Growing Up in Williamsport, Ohio

Probably a sports meeting in the Home Economics Classroom. L to R: Harvey Rutherford, Mike McCafferty, Marty Noble (?) Center: unknown (?), Eddie James, unknown adult in the background, Billy Horch and Jimmy Whitten.

​ Happy Days!
 
If you ever wondered about the show Happy Days, yes, those days did exist….even in Williamsport. The writer of Happy Days must have grown up in the fifties. I have already told you about going to Red Fry’s Drugstore for fountain cherry and vanilla Cokes, potato chips and the jukebox.
 
There were other things reminiscent about that time. All of the boys had nicknames for everybody. The boys called each other “Hog Jaws”. I don’t know why but it may have been a local thing. Jimmy Whitten called all of us girls “Sweetie Pie” or “Sweet Pea”. I do know that it endeared him to us so it must have paid off. : )
 
The only person that I ever saw wear a poodle skirt was Janet Wright. We also wore little square silk scarves tied around our necks or in our hair. And yes, we all wore bobby sox and saddle shoes. The boys wore white “bucks”.
 
And we had a Fonz or two. Claude “Mike” McCafferty wore his hair in duck tails. Earl Christopher sat in the seat in front of me and yes, he had duck tails and was the ultimate Fonz. They were considered to be cool, very cool.
 
And they were Happy Days!

©Marilyn Francis Ferguson 2021
Photography/graphics by Michele Ferguson Schuck