Is the late 1940s ignored in American pop-culture history?

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Thanks.

It occurs to me that one reason that the late forties might be less discussed in American popculture is that they are too early for boomers to remember but too recent for boomers to have studied in history class.

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Ineresting! I’d never heard of a teenage comic from my grandmother’s era (graduated 1919).thanks.

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Hmmph. Interesting idea. It’s hard for me though to believe that boomers in general don’t have anything about it to weigh in on.

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And it’s still spelled that way in The New Yorker.

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Do they also still spell today as to-day?

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The New Yorker is weird on some spelling, like spelling cooperate as coöperate.

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The New Yorker still uses diereses. I hate them.

ETA: I swear the previous post was not there when I started this.

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Well, Coöperate Sound could make for a great heavy metal band name…

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Last year or so, I heard about someone who wanted his online name to look really kewl, so he called himself ßilly ßadass, which did not make people who know German respect him

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So, Silly Sadass? :grin:

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Fun with research! Here’s some magazines pre-1959 that clearly recognized that teens were a potentially profitable consumer group.

1932 - Compact (for teens) [can’t confirm the date but the December 1953 issue was #168]
1941 - Calling All Girls (for tweens) [both later merged into Young Miss]
1944 - Seventeen
1947 - Girl’s Own
1954 - Teen
1956 - 16

And general magazines made sure to cover them. I love this article from the Dec. 11, 1944 Life, Teen-Age Girls: They Live in a Wonderful World of Their Own. Teen-age and teen-ager are used profusely.

No fashion magazines for teen boys. Then or ever.

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Yep. That’s him

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Did someone hit the editor with a shovel while he was dictating the headline?

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I found myself inspired by a recent thread from Guapo.

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"Look, if he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to carve ‘aarrggh’:

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Those last two references being a manifestation of the general boomerhood of this Board…

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We didn’t need them. We had Boys’ Life.

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Yes indeed

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What I learned about the late 1940’s I learned from my parents. Dad was into Hank Williams Sr., gambling and heavy drinking. Mom was experiencing racism against Mexicans in Texas, the Klan was a thing back then in the south.

They desribe the times as being more lawless than today, as returning soldiers came back with attitudes that killing and violently assaulting people was the answer to disagreements.

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At least that’s what he wanted people to think.