Hi-Fi's and Hi-Balls: The Golden Age of the American Bachelor

by Steven Guarnaccia, Bob Sloan, Robert Sloan

His old man liked a stiff drink and a close shave, but he drives a convertible and has a tiki bar in his closet. He wears a shiny pegged-leg suit and takes chicks back to his pad. He's cool, he's urbane, he's glib, he's copacetic. He's a cross between James Bond and James T. Kirk, all wrapped up into one smooth-talking, cocktail-mixing package. The swinging space-age bachelor is back and more prepared than ever with this classic guide. Illustrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081181663X
• ISBN13: 9780811816632
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

This books shows us just how LAME the modern male is!

This super cool little book is full of the coolest vintage "guy stuff"! Man, I wish life was still that GONE! This book will have any normal,red-blooded hipster lookin' for a time machine so he can get his but back to the crazy days of cocktails and girl chasin'! Oh lord how the 2000's seem like they are gonna be LAME compared to those wild days. Please get me out of here and back to the NORMAL, techno music free past...PLEASE!

Only the shape of the book is square, man.

One can go through the entire book first only absorbing the pictures, and then once again to get the stories behind the culture. I am a post-modern graphic design major, and found this book invaluable in studying this by-gone, but needs-to-be-ressurected era.