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Having grown up in the 50's, I can tell you that in Northern New Jersey there were people who had fuzzy dice hanging from mirrors. Not only on "hot rods", suped up '49 and '50 Mercs, but with new cars ('56 and '57 Fords, Chevys and Mercurys ). I had a new '57 Plymouth Fury in 1957 (got it for my 17th birthday) and couldn't hang dice from the mirror as you all know it was on the dashboard. If I had a rear view mirror on the windshield, fuzzy dice would have been hanging from it. There one or two raccon trails on antennas, but the fuzzy dice were much more prevalent. Pin striping was big and a few of the cars had continental wheels. I never put to much weight onto the Fury as I liked to drag race the car.
John Paxos
-----Original Message----- From: filtz1@xxxxxxxxxxx To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:20 PM Subject: [FWDLK] Stuck in the 50's Group,
This discussion came up the other day. How much of the "car culture" attributed to the 50's is real and how much is media? I.E. Did teens in the 50's really hang fuzzy dice from the mirror and raccoon tales from the antenna? Having not grown up in the 50's, I don't know what the answer is. Greg in WI 1956 Dodge Royal Lancer ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1 ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options,
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