Doctor-

Thought-provoking thread - thanks!

Speanistar-

I think you just about nailed it - much of what we learn is already "filtered."

Look at how much we "Silver Age" kids learned about '30's-'50's culture from TV reruns of the WB toons - that themselves already contained ANOTHER level of even older references: Jolson, Teddy Roosevelt, Opera, etc.

I do think - and this is an "alas" - that the scope of such things is telescoping smaller, and a lot of "shared" pop history is withering away...

Best,
-Craig W.

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era