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Vot Der Dumboozle?
A Popular Culture Excavation Site - calls attention to unique, obscure, or extraordinary persons or areas of popular interest.
Pop History Now
Features a random year in pop history every weekday.
The 1920s Experience
Covers the arts, literature, fads, fashion, and other significant cultural hallmarks of the 1920s.
Drive In Theater
Dedicated to the keeping the American Drive In alive.
Levittown at Fifty
The story of Levittown, not the first, not the only, but the best known suburban development of the post war era.
American Folk
A mix of Americana, popular culture, and kitsch.
It Seems Like Yesterday
A dynamic history directory.
Whole Pop Magazine Online
Pop culture magazine with features on motorcycles, teddybears, toaster foods and lunchboxes.
PopCultures.Com
Links to other sites related to popular culture analysis, cultural studies and mass media theory.
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
An informative collection of pop culture tidbits and facts about each decade of the twentieth century.
Being Kookie
Honoring the teen idol magazines of the 1950s; snapshots and articles on era teen idols, fashion, and makeup.
Eighties Extravaganza
Humorous personal nostalgia site that covers all aspects of popular culture.
Platform Diva
Takes you through the fashion history of the platform shoe.
Nuke Pop
Nuclear imagery in Popular Culture
The Daily Newspaper and Urban Popular Culture
An article on the impact of the mass circulation of newspapers on American cities at the end of the 19th century.
Futuretro
An analysis of current and future trends in popular culture by reference to past movements.
Web Generation
A site about the fads, events, entertainment, and nostalgia of each decade in the past 60 years. Articles and forums allow people to discuss current issues, as well as the events of the past.
Flapper Station
A roaring 20's resource featuring antique automobiles, classic radio, flappers, jazz, and movies.
Conelrad: Atomic Culture
About 'the bomb' and all its attendant pop culture fallout.
Fifties Web
A look at the 1950s - music, TV, Elvis, Burna Shave, fads, fashions and slang.
Photographic Documentation of America's Vanishing Roadside Culture
American Highway Project documentation for those interested in the history of transportation, architecture, and pop culture.
Straight On The Haight
From the Straight Theater in San Francisco, stories and history of the Haight Ashbury, 60s styles, fashions and accessories in picture and text.
Popular Culture Appreciation Society
A guide to popular culture on the net.
80s Tribute Picture Gallery
A collection of pictures. Includes movies, television, cartoons, music, and toys.
EastWesterly Review
Mock-academic journal of pop culture criticism.
Jan's Courtyard
A personal scrapbook site recalling memories of the fifties and sixties. Contains lots of graphics on each page, and background sounds.
Paul's Modernistic World
Celebrates early 20th-century lifestyle and architecture as represented by jazz, Roseville pottery, detective pulps, skyscrapers, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and Cozy Kitten salt and pepper shakers.
Secret Fun Spot
Trivia of American pop culture past and present.
Boomers Pinups: The Fifties Teen Idols
A baby boomer's teen photo collection of the fifties teen idols, including pictures and pinups of Troy Donahue, Fabian Forte, Kookie,Edd Byrnes,Ricky Nelson, Bobby Rydell, Pat Boone.
The 1990s - Kinder, Gentler, Sure
An scholarly essay on defining the social and cultural tone of the 1990s, by James Arey.
P*Funk Review - Notes on Funk Culture
A collection of discussions that attempt to place the funk music and culture of the 1970s and 1980s in a broader historical context.
Lisa's Time Machine
Multi-media tours of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Includes views of music, lifestyles, fashion, and fads of the three decades.
MaryMc's Seventies Stuff
From music to books, TV and movies to memorable events, a comprehensive collection of 70's culture.
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
Articles discussing various aspects of pop culture, such as film, television, sports, and politics.
The Menzies Era
Australian popular culture from 1949 to 1972 including music, movies, books, and sport.
Famous Boom
News and commentary on pop culture events, as well as details about reality show episodes.
PopCult Magazine
Offers feature stories, profiles, humor, critical essays, and online galleries devoted to pop culture of lasting value rather than momentary hype.
Pop Goes the Culture
Where you will find humor and parody about the cinema, people, trends and fads that shape our modern world.
The Rest of the Story
True stories about America from the dollar bill to The Americans by Gordon Sinclair.
Ravin' the Adult Society
Dissertation on the representation of rave culture in British media and legal discourse.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Covering the early history of advertising in the United States, and drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Crazy Fads
Information about fads from the past 100 years: hula hoops, disco, pet rocks, goldfish swallowing, flagpole sitting, mood rings, Rubik's Cubes, and 3D movies.
Pop Culture Madness
A look at some of the humorous areas of pop culture, including a large section featuring the best and worst records from various years.
Historic Route 66
Provides extensive links, books currently available, postcards and other Route 66 information.
Retroplanet
Guide to retro American culture, featuring articles on music, movies, fashion, cocktails, pin-ups, collecting, and the retro lifestyle.
The 1980's Vortex
Features culture essays on the 1980's.
Driko's 80s Music and Nostalgia
Features a large 80s tribute collage, song lyrics, mix tapes, essays, links, and reminiscences.
This is Pop! The Best Pop Culture Sites on the Web
Directory of popular culture links with some commentary on new movies and comics.
Deadmalls.com
Non-for-profit endeavor designed to promote the history of malls as well as their nature, whether thriving or declining, and the impact of time and competition on these establishments. Features on various malls across the United States, dictionary, and a store locator.

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