Download e-book for iPad: Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins: Tales and Tips from Growing Up by Susan Sanvidge,Diane Sanvidge Seckar,Jean Sanvidge

By Susan Sanvidge,Diane Sanvidge Seckar,Jean Sanvidge Wouters,Julie Sanvidge Florence

ISBN-10: 0870204467

ISBN-13: 9780870204463

“In the fifties, glossy Mixmasters have been changing rusty eggbeaters, and new pressure-cookers blew their tops in kitchens all over the place city. there have been children in all places, and new ‘ranch-style’ homes crammed vacant plenty. . . . Turquoise Studebakers and dusty-rose Chevy BelAirs with flamboyant fins and many chrome changed darkish pre-war automobiles. Cameras took colour snapshots rather than black-and-white. We wore crimson canvas tennis footwear and lemon yellow shorts, and vibrant blue popsicles melted down our chins.” from the Introduction

In Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins, the 4 Sanvidge sisters, whose birthdates span the child Boomer interval, current a full of life chronicle of turning out to be up within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties in a small midwestern city. every one sister writes in regards to the points of her formative years she recalls most sensible, and their lighthearted tales are illustrated with interval photographs. Sprinkled with mentions of pedal pushers, domestic permanents, and “two-tone” autos; early television exhibits and the 1st rock and roll; hula hoops, Tiny Tears, and Mr. Potato Head (played with a true potato); and stories in their grandparents who lived within reach, Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins additionally positive factors “how-tos” for re-creating the fads, meals, crafts, and video games the Sanvidge sisters bear in mind of their stories.

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