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| pamie, arliss howard, reviews, 1979 in sports, sweet, arab, americanhistory x, susan vidler, aroundthe bend, moroccian, russell means, | L: That's a phenomenon that when I've noticed since the mid-80's, would that be the indicator of when the Window of Ugliness for diners closed? K: I think it really closed when in the mid-70's, when the Window of Ugliness for all sorts of things from the 50's closed. I can remember as a small child when in the mid-60's, sitting in the back of my parents' car and seeing cars from the mid-1950's, ten year-old cars driving by and thinking that their huge tailfins were the most hideous thing I had ever seen in my young life. I couldn't even bear to look at them; they burned my eyes with their ugliness. And then in 1973 the movie American Graffiti came out. Now, American Graffiti was actually set in 1962 but really, in terms of the popular perception it was seen as being about the 1950's. |
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| K: I think it carries over into every part of the culture. I mean, look at the whole phenomenon of the "diner", for example, which had a lifecycle starting around, oh I don't know, the first World War when they evolved out of lunch carts, and then a period of ascendancy where they spread americanhistory x all over. Then diners peaked some time in the late 50's, and then they became less popular and went into a decline. At that point, people started to see them as americanhistory x ugly, no longer fitting their contemporary standards of beauty, and they entered a period which I would call their Window of Ugliness. And then eventually, lo and behold, this sense of ugliness began to wane, and they came to be seen as beautiful, as "classic" - and by that point the Window of Ugliness for diners was shut. And then you even had this phenomenon of the "neo-diner," so around Times Square for example, there are a few of these classic 50's-style diners which are actually brand new, and you walk in and everything is faux 50's, everything is chrome, the waitresses are dressed in mini skirts and it's clearly understood to be a classicist revival of the "idea" of a diner. |
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