"The
Rock 'n Roll". It was a dance published in a teen magazine with footsteps
you cut out and put on the floor. Donna and I were sophisticated first and
second graders who introduced the dance to our school. It
was about the same time Elvis burst on the scene. My Grandmother, Esther May Riley Gilmore & I saw him on "The Ed Sullivan Show" . I remember my mama sighing.
When I was little, movie stars and older girls wore sun dresses. spaghetti straps, tight tops, big full skirts that stood out with lots of slips under them. It was one of my favorite looks, but by the time I was old enough to wear them - those sundresses were out of style. I did wear 5 slips under my skirt to 5th grade though.
Baby doll pajamas, pettipants, thongs (now known as flip-flops), patterned hosiery, BIG hair. Black eyeliner. white or pale pink lipstick. Donna and I slept on huge pink brush rollers cushioned with folded up t.p.I remember dad having a fit about the bills for TP. I mean - how could anyone could use that much toilet paper in a week?
The bunny hop was still happening. When I was in high school, we'd bunny hop through all the taverns in town on Home Coming night. Long lines of kids hop hop - hop,hop,hopping past barstools crowed with smokers, women wearing too much perfume and creepy old guys. Hopping and singing the "Hop, Hop, Hop-hop-hop" at the top of our lungs.. out the back door and on down the street.
"Dragging main" in Kettle Falls. Kind of like in "Grease" but we just drove from the high school to railroad tracks and then back to the high school.
