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Three rockers on Chelsea Bridge Two mods on a scooter. Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the late 1950s to mid 1960s. Media coverage of the two groups fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and they became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers.
The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term "moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, [5] in which he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. [6] By 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia.
Mods and Rockers is a 1964 British short film directed by Kenneth Hume and produced by Anglo-Amalgamated. [1] It features the Western Theatre Ballet company based on their ballets "Mods and Rockers" and "Non-Stop". They also perform a dance to Beatles compositions.
The Thirsty Whale, which opened in 1971, [citation needed] was a rock music club in River Grove, Illinois.It brought in acts like Blue Öyster Cult, Off Broadway, Molly Hatchet, Black Oak Arkansas, Extreme, Keith Reid with Bowser from Sha-Na-Na, Alice In Chains (opened for Extreme), Quiet Riot, Foghat, Johnny Winter, Mother Love Bone (who played their only Chicago show at the Whale), [citation ...
The Mods & Rockers Film Festival was a Los Angeles film festival that celebrated rock culture. It was presented by the non-profit cultural organization American Cinematheque annually from 1999 to 2010, with the exception of 2004.
River Oaks Center is a shopping mall in Calumet City, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. River Oaks Center is the seventh largest mall in the Chicago metropolitan area totaling 1,379,824 square feet (128,190 m 2). Today, there are over 60 stores and two anchors including JCPenney and Macy's with two vacant anchors last occupied by Carson's ...
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The mall also occupies a topographically unusual site, as Michigan Avenue at this location is elevated, gently sloping back down to ground level from its bi-level bridge over the Chicago River. Furthermore, Nordstrom occupies floors one through four of a full-block building one block behind Michigan Avenue, at the southwest corner of N. Rush ...