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  1. MikeKardec

    New Radio Drama

    We did a number sort of "old style" ... then started shying away from it whenever the subject matter seemed to require a different approach. I started thinking my old work was a bit too cartoony and working on tape was slow and limiting. Always tempted to try it again but we were also doing a...
  2. MikeKardec

    American Accents in the Golden Era

    While I went to college with a couple of Canadian girls who "abooted" to a laugh out loud extent ... none of the guys laughed, however, because they were breath-takingly beautiful. Women might not have treated them so gently. My Dad (from a French Canadian family) grew up in North Dakota, a...
  3. MikeKardec

    New Radio Drama

    Here's a couple of scenes from the show I'm hoping to complete this year. This is a tentative mix and we are still waiting for the music to be written. The title is The Diamond of Jeru and the story takes place in Sarawak in 1955. Sarawak was/is on the north coast of Borneo and at the time...
  4. MikeKardec

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    This thread has evolved at a wonderful rate ... but too fast for me to both work and keep up with it, so I won't try. I will leave you all by recommending, over and over, "Generations" by Strauss and Howe. It's like the Quick Reference to everything you are talking about including how one era...
  5. MikeKardec

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I like this description. If you want to sell one message, either politically or commercially, you use "The Fifties" ... a message of American expansion, confidence, the values of a large (usually European) middle class who are somehow supported by industry. It's a fun America where things...
  7. MikeKardec

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Around 2003 I interviewed an actress who became a famously sexy starlet in the mid 1950s (She will remain anonymous for our purposes). It was really remarkable to watch her tie herself in knots trying to both live up to her sex pot image and, at the same time, show how innocent a little 1950s...
  8. MikeKardec

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I do remember going to a Mid Century exhibit of some sort at the LA County Art Museum. Amongst furniture and clothes and an Avanti Studebaker there was a photograph of a very modern house in the Palm Springs area with huge plate glass windows opening onto a nearly infinite distance. I thought...
  9. MikeKardec

    Urban Alienation

    I think if I really knew what I was driving at I wouldn't be asking. I thought I was seeing the edge of a theme or a pattern ... or a genre. I'm most interested in it in fiction but there really seemed to be a powerful expression of the same thing in art too. Maybe a sense that cities had...
  10. MikeKardec

    Urban Alienation

    There is a strange genre in fiction and art and maybe other areas, which I have never known the name of, or even if it has a name. My take on it is vague but I find it very intriguing. Think classic Edward Hopper or George Tooker (do a google search if you don't know him!). Much of the...
  11. MikeKardec

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    It feels to me like a lot of this is how different cultures, within the American mainstream, moved through different time periods. People tend to get stuck in the mentality of times when they feel powerful or "right." A nice example, since we are on this particular subject, might be Paul...
  13. MikeKardec

    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    Too right. Another great aspect of Strauss and Howe's book "Generations" is tracking the trajectory of attitude through an entire lifetime. Great reference even if a bit simplified. On the travel side, however, there were a great number of young men who traveled the country following the...
  14. MikeKardec

    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    My comments to the effect of -- "No more Terra Incognita. No more blank space on the map. The end of anonymity, privacy, the limits of freedom." -- were more about the closing of a frontier of freedom, worldwide casualness, that existed in the era before WWII rather than truly something...
  15. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    The book has a pretty wide variety of stuff in it although it is only one writer. And it is not for a moment supposed to represent the entirety of anything, thank god ... I'm struggling just to make sense of what I've got. I just happened to post about the particular material that I found odd...
  16. MikeKardec

    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    I don't know about the Golden Era but, for me, something PROFOUND ended with the Apollo 17 mission and the "Blue Marble" photograph. Not only was it our last real trip into real outer space but that picture is SO depressing. No more meaningful space program, we hit the limit of what was...
  17. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    A great idea! Though it's scary to think that is much like today. Actually, now that you mention it I am remembering the tone as well as the text of a lot of old ads and it's already illuminating. Will do!
  19. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    "weasel-attack pulps" Okay, you cracked me up again! A much better name than "Sweat Pulps." I had forgotten that "I The Jury" was out so early. It makes sense that the fads would cycle through, allowing the old icons to move out of public consciousness and the new ones to come in. I've...
  20. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    I get the women taking over the workforce aspect and think it is a part but it seems to me there's more to it ... but, of course, I don't know what or I wouldn't be writing this. I even suspect that it had something to do with the war but this whole trend doesn't seem to have shown up until six...
  21. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    "Estrogen Souffles," This is me ... ... ... ... Screaming with laughter! Perfect.
  22. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    I am editing a book that contains a lot of 1950s fiction and I'm constantly running up against an aspect of the popular culture of that era that has intrigued me for many years. It seems to me that there was a fundamental shift in men's and women's perception of themselves and each other around...
  23. MikeKardec

    Vintage or Modern Radio Drama Recommendations?

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