vitanola
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Seven decade rut works for me.
Braggart.
Seven decade rut works for me.
Braggart.
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Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1932:
Then the studios executives stepped in and the hermit craze went out the window. lol lol lol
And remember, the "hermits" of the '20s and '30s were the spiritual grandfathers of the hippies.
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Blame the Santa Monica mountains. A "hermit" calling himself Kit Carson's son died in his shack there in 1902. (The culprit: a spider bite.)
Then, in 1912, this happened:
I've heard for years that style and fashion are sort of elastic, going and going back in retreading old designs and what not, and it sort of rang true when I started to see the slim cut, narrow lapel suits get really popular really fast in the last few years. The real question I am wondering is what era are we in now? Or are we in one at all?
I'd say, if the golden era was from say the 20s to the 60s, I'd start the current era in the 90s and define it by the Internet, cellphones and social media. Super connectivity is the hallmark of the modern era more than any fashion. I'd call the 70s and 80s a transition period.
You could also compare the first generation of movie "moguls" -- Laemmle, Zukor, Lasky, Mayer, Schenck, and Fox -- with the dot-com millionaires of today. It'll remain to be seen, though, if the dotcommers hang on as long as the movie titans did. It's hard to imagine Zuckerberg still holding on at age 103 the way Zukor did.
You could also compare the first generation of movie "moguls" -- Laemmle, Zukor, Lasky, Mayer, Schenck, and Fox -- with the dot-com millionaires of today. It'll remain to be seen, though, if the dotcommers hang on as long as the movie titans did. It's hard to imagine Zuckerberg still holding on at age 103 the way Zukor did.
Parallels also exist between the Internet and radio. Broadcasting in the early twenties was very much the province of the basement hobbyist, and anyone with the slightest technical bent could and did start a station. This quickly turned the airwaves into unregulated chaos, and a whole crop of charismatic crackpots like Dr. John Brinkley began taking advantage of the situation -- if Doc Brinkley were alive today, he'd be on every social media outlet there is, and email boxes would be filled with MEN! TRY GOAT GLANDS FOR GREAT SEX LIFE NOW! messages.