The Shuttered Arcade
By James Vollmar
How we had a culture but forgot where we left it.
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How we had a culture but forgot where we left it.
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‘Our culture now no longer seems to belong to the history that produced
it. It’s a non-sequitur, an answer that doesn’t fit the question. We all expect
change but surely, we could have done better than this? Welded on to a
heritage many are completely oblivious to, our present looks exactly what it
is: phoney, stolen, ripped-off and botched…’
from The Shuttered Arcade
In this follow-up to his earlier memoir Juke Box Karma, James Vollmar takes
a nostalgic journey through the culture of the 1950s and 1960s he grew up
in, from a childhood in Northamptonshire and seaside holidays in Norfolk,
by way of a family heritage in Worcestershire to later travels in the Scottish
islands where, in the remote farmhouse on Jura where George Orwell wrote
Nineteen Eighty-Four, he finds an enduring metaphor for our times.
Enlivened by portraits of musicians, comedians, writers and sporting figures
from a golden age of entertainment The Shuttered Arcade makes essential
reading for anyone who values the culture of the 1960s and wonders how
we could have let such a glorious tapestry unravel…
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