Posted on 07/05/2021 9:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude
That is one freaky movie.
Agreed.
I remember my Mom wouldn’t go to the grocery store without putting on makeup and a nice dress first. And brushing her hair.
Now? If we’re lucky, most of the women will be wearing SOMETHING.
Yes and my Momma got up in the morning before most of us and dressed for the day. I never once saw her in a “housecoat”. She was always pressed and dressed for the day in not less than a starched blouse and pants. The pants were dressed down from my younger years when she always wore a 50s A-line skirt and blouse.
I wore cutoffs and no shirt to town one day to get a part. When I got home that was the last time I ever did that.
I’m nearly 70 now, Momma is not here anymore. I still dress to go to town even if I am out working and need to get a part in memory of and respect for Momma. She grew up dirt poor but her Momma always saw to it that all 12 children were pressed and dressed in public. It was a matter of dignity.
ya... long hair... now a days, it isnt just stepping out of the norm. it is all about who get get more attention for their asinine self mutilation. IOWs, look how fkng retarded I am!! and the colored hair... 10 or 15 years ago, the strawberry hair coloring was a lure for stupid little white girls used to attract black guys. but over the years that morphed into multi colors for no other purpose than the attention seekers as stated above...
Amen. It is like my Mom used to tell us: “We might not have money but we can afford soap!”
Hoods were definitely my first role model. They carried combs.
The “beat” in The Beatles comes from “beatniks”. The “nik” in beatniks comes from “Sputnik” (as in commie).
I remember them fondly. Especially the speech by the principal of the More Science High. “Eat it raw!”, Yeah that’s the spirit “rah, rah rah”!
“Hey! Look! It’s Left-tenant Behind of the Seventh Seal Cavalry! What’s up, Left-tenant?”
“We ain’t. Got any more of that loco-weed?”
“Sure! Have some!”
“Oooh...!!! Which way did we go???”
“Ya went back thataways!”
[Sounds of bugles, jangling spurs, and neighing, galloping horses played backwards.]
Weren’t they also responsible for “Porgie tire biter”? And “don’t touch that dwarf, hand me the pliers.”?
What we call “the ‘60’s” and have talked about ever since, was actually an MKultra psyop. For example, did you know that there was an individual who showed up in LA in 1961 who is recognized as the first hippie? His name was Vito Paulekas and he referred to himself as a hippie/freak. He and his half nekkid dancing girls had close ties to Zappa, the Doors and many other dwellers of Laurel Canyon. Search for him on internet or youtube. Check-out, “Weird Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon” by Dave McGowan. Paulekas and his half nekkid dance troupe was the real attraction at the Whiskey a go go. The ‘60’s were not what we’ve thought.
I don’t remember hearing “freak” being used until the early ‘70s. It could have begun with The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic which dates back to 1968, but who knows if the artist came up with the name himself or not. It might have started on the east coast and then worked its way out here to California.
“Cool” is a much older term, dates back at least to the beatnik era and probably jazz culture before that. IIRC you can hear Bob Denver’s Maynard G Krebs using it as slang in Dobie Gillis.
“Hippie” I think was something Time Magazine came up with circa summer of 1967. A neologism based on “hip”, another allegedly beatnik favorite. Break out a copy of On The Road or Naked Lunch to see what Kerouac and William S Burroughs used. Or maybe Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”.
Good find. 1967. Maybe Zappa kick started “freak out”
Who was a good friend of the Reagans.
They were!
Beatniks and hippies
Our country was put together by men who used biblical principles.
I’ve said running this country shouldn’t be impossible if the leadership did the right thing. Problem has been the special interest and crooked leadership
Doing the right thing is foreign to politicians ...too many to payback to be honest.
Christianity used to be revered...even if not understood. We went to church.. we were not crazy
My opinion:
TV came alive in the 50s. And with a TV audience, came all kinds of opportunities and temptations.
There were church goers and non church goers. The nons knew little to nothing about Christianity...gave it no notice.
Televangelist came on TV offering miracles and asking for money. Their ways on TV were not believed by many on both sides.
The elitism and the fakery got under the skin of so many.
The reverence was gone.
Jane fonda was in the news.. Viet Nam was in the news. And TV Evangelists were on the news.
It takes only a drop to start the dripping.
Without the reverence and tolerence of our churches, that hindrance to partaking of all the rest the world offered ..that curtain was taken down
Patchouli was used to cover up the marijuana smell.
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