THE ART OF HANGING AND STYLIN’LIMP
BY W. TOWN ANDREWS

WARNING! 1950’s innocence and 2000’s trash talk do not mix. But we did it anyway! And guess what? When you’re not ROTFL, you won’t be sure whether you’re seeing today’s mixed-up morality through the rose-colored lens of the Eisenhower years or eyeballing yesteryear’s sanitized hypocrisy through the transparent jade of modern skepticism.

So while you’re getting off with your bad self down memory lane at the mother of all bowling-alley malt shops, will you get cringeworthy over what we’ve become, or all giggles ‘n grins over what we never really were in the first place?

The Art of Dating, in dozens of editions both in hardback and paperback, was the must-have guide for millions of teens entering the social whirl of the 1950s and 1960s. Here it is, back again in “updated’ form. Sort of.