The first one wasn't great, just a collection of snippets on fashion and the like, but still I'm encouraged.
While this blog is focused on things 50 years, more or less, prior to 1968, we do stray widely (rather obviously) and so I'll be interested to see with the Tribune comes up with. I'll be particularly interested as while I can recall 1968, from a child's prospective, as an adult I've been baffled by the year. It was a year of global revolution and the consequences of the year were mostly negative in my view. Not wholly of course, but largely.
1968 seems to be the year that the Boomers, for a variety of reasons, tore down much of made Western civilization. The repercussions have been permanent. Western civilization kept on keeping on, of course, but the attack on the foundations of it, from 1968, were like termites going after the foundation beam of a structure.
And this happened everywhere.
There were riots in the United States over the Vietnam War. That's easy to figure. But there were riots in Berlin and Paris as well. A seeming middle mildly left political coalition that had come into power in some places (the United States, France, the UK) and a middle mildly right political coalition that had come into power elsewhere (West Germany) collapsed. Cultural values and underpinnings that had existed for decades became untethered, not disappearing, but sort of drifting.
Now, of course, no sudden change simply arrives. When things break out, they break out after years of development of some sort, for some reason. But what was it?
The egg beater in slightly happer days, but after its service as a time and temperature sign had ended. Note the mod orange peel design of the bank itself. Library of Congress photograph.
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