We had “Teen Canteen” on weekends and in the summer during the week. Bands and music would play at the Honeywell Center in the town I grew up and in the summer, we danced on top of the upper deck at the community pool.
During high school, our favorite place to go was Fisher’s! Owned by a local family, it was a small snack-bar restaurant, had a fully-stocked candy counter and in the back were pinball machines, pool tables, a jukebox and everyone went to Fishers! We would go there during lunch, with tons of people piling into cars to make it there in time for a hamburger and fries -- (back when there were no closed lunches at school...you got to leave and report back on time for afternoon classes). Weekends were nothing if you couldn't 'hang' at Fisher's!!!
We cruised “The Point” (as in Penguin Point), we cruised Epps (another hangout, especially for nighttime after games) and later, we hung at “The Kettle”.
Speaking of cruising, when I got to drive for the evening out, there would be 4 girls in the car. Many times right before we would go home, we would stop at the local gas station. Each girl forked over a QUARTER and dad’s tank would be back to where we began! (Let’s not even go there---$4.00 a gallon...geesh)!
High school basketball and football games were “the bomb”. A social must! And after games, there were usually dances. It was my freshman year and the first dance after a football game. There was a huge fight in the gym with the opposing football team! I was scared out of my wits, but it was soo very exciting and certainly the talk for a long, long time!
We won the first conference football game (my hubby made the winning touchdown!) in many, many years during my high school years and the "office" would not let us celebrate. So, of course, the senior class president led the entire school on a walk-out! IT WAS SOOO EXCITING! An unauthorized day out of school and I still remember the shocked look on the principal's face when the class president announced it. Of course, the upper classmen knew what was coming, but us lowly underclassmen ... we HAD to follow!!!
Remember the floats at homecoming? We would spend hours at “flower parties” making tissue paper flowers for the floats! And of course, we all remember the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen! The stadium lights would go out, the winners would be crowned ... and everyone was (or wasn’t) surprised when the lights came back on to shine on the lucky girl and guy!
All girls wore skirts or dresses to school. Special days, which happened once in a blue moon, we got to wear slacks! Guys had to have their shirt tales tucked in, had to have belts and wearing socks with shoes was an absolute must!
Does anyone remember the darling little “blue bloomers” that we had to wear for gym class? Oh Lord---enough about that!
Did your school have a cheer block? We did. We had little pullover cotton blouses that we wore. One side was orange, the other side was black ... school colors! Be in the cheer block or be square!
And, we can’t forget the drive-in theatre. If a carload of girls went, we always met back up at the car after the movie, laughing because no one even knew the NAME of the movie, let alone watched it. If we went with our boyfriends ... ‘nuff said!
Do you remember that school always started after Labor Day and was always out by Memorial Day? Graduations in our town were actually in the middle of the week (ours was on Wednesday). We had to wear certain colored shoes, the caps had to be pulled down upon our forehead (never pinned back to save our hairdo) and hosiery was another “must”!
This is just a short synopsis of life at my high school life. I hope you will share some of your experiences.
Additionally, if you are a teen in the '60’s (or even if you weren't), please
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Great information in this post and the stadium lights would go out, the winners would be crowned.
James Parker.
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