Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

something and you could go down. . ,
Q. Did you needed a corsage?
A. Oh, that was later, much later. Junior Prom or Senior Ball, but. . .and the SeFor Balls wqe
nothing like today, oh my God. Crazy.
Q. They have lost a lot, haven't they?
A. Yes, But then, we had an hour. The dance was eight to eleven in high scho~l gymnasium,
eight to eleven, and then you usually had. ..I usually conned my father out of the family car and I
had a pal, Maury Majors, and we'd double up and we'd go to these dances togqer. Afterwards
you had an hour to get to your car, to get to the Sugar Bowl or something like that, cause you
always had to stay for the last dance which they played "I'll See You in My Dreams," and that's
when you really held them tight cause you'd hope to get a kiss at the door when you took them
up to the door, maybe. Big deal. And then you went and got your. ..oh, maybe we went to the
hamburger stand. There's a Root Beer place down at Fifth and South Grand thae behind the
filling station, the Frosty Root Beer, and you could go in there and get a hamburger for a die
and a Frosty Root Beer for a nickel. They were all covered with ice and you gabbled those qown
real quick and then you went for a ride through the park and maybe she'd sit ower close to y
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and you'd put you arm around her a little bit. And one girl, we used to drive the car togeth r.
Gear shift here (demonstrates) and I'd handle the clutch and the break and one piece of the 1
steering wheel and she would do the shifting over here and we would kinda cuddle up together.
Q. What were you driving in those days?
A. Let's see. My father's was a Willis Knight, (spells Knight), yes a Willis Wght. Yes, thqt's
what we drove. Dad had a couple of em.
Q. Was it a coup?
A. No, it was a four door.
Q. First I've heard of that one. Now, you were raised a Catholic and were you consistently
involved in the church?
A. Yeah, we went to church every Sunday.
Q, And was Sunday a bit of a ritual? Did you come home and have dinner at the table, etc?
A. Oh yes. Mother would have, . . our dinner on Sunday was at noon.
Q. Was it chicken?