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Show Joel Shapiro 5/26/82 tp 1 pg 22 l JS cut in Levis, but, I mean, I don't suggest that I dressed particularly pretty. Did you wear a shirt and tie? Well, basically. One dressed up to go out. Did teenagers drink beer? Yes, some teenagers did. I didn't, particularly. Did I go with some that did? Yes. I don't know that being a young male has changed all that much. I suppose the fascination with wheels for a high schooler--the automobile was just as keen then as it is now. Not as many kids per the whole had cars as do now. Obviously, sexual activity limitations or conventions were stricter then than they are now. L How did that, on a date, seem different? The more puritanical ways, I mean. Were you allowed to hold somebody's hand or ••• JS Well, I haven't been out on a date recently, so I don't know if I was mere puritanical than they are now or not. Well, I suppose I don't know. Young males are young males. I suppose they get along and do what they can do. There are receptive females at 17 in all cul tures. In Salt Lake City, I suppose, the ratio of less receptive ones was higher. I came home at decent hours. I think in the group within which I circulated, we stuck pretty much to pretty conventional movie picture versions of the 30's. We were pretty good kids. The group in which I was in. You know, your peers tend to be, at least at that time, similar. I went around with kids, by and large, who were children of professional people, business people. Not that my family had very much in the way of dollars. We're talking about the 30's, and if you were ahead a few bucks, you were separated from many who didn't have socks. I went to school with kids through high school (who) didn't have socks to wear. That was not an uncommon sight. It seems unbelievable today. I had a very good friend of a young man whose father had died, and he and his mother and brother, you know , not a f\1orrnon family, a Methodist family, a.nd he a.nd I were very good friends. This kid had his shorts wore out; he didn't have money to buy shorts and etc. So , the conditions of the 30's, in the absence of material things as simple as shorts and socks, it was not an uncommon experience to hear from friends. One of the LDS families in my neighborhood |
