Days Gone By

Growing up in Milwaukee in the 60s   was ..... fun and interesting. Girls

really did go around with curlers and matching scarves EVERYWHERE! Unlike now, we wouldn't be caught dead in curlers, the few that actually use curlers!  Big hair was really in too, the bigger the better, looking back now, it's kind of scary!! 

So's this picture!

Mini skirts, paisley anything, skinny pants - sounds like today - hmm, I wonder if the poodle skirt will be coming back anytime soon. 

  

My friends older sisters wore poodle skirts, they were really popular back then too.  Here's a replica of a  poodle skirt that I made - especially to go to a sock hop with Ray, - speaking of "Sock Hops" whatever happended to them?!  They were so much fun!  Our friend Pam would find out where the Sock Hops were going to be and we'd go with her and Tom, Paul and Hilda and Lene and Gary.

I remember my first lipstick, my best friend Bonnie's older sister gave each of us one of her old lipsticks.  After that we were hooked!  We went to Woolworth's Drugstore (where we bought just about everything!) and we both bought "Pink Posey" lipsticks. Of course, I had to rub mine off before I got home from school.  Another thing we would get every week at Woolworth's was a list of the most popular songs - it changed weekly - and we HAD to know if our favorite songs made the chart.  I remember "Slam Books", a book full of personal questions, like, what's your favorite dance, color, song?  No one knew who's answer was written down because we all used "code" numbers; mine was always #16, which was marked either at the beginning or end of the book - how secretative was that!  But it was fun and we were all so cool, and to us anyone over 21 was "old"! 

There were four of us, we were girlfriends, which meant we shared everything from clothes and lipsticks (we didn't wear make-up)  to secrets and boys and we were  inseperable. Those were fun times and looking back, everything seemed so innocent.  We'd go to school dances, movies, hang out at each other's homes and at Kozy Park.  Of course I was the one that had to be in by dark, so we made the most of our time - those were the "good old days"!

The worse thing I can remember, was when our President, John F. Kennedy, was killed.  I don't think any of us will ever forget where we were that day.  Our little group of friends were on the school playground and I remember we all cried.  After that the world changed for us.  The four of us remained good friends through high school, and then we went our separate ways, except for Bonnie and I - in spite of a few years of separation, we're still the best of friends.