The people who are STILL living like it's 1951: Captivating portraits take a look inside America's..

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22, 2014 | Olivia Fleming

[C19fan]

t may be 2014 to the rest of us, but for the subjects in Jennifer Greenburg’s photographs, it is still 1951. The assistant professor of photography at Indiana University Northwest has been photographing America's Rockabilly community for more than ten years; people that not only dress like it’s the Fifties, but also drive perfectly preserved Cadillacs and decorate their homes with furniture to rival the retro sets of Mad Men. 'At first I thought the culture was about fashion,' the 36-year-old photographer told MailOnline. 'Then I realized it was much, much, more than that. I realized that this was a culture of people who functioned as a community.'

[Fresh Wind]

Some of that 50's furniture and decorative items (now called "mid-century modern" are bringing serious money in the collector market, especially if designed by certain popular designers.

Here's one that I personally own-the Panasonic "Flying Saucer" TV:

[Boogieman]

http://www.rockabilly.net/tours/

Find a show near where you live, grease up your best pompadour, and go make some friends :)

[Vigilanteman]

I remember that wallpaper! Never had it (my parents had six kids), but I was always envious of a cousin (the only boy) who did.

[Uncle Chip]

How do they live without a Lava Lamp???

[Vigilanteman]

True story. When we bought the home place from my folks back in 1986, they gave us their 1949 stove and fridge (Fridgidare models) which they bought shortly after they were married the previous year.

Both worked perfectly, the only flaw being a sprung door on the stove when my older brother had repeatedly used it as a stepping stool to filch cookies from the jar on the top shelf some 30 odd years earlier. So we had to push a chair against it when we were using it.

We sold the place to another couple in 1996 along with that stove and fridge, still in same working order. I think it was Goehring who once mocked American industry as being capable of producing only great razor blades and refrigerators.

[taterjay]

A friend of mine was born in the summer heat of 1954. He still uses the fan that was purchased to keep him cool.

[Irenic]

OOoooh! I like!

[Irenic]

A fan made today wouldn’t last like that. They don’t build better products nowadays, they just build better consumers.

[Fresh Wind]

I have a 70s vintage Gibson fridge in my kitchen that came with the house. Still works great, but it’s an ugly mother, in avocado green.

[Fresh Wind]

Oh yeah, right out of the Jetsons!

[US_MilitaryRules]

4/9 is my nephew and daughter’s birthday.

[pallmallman]

I love the 50’s,...any year would do,...’51, ‘53, ‘54, etc., just love that decade.

[VerySadAmerican]

This site is not update much according to the owner. I can’t find actual tour dates. But thanks anyway.

[KGeorge]

Neither would I, except I was raised with Danish/ modern furniture & love it to this day. It would be worth “giving up” the internet & even my cell phone. I miss peace of mind, security, & freedom so much.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I was going to counter your cartoon with the example of “Khan”

Ah, ah, ah. Khan Noonien Singh was a Sikh. Not a Muslim. A distinction that many miss.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Cool story. I knew he had written the song but never heard that story. Thanks.

[VerySadAmerican]

I think he said it was his hometown of Jackson, Tn. He said he went home and wrote it on a brown paper sack.

My mother used to tell me about seeing him in a southern juke joint in the late fifies. She said he wore blue suede shoes.

[Boogieman]

Ah, sorry. It used to be good for finding shows. I mainly just go to a couple regular shows in my area so I don’t use it much anymore.

[Irenic]

I don’t know if you’re interested...

decor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10197266@N05/collections/72157606545868245/

fashion
http://www.pinterest.com/rosarosas/vintage-fashion-mid-twentieth-century-40-s-50-s-ea/

music
http://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs-of-the-1950s/262449/page/1

[OldPossum]

I love the 50’s,...any year would do,...’51, ‘53, ‘54, etc., just love that decade.

I was born in 1940, so I was privileged to grow up in the 1950s. Things were so, so much different then. There were moral standards, for one thing, and you knew you had to meet them...or else. Among the other experiences I had, I got to see the dawn of rock 'n roll with Bill Haley & The Comets in 1955 and shortly thereafter, The King arrived.

Wow, I just consider myself blessed to have been born when I was.