Re: and you thought i was through

Posted by JerryS on January 09, 2013 at 20:34:49 from (98.80.102.132):

In Reply to: and you thought i was through posted by pete black on January 09, 2013 at 17:01:44:

Wow, Pete, what a trip down memory lane! I can relate to 98 percent of those things you and the other guys named. Here are a few of my recollections of "back in the day...."

Guys rolled up the sleeves of their short-sleeved shirts.
Guys rolled a cuff on their jeans.
Guys rolled their pack of cigarettes up in the sleeve of their t-shirt.
Guys used Lucky Tiger hair wax to make their flattops stand up and to make their “ducks” hang tight. Only the uncool still wore their hair with a part and used Vaseline Hair Tonic or Wildroot Cream Oil, (Charlie).
Guys “shaved” the hood and deck of their cars. Added chrome extensions to their tailpipes. Added clip-on fender skirts. If they couldn’t afford new whitewalls, they bought Porta-Walls that fit around the rim on the outside of the tire. Dressed it all out with brushed aluminum “moon” wheel covers.
Cool guys cleaned their fingernails with a switchblade knife.
Cool guys could pop open their Zippos with just two fingers.
Black high-top tennies with the white circle on the ankle were not a fashion statement, they were just tenny-shoes.
In high school If a guy tried to give the impression that he was “getting it on” with a girl, you could be almost certain he was lying. A girl getting pregnant out of wedlock was almost unheard of. There were a fair number of weddings that were announced in the paper after the fact, though.
Nothing was open on Sunday.
Country folks generally went to town only on Saturday. They stayed all day and just hung around on main street, visiting.
With few exceptions, the old farmers wore bib overalls: there was either a Prince Albert can in the front pouch, or a Bull Durham sack with the tag hanging outside. Often the stem of a pipe (either a Kaywoodie or a Dr. Grabow) was visible. There was also a pocket watch tucked into one of the pockets, with a chain and fob anchored to one of the button holes put there for that purpose. Usually a carpenter’s pencil protruded from the pencil slot. The old guys wore a blue or khaki long-sleeve shirt with the top button buttoned.
On wash day mommas boiled their white stuff in the big iron pot, and added Mrs. Stewart’s Blueing to make those whites look even whiter. Other stuff she washed in P&G Soap.
The older women pretty much had one hair style: waist-length, rolled into a tight bun at the back of their heads. They also had an apron for every occasion, and they didn’t go outside without their bonnet. The older women wore light brown opaque stockings, held up just below the knee with an elastic garter, with the top of the stockings rolled down over the garter. Lace-up shoes with a 2-inch heel. Attractive.
Other random recollections: Life Buoy Soap, Octgon Soap, Groves Chill Tonic, cod liver oil, milk of magnesia, Ipana Toothpaste, Orange Crush, Nesbitt’s, Grapette, Nehi, Fleer’s Double Bubble, Holloway All-Day Sucker, ten-cent comic books.

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