An old definition of ''longhair''

• An old definition of ''longhair''
  

  

  Georges

  
  

  Hello everyone,

  Before 1964, when it was almost impossible to see a long-haired man in city streets, in this age of extreme conformity of the fifties and early sixties, the term "longhair" was used to define intellectual, high-brow, or deeply scientific material. A longhair was a person seen as an "impractical intellectual". Funny to say, "longhair" was interchangeable with "egghead" for the same meaning.

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    Quester

    
    

    That was awsome. I loved it. Watched the whole thing too.

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    JeffL

    
    

    Hahahaha, lol.

    Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!

    ~JeffL

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    ESDI-80

    
    

    I remember that episode from when I was a kid. :-) Good old Saturday morning cartoons. :-)

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    Stormy

    
    

    Hello everyone,

    Before 1964, when it was almost impossible to see a long-haired man in city streets, in this age of extreme conformity of the fifties and early sixties, the term "longhair" was used to define intellectual, high-brow, or deeply scientific material. A longhair was a person seen as an "impractical intellectual". Funny to say, "longhair" was interchangeable with "egghead" for the same meaning.

    As late as 1972, I remember the radio ads for my local record store (because I have airchecks from the period) trying to lure customers with the line "LONGHAIR CLASSICAL your thing? Get on over to Little's Music Store...." Little's Music Store went out of business around 1977.

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    jonalbear

    
    

    Hello Georges, Thanks for sharing the cartoon. Interesting how the kid reading the longhair Gobbledegook had no hair and Foghorn Leghorn wore headgear eluding to longhair characters; the mountain man in a coon skin cap with a "tail" and a Native American.------I do remember classical music refered to as longhair or high brow back when I was a kid in the 1950s.
    peace, jonalbear

    Hello everyone,

    Before 1964, when it was almost impossible to see a long-haired man in city streets, in this age of extreme conformity of the fifties and early sixties, the term "longhair" was used to define intellectual, high-brow, or deeply scientific material. A longhair was a person seen as an "impractical intellectual". Funny to say, "longhair" was interchangeable with "egghead" for the same meaning.

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