In 1969 verhuisden wij naar een bungalowpark. Nog voordat ik kon lezen of schrijven, kende ik het woord bungalow al. Net als de andere uitheemse woorden thunderbirds, daktari, peugeot (peuzjoo) en flat werd bungalow al vroeg aan mijn vocabulair toegevoegd. Pas veel later ging ik me afvragen waar het woord bungalow toch vandaan komt en vandaag kwam ik erachter: Het woord bungalow is een verengelsing van Bengali“. Dat woord komt uit het Hindi en betekent: ‘afkomstig uit Bengalen’. De bungalow is inmiddels gecanoniseerd in mijn nostalgisch universum 1945-1970. Op flickr.com vond ik een hoekje met fijne plaatjes van bungalows en andere mid-century architectuur.
House & Garden’s Book of Building
Fall-Winter 1958-1959
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1960 design and residential architecture [ flickr.com ]
Aardige romantische film die simultaan, maar gelukkig wel lineair, twee verhaallijnen volgt. De laatste vijftien jaar verschijnen er regelmatig films met scenarios die afwijken van de klassieke lineaire verhaallijn zoals Pulp fiction, Lola Rennt, 
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During the summer of 1966 the Beatles played their last live concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. After a short break, they spent the next six months in the recording studio working on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,“ their eighth studio album. After the record’s release on June 1, 1967 they took another short break during the so-called “Summer of Love.“ George and his wife Patti came back to San Francisco on Aug. 8, 1967, and visited the Haight. They had traveled from England to Los Angeles the week before, renting a house on Blue Jay Way, which gave Harrison an idea for the tune of the same name. George traveled north to San Francisco, telling reporters that he was simply curious about the hippie phenomenon. George, Patti, and Beatles press agent, Derek Taylor, drove into the area in the early evening and strolled, unnoticed, along Haight Street.
They reached the sector of Golden Gate Park, then known as “Hippie Hill,” where they found a young man performing before a gathering of about 20 long-haired youths. After a few minutes, Harrison asked to borrow the musician’s guitar, and proceeded to play. After a few moments he was recognized and a sizable crowd formed. He stopped in a park to play a few bars of “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” for the hippies. After a few minutes Harrison shouted “Let’s go for a walk.“ As he walked and strummed the guitar the hippies followed along. As the crowd left the park and moved down Haight, it grew. When asked how he liked the Haight, he answered “Wow, if it’s all like this, it’s too much.“
