Here are the good old days...

Strange, but the clothes and styles don't look strange to me - but maybe because I was a teen-ager back then!!!



And by the way - the Kookie Kar, the black T-bucket (who remembers THAT!!) 2-seater, was the ride of Gerald Lloyd Kookson III ("Kookie"), played by Edd Byrnes in the TV show 77 Sunset Strip. Sure all you under 40 guys, at least, remember that one. LOL



The Edd Byrnes character Kookie became a cultural phenomenon, with his slang expressions such as "ginchy" and "piling up Zs" (sleeping). When Kookie helped the detectives on a case by singing a song, Edd Byrnes began a singing career with "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" (based on his frequent combing of his hair).



Cool, Daddy-O, Cool.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

bobdriveshudson wrote:

I really enjoyed seeing this and hearing the tunes, but where are the HUDSONS??

Didnt any one drive Hudson in California in 1955-57? We did in the South.

Hudsonly, Bob Parks

Of course Hudsons were being driven in the south - trippers were running shine at night and beating the daylights out of everybody in the bullrings on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.



Hudson owed much of it's popularity, in the south, to NASCAR which, at that time was pretty much confined to the southeast - they had a few races up north, like at the Detroit Fairgrounds and over in Pennsylvania. There were a few other tracks up there - but most of the NASCAR races were run south of the Mason-Dixon Line at the time.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

dummy wrote:

I Liked The Way They Passed Out The Awards, Very Nice. I Have Never Seen Them Passed Out Like That. Call Me Old Fashion, But Those Young Girls Sure Looked Good, Dressed Like That.

Didn't they look nice - that was in the good old days when a girl couldn't get out of the house looking like to many do today. Guys had to look dressy too.



Pants down around your ankles - you wouldn't have gotten out of the house like that and probably wouldn't have been let into the school either. If you did try to wear your pants that low - and insisted that you had a right to wear them like that - your dad would probably hauled them up and nailed them to you waist. LOL We could wear jeans to school, but the guys that did were considered to be bums. Unless it was hunting season or you were working somewhere after classes.



Yes, for the girls jeans or pedal pushers were acceptable - if the young lady was going to participate in some sort of activity (sports, John, sports) that would make a dress and heels unacceptable.



Was a time, at that.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN