Re: [FWDLK] Stuck in the 50's

[Anthony Rinaldi <awrdoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi to all,

Speaking of NJ, I shared some of the fuzzy dic & the
rosary stories with my older cousin (I was much too
young to remember!!!!) and he shared the following
first hand remarks:

_____________________

Everybody is an expert today.  Fuzzy dice were
popular,  the gentleman
writing the e-mail was a bit young and missed the
fuzzy dice craze.  
Fuzzy
dice were popular with the guys that started driving
in the early and 
mid
50s'.

Now being from the cultural center of the country
(Hammonton), NJ 
I would know.
Dice were so popular that the auto shop at the Berlin
Auction ( the 
other
cultural center of the world) could not keep them in
stock.  You would 
have
to order and pay in advance to get them.  I never had
them but my 
brother
and his gang did.  The only place I saw raccoon tails
were on bikes 
(pedal
type) and on a raccoon.

Regarding the little old lady, the reason she was
arrested her driving 
was
so bad she was saying the rosary while driving.

As you know you must have your hands on the wheel at
all times while
driving, not on the rosary beads.  You probably drove
a few times with  
one
hand on the wheel, only the other hand  if you were
lucky was not 
saying the
rosary.

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--- a57fury@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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 
>  
>
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