‘50s-‘60s Redux

Remember the decades of the 1950s and 1960s? Two very different eras.

In one corner of T.G.I. Friday’s n the Orleans Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, the wall was covered with remembrances of the era.

There’s movie icon Marilyn Monroe in a reproduction of Andy Warhol’s painting, and there’s John Lennon over there to the right in a black and white picture of the Beatles.

Hangin’ on to his microphone stand and belting out a ‘50s rock and roll song in his ‘60s jacket is the great Elvis, shaking his legs in his patented hippy-wriggling way.

And then, over there on the left-hand side of the picture (my favorite part of this entire photograph) is a sign directing hippies of another sort to use the side door. Obviously, the people who ran the establishment where this was displayed didn’t want the upper-class patrons to see rag-tag, long-haired drop-out types hanging out at the front.

Hmmm … I wonder where I can get a sign like that.