By Frank Morrow
Red Rover/Kick the Can chlorophyll toothpaste Sock-hops hay rides Van's Hamburger stands Fudgecicles/Eskimo Pies *Watching the "mail plane" (DC-3) come in Sunday afternoon drives Norman Luboff Choir the Mann Act Delaware Punch "Move it over, Rover!" Joe Linde's band football players had to play both offense and defense Hugo Winterhalter Black Cows (They recently came out with tiny ones.) *Guess-whats pony ride rinks Slenderella Dollar pancakes at Bishop's Restaurant *the square ice signs in windows the Humane Society animal shelter was called simply "the dog pound" Christmas tree burning at Boulder Park Energine Cleaning Fluid ("Keep it clean with Energine.") "Aw, your father's mustache!" glasses of honey with honey combs inside Tulsa's John Zink race car won the Indy 500 Pennington's Drive-in Ritz, Rialto, Orpheum, Majestic theaters Ritz Week cinnamon toothpicks "No soap!" *ladies hats with veils pasteurized milk with the cream on top girdles (called "foundation garments") *"Kilroy was Here." spitballs spitbaths (frantically administered by mothers before you got out of the car) donkey softball games tuffskin, applied to athletes' feet to prevent blisters "gownless evening strap" "Modess----because" "Eggs at Eight" (with Simms & Teas) on KVOO argyle socks (frequently knitted by girls for their boy friends) "The Hole" (sometimes called "The Smoke Hole," across from Central) floating schedule at Central the famous Tulsa optometrist shop, Seekatz and C. Moore "Weekly Reader" "8-page bibles" *"Mow your lawn for a cup-a-coffee?" VPL (visible panty line) BIKE (the jock strap) Nash, Studebaker, Packard, La Salle, Crosley, Kaiser-Frazier (& the Henry J.) Grady Skillern's sex lectures at Central ----------- LOST CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE '50's GENERATION IN TULSA (7/27/00) [#2]
coaster brakes Hamms, Blatz, Stag, Carling Black Label, and Griesedieck beers *air raid drills poodle hair cuts/poodle skirts Vaseline hair tonic Wild Root Cream Oil ("You'd better get _ _ _ _ Chaaaarrrrllie!") Central High School social clubs: Kings, Delta Pi, Tops, Ramps, Emanon, Pirates, Earls, Broncs, Squires, Lancers, Pharaoh, Eclat, Barons, Tarantella, Gents, Rajah, Breezers The "Dirty Dozen" Saddle shoes Loafers (with the mirrors) pedal pushers *jodhpurs, knickers lollipop pants "You'd better walk the chalk!" The "Windows" at Central the Blue Moon push-up or uplift bra/"falsies" *Quisling Veterans' Cab Co. (with the light on top) Wagles' & Hucketts' bowling alleys...25 cents for one bowling game, and the proprietors gave free lessons The Quaker Drug Store "soda jerk" (Ollie, at the Quaker) The Coliseum the Easter Pageant at Memorial Park "Experimental Theater of the Air" "KVOO DAY" (or "Central Day," if you worked at KVOO) the beautiful old Tulsa skyline double circle skirts Club car honks: - - . . . or .. .. .. or ..- ..- ......- "Fifty cents worth of gas, please." *spinning the propeller to start an airplane "Eeeeeppaaarrr!" (Epar) Froggie the Gremlin, and Buster Brown Shoes ("There's only one kind of shoes for me...") *"Twice 55" song book "Stag" "Hag" "stud" (as in, "He's a stud baseball player.") program dance Skilly's School of Ballroom Dancing Lincoln Logs *Liberty Magazine Bar-B-Q bologna at Latimer's Bar-B-Q ("medium" sauce would raise your head off your shoulders; "hot' sauce was fatal.) *shoe repair shops in department stores the Kool cigarette penguin ("Smoke Kooools!") the Apache Dance *Phil Spitalny all-girl orchestra (with Evelyn and her "magic violin") May Rooms Swing Dance "2-bits, 4-bits, 6-bits, a dollar!" "2 bits!" (Yelled to someone who just shot a basketball, meaning you thought that the shot would miss) "Off the table, Mabel. This 2-bits is for beer!" Cimarron Ballroom Cain's Dancing Academy (where you could find a fight any ole time) scratching the palm ("Don't scratch for it like a dog. Ask for it like a man!") a man giving his seat to a woman on a bus the strange put-down by repeating a word but with "shm" at the beginning: "Nazi, Shmazi!" "school, shmool!" "book, shmook!" Hawks Ice Cream, with the two-scoop, in-tandem cone *Akdar Theatre *Starlight Concerts at Skelly Stadium Pee-Wee League baseball burr haircuts *The Honey Dripper Malt-o-Plenty (at the corner of 6th and Boston) waist cinchers *25 cent weekly allowance, which was enough to take a bus downtown, buy some Milk Duds, see a movie, & take a bus back home. Uncle Willy's Doughnuts Cushman motor scooters "Rag Mop" *WPA ("We Piddle Around." or "We Poke Along." or "We Pee Anywhere.") Independent Oil companies: B-Square, Tydol, Sunray, Warren Petroleum, Mid-Continent, Sinclair, Skelly, Pure, Consumers bootleggers Frank's Pig Stand (at 15th and Boston) Crystal Ballroom "Take it away, Leon!" Johnny Lee Wills *Post Tens, and Kel-Bowl-Pac *Vims (war time vitamins, forced off the market by the medical profession) Reservoir Hill Tulsa Hotel cashmere sweaters "house party" Green and Yellow and Thursday night (I.O.O.F., every Thursday night) New Years Eve kissing parties (at Central only) "Hey, four-eyes!" aeronautics class at Central *Lead toy soldiers "scratch gravel!"/"lay rubber" "She's built like a brick outhouse!" (only we didn't say "out") "SBD" (Silent, but deadly) graduate students at Central "This is where we came in." (in movies when you entered after it started) the main post office at 4th and Boulder Hadacol Serutan ("That's 'nature's' spelled backwards!") Dunninger, the "psychic/mind reader" on radio Autographed picture of Jesus Christ that glows in the dark, which you could get from the radio station in Del Rio, Texas Oklahoma A & M ("OAMC, OAMC, .....etc.") the single-wing, split-T, and the short punt football formations drop kick "I'll be a monkey's uncle!" *"Git off of your big fat rusty-dusty!" Honey Hudgen and her combo the cocker spaniel was the favorite K-9 pet 15 minute newscasts on radio--frequently prohibited words on radio: sex, pregnant, hell (unless you were a preacher), rape, and any mention of venereal disease TV deodorant commercial caused a scandal because it showed a sculpture of a person with a raised arm, revealing the arm pit. The Oil Capital of the World ---(really) nickel bus ride ten cent loaf of bread pneumatic tubes running along walls and ceilings in department stores, through which your bills and payments were sent. "carry a torch" for someone Ernie Fields, the great Black dance band leader in Tulsa Latimer's Bar-B-Q, Big Ten dance hall, Love's Lounge Moton Memorial Hospital the activity in the back rows of balconies at theaters spittoons (also known in "polite society" as "cuspidors') Post offices had them. "girls" bicycles flat top haircuts "Eat your dinner. Think of the starving children in (Greece, Czechoslovakia, etc, etc.)" Wat Henry Pontiac George(?) Fuller Chevrolet Charlie Shepherd Kaiser-Frazer society editors of Tulsa Tribune and World--Billie Morris & Virginia Morris Sam Avey: owner of the Coliseum, KAKC, & promoter of wrestling local radio announcers: KVOO (Walter Teas, Cy Tuma, Frank Simms, Doc Hull); KTUL (Jack Morris, Ed Niebling, Roy Pickett, Al Clauser, Karl Janssen); KRMG (Keith Bretz, Glen Condon, Dave Croninger (Davis), John Doremus, Bill Minshall, Joe Knight); KOME (Greg Chancellor, Harlan Judkins, Dick Campbell); [and I on all of them at one time or another] Loraine Bynum, the harpist at KVOO and the Tulsa Philharmonic *the top pre-war sprint car ("big car") drivers: Dave Champeau, Harry West, Angelo Howerton the top post-war Fairgrounds motorcycle racers: Fuzzy Weichman, Curley Sutton "frozen custard" persimmon, watermelon and pumpkin stands at the Sand Springs bridge on highway 64 Highway 66 ("Git your kicks... etc.") the City Limit sign at 41st and Riverside Dr. the long picnic drives out in the country to Memorial Dr. (Mingo Rd. was too far to go.) floods on the Arkansas River ----- LOST CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE '50's GENERATION IN TULSA (7/27/00) [#3]
Fanny Brice and "Baby Snooks" (The father was played by Handley Stafford.) raw sewage floating on the Arkansas River *Dixon Laddie pencils (along with Big Chief tablets) posture pictures in jr. high Vigo dog and cat food *"Breakfast at Sardies," with Tom Brenneman(?) "Eat a Weenie!" Kellogg's "Pep" *street racing in cars mercurochrome and merthiolate *Cut someone's water off ("John sure cut Frank's water off!") old record labels: Okeh, Bluebird, Decca Mexican jumping beans the sexist put-downs by men: "panty waist," "Mama's boy" First Piano Quartet ladies wearing hats and white gloves "brown noser" *mills (1 mill required with a 5 cent purchase; 2 mills for a dime purchase). The one mill was dark white; the 5 mill was red--both made of paper/cardboard. *"That's a Deusey!" coontails on cars. Occasionally they were red, white and blue knock-knock jokes (My kids still told them.) moron jokes *scrap drives *hoarding, and the Black Market Brown Airport Commercial Airport clocks, visible from the streets, in business establishments Ryan's Hamburger Stands Hamburger King at 34th & Peoria (10 cents for a huge one) Stop-n-Shop across the street from Hamburger King Piepgrass Restaurent (Mark's folks) at 33rd & Peoria "KVOO, Philtower, Tulsa" the "old" KAKC Sportscasters Jack Charvat (KTUL), John Henry (KVOO), Mack Creager (KAKC and KRMG), Tony George (KOME, KAKC), Hugh Finnerty *U.S. War Stamps "Send 50 cents in coin or stamps to _____ for _____" (on the radio) Newblock Park Swimming Pool Horace Mann's swimming pool Central's TWO auditoriums (Okay, Miss Beckington,--"auditoria") elevator operators ("2, please! Sporting goods, boys' clothes"!) Kresses, Newberry's *liquid ladies "hose" "pre-parties" "LS/MFT, LS/MFT" *"Who do you think you are? Barney Oldfield?" crooners and torch singers kites came only in three types: 2-stick, 3-stick, and box "pogie bait" one-car families cars with tail fins cars with big grills "all-day sucker" (The Black Cow was best.) 5 & 10 cent stores crinoline petticoats *Captain Midnight rings "Railroad Crossing. Look Out for the Cars!" *Argyrole Wigwam Bakery El Wino and Ne-Hi soft drinks *"Quality" milk petticoats which showed on purpose (in jr. high) ice houses pink panties and "panty pink" paperdolls jax (babies, pigs, ladies, etc) "Step on a crack; break your mother's back." spoonerisms (like "sick thoup" or "gree peen") men wearing hats card games: spoon, pig, old maid, canasta, crazy 8, war, casino, and the most infamous--52 Card Pick Up milkmen who not only delivered, but put milk in the refrigerator, sometimes entering your empty house and using the note of instructions left on the kitchen table corner grocery stores that delivered cheap "tennis shoes"--a generic term cuff links "I Go Pogo" "Snookie" Lanson, the male singer on "your Hit Parade" dancing cheek-to-cheek was a big deal (and the girls would often duck or turn their heads when you tried to do it). gray flannel suits button flies *"Keep 'em Flying!" and "Keep 'em Rolling!" Armistice Day wearing a jock under your jockey shorts (just to be SURE) Wasserman tests, which were mandatory before you could get married. ("It's better to have loved and flunked your Wasserman than never to have loved at all.") the Shmoo Sears AND Roebuck *Ringling Brothers WITHOUT Barnum and Bailey water guns with only three shots the Liberty Broadcasting System, with Gordon McClendon. (Otherannouncers were Al Helfer, Lindsay Nelson) Acme cab company" The Three Suns Morton Downey (Sr.) Offenhauser engines in the front of race cars music listening booths at Jenkins the piano player at Jenkins who would play your sheet music for you the buses for black people: Greenwood and Lansing. the many types of city buses: Twincoach, Mack, Yellow, Fitzhugh *food and gasoline rationing (A and B cards, etc.) *35 mph nationwide speed limit Lydia Pinkham Mail Pouch Tobacco (with its logo painted on sides & roofs of barns) life without television "Too old to cut the mustard" steam engine trains courteous truck drivers cabooses (also used to refer to the female posterior) *"Lucky Greens" have gone to war" *"A slip of the lip can sink a ship." dumb songs: "Mairzy Doats," "Flatfoot Floogie" ("with a Floy Floy"), "Doggie in the Window," "Hutsut Ralston," "Chickery Chick," "Open the Door, Richard," "One Meat Ball," Cememt Mixer, Putty, Putty," "Hoodle Addle" razor blades which could be used only once "peach fuzz" (before your first shave) "The Life of Riley," with William Bendix (and "Digger O'Dell, the Friendly Undertaker") cars with running boards, knicker knobs, coontails, igniting engine exhausts, "leaded-in" rear windows, head and leg room, "cat whiskers," and big, white sidewalls names of car automatic transmissions: hydramatic, fluid drive, dynaflow oil company logos: Pegasus, Flying A, Dinosaur Phillips 77 (their "Ethyl" gasoline); Phillips 44 (their oil) pocket watch watch pocket Shinola ("He don't know shit from Shinola!") Spike Jones: Chloe, Beetlebaum, Willie Bill Hickup, etc. "One Man's Family" (Any sexism here??) Hoosier Hotshots *Olson and Johnson in "Hellzapoppin'" football helmets without face guards *midget auto races inside the fairgrounds pavilion during the winter the sidekicks: Tonto, Jerry Colonna, Ishkabibble (Kay Kyser Show), Cato, Arnold Stang (Henry Morgan Show), Billy Batson, Lothar (The Phantom) "Half-n-half" Bread "You're a nice guy, Morrow. Trouble is, there's no market for nice guys." "I just saved your life, Morrow. I killed a shit-eatin' dog!" college humor magazines: "Aggievator," "Rammerjammer" fountain pens "Parker 51" pens ink pens and ink wells "Let's don't, and say we did." "It takes one to know one." "brushing your teeth with a comb" *Oleo, with the little red-orange button of dye to color the product veterinarians worked only on big animals, not domestic pets the Fuller Brush man, the Watkins man, the Jewel-T man " more radio shows: "Mirth and Madness," "Queen for a Day" "The Breakfast Club" with Don McNeil (and his old band leaders: Walter Blaufuss, Joe Palikio, Eddy Valentine) baby sitters cost 50 cents an hour "Your room looks like Fibber Magee's closet!" comic books: Plastic Man, Submariner, Green Lantern, Capt. Marvel, The Saint, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician the gesture of pride: blow on the finger nails of your right hand, and "polish" them two or three times on your upper chest the gesture to indicate male homosexuality: lick the inside of your right little finger, and smooth down your right eyebrow with it The Ink Spots ("Now, Honeychile ......") Red Ingle and his Natural Seven (with "Cinderella G. Stump," who actually was Jo Stafford) Hooper Ratings *gremlins toss your cookies get your cookies old companies & products: Nash-Kelvinator, Bendix, Necchi-Elna, Maytag, York air conditioners, Admiral TV the "Lux Radio Theater" (with Cecile B. DeMille, "Greetings from Hollywood, Ladies and Gentleman.!") Mad Man Muntz Leroy McGuirk (a Central graduate), the Junior Heavyweight rassling champ Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians Arno Lamb, the softball pitcher "Bill Grogan's Goat" "dip your wick" Burt's "Good Humor" Ice Cream milquetoast (also, "Casper Milquetoast") 78 and 45 rpm records "Cute as a bug in a rug!" Andy Andrews at Tulsa athletic contests, with his famous yell: "Aaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy. Let's gooooooooooooooooo Tulsaaaa!" "Sixteen Tons" the cricket invasion of 1953 (or was it '54??) "Get your ashes hauled." the smell of burning leaves smooch, neck, pet, court, ("spoon" and "sparkin'" in our parents' time) make out---when it meant "going all the way," not just "necking." "bucket suckin'" (In basketball, staying at the offensive end, not going back to play defense.) more radio personalities: Robert Q. Lewis, Galen Drake "long-hair music" meant classical, not rock five-digit phone numbers (24381 was for time?? Or was it mine??) You could ring your own number--or your party line--by dialing 1141. Private lines were luxuries. Sports writers: Jack Charvat, Tom Lobaugh, B.A. Bridgewater, O.O. Keeler Homer 'n Jethro "The Rambler" (the daily column in the Tribune by Roger Devlin) the Liberty Broadcasting System's re-creations of baseball games. The Liberty Minstrel in the mornings (with its tap dancer!). Robert Hall (with the "plain pipe racks") Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan the Dionne Quintettes cold showers OTASCO meant Oklahoma Tire and Supply Store Three-hole and Four-hole Buicks *"Major Bowe's Amateur Hour" "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour" "late date" Candy Candido's main line on radio: "I'm feelin' mighty low." ------ LOST CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE '50's GENERATION IN TULSA (7/27/00) (#4)
"Bear Tracks" Greer: (pitcher when Dizzy Dean started his first game for the Tulsa Oilers in his attempt to make a comeback after injuring his arm.) "pocket pool" ("What are you guys doin'? Playin' pocket pool?") "blanket party" gasoline tanker trucks with their chains dangling on the pavement from their rear axles to "dissipate static electricity" the Golden Drumstick other kid games: "May I?," "Anti-over," "No man standing," "Tackle the man with the ball" Billboard companies: Schleppey, and Knapp Advertising Co. the Four Aces, the Four Lads, the Hilltoppers, the Crewcuts Some of the post-war drivers of midget race cars: George Binnie, Cecil Green, Bill Rudolph, Ted Parker, Jud Larson, Bud Camden, Tommy Vardaman, Leland Musick, Cotton Musick, Lloyd Ruby, Ernie Booth, Jay Booth, Dick Sharp, Jay King, the Howerton brothers, Ben Harleman, Tex West, Buddy Cagle, Marcel St. Crieq, and forty more tiger, leopard and zebra jockey shorts for men the Great Gildersleeve ("Leeeeroooy...!) life before Novocain dentists Jimmy Gicaletto (Class of 49 or 50) racing motorcycles at the fairgrounds polio scares (then called "infantile paralysis,") with the closing of swimming pools *the years when there were only 3 brands of cigarettes: Lucky Strike, Camels and Chesterfield 20 Mule Team Borax the Louisiane restaurant near "The Quaker" *Athletes doing ads for cigarettes "What am I running--- a chow-house?!" mangles (to do the ironing) Will Rogers hang outs: The Cavalier, The Blue Stem basketball players were known as "cagers" & the games were "cage" games making lightning bug lanterns and rings "to boot" meant "also." ("He's poor, and he's ugly, to boot") "geetus" (for money) the "facts of life" other theaters: Delman, Plaza, Cozy, Uptown, Admiral, Brookside, State, Tower, Pines, Apache (Only the Circle is still there) life without air conditioning tooth powder (Kolynos) other table games: Contact, Chinese Checkers (popularly known as "Chinkercheck") "hubba-hubba" "The smeller's the feller." "It takes one to know one." soap: Dreft, P & G, Bon-ami cow-catchers on trains life without shopping centers All-purpose Rit "It Floats!" (Ivory Soap) special handshakes: the bartender, the woodsman, etc. Carter's Little Liver Pills "Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette!" the "double standard" between boys and girls (although it's coming back) Silver Castle cafes Sadie Hawkins Day Sons of the Pioneers, Riders of the Purple Sage "physic" (enema) "morphodite" the ultra-violet lights (purple) in a department store in the ladies' johns to "sterilize" the toilet seats Barnes-Manley Laundry, with "Smiling Dan, your laundry man" on radio *Bob Burns and his musical instrument, the "bazooka" fat footballs two-holed bowling balls pinboys Gravel Girtie, Leena the Hyena, Chief Wahoo, Gus Goosegrease, B.O. Plenty golf: the 2-wood was the "brassie;" the 3-wood was the "spoon" sand greens on golf courses knee-guards for basketball players narrow 3-second lanes in basketball Tulsa hockey players: Nick Knott, Gus Mortsen, Claire Dillon, Bud LaMarche Freckles Little. (And who could ever forget the meanest guy in the league--Harry Dick, who did not play for Tulsa.) "T'aint funny, Magee!" 3.2 beer fly paper "Monkey Grip" "You dumb Palooka!" lightning rods the characters on "Allen's Alley" on the "The Fred Allen Show:" Mrs. Nussbaum, Senator Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), Titus Moody, the man from Vermont whose first words were "Howdy Bub!" Burma-shave signs (Ex.: "Look here, birds, these signs cost money. Roost awhile, but don't get funny.") the characters from "Fibber Magee and Molly:" Doc Gamble, Wallace Wimple (with his "bird book" and his "mean ole wife, 'Sweetie Pie'"), the Little Girl (played by Molly), Nick Da Populus (who always had "a check for a short beer" in his pocket), and Gildersleeve. Charles Atlas and "dynamic tension" *Fitch Shampoo ("So, if your head scratches, don't itch it - - - Fitch it") "goody-goody gumdrop!" "goody two-shoes" coffee came only in "drip grind" or "regular" life before "the pill" ("Vatican roulette") *Chase and Sanborn coffee sponsored "Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy." "good/nice girls" (the ones who wouldn't "do it," no matter how hard the boy tried) "bad girls" (the ones who finally did succumb to their natural desires) Brilliant Bronze, Lion, Clark, Cosden brands of gasoline Holy Family was red, and it was a high school "punch the ice-box" "One potato, two potato, three potato, four" *"Maggie's drawers" (referring to Jiggs & Maggie: the white flag which would be waved if you missed the target at the Army shooting range) "apple core, Baltimore. What's you're trade? Lemonade." the first self-winding wrist watches Pearl Hotel "TILT!" cars without turn indicators (called "blinker lights") a religious person, particularly a fundamentalist, was said to have "got religion," like a disease. "I got dibbies (or dibs) on that one!" "Huggin' and chalkin'" Marquette High School Henpecked "grind" (a person who studied a lot) "modesty panels" on the lower front of girls' bathing suits "Reddi Kilowatt" (of the Public Service Co.) "Goose Mother" jokes "He's slicker than snot on a glass doorknob." Sponsors of Junior and Senior League baseball teams: Buda Engines Magee's Sporting Goods, W.C. Norris, Progressive Brass Brown-Dunkins, Frougs, Vandivers, Clarks Clothes, Harringtons ("The Store for Son and Dad"), Renbergs of the Mid-Continent refinery across the river If you mailed an envelope without sealing it, the postage was less. Matchbooks with the striking surface on the side with the opening flap Hugh Breeding gasoline trucks ("Pulling for the Oil Industry.") Spanish Fly two and four-party telephone lines (and eavesdropping on them) get "skunked" (score no points) "cute lil booger" vegetable corsages for Sadie Hawkins Day dances peasant blouses boys bringing cows' eyes to school (in jr. hi.) "Your ass is grass, and I'm a lawn mower." "She's 'in a family way.'" "Can o' Corn!" (Yelled out when an easy fly ball would be hit to the outfield) " ugly on an ape!" Roy Ball, who played Jesus in the Easter Pageant Bob West, who narrated the Easter Pageant in the late 40s, early 50s Oklahoma car tags started with a number which represented the county's population. Tulsa started with 2; Okla. City with 1, etc. Using dry ice to keep things cool. (Even for car air conditioning.) eye glasses were "cheaters" (and eyes were "peepers") *the local radio program in which the announcer read the names of products, the names and addresses of advertisers, and short sayings. If you wrote them down correctly, and mailed in your work, you would win a prize. Phillips 66 Oilers were the best basketball team in the country, and the AAU ("semi-pro") league was better than the NBA There was a difference between Levis and Blue Jeans. The former were tight fitting and the latter were loose. "Push-pull, click-click. Change blades that quick." John Martin's English Ford *the x-ray machines in stores into which you could stick your feet in order to see if your shoes fit. (The small kids could get their whole heads into the machine.) "He's got Roman hands and Russian fingers." "H-E-double toothpick!" (The word "hell" was considered naughty.) two mail deliveries a day, except Sundays skywriters (usually "Phillips 66" or "Pepsi") advice to bald guys: "Let your eyebrows grow out, and comb 'em straight back." the Red Shield Club "bookworm" the flooded underpass on Riverside Drive, and the Model-A Ford which towed stalled cars out because it was built so much higher. my full, four-year TU scholarship was $1,600. Now it's $51,600!!! "Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!" *gasoline pumps with big glass containers on top to hold the fuel. The attendant would manually pump the required amount of gas up into the container, then let it flow down into the car ------ LOST CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE '50's GENERATION IN TULSA (7/27/00) (#5)
coffee came only in "drip grind" or "regular" life before "the pill" ("Vatican roulette") "Eat at the Y" *Chase and Sanborn coffee sponsored "Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy." Brilliant Bronze, Lion, Clark, Cosden brands of gasoline Holy Family was red, and it was a high school "punch the ice-box" "One potato, two potato, three potato, four" pianists at music stores who would play the sheet music you were interested in buying (specifically at Jenkin's) Weber's Root Beer-----non-carbonated, served by "car hops" comic strips: Smilin' Jack (with the "lil de-icers"), Prince Valiant, Smokey Stover ("Notary Sojac" and the "Foomobile"), Nancy, Major Hoople (and his wife, Martha), Joe Palooka ("You dumb palooka!"), Andy Gump, Out Our Way, The Katzenjammer Kidz (with the cats who said "Meower fitz reower"), and its copy The Captain and the Kids (There was a law suit over that.), Alley Oop |
