WOW, that's a great question; maybe we should ask the graybeards on the
List, but I think, thinking back to 77 Sunset Strip:
there is "hip" ( "I'm hip, to that") , "hipster",
daddie-o (or : daddy-O ) , and "cool" (late 50's, as in cool jazz) and
Kookie (Ed Burns) and I think "way out", and "man", too.
"Far out" was a mid-late 60's invention.
60's had a LOT of slang, but, we're talking 50's here....
Of , course, most hipster slang began with the "beats", which spawned :
beatniks (after 1958's Russian Sputnik satellite) .
Anyone recall any regional 50's slang????
Neil (old) Vedder
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- From: Greg Filtz <filtz1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:47:19 -0500
Happy Birthday Neil!!!
You are only as young as you feel. Many happy returns.
Wonder what a hip phrase in 57 would have been??? Maybe "stay cool"?
Your friend in WI
Greg
1956 Dodge Royal Lancer
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