Check out my post #49 - I echo the same thoughts. I was coming of age in the late 1970s and got in on the “fern bar” scene just as it was ending. But I remember when men used to blow dry their air just like the girls, drink daiquiris and even some of us wore platform shoes and such (with our leisure suits). I mention that only because I see so many comments here about how sissified boys are these days. Back in my high school in the 1970s, you had a much harder time telling the boys apart from the girls, especially from behind.
Yes!!
I wasn’t sure how I came up with the term fern bar, I know I heard my older sibs use it as a sort of an insult. My oldest brother was a punk rocker artist (now hard core right winger, as I think a lot of original punks became) and my sister was just a weirdo. I went from metal head/new waver to hard core rightie as well (runs in the family.)
But even as New wave as I was, I go nuts when I hear Boz Scaggs and The Eagles.