explicit nod to the Beatles and those days of yore, singing, “last night I said these words to my girl.”

Players still live with host families, and many work as camp instructors to earn extra money, but they aren’t placed in summer jobs like the days of yore, when Buck Showalter, who hit .434 for Hyannis in 1976, worked as a short-order breakfast cook and cleaned fences at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, and Albert Belle — known as Joey then — worked as a gas station attendant while playing for Chatham in 1986.

It was straight out of the rom-com marketing days of yore.

Each elevator is like a wee Jules Verne time machine taking paying guests from the unrelenting modernity at ground level to the glamorous days of yore preserved in the upstairs bar, an experience complete with vintage cocktails.

From days of yore, Christopher Isherwood’s “Prater Violet” — a romantic yet stinging mix of the personal and the professional — is a longtime favorite, while Moss Hart’s “Act One,” although about a life in the theater, epitomizes every young artist’s journey from innocence to experience.