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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat Golden Ages have you lived thru, and didn't realize it...?
...when I was a kid in the 60s, my Dad and older brother were huge jazz fans. We'd go to Newport, and hear everyone from Pops and Ellington to Coltrane and Archie Shepp--all living simultaneously with one another. Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Basie, Gillespie, Miles, Monk, Rollins, Trane, Bill Evans, Mingus, Jones/Lewis...in retrospect, it seems fabulous, a time out of legend. We took it for granted. Another thing--Science Fiction/Fantasy. Asimov--though he was relatively absent in the 60s, he was *there*--Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Arthur Clarke, Sturgeon, Leiber, van Vogt, and coming along--Zelazny, Delany, le Guin, Frank Herbert...I didn't think twice about it. They were all just *there*, every generation since SF was invented as a genre in 1926, all still active. One last one--Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, making comics history every month, doing what no one else had ever done...with a little help from Steve Ditko. This was all just the background of my childhood and youth, and I took it all for granted, not realizing it wouldn't last forever. Has anyone else lived thru similar things? And what Golden Ages are being created today, without anyone, perhaps, realizing it?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)Also, at about the same time, the Golden Age of Fashion.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and there exists a photo of me with one of those cheesy 1970s porno moustaches...
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Picture me in the 1970's
Red & White plaid polyester pants (large print) with bell bottoms and cuffs.
Braided white leather belt.
Red White & Blue suede elevator shoes.
A red T-shirt with pocket.
A pack of red & white Marlboro cigarettes in said pocket.
A white lab coat (yes, I worked in a university chemistry lab)
A full beard & 6" Afro.
That's what I wore to my on-campus interview with Lockheed Aerospace.
And they still hired me.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)I'd really like to see that.
Maybe.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Somewhere there is a picture, I'm sure of it.
Skittles
(153,180 posts)*EGREGIOUS*
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I'm on their Ten Least Wanted list.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I wasn't particularly interested in talking to them.
But something clicked. I walked out of the interview with a firm offer, a year before graduating.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)I'm thanking everyday that skinny jeans are here on this planet.
Aristus
(66,444 posts)I mean, cartoons we all know about. But the live stuff, that was extra special.
irisblue
(33,019 posts)Holy cow did times change
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Who knew those bands would kick ass 30 years later
hack89
(39,171 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Although I think those TV sitcoms from the 1970s were the best. You know the ones.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)"Rock Around the Clock"
Bill Haley & His Comets
1955
October 15 Elvis Presley plays a concert in Lubbock, Texas. Opening act is local duo Buddy and Bob, Buddy being future rock star Buddy Holly.
I am talking about what was getting air play, selling records, etc as opposed to live venues of the time.
Except....of course, that one big historic venue:
January 14 1955 In New York City, Alan Freed produces the first rock and roll concert.
Before then, radio was AM and carried all genres of music....country, and "standards" like Frank Sinatra, the Four Aces, Mitch Miller, all being played in the same hour of radio.
Elvis hit radio big time in 1956 in my town, and our world changed.
Also....Blue jeans went from hard labor workers to everybody by the late 60's, and now are worn all over the globe.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Lucy, Uncle Milty and Jack Benny.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)I was there at the Creation!
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)I Remember Mama. June Bride. Hopalong Cassidy Clarabell the Clown
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Was it on cable? Or Netflix? We must have had the VCR set to something else.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Yeah, Mad Men got it right.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)..."Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should"..."what do you want, good grammar or good taste"..."a silly millimeter longer"...I don't feel the world is a better place without them, and I don't smoke. I'm not a capital-L "Libertarian", but I've always felt a legal product should be permitted to advertise...
Aristus
(66,444 posts)and a chair. I shudder to think how many more of my patients would be smoking if cigarette commercials were still on the air.
Advertising works; it wouldn't be a billion-dollar industry if it didn't.
I've got 400-pound patients with their teeth rotting out of their heads and going blind from diabetic retinopathy because they drink Gatorade like it's going out of style. TV markets it as a health drink, and it's not. It's really bad for you. But people see toned, healthy marathon runners drinking it on TV, and think it's something they need in their nutrition plan.
Whatever the artistic or nostalgic benefits of having cigarette commercials on TV (and I'm dubious; crudely animated Flintstones in black and white isn't my idea of stellar advertising...), it's a good thing that they're gone from the airwaves.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Cigarettes are nasty filthy things, but the advertising slogans, in spite of bad grammar, were top notch.
Think small was my favorite slogan for any product, any time.
goldent
(1,582 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)I'd walk a mile for a Camel.
Chesterfield, not a cough in a carload.
Willy the Penguin says "Smoke Kools!"
LS/MFT: Lucky Strikes Means Fine Tobacco!
Lucky Strike: So round, so firm, so fully packed.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)have never smoked; I just know lots of commercials!)
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)It started, I believe in the 90s.
Kaleva
(36,328 posts)Skittles
(153,180 posts)yes indeed
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... I was too young to appreciate what was going on around me.
-- Mal
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Florencenj2point0
(435 posts)I didn't appreciate them then but I do now!
"Dancing Queen, young and clean only seventeen"
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)mike in raleigh
(59 posts)Was a golden age on multiple levels. You could go to college without your parents taking out a second mortgage; a state university cost $2000 a year in the mid seventies and a prestige school like Harvard, Stanford or Duke cost $5-6000 a year.
Housing was cheap, heck, some places had 1 bedrooms for less than $100 a month.
Popular music took off in all kinds of different directions; Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Funk, Disco, etc.
Hi-fi became mainstream and everybody bought fancy stereo systems, vinyl was king and when you bought your new belt or direct-drive turntable, you learned the difference between elliptical and Shibata styluses.
Sex was free and easy, and we didn't worry about anything that Penicillin couldn't cure (though in retrospect, maybe we should have).
KentuckyWoman
(6,690 posts)Living independent from my parents then required someone else living with me making at least a similar wage as is still does.
Looking back.... I do wish I'd made more of that "free and easy sex" but unfortunately there were not offers.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)They were so cool that no one could even imagine them ever going out of style.
and before that the hair teasing dos for women. Beehives!!
FSogol
(45,521 posts)This is also the golden age for beer drinkers, the fans of comic book movies, and Sherlock Holmes.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Missed out on both of them. Regret it to this day.
KentuckyWoman
(6,690 posts)and his "rasslin" show.
And I wish that were not so....... but can't divorce a good man just because he likes WWE.
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)meow2u3
(24,768 posts)...in the '60's.
The heyday of the sitcom in the '70's. All in the Family, Maude, the Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, etc. They all were hysterically funny and dead on.