Marc Chevalier
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Cool photo! You look like a cross between Dennis Hopper and Rob Reiner.
Spitfire said:
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The Wolf said:I remember in the 90s when the seventies was making a comeback and it was the worst parts: mood rings and bell bottoms.:eusa_doh:
jamespowers said:I can live without everything done then---yes and I mean the technology too. we would have just figured it out later. Whee.
Marc Chevalier said:As far as fashion goes, the '60s and '70s have been back since the early '90s. The resurgence has lasted far longer than the '70s itself.
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Martinis at 8 said:That's because it's like a cancer going in and out of remission.
M8
Marc Chevalier said:In Chile, the '70s literally stopped on September 11, 1973. A military coup d'etat almost instantly turned back the clock to around 1950. Soldiers were ordered into the schools to forcibly cut the long hair off of boys. Jeans all but disappeared: quite a few were burned (along with books). Brylcreemed slickness was -- and still is -- the preferred look among conservatives there.
I'm not at all convinced that "figuring stuff out later" is a feasible (and good) idea. Reviving the '50s for another 16 years had a stultifying effect on Chile's intellectual, cultural and entrepeneurial life. Stagnation in excelsis.
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Spitfire said:I never hated the 70s. Had the best time of my life back then.
Marc Chevalier said:In my school in '79, seniors wore t-shirts that said "Death Before Disco" and "Disco Sucks." Then again, they also wore shirts that said "Go to H*ll, World! I'm a Senior!" Whatever.
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jamespowers said:I don't think a military coup d'etat era is a good example.
Senator Jack said:I'd have to disagree with some of the era labels listed here though. The way I see it:
1920s = 1919 (Volstead Act) to Stock Market Crash 1929
1930s = Market Crash to 1940 (I see the invasion of Poland as a definitively 30s agression, and the few months that followed a period of change as the public sorted it all out)
1940s = 1940 to VJ Day.
The Atomic Era = VJ Day to Elvis on Sullvan.
1950s = Elvis on Sullivan to Sputnik (Really, about two, three years when you think about it)
The Space Age = Sputnik to Rubber Soul
The Swinging 60s = Rubber Soul to Sgt. Pepper.
The 60s = Sgt Pepper to Watergate.
The 70s = Watergate to Iranian Hostage release.
The 80s = Reagan years
The Nobody Can Recall if Anything Actually Happened, There Might Have Been a War on but We Were All Watching Twin Peaks Era = George Bush Sr.
The 90s = Nirvana to the Dotcom Bust
The 00s = The Dotcom Bust to Nobody Recalls if Anything Actually Happened, There Might Have Been War but We Were All Watching American Idol Day.
Senator Jack
dhermann1 said:... if you didn't live through it, you couldn't understand. The retrospective view of the 50's as "fabulous" is 95% fantasy. Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley were fabulous, nothing else.
Now Senator, Who's been listening to 'We didn't Start the fire' by Billy joel?
Maj.Nick Danger said:The cars of the seventies were the worst! Designed to rot away into mulch in about 3 years,... and for the most part the styling left much to be desired.
Marc Chevalier said:Actually, it's a better example than we might think. In the early and mid '60s, an array of right-wing paramilitary groups right here in the U.S.A. advocated exactly that -- for our own country. At the same time, left-wing paramilitary groups wanted to wage their own coup d'etat -- but with their own army. Frankly, both sides were nuts.
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I think they rusted away by about 1978.Quigley Brown said:Remember the U.S. Bicentennial Editions of the Chevy Nova, Vega and Impala? They're all rusted away by now.