Posted on 07/05/2021 9:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude
I was just sitting in a Cub's parking lot waiting for my wife. It seemed there was an endless parade of what I would call freaks-- girls with blue hair and pierced noses, men with dreadlocks and huge inserts into big holes in their ears, women covered with nasty tattoos. You know what I mean.
I realize there has always been unusual people, but if you were alive before the 1960's, do you remember if there was a concept of trying to make one look as idiotic as possible?
“...multi-colored hair”
Jen Psaki and SloJo quarrel over his portions.
I think it started with the “punk” scene. In the mid 70’s the UK instituted a requirement that you must be “looking for work” to stay on the dole and if you refused a job offer you’d get kicked off.
The trick was to look “freaky” enough that no one would want to hire you.
Maynard G. Krebs,
I remember His four Letter
Word. It was ‘WORK!’
Yes - they were called ‘beatnicks’
In the Eighties there were the Preppy and Yuppie looks. We used to joke our kids dressed better than we did. The decline started with men wearing an earring in the early Nineties (yes we laughed at how silly that looked), then came tattoos, and then everything went to hell. Men looked like slobs and girls looked like hookers, full of tattoos and piercings.
Pink shirts.
That's probably why all the freaks of today are freaks -- LOOK AT MEEEEE!
(Dark) pink shirts were originally part of the officer’s uniform in the Army Air Corps in World War II.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-ww2-uniform-pink-dress-shirt-485421314
They were worn as a variant of the standard Army Pinks & Greens uniform which had a khaki shirt.
Brooks Brothers later popularized the wearing of pink dress shirts.
We only saw them on TV - usually some news report on something going on in California.
There were zero freaks at our school-unless you count people in boots and cowboy hats-and the hats were left in the truck.
Prior to 1960 the only place you saw freaks was at the side show of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Been around since 1940. I don’t remember “freaks” as described up through the 50’s. There were plenty of WW2 ex-GI’s with solitary bicep tatoos, and what I refer too as “Fonzi” or James Dean type punks and toughs. Leather jackets, low riding jeans, hobnail boots, duck’s ass haircuts etc. The closest thing these days would be Hell’s Angel etc bikers. Plenty of beatings, fist fights and general roughness but very, very rare shootings, stabbings etc. A “freak” in those days would have probably been humiliated if not beaten into conformity. It was an era when young men as a generalization were deeply into cars, sports and wait for it...girls! Overwhelmingly though, everyone male and female were “normal” as could be. That all changed in the 60’s.
10 years after...
Like Maynard G Krebs? To him, work was a 4 letter word. 😀
Bingo.
The difference between today’s freaks and those in 1he 1930s & 1940s & 1950s were that back then, even the freaks loved America and welcomed and observed the protection of Constitutional freedoms & liberties ...
Many many thousands of those “freaks” fought & died for their country in WWII & Korea...
Things/freaks didn’t go into the dumper until the 1960s when the “hate America” religion was established under the auspices of the U.S. communist party...
That “old” America is now over and the lights have gone off...
Now, we call it college.
ref: alive before the 1960’s.
There were no hippies in the 50’s.
Beatniks and gypsies. The hippie
“thing” didn’t happen until the
Vietnam war.
The Beatnik culture was almost
exclusively confined to larger cities.
and they really weren’t protesters
against the status quo. They just
didn’t want to run with the “stuffed
shirt” crowd.
If you had an indoor job back then,
it was always with a white shirt and
tie. This even included pin setters
at a bowling alley.
‘greasers’ (white t-shirts and levis),
(think Fonzi), were the very first
entity that actually were in protest,
though mildly compared to todays’
standards, against what society deemed
acceptable. Of course, all of this
gleaned from my memory as a 6 year
old growing up in Indiana.
I thought that was why San Fagsicko was created/made (with Nude Yawk right behind it).
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