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jogill
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Colorado
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May 30, 2011 - 01:03am PT
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There was not a single bolt on any route in the world . . .
Don't you wish.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 30, 2011 - 01:41am PT
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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May 30, 2011 - 10:52am PT
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The 60's was the revolution awakening for all the bullshit we've been fed ...
yes, werner. but when that genie got out of the bottle, they spent the 70s pushing it back in and sealing the cork. no one misses it except those who remember it.
50s is about america's false innocence. we won the big, bad war, nothing left to do but pose as the good guys against those bad commies on the other side of the planet and start putting on weight. then vietnam came along and it all stopped making sense. then the power whores learned real fast to stop drafting white people's children.
nostalgic for the 50s? watch the truman show.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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May 30, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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I was born in the '50's. now I'm livin' 'em.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 30, 2011 - 12:57pm PT
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"Don't you wish..."--- Too funny John!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2011 - 02:03pm PT
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For a superb read on this era, I recommend "The Fifties" by David Halberstam. For that matter I recommend almost anything he has written.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifties_(book);
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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May 30, 2011 - 02:58pm PT
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Ghost, I have a chair almost identical to the one you're sitting in. So it's actually valuable? Cool. I found it in a Salvation Army store for 40.00 bucks and it is in perfect shape, all nicely recoverd.
Guess I shouldn't take it for granted!!!!
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aspendougy
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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May 30, 2011 - 04:29pm PT
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I still recall the day the new version of the Tioga Road was opened, I remember vaguely going up the old road. Man, that was a fun trip as a kid. My mom was scared to death of the old road down the East Side.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 12, 2011 - 11:47am PT
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Nifty Fifties Bump!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 15, 2012 - 05:51pm PT
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The fifties, yeah.
Redding to Sacto in 1954. Five years old. Mike was seven. Lenna was two.
We had the classic 1950 Chevrolet de Luxe, two doors, folding front seats, three on the column. A death-trap that took us on Old Highways 99, East or West, back to visit the Grandparents in Redding. Interstates are a '60s thing.
We grew into a family of four. We up-graded to a 1956 Ford Country Squire, the one with fake wood and room for nine with the rear-facing (!) fold-up seat in the back. Another rolling death-trap that saw us through trips to Redding, some great vacation trips to Tahoma on the Cal. side of Tahoe, the beach at Carpinteria (three summer vacations, 59-61), and countless trips from home to school. And our first two trips to Yosemite.
They forgot to mention my favorite comic book of all, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, which always featured Scrooge's money bin. Here is where the mysteries of earthquakes were revealed to me and my brother. Who remembers the Terries and the Firmies?
And my mother refused to allow us to read Mad Magazine!
But we could listen to as much rock and roll on our transistor radios as we could stand. Money for batteries came out of our allowance. A radical dollar fifty a week.
The Scout Camp at Echo Lake, Camp Harvey West.
Days fooling around on the banks and in the inlets of the undeveloped American River near the Watt Ave. bridge, sifting for Indian beads, the days before it became reprehensible. We collected over five quart jars of beads, and nobody knows where they went!
The time my Cub Scout den went on the brand-new TV station, KCRA, ch.3, on the Skipper Stu and Popeye show.
Crusader Rabbit and Tiger Rags (cartoon).
Amos and Andy on TV in Black and White. Every thing B/W, for that matter.
Gunfight at OK Corral. Lonely are the Brave. Two great Douglas films.
I like Ike, Ike and Dick, bumper stickers, but nothing like I Like Dick. Nobody liked dick back then, in fact it was against the law.
Watching the Sierra Nevada skyline on a clear, windless morning and then seeing the mushrooming exhaust of a Nevada atomic test.
My first ride in a '57 Chev wasn't til 1962. The guy had it equipped with a reel-to-reel in the middle of the dash. Surf music, but it was no longer the '50s.
God died soon after the Big Bopper. He was sorry, folks. Time.
Werner in diapers?
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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May 15, 2012 - 07:18pm PT
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Here's your decadal synopsis from the 20's on, courtesy of The Hold Steady.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
for the Fifties you get:
"We got shiftless in the '50s, holding hands and going steady
Twisting into dark parts of the large midwestern cities"
The "good old days" haven't happened yet, there are significant downsides to every bit of history, and the fifties are certainly no better than average.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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May 15, 2012 - 07:34pm PT
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For a superb read on this era, I recommend "The Fifties" by David Halberstam.
That is a great book, and definitely underscores the idea that the Fifties weren't all amazing for everyone.
I like a quote by historian Stephanie Koontz (in her book, "The Way We Never Were"): "Contrary to popular opinion, Leave It to Beaver isn't a documentary."
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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May 15, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
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Cameras have improved since then.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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May 15, 2012 - 08:03pm PT
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Where's that flying car I was promised?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 15, 2012 - 08:08pm PT
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The flying part is easy enough, it's the landing component...LOL
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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May 15, 2012 - 08:09pm PT
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Where's that flying car I was promised?
A big hint might be that the style of the house is still 50's vintage.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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May 15, 2012 - 08:15pm PT
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The 1950's were an era of repression, hence the breakout of the 1960's that Herr Braun mentions.
Charles Raymond Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate are an aspect of this.
Responsible for eleven deaths.
Starkweather would later claim that in the aftermath of the murder, he believed that he had transcended his former self to reach a new plane of existence, in which he was above and outside the law.
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