If you really want to spike up new intrest in an old breed than you new to get and stay fresh.

This means that people get tired and board of hearing about the same old dogs and same old dogmen.
Just as there are many new dogmen and women now since the 1970's so are there new dogs and new stories.
These are not the same dogs from the 2000's, just like they are not the same dogs as the 1990's and not like those of the 1970's and just like those are the same as the 50's and so n.
Just because you have some old dogs in your pedigrees in no way mean you have those old dogs or that bloodline when it has been crossed mixed and blended with other families.

The family are different. Those in the past are just ingredients in the new dogs. Allot of families of dogs today are more of the different breeders who put them together than the old head who get credit for them.
Don't be scared to be different. Dogs are based on the dogs you feed the old dogs from the past they come down from especially when it's many not just 1 or 2.
That's what we called peddlers talk. Claiming something in way in the back that's famous and ignoring those up close no one heard of.
I'm glad I came up with people who did not care about the old famous names and bloodlines in the back of the pedigrees but focused on the new dogs in the front of the pedigrees.

Their dogs were literally their dogs. And we had better conversations on dogs we seen and not stories about dogs we never seen.

Don't be scared to change with the times. You are tomorrow's history.