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How to Stand on Your Head
Submitted by tterrace on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:19pm.
Method 1: Make use of your poise, balance and coordination.
Method 2: Lacking any of those, make use of your big sister.
A pair of Kodachromes shot by my brother on our lawn in 1955. View full size.
Shakedown
Submitted by snoproblem on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 4:38am.
Great pics! The second pic could be titled "How to shake down your little brother for his lunch money".
Pay up, squirt!
Capri pants = pedal pushers
Submitted by tterrace on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 2:22pm.
The term I grew up with (my sister wore them a lot) was pedal pushers.
Capris
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 9:45am.
Except for that particular Kodachrome glow, these could have been taken yesterday, not 53 years ago. I saw a young lady in an almost identical capri pants/no sleeve blouse outfit in the mall last night. Eventually everything comes around again I suppose. Except, let's hope, those alternative pants we saw you and your brother in.
Standing on your head
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 1:09am.
This actually was one of the two things I learned in Gymnastics class (which I hated. Couldn't do cartwheels for the life of me. Or the balance bars.) The other was a backwards somersault.
--Girl in the checkered shirt.
Thanks tterrace!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 10:28pm.
tterrace, I've really enjoyed the pictures you've submitted. Thanks so much for sharing!
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