Who says getting old means dentures, diapers and nursing homes? Take your Alzheimer’s, hearing aids, Clappers and shove it. Most baby boomers know by now that Shangri-La is all in the mind. For those that have reached enlightenment during the radical decades, the fountain of youth is just beginning to flow when most people are ...
They’ve been around so long, adorning the front yards of American homes for over half a century, that we’ve grown to take them for granted. Because they’re such an iconic part of American pop culture, we never stop to think – where did the plastic pink flamingo come from? In the 1950s, there was a ...
At Counter Culture Vintage Store at 2702 Main Street in Dallas they meld art, fashion, and music into grunge wear. This location is the exclusive Dallas retailer for popular vintage collection by Dust Factory. Counter Culture was said to have “come out of its Deep Ellum closet.” Since 2000 retro fashion seekers have been more ...
If you’re driving down Highway One north of San Francisco don’t look for the road sign to Bolinas, California, because this quirky coastal hamlet is the only California municipality without a road sign to lead you to from the highway to the city limits. There used to be a sign that said “Bolinas, 2 miles;” ...
Vintage clothing stores in Dallas, Texas are a great place to find one of a kind vintage pieces. Vintage clothing store in Dallas, Texas are filled to the brim with clothing and accessories from the entire 20th century. Vintage clothing is a great way to take an existing wardrobe and completely change it on a ...
The 1960s were a time of political upheaval and international as well as domestic tensions that led to artistic experimentation in every genre of media. The decade is the marker for what many call the “end of innocence” in the United States. The 1960 wasn’t necessarily the birth of irony, cynicism, and satire in American ...
The Hippy Counter-Culture is “a culture so radically disaffiliated from the mainstream assumptions of our society that it scarcely looks to many as a culture at all, but takes on the alarming appearance of a barbaric intrusion”, and starting in 1960’s that is exactly what it was.(Roszak, 42) In a time where technology and machines ...
The roots of the monumental counter-culture movement extend back as far as 1963, when President Kennedy’s assassination first began to alienate American youth from the government. After Kennedy was murdered, the ideas of conspiracy and government cover-ups gripped America. As mentioned before, the media had a great deal of power during this time, partially because ...
