April 11, 2019
Volume 49 - No. 15
By Friedrich Gomez
Even though many of us were not even born during the 1950s or 1960s, there is something about those decades that continues to fascinate and stimulate the interest of today’s teenagers who often know more trivia on the 1950s and 1960s music than their own grandparents. --No one knows more about The Paper - 760.747.7119
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Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, or Bill Haley and His Comets, than my close-knit friend, Chad Thomas, who just turned 29 last month.
Point being, few decades in American culture continues to hold such a fascination – even on a massive worldwide scale – as our 1950s and 1960s timeline. And not just for the old-timers, but their grandchildren as well.
No matter when you were born, or even where you were born, you no longer get an automatic “Hall Pass” of forgiveness if you don’t know about your own American heritage and culture, especially during the 1950s and 1960s when our country first invented rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll is uniquely American in its origin. And although the term “teenager” has a long pedi-
gree, it remained relatively obscure, until it exploded on the American landscape with the teenage culture peaking in popularity during the early to mid1950s, with America’s unique creation, rock ‘n’ roll music, as the engine which drove the teenage culture skyward; the music eventually permeating every civilized country on this third planet from the Sun.
Reliving the 50’s & 60’s - See Page 2