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    Do you consider the (early) James Bond movies part of the Golden Era?

    Actually, David Niven was who Fleming wanted to play Bond in the first place.
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    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    It's not that, it's just...I am 24. My generation knows of the YMCA as a gay thing due to the song, and it's hard to shake that from your mind when that's what your generation grew up with. I went to an all boy's Catholic school, so...One's masculinity always had to be very rigidly asserted, and...
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    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    Thing is, this Y was in Brooklyn. My father (not my grandfather's son) stayed at the same Y at a later time--between the early-mid 70s and late '70s--on and off when he was between apartments or kicked out of home, because it was cheap. He said when he first began going in the early '70s, it was...
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    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    Sounds like a more decent time, really. When everything wasn't thought of as being sexual.
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    Do you consider the (early) James Bond movies part of the Golden Era?

    Do you consider the early Connery James Bond films part of the Golden Era, maybe Dr., No to Goldfinger? I just ask because Connery's Bond, though British, evokes the whole era of pre-Vietnam Americana.
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    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    It's just, I've always found this picture...odd. And I presume, given my grandfather's frequent stays in the Y around the time this was taken (sometime between 1950 and 1964 or so), that it might've been taken there. I could be way off base and (as my grandfather was a former military man), this...
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    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    A question-- Was the YMCA, even in the Golden Era and including in the 1960s, always known as a haven for gay people? The reason I ask is because when my grandparents would fight, which was very, very frequent throughout the '50s and '60s, the fight would end with my grandmother (b. 1927)...
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    The Vintage Pencil Mustache--Your relatives who wore one.

    One of the iconic and only truly accepted forms of facial hair in the Golden Era, post here your photos of relatives who wore one from the '20s-'early '60s. (Note, pencil mustache here means basically any close clipped mustache that did not extend beyond the corners of the mouth or over the...
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    Songs like this one?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqNMh615g5U Can anyone give me some pretty, laid back, '40s-mid 50s pop songs like this one? Songs that speak of 40s-mid 50s California, or even bluesier songs? I just want to get a feel for the "pop" music of the Golden Era, pre Elvis (can even include stuff...
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    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    Lizzie, what about Jazz and the Blues? Duke Ellington, Count Basie etc?
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    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    D Lizzie, if I may ask a couple of questions, can you firstly recommend some pre 1945 music artists you consider great and great representations of the Golden Era musically? Secondly, what do you mean by the Golden Era was a mindset, can you describe it? Lastly, may I ask why 1937 is the...
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    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    For American board users, do you count the Post War period between 1945 and 1963 (ending with the JFK assassination) as part of the Golden Era? What about simply 1945 to 1959, basically the '50s?
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    Movies set between 1933 and 1946?

    Can you guys recommend me some good movies set in the height of the Golden Era, which show off the glitz and elegance of the time? I'm talking about films which are very period accurate in terms of fashion, cars, etc? I ask because I'm watching a sci do noir ish film called The Thirteenth Floor...
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    Vintage three piece suits?

    Were three piece suits popular in the 1930s and 1940s? Or did they really only become popular in the 1970s-1980s? Could someone please give me some examples of Golden Era three piece suits?
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    When did jeans become popular?

    When did jeans and a t-shirt begin to supplant a shirt and slacks as 'casual wear'?
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    When wearing shorts become acceptable for grown men?

    I know at the beginning of the last century, shorts were considered attire only little bots wore. To have long pants was sort of a rite of passage; a mark of maturity. But it wasnt acceptable for grown men...Around when did it become acceptable for men to wear shorts?
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    Hair cuts

    What kind of haircut did J. Edgar Hoover have? How would I tell my barber to replicate it--scissor over comb, clippers, razor? What sort of gel should I use to keep it in place? How short or long on top? Is there a name for it?
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    Did Great Grandpa have a moustache (golden era pics in thread)

    If you guys open up the pictures in a new window, you can see them in Hi Res--I uploaded them at HUGE resolutions.
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    Did Great Grandpa have a moustache (golden era pics in thread)

    My great grandpa was an Italian immigrant who came here around 1906. I have no earlier or later pictures of the man. For comparison, this is my grandfather--his son--later in life with a moustache.
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    Did Great Grandpa have a moustache (golden era pics in thread)

    When my grandfather--his son--grew a moustache himself later in life, his hair was rather thin. As is mine when I grew one.

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