Post #550824 by Beach Bum Scott on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 7:23 PM

I've been doing some reading about several things going on in 1965 and am looking to the experts on how the first wave of PolyPop Tiki was faring by that year. Was it still on the upswing or was the end in sight?

One of the things that made me start digging was that I have been attending a local Mid Century Modern(MCM)Art&Furniture show and was scratchin my head at the amount of Nehru Jackets and Mini-Skirts being worn along with the Rockabilly and Mad Men.

In my digging/reading I found that '65 was a pivot date for a few things...

Mary Quant ran a popular clothes shop in Kings Road, Chelsea, London, called Bazaar, from which she sold her own designs. In the late 1950s she began experimenting with shorter skirts, culminating in the creation of the miniskirt in 1965.

The Beatles wore Nehru jackets for their famous Shea Stadium performance of 1965.

Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965.

Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was particularly popular between 1961 and 1965.

Vietnam War, The United States military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965.

So does this make 1965 the year that changed the world??? :-?

Make a Mai Tai and pick up a Ukulele!!!

[ Edited by: Beach Bum Scott 2010-08-28 19:29 ]