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No, not the actual 1950s, not Jonas Salk and Faye Emerson and "I will go to Korea" and Dave Garroway and Elfrida Von Nardroff and King Size Coke and Jackie Gleason and Estes Kefauver and chlorophyll chewing gum and Tom Rath and Adlai Stevenson and "let's hopscotch the world for headlines" and Orval Faubus and Billy Graham and "Keep The Dodgers In Brooklyn." Not the fifties most Americans experienced and remembered. I'm talking about "The Fifties" -- you know, ducktail haircuts and leather jackets and poodle skirts and grease is the word is the word is the word. What most people today think of when somebody says "The Fifties."
Ever wonder just when *that* image of "The Fifties" became *the* image of "The Fifties?" Here's an interesting bit of scholarly analysis that suggests the entire modern cult of "The Fifties" owes itself to a group of Columbia University a capella singers who one day in 1969 decided to do their act a little differently. Interesting food for thought on just how cleverly a bit of marketing can change the entire mass perception of an era.
Ever wonder just when *that* image of "The Fifties" became *the* image of "The Fifties?" Here's an interesting bit of scholarly analysis that suggests the entire modern cult of "The Fifties" owes itself to a group of Columbia University a capella singers who one day in 1969 decided to do their act a little differently. Interesting food for thought on just how cleverly a bit of marketing can change the entire mass perception of an era.