From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jun 4 09:07:58 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k54F7wjb006831; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:07:58 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k54F7t2v029175 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:07:55 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k54CWXFI026126 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:32:33 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k54CWXYK026125 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:32:33 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k541WiFI010227 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:32:44 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k5447tMa027454 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:07:55 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Sat Jun 3 22:07:54 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5447sjb027443 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:07:54 -0600 Received: from web60915.mail.yahoo.com (web60915.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.179.4]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k5447qEC004989 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:07:53 -0600 Received: (qmail 38623 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Jun 2006 04:07:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Dv58Gdc2Z4RYy+pi5SudOK81/WAPo9jFldz4Lqq/Z6yzIo4i39ARc4xKMRViWE3jL5K3f4xqYkKUDVCPKqh4XhNcmRJrwpf9W9j7N9A+Um2+q37z8qm63SI6ZjXhLVs8lpvw3h00sDkcK9n8S0J03I8Vf21utjLdDHag7bQg5PQ= ; Message-ID: <20060604040747.38621.qmail@web60915.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60915.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:07:47 PDT Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:07:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k5447tMa027454 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k541WiFI010227 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Memories 'Round The Mill Lets Go Back To 1948 In 1948 I was in the 8th grade in Yukon, Oklahoma¡¯s only Grade School. That same grade school is still standing between 6th and 7th Street and Oak Street on the South and Maple on the north. My old Grade School is now the Yukon Historical Society. That year must have been the first year that Yukon families had finally over come the GREAT DEPRESSION be cause that was the year that girls and boys started having more than five changes of clothes. That was the first year that girls clothing style took a dramatic change and they looked prettier than anytime that I can remember. Girls stopped wearing penny loafers and bobby socks. The girls were wearing satin full skirts down to the ankles in every color. They wore satin ballerina slippers that were the same color as their skirts. They wore white peasant blouses with puff sleeves and low round necks. There was narrow ribbon the color of the skirt woven through the slits around the sleeve and around the neckline; they wore nylon hose with their satin slippers. I still remember how pretty these girls looked all dressed up in beautiful satin skirts, matching satin slipper, with their pretty peasant blouses. Here are a few of the pretty Yukon girls that looked so great in that style of women¡¯s ware PAULA RUTLEDGE, WYNEAMA TIDWELL, MARVIS JESTER, RUTH ANN HANDCOCK, MICKEY LEMASTER, PAULINE and JOY DRANE, BEVERLY and MARGIE LEE MCKINNEY, RUE DONNA JACOBSEN, MARTHA MANN, RUTH BALL, FLORENCE and PATSY KOLAR, PATSY LEMASTER, PHYLLIS GRASSMANN, BOBBIE SUE RATTON, FRANCES RUZICKA,JOY RENE FOLK, MARY NELL HANDCOCK.JOAN RNODYBACK, JUNE LARSON, MARILYN SMITH, and many more. Yukon was well known for having beautiful girls. The boys wore penny loafers or cowboy boots; gabardine slacks, rolled up starched and ironed blue jeans or well starched and ironed kaki slacks. One of the things that was real popular in that day and time was the ¡°SOCK HOP.¡± Young people today do not comprehend what a sock hop is all about. First of all it is a contest judging whitch couple has the brightest and prettiest, wildest matching high top socks. The boy goes shopping for just the right socks for himself and his date. When they arrive at the dance they take off their shoes, a number is put on each couples back. As the couple dances past the judges they do all sorts of crazy antics to get the judges attention on their socks. There are usually three prizes 1, 2 and 3rd place. CONNIE FRANCES was a popular singer back then singing TRUE LOVE, Everybody¡¯s somebodys fool, When the boy in your arms is the boy in your heart, Second hand love, who¡¯s Sorry Now, Heartaches by the numbers, My happiness, Breakin¡¯ In A New Brand New Broken Heart, Fascination, and Together, and True Love. Where The Boys Are, Among My Souvenirs, You¡¯re Breaking My Heart, Lipstick On Your Color, The Very Thought Of You, and Goodnight Sweetheart. These songs should bring back a lot of memory¡¯s I¡¯ve Hear That Song Before, You¡¯ll Never know, Rum and Coca-Cola, It¡¯s Been A long, Long Time; Dance With A Dolly with A Hole In Her Stocking, Oh what it seem to be, Sentimental Journey, My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time, Saturday Night Is The Loneliest night in the week, Mairzy Doats, Pistol Packin MaMa, Don¡¯t Get Around Much Any More, Somebody Else Is Taking My Place, You Always Hurt The One You Love. And who could forget dancing to Frank Sinatra to songs like Stars Fell On Alabama, Close To You, Hey! Jealous Lover, I Got Plenty of Nothing, I wish I were In Love Again, The Lady Is A tramp, Night and Day, Witchcraft, Something Wonderful Happens in Summer, All The Way, Chicago, Lets Get Away From It All, Autumn In New York, Come Fly With Me, Everybody Loves Somebody, it¡¯s the Same Old Dream, Put Your Dreams Away, Here Goes, Angel Eyes, I¡¯ve Got The World On A String, Lean Baby, I Love You South Of The Border, From Here To Eternity, They Can¡¯t Take That Away From Me, I Get A Kick Out Of You, Young At Heart, They Can¡¯t Take That Away From Me, Three Coins In A Fountain, In the Wee Small Hours Of The morning, Learnin¡¯ The Blues, Our Town, Love And Mariage, Love is the tender trap, You Make Me Feel So Young, Memories Of You, I¡¯ve Got You Under My Skin, Two Marvelious For Words, Don¡¯t Like Good Byes, How Little it maters, How Little We know. Who can remember these song? My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time. Papa Loves Mambo, A Tear Fell and Its Not For Me To Say. Don¡¯t Sit Under The Apple Tree with anyone else but me, Chattanooga Choo Choo, I¡¯ll Walk alone, I¡¯ll never Smile again, As Time Goes By, and Till The End Of Time. We use to Cut A Rug At Teen Town, Jitter Bug, And Square Dance. We Ball room danced every where and we Polka Danced at Czech Hall dancing to Milo and Joe Belski Polka Band. Charley Belski Also Played in The Polka Band and as a teenager I was mighty smitten with one of Charley Belski¡¯s Twin Girls BEVERLY BELSKI. Charley had two very pretty daughters and two very pretty sisters , all close to my age. There were a lot of booging going on around the Mill. Yes I have Many Fond Memories ¡®Round The Mill. We also use to take turns having dances in our homes during the week. Yes Good things were happening all the time in my home town of Yukon, Oklahoma on Old Route 66. Now That I Have Told You Young People what a real Sock Hop is, you might find it as much as my friends and I did. So Lets Go To The Hop! Let¡¯s Be Bop! Come Cut a rug with me! We Will Go Shop for the Hop! Let¡¯s Boogie Woogie the night away! By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com