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Teenage Party: 1953
September 1953. "Teenagers at a party hosted by Teenage Cookbook author Betty Betz. Includes teenage girls pulling taffy as others watch." Ektachrome transparency by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine assignment "Teenage Party." View full size.
Yes, you young Whippersnappers.
This is how we dressed to go to parties in the 1950s. Suit and tie were obligatory even if it was in your unfinished basement.
Taffy-pulling contest at St. Peter's
... and not the other way around.
For some reason I remember this from an album of radio bloopers that my parents had around the house in the early '70s.
Sticky Fingers
Yuck! Don't think I'd want to eat any of that taffy after having several hands pulling on it. Hope the party hostess insisted they all wash their hands before participating.
That stuff is dangerous
I was a teenager the last time I ate saltwater taffy. I remember it welded my mouth shut and I was afraid it might yank out a filling. Look at how hard everyone is pulling on it. You don't want to turn around and put something like that in your mouth.
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