The Return of Laverne and Shirley!
It looks as if my "Gotta love a small town parade" blog has hit paydirt! An old...oops, "former" classmate saw the blog and e-mailed me with a long-forgotten memory. It seems that she has documented proof (as seen above) that she and I rode the FHA float together in high school!
This is a classic if ever there was: Look at that cozy windmill and the little flower-strewn picket fence! Judy says that she kept the dress for a long time and remembers that the skirt was blue, the blouses were white, and the vests were RED!
I have no doubt that we looked like twin versions of SNOW WHITE!
I have several observations:
* Why did Sue get to wear the classy red formal with the long white gloves, while we had to dress like something out of a Disney cartoon???? (Mrs. Rankin, what were you thinking?!)
* And why were those horrible CAT EYE glasses so popular in the fifties?? I look like someone from a FAR SIDE CARTOON!
* Why do I have no memory of this life-changing moment in my high school career????
* And why am I posting a photo that makes me look like Laverne dressed up like Snow White, as drawn by Gary Larson in the funny papers...??
* Was the Fonz driving that big beautiful car, which I will show you on my next blog?
If the fins were any bigger, it could fly! In the meantime, I'll ask my automotive expert friend to identify the make and model.
Till then, Happy Days, ya'll!
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I'm at the office, so I can't check the yearbooks, but if she was Carnival Queen in '60, I have no doubt that she was in the same parade!
I'm not sure the small schools do that anymore for the queens & their courts. I think they just stick them in a convertible and send them 'round.
In fact, one year I was watching the parade, and I thought, "Hey, haven't we seen that girl??" And I found out that if a girl had won several queen contests, she had several cars & drivers lined up to take her through the parade over & over!
Yes, your moms were "hotties"!! There may not be many photos out there from the 50's. Do you have your mom's Reveille yearbook from 1960? That's the year she was FHA queen and we were her attendants. Most of the time, she wore her hair very long, straight, and loose, but the yearbook picture shows her hair shorter and more "fixed."
If you want to e-mail me at the office, my address is on my profile. I'll be glad to send you a scanned picture from the yearbook. Heck, I may even do another blog on the topic!!!