This aroused Vigle's sense of anthropology. Well, things only go corporate when they are all over. If the corporations don't understand what is going on, then what is going on doesn't go corporate. I wouldn't pin the decline of the surf culture and the car culture on Hollywood. Only now you realize it didn't happen because it wasn't supposed to happen.
People then try to get 'it' back of course, which is human nature.
But there is no 'it' to get back. By watching Bikini Beach , you realize how much of it was utter and complete mythology. That's the oldest myth in the world. No, there was never 'two girls for every boy,' like these movies and the song implie, it's a metaphor goddammit, you don't literalize a metaphor. Not only did that time never exist, it never could exist, that's why everybody wants it back.