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Teen-Age Romance
Howdy... welcome to Tuesday 4 which was hosted originally by Toni Taddeo and which we keep going in her memory.
Teen-Age Romances was a comic that ran from 1949 to 1955. It cost 10¢ a copy.
Used magazines now can be bought by collectors from hundreds of dollars to almost $2000. for a copy.
1. Did you have a teen-age romance? I had a steady boyfriend my sophomore year in high school, but it was not romance. We just had fun. If not, did you dream of one? I had a few "crushes" but didn't dream of romance. My steady was a year ahead of me and invited me to the Junior/Senior prom that year, which was great fun. Long white gloves, a long formal gown. Teased hair sprayed with hairspray!! That would have been in 1968.
2. What made it romantic? Or if it wasn't why not? We both knew it was all for fun back then. Neither of us ever said the "love" word. I don't even remember "breaking up" because it wasn't a thing. Summer came, we both worked, and that's the summer I met my first husband, who was home from Marine Corps boot camp and headed for Vietnam. That's another story for another time and doesn't involve romance.
3. What were dates like when you were younger? What did people do? Where did they go? Very small town. Events at the school (dances, sports, etc.). We had a pizza shop, but it wasn't really a hang-out. The nearest movie was either Newark or Lancaster, both 10+ miles or so away. Kids didn't have cars back then. Roller skating. Ice skating in winter. Our lake had two beaches. Boat rides sometimes. He spent a lot of time at my house. TV, board games, just hanging out. Who had money?
4, What kind of things, places etc. do you find romantic? I'm not a romantic, and I have no answer for this. It will be fun reading others' answers!!
I'm not sure I even want to do this one...my teen-age "romances" are things I'd prefer to forget and let lay in the dusty past of old scrapbooks and yearbooks and not dredge up again. Obviously, they didn't have "happy endings". LOL. We'll see if I get up my courage and do this one later. Your town sounds so much like ours, except we didn't have ice skating, and even roller skating was at least 5 or 10 miles away, and right, who had money? Movies, dances after the games, that was about it. And yes, I seriously dated a guy who went to Viet Nam, and we discussed marriage, but while he was gone I met John, and so I ended up writing that fellow a "dear John letter" while he was away. Some of his friends were mad at me for doing that, but it was the best thing I ever did. God had a better plan for my life and I'm so glad I listened for a change. And the rest is history.
ReplyDelete"Let the water and the blood,
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save me from its guilt and power." Amen.
Have a lovely day my dear friend from Florida!
I like those memories from years past. They don't seem so long ago, and yet they were. Good times!
ReplyDeleteRock of Ages - such a great hymn!
Fun memories; I remember roller skating, bowling going to the beach...I met my husband just before high school graduation and the rest is history!!!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had been so disinterested in romance when I was in high school. My old diaries are filled with love-lorn angst.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful memories you've shared here today, Terri. Hope your day is a blessed one!
ReplyDeleteHow fun your memories! How I miss those long gowns and pretty gloves -- not so much for me nowadays, but I'm glad to have experienced them. I do wish I'd not been such an incurable romantic; life would have been easier.
ReplyDeleteThe long (over the elbow) gloves.... ah yes, I had a pair I got to wear once and it was so special!
ReplyDeleteI tell you what - I LOVED this and hearing about your past - my past. How different it is now.
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