High Brow to Low Brow, 1949
By Where do your tastes fall on this 1949 chart from Life magazine?
Beer may be low-brow but of course it is awesome. Bourbon and ginger ale? Why waste the bourbon on that. No lower-middle brow for me. Extra dry martini? Well, for 1949 I guess that’s as good as it’s going to get. So maybe I am upper middle-brow. But no, the combo of beer, westerns, and the jukebox make me distinctly low-brow. I’ll even stick with the coleslaw I guess.
And really, how could charts from 1940s magazines steer us wrong?