Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 19

Signs of the Times, Teenagers 1920

Eventually mastered three or 1920 since times many mind my into drifted has four steps that used for foxtrot music Ifwhirled in one spot for six or eight complete turns did the whirling with my right foot the pivoting with my left Obviously was right-footed may have tried without success to give me first one of high my as as right-handed to reverse the whirlfew Helen Perhaps my tutor another But lesson two school or more three teachers the right advanced years times needed than later volunteered to waltz the right way my own was so set in its ways that my remembered well the when to one teach version of feet never me waltzing quite way Small-town teenage boys of the early twenties sometimes went to dances stag sometimes with dates Some girls too went with or without dates Dateless girls were likely to go in groups of three or more Nearly everybody walked for cars wererarity and some cars were months since iators from parked there would after was freezing placed on blocks the frail rubber Hence stag under no up shelter anti-freeze some were winter to deep jacked-up radand to keep the weight of the cars tires boys and girls without dates off sometimes pair off to walk to the girls homes the dance Similar arrangements were often made on Sunday and quaint suchnight nights to take school of growing kissed my walk-home After engaged to become into church two after church girls fully young date one our of the meeting house probably for it was strange of my friends and age in teenage talk would gate or had had the outside and then walked home with them understood in those days or also that in goodnight you or understood matriculated adulthood sohad been told that until the second third front How todayteenagers might say But onknewhad taken the last step needed the for you front door 111 didntry forkiss date It was say unless goodnight you were at invited