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L: That's a phenomenon that 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 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 in the mid-60's, sitting in the back of my wallpapers parents' car and seeing cars from the mid-1950's, ten year-old cars driving by and thinking that wallpapers their huge tailfins were the most hideous thing I had ever seen wallpapers 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. At that point you had had about a decade since the Window of Ugliness for stuff from the 50's opened, and now it closes. And suddenly those cars were beautiful. And I remember being surprised by that realization as a kid, "Oh, cars from the 50's are beautiful after all!"
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