50s-early 60s?

Are there any good books or websites which go in depth about the culture changes, fashion, trends, music and general society in America from around 1953 to around 1966? Like right at the very beginning of the Rock N' Roll era to right at the beginning of the Hippy Erta

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You might also like this thread for old R&B:

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=16897

The book "Populuxe" by Thomas Hine was just reprinted. It covers 1954 to 1964; aesthetics, culture, music, cars, etc. Neat book. Highly recommended!!

The author also published a companion piece about the Seventies, specifically about the children growing up in the time of "Populuxe" becoming young adults in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Look into Taschen books. I have some. They cover everything from pin-ups to automobiles to advertising to tin toys to valentines to tiki to album covers to photography to signs to hot rods (on page 3 - I have that one!) to . . .

I've linked you to their Pop Culture - All Titles page. Use the links on the left side of the page to see other titles and topics.


Lee

need a book about the sixties , heck i remember the 60s.

I was born in a time capsule, time moved very slowly, the fifties were still there in the sixties and the sixties were still there into the seventies and the eighties we moved. Culture shock just about killed me, the sixties were too me , crew cut hair dos. white t shirts and rolled up blue jeans, the greaser look. We drove studebakers, commanders, hawks, and when the local garage stopped handling studebakers my father switched to second hand buicks. The music, the tube radios, the 45 records, the westinghouse record player inthe mac tac wooden box that foled open, with the plastic insert for 45s. The glass bottles of royal cola, gingerale, remember when there was two kinds of potatoe chips, regular and salt and vingear. Looked lately, last time i was at the grocery store there was 23 kinds. The spartan tv, the new rca combo unit, with radio and phonograph record player, huge thing on spindly legs, the tv tower, on the side of the house, when the rotor failed , climbing out a second story window to move the rotor, for better adjustment for the hockey game. My father died badly in the early seventies, 73 and i dont fondly remember the seventies, so the sixties are a much happier time for me,so my love for cars, music and clothing all from 50,60 reflect that. found a ray price song, lately very early 51? should have been me, driving that cadlilac car, should have been me, driving that dyno flow, cool tunes, the diner that my friends own play all fities music, in fact a buddy holler imitator is performing friday night. problem with living in the past is that you have too pay todays prices. 59 Lark.

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MrNewportCustom said:

Look into Taschen books. I have some. They cover everything from pin-ups to automobiles to advertising to tin toys to valentines to tiki to album covers to photography to signs to hot rods (on page 3 - I have that one!) to . . .

I've linked you to their Pop Culture - All Titles page. Use the links on the left side of the page to see other titles and topics.


Lee

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Wow! Freaky! I just bought this book yesterday! I just noticed this post.

From my viewpoint, it all depends what you are looking for. For me anyway, the best way to do this is to spend the afternoon at your local college campus and look at the periodicals of the era. Maybe the focus is too close, but you can see things firsthand, rather than through the filter of a book author, plus there is always more details.

I've come into some vintage magazines lately and reading them has opened up the past for me in ways books about the past has ever done.

But that's just my two cents.

I was born in 1951 and remember the 50s and 60s like it was yesterday. From my perspective, the 1950s lasted until late 1963. Styles in cars and fashions became trimmer and simpler around 1960, but the general tone of the 1950s continued.

But after JFKs assasination, everything started to change...rapidly. By 1968, we were living in a whole new world with totally new values.

As a somewhat sheltered teenager during this transition, I was right in the middle of it all...watching the changes but not participating in them. In college, in the early 70s, I went as far as having long hair and wearing bell bottom jeans but my values were firmly rooted in the 1950s...where they still are!

It was an extremely interesting time to live through but it caused me to feel somewhat displaced in time. I felt I should have been born 20 years earlier!

Regarding the transition that occurred between 1963-68, I recently watched a PBS program on "The Sixties" that did a good job depicting this era. It may be worth seeking out.

All Elvis the Pelvis and Beatles fault. lol

I do think really that it was the assassination of JFK. I remember distinctly where I was when I heard that. I was a small child but remember it.