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Ah, lighten up a little!
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
I agree with you 100% that it wasn't all like that; after all,
people were living ordinary lives while pursuing the American dream. It
was a great time to live, but never as glamorous as in the movies.
Myself, I like vintage pix of cars on Route 66 at all the
tourist traps. Though that was also not typical of everyday life it is
representative of what got us kids excited on road trips.
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56
Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:33
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 1957 FURY, ROCK AND
ROLL AND HAPPY DAYS ON E BAY
This is the contrived schlock that really turns me off about
old cars and the drones that make this stuff popular.
Happy Days ?
Rock-n-Roll ?
Just add bobbi-soxin' carhops and poodle skirts and you got
yourself a fantasy stew of incohesive elements that *might* have represented
.1% of the 50's experience to .1% of the population. I just love the hot
pink and toothpaste splashes to round out that 1980's vision of "the good old
days". Maybe a neon flamingo could be included ? Oh, ... I
forgot. THEY DID !!!!
Barf !
How many really great photos are out there of vintage street
scenes with the *right cars* doing what they did in 1957 or 60 ? I have
seen countless photos like this. Why do commercial artists candy up
these trite images of emotional punch when such great images already exist
? That's right .... emotional punch. What better way to pry
dollars out of the wallet than play the emotional card of fantasy - 1950's
fantasy - and get fuzzy brained dreamers to buy the nothingness of a
nonsensical rendering of someone's conglomeration of iconic images ?
Few things get me excited like vintage photos showing Uncle
Ed and Auntie Edna posing in the drive with their new 58 Dodge, or a simple
street scene with Grandma Pittipoo returning from an errand sortee in her
finned grocery-gitter. But this cartoon stuff ?
C'mon folks, .... you got good enough taste to know a great
car when you see one. Know bad art when you see that too, OK ?
*sigh*
B.
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