Mods

Factual Questions
1

I’m talking about mods as in The Who, The Small Faces and mods and rockers.

How did the mod movement begin? Is it just a UK thing, or are there other nationalities with a sizeable mod population? Who first attached the Ministry Of Defence logo to the movement (the three concentric circles, red, blue, white)? I’m assuming the logic was Ministry Of Defence -> MOD -> mod, is that correct?

Why do mods associate themselves with scooters? Why not motorbikes, which are generally perceived as more manly? Was it cost or was a Lambretta a fashionable thing to own before the mod movement?

2

Here’s a decent website on Mods and Rockers:

http://www.stthomasu.ca/~pmccorm/modsandrockers1.html

3

So the Rockers were a northern (especially around Merseyside) thing, where as the Mods were a southern thing, originally?

Thanks, that cleared a lot of stuff up.

4

This is another good Mod site…

5

I remember someone asking Ringo if he was a Mod or a Rocker…
He replied, He was a Mocker…

In High School during the '60’s,if you were male,your choices were

  1. Surfer
  2. Mod
  3. Cruiser
  4. Hairboy