It's a few years back but I don't remember thinking that 95 was much different from 1970. I mean they didn't use cell phones or computers at Collinwood in 95.
No, I don't remember the ghost of Gerard/Judah using a cell phone once.
We didn't
get "futuristic" clothes in 1995, so we would all be laying into them now for doing that, if they had. They went conservative, which was right. I'd never have expected the huge changes in the culture in 1970 to slow down to a crawl and even reverse themselves in some cases, but they did. We still have pretty traditional looking suits.
The whole town seems sort of traumatized, and having it as an isolated backwater cut off from changes in the world seems appropriate. The new time line probably has a livelier and trendier 1995 Collinsport, for better and worse.