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Father’s Day theme, it only occurred to me this morning that
the boys in the above photo were of an age to match my late father when this
photo was taken. It also fits in the
hanging on the street corner theme I believe even if it is in a mini-park.
The smoking end of the photo reminds me of my dad’s lifetime
two pack a day habit of Lucky Strikes.
Of note I can remember being four or five and going down to the corner
grocery store in the late fifties with $.26 to buy him a pack of cigarettes and
they did not card me. Ha Ha.
On the fashion theme I see these young men in the photo are
wearing short pants or knickers. I don’t know which term was correct in Philly
at the time. The short pants were I
believe a carryover of when men wore breeches as in the case of George
Washington etc.
Also of note, I see one of the boys wearing a sleeve
garter. I can remember my dad mentioning
that in the old days, the white shirts were wool and would shrink with every
washing. So shirts were bought with many sizes too large to accommodate long
term wear before passing them along as a
hand me down to a younger sibling or cousin (recycling) and the sleeve garters
helped to keep your cuffs from going down to your knees. Then again, when sleeves got too short or too
tight, there were always scissors and short sleeve shirts.
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