Stuck in a timewarp

Just wondering if this is normal for many people.

For example, my dad is always listening to 50s music and wont listen to anything else. 50s music is all about teenagers having crushes in each other and wanting to be married. The. he will go on an on about trams public transport system which dont exist anymore, they got scrapped in 1956.
Anything past 1964 he doesnt really want to know, and then talks about people who lived before that as if everyone should know about them and remember them.

Its very hard to get through when someones stuck on Bing Crosby or Doris Day or whoever got number one on the billboard charts in 1958. Or maybe its just my dad?

I certainly dont remember every chart position of any hit singles in the 80s and 90s and go round listening to them all the time. Even with books I dont keep track of what was the number one best seller. I wonder if maybe this is kind of on the spectrum as people say but maybe lots of older people do this not just my dad. Maybe the 50s music and that postwar era is the epitome of time and I was born too late to really appreciate it. lol

maybe your dad wants to remain living in the past .... ?

any idea why tho? He kinda forgets that everyone else did not grow up at the same time he did. I mean obviously not but why keep assuming that everyone is the same age as you? I dont do that with children!

i don't know your dad, so i cant really speculate.
i like remembering the 80s which is the decade i was born in, because for me, the 90's absolutely sucked.
then the 2000s were questionable.
and now the 2010s have been.
what will the "spirit of the age" be for the 2020s.
for me, few things in life are now guaranteed.
maybe your dad, is dealing with things the best way he knows how; his way.
may i ask, what age your dad is?

hes in his 70s. Mum isnt like that tho and shes the same age. She doesnt look back.

did he have a mid life crisis ?
Does he have memory loss or even dementia ?

nope hes always been like that lol

have you actually discussed this with him ?

sure but you try discussing something with someone who wasnt there at the time. I often have no idea what hes talking about but he assumes I do.

A girl at my school, shes about ten years old, says HER dad is obssessed with Elvis presley, though hes been dead for years. Interesting guy sure but cant really see the appeal....hes not like Jesus right? He didnt die for anyone and got resurrected and turned peoples lives around.