Robert Crumb
A Short History of America
CoEvolution Quarterly #23, 1979
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn’t much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I didn’t much like it.
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I watched the tearing down of old pre-war downtown Oceanside and the putting up of a modern, inferior architecture. Even as a kid I felt this was all wrong. The old movie theatres, store fronts, nice streamlined Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and 1930s were replaced by squarish stucco boxes that had no character.
Robert Crumb, Poor Clod. In The R. Crumb Handbook, by Peter Poplaski and Robert Crumb (MQ Publications, 2005), pp. 23, 49. Quoted in An Analysis of “A Short History of America” by Robert Crumb (Klaustoon).