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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 17:00:59 GMT
I put this on the Atlas harmony site as well but with us or you that don't know yet and our interest at the famous Foster freeze the great hamburger stand a fun fun fun has shut down and no further information is available about what will happen to the building of this great historical site. Glad I've been there a handful of times and anybody from the area drive by and take a look. I wish The Beach Boys had been able to buy it and preserve it but I have no information of any kind other than there is a handwritten sign that says they've moved to other locations ,which I think is just a reference to other local Foster freezes and not necessarily a move per se but I'm not sure
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 15, 2021 20:37:47 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on May 15, 2021 20:49:27 GMT
I'll be honest--and this is just me speaking for me--I don't care at all. It's on the periphery of the adolescent lives of a group that later made music I like. Most artifacts of the late 50s and early 60s have long since been replaced; no real reason to think this wouldn't, too. And it isn't as if their ice cream was integral to some chord progression.
Others will disagree, and I don't mind that. People care about what people care about.
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Post by jk on May 15, 2021 21:18:40 GMT
I'll be honest--and this is just me speaking for me--I don't care at all. It's on the periphery of the adolescent lives of a group that later made music I like. Most artifacts of the late 50s and early 60s have long since been replaced; no real reason to think this wouldn't, too. And it isn't as if their ice cream was integral to some chord progression.
Others will disagree, and I don't mind that. People care about what people care about.
Haha. That line reminded me of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicle_(song)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 16, 2021 11:53:49 GMT
I'll be honest--and this is just me speaking for me--I don't care at all. It's on the periphery of the adolescent lives of a group that later made music I like. Most artifacts of the late 50s and early 60s have long since been replaced; no real reason to think this wouldn't, too. And it isn't as if their ice cream was integral to some chord progression.
Others will disagree, and I don't mind that. People care about what people care about.
Yeah, but it goes beyond The Beach Boys. I think. It's tradition. It's nostalgia and sentimentality. I know from your writing it's in you, and some day (or age) I know it will surface...more. I'll keep trying with Christmas music.
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Post by Kapitan on May 16, 2021 12:11:19 GMT
Maybe, but it isn't my nostalgia. It's (apparently) Brian Wilson's nostalgia. That means nothing to me. How nostalgic are you about my grandma's house? Presumably not at all.
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Post by jk on May 17, 2021 7:34:39 GMT
As jk veers even further off-topic... The line in "Popsicle" that goes "And it comes on a stick", with its two-note continuation strikes me as being a parody of a line in Gene McDaniels' 1961 hit "Tower Of Strength" ("And I'd walk out the door!", first heard here at 0:24): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Strength_(Gene_McDaniels_song)
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Post by kds on May 17, 2021 12:16:44 GMT
While I have no personal connection to Fosters Freeze, I can relate to the tinge of melancholic nostalgia when a part of my past fades into history, be it a restaurant, stadium, bar, store, etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 16:30:45 GMT
Yes and it's not a matter of judging anyone's relative sense of nostalgia for their own or someone else's past. But the idea from the perspective of a teacher is that this is a great place to send people in their own city on a pilgrimage. Admittedly this is not quite the same as if Canterbury cathedral were torn down but in the California context it was a wonderful minor and meaningful pilgrimage for college students to learn about the past of the city as it relates to music and cultural history.
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