- Licensed Databases
- Info File
Search under Fads linking you to online 70s, 80s, and 90s lesiure fad web sites, toys from 1910 to 1980,Crazy Fads, and the Bad Fad Museum.
- Recommended Titles in our Catalogue
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Hippie
Coffee-table format, full-colour page spreads dedicated to "all the old freaks and hippies everywhere" who were long-haired youths between 1965 and 1971.
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Hippie Crafts: Creating a Hip New Look Using Groovy '60s Crafts
Tie-Dye, Batik, Crochet and Macrame Projects,
Leather, Jewelry, Weaving and Candlemaking.
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MAGAZINE - Bitch: feminist response to pop culture
Published 3 times a year out of San Francisco.
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Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here: More Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks
Historic sites associated with celebrity deaths, events, crime, murder, assassinations.
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Poplorica: a popular history of the fads, mavericks, inventions, and lore that shaped modern America
"including the untold stories of who put the TV in TV dinners, why zombies rule, the supertanker diaper."
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REFERENCE - Bowling, Beatniks and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th Century America
Arranged chronologically by decade. Written for students in grades 6 through 12. Major topics: products and brands, toys and games, music and dance, holidays, shopping, sports, and movements.
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REFERENCE - Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades
Reference guide covering 1920s through 1990s: dating and sex, comic strips, music and dances, slang, movies.
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Toys and Games in American Popular Culture
Remember Gumby and Pokey figures,Cracker Jack toys, Captain Video; they're all here.
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Urban Tribes: a generation redefines friendship, family, and commitment
"Explores why so many of us are single and loving it".
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VIDEO - Jack Kerouac's Road
Bio of Beat Generation Icon Jack Kerouac.
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When We Were Young, a Baby Boomer Yearbook
Local writer Rita Kleinfelder has compiled a thoroughly researched picture of the years 1947-1975.
- Find Topics in our Catalogue
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Baby Boom Generation
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Beat Generation
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Celebrities in Mass Media
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Mass Media and Culture
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Popular Culture and Philosophy
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The Fifties
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The Sixties - Pictorial Works
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Youth Culture
- Selected Web Sites
- Merchants of Cool: a report on the Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers
From PBS Frontlilne, an online report examining the relationship between the media and teenagers.
- Pop culture resources (Internet Public Library)
A collection of links to authoritative sites about popular culture compiled by staff of the Internet Public Library.
- Popcultures.com
Focussed on popular entertainment. Choice reviews it as an "up-to-date, universal guide to the assortment of cultural studies resources and information on the World Wide Web."
- Time Magazine Covers
Time Magazine has launched a searchable database of its 4,200 covers. Search by subject or by date (1923 to current). You can fill in your birthdate and find the cover for that week.
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