Fads, manias, crazes. It's what people are into. What's cool. What's groovy. Where it's at. Fashion and hair fads. Toy fads, slinky, yo-yos, music and book fads, fad foods, fad diets, even fad pets. Remember the pet rock?
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a fad as: A practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal.
Fads never really die, but build our world, shape our lives and mold our memories .
As we've seen many times, fads often return to become fads again and again. Or simply return as a way of life. Take the Happy Face for example. Adopted by corporate giants simply because it is easily recognizable. I don't have to insert one on this page for you to see it in your mind. Once a fad, plastered on millions of T-Shirts, Buttons and Bumper Stickers, the Happy Face is now an American icon.
Fads can also be a state of mind. For instance, the Mood Ring. Although there was no basis to believe it could indicate anything except your skin temperature, the fad raged on, from the early to mid 70's. Many people wore some kind of mood jewelry and believe it or not, a few even wore Mood underwear.
No matter what your age, whether you wore a crew cut or the Farrah Faucett look and from flagpole sitting to Razor scooters, fads are a part of our lives.
So sit back in your bean bag chair or dust off your Hula Hoop because we're bringing those memories back.
Enjoy!Dad
Footnote: The words printed above were put on this web page nearly ten years ago. My original idea was to share my memories with my children in a fun and educational way. Little has been done with this web site until just this year, when a classic toy store was added. This store fits the original web site's ideas very well. Classic and fad toys at very reasonable prices. I feel as I did ten years ago, - we should hang on to our memories and pass them along to our children. In doing this, we help preserve the simpler times. Times when trusting was easy. Times that built our world. Shaped our lives, and molded our memories. What better way.
Thank You For Visiting,
Dad
"Jem"