I asked one older (40ish) salaryman in one class why it was that so much of Japanese pop culture mimicked American culture before about 1965 or so -- same hair styles, clothing and music genre, bug ignored what was more modern and current.
His answer was profound: "We only copy what's worth copying."
I can relate to the little boy with the cowboy bling.
Now you can’t even get the incandescent light bulbs in the fixtures.
The year of my (and many other Freeper’s) birth.
Didn’t really go back far enough. Communism was getting its groove on already by this point, in preparation for the decade that destroyed America, the 60s.
If I was going to go for a period, I think I’d go 1890s.
How true! When my mother died in 2004 she still had the same toaster that I remember her having all my life. And it still worked, had a high gloss mirror like finish and toasted about a loaf of bread a day in it's hey day. My folks didn't throw away anything.
I inherited that gene. I still haven't bought a flat screen TV because the one I bought 15 years ago is still perfectly good and I can't bring myself to just toss out a perfectly good TV. Anf I's have to toss it out...Goodwill won't even take them anymore. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2543580/The-people-STILL-living-like-1951-Captivating-portraits-look-inside-Americas-Rockabilly-community.html#ixzz2rA28pYWh Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
(great place, btw)
Odd. I don’t remember seeing any Black people in those photos...
I never cared for the furniture/furnishings of the 50's/early 60's - too cold and un-inspiring to me, but my parents liked it, so much they carried it at least into the late 70's!
I prefer 30's and 40's style furniture, etc. That's the time frame I like, unless we start talking Renaissance era.....
I’ve been thinking of starting a bad of old goats like myself. Maybe I should consider Rock-a-billy.
Well-endowed women never go out of style.
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Some of the folks in those photos are really cool. Some are a tad weird, IMHO. Whatever floats your boat!
Oddly, they don’t really have the opinions of people from the 50’s, nor act in the same way, even if they’ve picked out some of the images of the 50’s.
You'd go over to some kid's house and instantly be able to tell where their dad was stationed: Weisbaden or Ramstein AFB in Germany if they had steins and shields/swords for decoration and big walnut cabinets, or Japan/Korea/Philippines if they had monkeywood chests, ceramic elephants, giant brass candleholders made from salvaged artillery shells, and the ubiquitous Shoji screens like our house had. Everything else in the house was hand-me-down 1950s furniture like what these Rockabilly people are showing in the pics from this link, because your dad's duty station could change faster than your family could acquire/ship new furniture. As a result, all this old 1950s furniture traded hands maybe four or five times between incoming and outgoing military families.
Later on, I'd go to civilians' kids houses and not see any of this stuff and wonder what that was all about.
If the rockabilly people are having a hard time finding 1950s vintage furniture, they oughtta paw around antique stores near the locations of old USAF bases, especially ones that were part of Strategic Air Command.
Here's one that I personally own-the Panasonic "Flying Saucer" TV:
How do they live without a Lava Lamp???
