Hot Rods

What are rockabillys driving? Ever asked you this question?

Of course they are driving hot rods. This are typically American cars with large engines which are modified for linear speed. There are many explanations from where the word Hot rod could come. Some are saying from the term "hot roadster" where they mean a roadster that was modified for speed. Another explanation is about the camshaft(s) which they used to modify or replace and that is sometimes known as a "stick" or "rod". If a camshaft was designed to produce more power they also called it sometimes "hot stick" or "hot rod".



Ok I don't want to bore you with many details about hot rods. I will rather show you some awesome pictures of nice hot rods :-)

Pin Up Girls

 My blog for today is about the beautiful and awesome pin up girls from the 50's. Why from the 50's because the pin up style exist since the 1920 but with the 50's pin ups it was getting really popular and today many Rockabellas connect pin up with rockabilly because in fact the style of the modern Rockabella is part of the pin up models of that time. Mostly you see the make up and the hair from pin ups is the same as by modern Rockabellas.


Usually a pin up model is a glamour model, actress and a fashion model which pose in an erotic posture. Former you saw pin ups from pin up girls in every locker from military men. But pin up is more than standing in an erotic posture somewhere it is art. Among other things the military used pin up for war propaganda to encourage their troops.



Now I wanna show you a short list of the most beautiful pin up girls from yesterday till now. Hope you like it

Betty Grable she was one of the most popular early pin up girls. You could see her pictures in every locker of the military.

Betty Page is the Queen of pin ups. She became famous in the 1950s for her pin up photos and was called an American idol. Her look will be imitated also today. Her jet black hair, blue eyes and her bangs were here trademark.

Marilyn Monroe, who could ever forget this icon. 

Dita von Teese she is the #1 Pin Up in the World! She is amazing and wonderful. She is herself and know what she wants. Dita is an seductive burlesque star, a fashionista and a business women. 

Katy Perry celebrity and modern pin up and Bernie Dexter a beautiful pin up from Oregon.

Slang of the Fifties

 Slang is something what we have in every erea. Also nowadays we have many slang words. What makes a slang word interesting is that it is only used by young people and it is not mainstream. If it comes to that it is no longer a slang word. Also in the Fifties they had slang words and I want to show you today a selection of these. If you want to have a full dictionary of the slang of these days just click on this page Slang of the Fifties.

Slang	Word
Actor	Show-off
Ankle-biter	A child
Are you writing a book?	You’re asking too many questions
Baby	Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Bad news	Depressing person
Bash	Great party
Bent eight	a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Boss	Great
Cat	A hip person (Beats)
Chariot	Car (Beats)
Cloud 9	Really happy
Cook, cookin’	Doing it well
Cool	Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cut the gas	Be quiet!
Cut out	Leave
Dolly	Cute girl
Eyeball	Look around
Fake out	A bad date
Flat out	Fast as you can
Flick	A movie
Frosted	Angry
Get with it	Understand
Goof	Someone who makes mistakes
Goopy	Messy
Horn	Telephone
Jets	Smarts, brains
Knuckle sandwich	A fist in the face
Make out	A kissing session
No sweat	No problem
Nuggets	Loose change
Pad	Home
Party pooper	No fun at all
Peepers	Glasses
Radioactive	Very popular
Righto	Okay
Tight	Good friends

Hope you like the slang words I have choosen. I really love them. If you have more for me please feel free to comment on my blog.

Rockabilly Tattoos

Today I wanna take my time to tell you something about rockabilly tattoos. You heard right rockabilly's nowadays have tattoos. That is one thing you could hardly imagine in the 50's but today many rockabilly's have tattoos and here we have a bunch of typical tattoos for this lifestyle.
You can remember vintage, old school, retro style or pin up? This tattoo styles are all typical signs for the rockabilly lifestyle. Previously they where typical sailor tattoos but that is over. Nowadays the techniques are more effective and better and so you get really nice and beautiful tattoos.

I wanna list now typical rockabilly themes:
Pin up girls, playing cards, 8-Ball, cherries, skull, panther, hearts, flames, swallows, lucky 13, sailing ship, dice, hot rods, tiki and hula girls, stars, brass knuckles and many more.

Many rockabilly's and rockabella's have also portraits from their idol where the most popular ones are Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Johnny Cash.


Another important thing to know is that people often have tattoos over a whole part of the body for example very popular are sleeves which covers the whole arms, legs or upper part of the body.

One of the most popular tattoos is the swallow it is an old school or new school style of tattoo. Here you can see most of the time the swallows as a couple. That can stand for angel and devil or man and women. Normally they are colored in red, blue or yellow but the sky's the limit so be creative. The meaning of the swallow is love, personal freedom and hope.