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- Wake up, little Susie
- No more tailboarding
- Ask the boy who owned one
- The car
- Usually wigwam shaped.
- It works!
- One of 149?
- Wondering
- Re: All black
- A Country Song Comes to Mind
- ... Other Rooms
- If you don't like my driving
- White Sands
- Tried so hard
- Anaglyph of Susie
- Back step Firefighters
- E-4 Before integration of DCFD
- Free Viewing
- Stayed there often in the '50s and '60s
- At last!
- Freeviewing Susie
- Stereoscope
- Lena's Story
- Two different styles of stereo pairs
- Only Kindergarten
- Stereo Pair Viewing
- Good job Popeyelegs.
- Crosseyed and Parallel
- Correction
- Down Beat
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Vintage photos of:
Take Five: 1940
February 1940. "Basketball players resting between periods. Eufaula, Oklahoma." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The song wasn't written yet
"Who wears short shorts?" didn't become popular until 1957 but this could inspire such a tune.
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