does anybody remember hanging baby shoes on the rear view mirror? i swear i remember that when i was a kid.
yes i remember that when i was a kid all the slicked back hair car guys had them hanging from there rear view mirrors
I remember that too. Never did understand it though. Then again I don't like anything hanging off my mirrors.
Boy ! Are We deperate for sumthing to talk about.......... I can't Rewmember !!!!!!!! (But, there's a Pair Hanging off my Mirror NOW . and I don't grase me Hair back. ) Smoked Up, in The Smokies
I remember that along with the chains made of pull tabs in the 60's (I'm not bragging about that one)
That was the whole idea Malarky....when you had the first kid, you took off the dice or skull (I had a shrunken head ) and hung the baby shoes
I remember fuzzy dice, shrunken heads and garters, but not baby shoes. If I'd ever had baby shoes hanging on my rearview...........................naw, I won't go there.
I thought the girlfriend hung the baby shoes on the mirror to let the owner/operator know she was 'up-a-stump.'
i knew i wasnt crazy, i must have been 10 years old,ridin in the car that was my dads buddy and he told me they were his boys first pair of shoes!
Thats funny...I took down my dice in exchange for the shoes. I guess it's just another way of showing you are a proud father. My littlest one could probably fit in them now. I think it'd be cool if they both wore them. And then when they are older, and the shoes are still there, that should be pretty neat for them.
I thought it was stupid, but I remember it.... Mr. Brosnik that lived next door had a bronzed set hanging from the mirror on his big old Buick........ Does anybody remember "Garters" hanging from rear view mirrors ?...... I sure do.
I remember opening my glovebox one morning and finding a garter in it and not knowing or at least not remembering at all how it got there!
I remember tucking a pair of panties under a friends front seat...............so they'd be found by his girlfriend. Ha
things we hung from the rear view mirror: ca. 1957-1964 fuzzy dice graduation tassel baby shoes (bronzed or au naturel) skull garter(s) scapula medals (Catholics will know) rosarys St Christopher medals That's about it. Pull tabs came later, by then, I was a Scotch drinker. Earlier days were spent saving "four dotters" (PNW guys will recognize the term).
Have seen baby shoes hanging from the rear view mirror. Never understood why until a girlfriend told me " the Mom hung the shoes up in the car so that single girls would know that he was a Daddy" implying that he is taken or committed ... or whatever. Like I can understand how a woman thinks. A garter on the mirror is a trophy. Uncledaddy; Was getting dressed up for a wedding, put on my suit coat, reached into my suit coat pocket and pulled out a pair of panties. Yes, in front of the then current wife. You guessed it, they weren't hers. I have no farking clue as to who they belonged to. If you and I should ever meet, remind me to give you a bitch slap, on principle. All the best, Dale Cleveland OH
Bronze baby shoes in fact, bronze anything was a big deal in the fifties. My old man had an outfit in the basement from Warner Electric in Chicago, we would bronze the baby shoes and mount them on a metal base or plaque for $5.98. I learned how to bronze baby shoes. I can bronze a butterfly. I can bronze a strawberry. Anything you like.
Got a pair in my '55 - you can kinda see them here. I'm not sure where / when it became popular, but I remember them hanging from the rear view of my Dad's car many, many moons ago.
I had my son's first pair of baby shoes hanging off the mirror for a while after he outgrew them. Yes it was just a proud Daddy thing. I also gave out cigars when he was born. It doesn't seem that many people do that anymore either. I must be old fashioned.
All I can say that it is about as weird as crying children leaning against car bumpers at car shows! Jay
The Jalopy Journal
