View Full Version : Mods and Rockers jailed...
Niles Crane
18-05-2009, 21:17
.............. after seaside riots in 1964 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/18/newsid_2511000/2511245.stm).
The golden era of ska, jazz, blues, soul etc, suits, pork pie hats, parkas, mopeds. I'm sure i've been misplaced in time, i should have been born much earlier!
Do we have any mods or rockers here, who lived through that era?
I think foreverwar used to be a Teddy boy :D
joglynne
18-05-2009, 22:08
LOL Being Up North, still at school and broke I was a mod with a pushbike.
I can remember reading about the riots which used to happen on the south coast every Bank Holiday and maybe there was some agro between the Manchester mods and rockers but I was never part of that scene. We did have a friend who used to rev up his Mini Cooper outside the local Skyways Coffee Bar where the rockers used to hang out but I can't remember them ever giving him more than a token chase on their motorbikes.
Callumpy
18-05-2009, 23:49
Are mods like chavs?
Are mods like chavs?
Apart from the scooters, I'd say no. Chavs are the new skinheads.
Are mods like chavs?
Yes and admins are more classy.
joglynne
19-05-2009, 00:22
No not a bit like chavs. It was a very smart looking fashion statement. Very clean lines and no fussy bits. Have a look at this Mary Quant clip and it will give you an idea what the female mods were wearing. The first miniskirts came out then and we all had to do bunny dips rather than bend over. :D
http://digilander.libero.it/guido_1953/pics/x-mary-quant/mary-quant-1967.htm
No not a bit like chavs. It was a very smart looking fashion statement. Very clean lines and no fussy bits. Have a look at this Mary Quant clip and it will give you an idea what the female mods were wearing. The first miniskirts came out then and we all had to do bunny dips rather than bend over. :D
http://digilander.libero.it/guido_1953/pics/x-mary-quant/mary-quant-1967.htm
yeah but....
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/776/316491.JPG
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/05/38.jpg
How Bling is that?
joglynne
19-05-2009, 00:42
Ah but that was on the Lambrettas. Bling on a bike was good Bling on your person was not. Subtle difference. :) Oh unless it was in the form of cuff links, I seem to remember a lot of fiddling with shirt cuffs by the guys when they were all dressed up for a night out on the town. :D
Ah but that was on the Lambrettas. Bling on a bike was good Bling on your person was not. Subtle difference. :) Oh unless it was in the form of cuff links, I seem to remember a lot of fiddling with shirt cuffs by the guys when they were all dressed up for a night out on the town. :D
In their Anoraks (http://www.urbanimage.tv/browse.htm?loc1=lifestyle&loc2=youth%20culture&loc3=mods&) :D
joglynne
19-05-2009, 00:55
No anoraks when they went out on the town. It was all Beatle Jackets , straight leg trousers and Chelsea boots. I remember having to wait around for ages while John got the look just right.
Niles Crane
19-05-2009, 01:04
Apart from the scooters, I'd say no. Chavs are the new skinheads.
That couldn't be further from the truth.
I think foreverwar used to be a Teddy boy :D
What you fantasise me dressing up in is entirely your own business, Gary (as long as you stick to the exclusion zone order :D).
btw, New Romantic, actually......;)
joglynne
19-05-2009, 09:13
What you fantasise me dressing up in is entirely your own business, Gary (as long as you stick to the exclusion zone order :D).
btw, New Romantic, actually......;)
Ohhhhhhh Lace and eyeliner. I would never in a month of Sundays have imagined you wearing those. Bet you cut a dash. :D
I think you will find it was ruffles and guyliner.......
This was the New Romantics' fashion/style guide at the time -
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/05/36.jpg
I think you will find it was ruffles and guyliner.......
This was the New Romantics' fashion/style guide at the time -
A Rude Boy then.
A Rude Boy then.
Nah - that was just the cover of first edition of The Face, the New Romantics style bible. My personal style (for lack of a more appropriate phrase) progression was New Wave, then New Romantic, then "Hard Times" look, then preppy, then married, so fashion (due to associated costs) left the premises.
Callumpy
19-05-2009, 17:11
We did have a friend who used to rev up his Mini Cooper outside the local Skyways Coffee Bar where the rockers used to hang out
Thats what chavs do. Annoy the crap out of everyone else
joglynne
19-05-2009, 18:02
Ahhh memories.
I have still got an ex-juke box single of 'I Can See For Miles' tucked away in the attic with a couple of hundred more records that I can't get rid of but have no way of playing. :D
I used to buy some of my records from a guy on Stockport market and all he sold were ex-juke box singles with the big holes and you had to have a special thingy to hold them on the spindle of your record player. :)
I used to buy some of my records from a guy on Stockport market and all he sold were ex-juke box singles with the big holes and you had to have a special thingy to hold them on the spindle of your record player. :)
http://www.kangoomusic.co.uk/ekmps/shops/kangoo/images/spiders_-60s.jpg
joglynne
19-05-2009, 18:11
That's the thingy. :D
I got my first leather jacket with my first bike. A Tiger Cub, off my cousin. I built a few café racers in my teens, ending up with an ex works Thruxton Bonneville, in a Beeza Goldie frame. Clip ons, chrome headlamp, alloy tank etc. Loved riding behind Mods on their sewing machines, waiting for a long stretch, & watching them get down so they could go faster. Then, riding past, sitting up.
Never really had any aggro with them, a good few mates had lambs, even went to the same clubs. I do remember the Schooner pub, in Rhyl, we had a couple of scraps there. There were guys who wanted aggro, on both sides, stupid really.
I preferred the Dragon rally.:)
roadwolf
20-05-2009, 13:59
ending up with an ex works Thruxton Bonneville, in a Beeza Goldie frame. Clip ons, chrome headlamp, alloy tank etc.
Why? The Thruxton Bonnie engine was unit construction and too short to fit the BSA frame properly, anyway the Thruxton would outhandle any BSA.
Okay can I make a gentle reminder not to bore the pants off everyone with the techy talk about various bike/scooter engines.
The discussion is primarily about the two differing styles and attitudes.;)
alferret
20-05-2009, 21:57
Apart from the scooters, I'd say no. Chavs are the new skinheads.
Chavs aint the new skinhead, they aint got the balls.
vBulletin® v3.8.11, Copyright ©2000-2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.