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?
...and John Lennon, a Mocker!
In the 50s you had beatniks that were the weirdos.
Only to ten, Jughead.
Oops,my bad, it was Ringo.
Now the freak shows are everywhere and that’s why I to avoid people as much as possible.
I am hardly Mr. Universe but have a few standards am a basic clean cut if boring and bland guy.
Early on, The Beatles wore suits and bowed after each song. The parents were horrified by them, however, because of those famous haircuts. Of course, fast forward just a few years and they did look radical, but even then, by today’s standards they were tame.
I don't know... Have you ever seen any of the pre-code movies from the early 1930s?
-PJ
I think Art Garfunkel had one.
One doesn't merely pierce one's tongue or lips to put a ring in it, or permanently discolor (and thus devalue) one's skin that doesn't have a contrary attitude that leads to it.
It is spitting at God, for all to see.
Great Greaser pix. Reminds me of growing up in the Bronx NY in the late 50’s
Yes, but they were housed in tents along the midway at the state fair. You had Lobster Boy, The Bearded Lady, The Headless Woman, Spider Lady,
The Juggler who had no arms or legs, etc.
You learn something new every day.
Used to pay to see the freak show. Ow it’s free.
White-collared conservatives, flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They’re hoping soon my kind will drop and die
But I’m going to wave my freak flag high
- “If 6 Was 9,” Jimi Hendrix, 1967
In the 70’s, if you had your left ear pierced, you were gay;
right ear straight. That was about the jest of it.
“Hippies could stink pretty bad.”
If you encountered a hippy chick, that smelled like patchouli it’s probably because she was using Patchouli to cover body odor, which is what bikers use it for and from what I’ve read the pirates used it as did cowpunchers.
BTW, we called the patchouli crowd “freaks” not hippies.
As a side note: 10 Years After:
The Beatles were a shock?
No, they were a chick band.
“We got screwed, blewed and tattooed.”
Interesting take. I always thought it was a Liberty expression.
FNG: “What did you do on liberty?”
SeaDawg: “I got screwed blue, and tattooed.
This could be a thread all on its own.
No, they were a chick band.
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I remember thinking of them as a bunch of long haired punks.
Looking back at their appearance on Ed Sullivan and they do look like a group of young though long haired but neat musicians.
Of course Ed ‘couldn’t’ show Elvis below the waist and we all ‘loved’ Johnny Mathis till (most) of us guys figured out who he may have been singing to......
“Judge said go to jail or join the Army where they set most kids straight.”
The Army set them straight? The squad set them straight... 1 or 2 blanket parties usually kept the really bad apples in line.
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