3/1/11

HEY KIDS, what time is it?


Boomers barely into their boom years.

Welcome to the Peanut Gallery of a Boomer's youth. And who didn't want a dead raccoon to put on your head? I did not have a coonskin cap. My friend did. But I had Mouseketeer ears bought at Disneyland two weeks after it opened. Neither of us have the hats now. Our youth probably buried in a dump somewhere or for sale on eBay by someone else.



These little fellows are from a box of photos from the George Kallman estate. I have no idea who they are.
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9 comments:

  1. MrCachet3/01/2011

    I couldabeen the guy in the top photograph - or should I say - WAS.

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  2. Tattered and Lost3/01/2011

    You know I would have coveted that hat and if we'd played cowboys and Indians I'd have been plotting how to grab it after fake shooting you.

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  3. Christine H.3/01/2011

    We didn't have those, but we did have the mink stoles with the heads on them. It seemed like lots of kids in the 60s did, which makes me think they were popular in the 50s or early 60s and then fell out of favor and became dress-up accessories. Do you remember having any of those? Or was it just my neighborhood?

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  4. Tattered and Lost3/01/2011

    Somewhere in this house is my mother's fox stole. I remember her wearing it in the 1950s. Its little mouth biting its tail as it hung around her shoulders. I loved it and hated it. I used to pet it on the forehead and talk to it. I never understood why they were popular, but then I dislike the whole idea of wearing fur.

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  5. bella3/01/2011

    Hey, I just blogged about you. http://www.foobella.com/2011/03/hey-thanks-liebster.html

    =)

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  6. Tattered and Lost3/01/2011

    foobella,

    Thank you. Very kind. I will have to put on my thinking cap and do the same. Nice to know this place means something to someone.

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  7. Laurie3/01/2011

    Thanks for stirring the memories, again. When I came back from seeing Davy Crockett at the cinema (Fess Parker was great in the role), my mother made me a coonskin cape from an old fur coat. Strangely, here in England, thousands and thousands of mothers made the caps for their children - those were the days!

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  8. Tattered and Lost3/02/2011

    And sadly Fess Parker passed away last year:

    http://www.fessparker.com/fess_parker.htm

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  9. Kathe W.3/02/2011

    I looked for my brothers in these shots- no luck! Love tho' the memories these photos brought back of my little brothers playing.

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