Post #580644 by tiki mick on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 9:47 AM

I for one do not see any correlation with the demise of mid century style and incoming immigrant generations who some believe don't get it or don't value it. As was said ad nauseum on Cammo's thread, it is about corporate america's view that anything old is dirty. Vintage is bad. New is good. This is more Aldous Huxley-ian then it is anti-american. let's not forget that in the countries these people came from, they retain almost all of their old buildings, castles, architecture. When I went to spain, I walked through a roman coliseum that is still in suprisingly great shape..as was a castle and two big towers in sevilla. In the middle east and India, there are structures that definitely pre-date the 50s! Meanwhile here in America, we only have a few ancient structures, the missions and maybe some buildings in St. Augustine, Florida. American's as a whole like things to be shiny and new. It's only tiki freaks like us that prefer dingy, dusty, musty and old!