How could one of my best friends go after my guy!

Posted on November 14, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 24, 1964, Friday. Bitchen night – Sandy Block, Jack, Dave K. and I are doubling.

Told everyone about needing to get a date for Jack and everyone wanted to go. After school I went home. Doug didn’t call, so I wasn’t sure if he was going to come over. Dave called, he was at Jack’s with about 20 guys. Doug wasn’t here by 8:00, so I went to Sports Night and only Marilyn, Sandy and Dianne were there. Marilyn Collier and I went to check out the guys at Jacks house. There were so many guys there!!! and they didn’t want us to leave. Dave and I, went to the store with Marilyn and some guy. I let Dave drive my bitchen 57 Chevy, but it kept dying. Marilyn and I left the party, but came back with Sandy and Dianne. We walked in to music blasting and danced all night long. Marilyn kept flirting with Dave. She knows I like him, but it doesn’t stop her.

I felt like I was the matchmaker watching Dave K. scope in on my friend Marilyn. I guess I was just the hook-up for all my Saffron friends to meet the bitchen West Side Surfers.

I knew Marilyn was very “Ann Margret,” sexy and flirty,

but I expected her to honor the boyfriend code,

not corner Dave and let him know she was available.

I had all the cute girl connections and all the bitchen surfer connections. Too bad I couldn’t have started a dating service like match.com. The sad part about being so popular was, my girlfriends liked all my boyfriends and my boyfriends liked all my girlfriends. leaving me to pursue my acting career I suppose.

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Patricia Stevens Modeling School set me on the road to Anorexic behavior.

Posted on November 14, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 27,1964, Thursday. I have to lose 5 lbs by next week.

Was so windy, I felt sick and almost threw up in first period. But I ate a whole bunch and felt better. After school my sister Donna and I had to go to Modeling School. It was during the bad traffic hour and took an hour and a half to get to Pasadena from Culver City. I was so mad. The class was fun and I really enjoyed it a lot. During the figure part we got weighed and measured. I couldn’t believe I weighed 125 lbs at 5’4”. I usually only weigh 115 lbs. The instructor told me I had to lose 5 lbs, mostly in my hips. I can’t wait, we got a bunch of exercises to do and I’m starting tomorrow. Dave K called and I told him about my 8 year old sister Billee’s, little boyfriend, who calls her on the phone. He laughed. He wants me to fix Jack up with one of my friends. Bonnie maybe.

It started off with 5 lbs

and having perfect measurements,

Patricia Stevens Modeling School set me on the road to Anorexic behavior. For the rest of my life my self worth was measured by how thin I was. How in control of my food I could be. How small a dress size I could get into. It wasn’t about a guy liking me for myself anymore, it was about how sexy I looked and how I could use that to control everything and everyone in my life. 12 step programs helped me get my life back in my 40’s.

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None of my friends are taking my modeling and acting career seriously…

Posted on November 13, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 22, 1964, Wednesday. Lauri and I got on one of our deep talks about sex.

Told Bonnie finally about my modeling and acting audition. Vicki kinda made a joke about it. It made me hate her. I didn’t want to tell anyone until I was sure about it. After school Lauri and I went shopping. I picked up a suit for Mommy, it cost $100.00, but she was mad about it, because the fur collar was wrecked. She brought it back. Lauri and I talked about sex again. We’re sure we’re never getting married and I told her I still loved Howard – but, I’d go steady with Dave K. and Doug C. just to forget him. Doug called, we’re going to a company party Friday. He’s such a BUG!

I’d buy my Mom things I could borrow and this was a very popular look in 1964.

No, I’ve decided I’m never getting married…

Instead I’m going to be a model and actress.

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Like Lana Turner sitting at the counter at Schwab’s Drugstore, I wanted to be discovered by a Talent Scout in 1964

Posted on November 11, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 21, 1964, Tuesday. Can’t wait until the weekend. Going out with Dave Kendal…

Nothing happened today in school except in Drama. We’re starting a new Drama Club with only ten members. I wasn’t one of the ten and it broke my heart too. But Mr. Lauderville told me I’d be taken in September and I should bring up my grades. I went to Patricia Stevens Modeling School in Pasadena and took a Social test. Than I talked to Mr. Dunnen and Mr. Gentry. They aren’t sure about my sister Donna and I staring the course, because we would have to come on Saturday’s from 10:00 to 3:00. That would take all day and I’m not sure I want to make a commitment like that. Plus drive an hour each way. We started our first class and we loved it. I also got an interview with Mr. Louis the acting director in three weeks. Plus, we’re going on some modeling jobs in a few weeks. But, that means giving up Saffron meetings for a while.

I just couldn’t connect with anything but Drama in High School. In fact it took me until 2001 to finally complete my Bachelors Degree in Psychology I graduated from Vanguard University at 54 years of age, the same week my daughter Georgia graduated from College with the same degree. Would you call me a Late Bloomer?

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Someday My Prince Will Come, but until he does, I will go to Patricia Stevens Modeling School and have a career

Posted on November 9, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 20, 1964, Monday. Going out with Dave K. and Doug C. this weekend.

Nothing much happened today, everyone asked about Dave and Doug. I told Bonnie and Angie that I still loved Howard, as a matter of fact I think I told everyone. I also told a couple of kids about Patricia Stevens Modeling School and my acting career. I’m afraid of all the hard work and disappointments ahead. I only hope I make something of this and not just talk about it. The kid’s think it’s a phony deal and I can’t help finding it hard to believe all the promises they told me. I felt sad I listened to my sad records and cried tonight. Then Dave called and asked me to a party Saturday. I’m going to a party with Doug Friday night. I would rather go alone because I bet Howard will be there.

Patricia Stevens Modeling Pose, but my heart isn’t really in it, too hard. It would be much easier to be a Princess in my Fairy Tale World.

I grew up on the promise that “Someday My Prince Will Come” and rescue me from having to try and fail at a modeling and acting career. I went through the motions and completed everything I started, but still hoped for the promise of true live to come true. That was 1964, before Women’s Lib changed that thinking….Or did it!

Snow White – Someday My Prince Will Come (Barbra Streisand)

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I’d get amnesia and go into “Happily ever after thinking”…..”The Chiffons – He’s So Fine

Posted on November 8, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 19, 1964, Sunday. Sad, depressed day. Oh God, I still love Howard. I hope we get back.

Got up about noon and had a terrible headache from last night and a cold, plus I didn’t sleep good, cause I had to sleep in my little brother Preston’s bed. Doug called, he wanted to come over, but talked him out of it. What am I going to do with Doug. He loves me, but I just like him as a friend. I know I’m going to hurt him like I hurt Ernie. Washed my hair and Lauri came over. She told me she saw Howard at the dance last night. He looked so bitchen she didn’t even know him at first. Then she talked to him. She said he looked so depressed and besides he came alone and left alone. I bet He’ll ask Lauri out, but the only way he can get her number is by me. I still love him out of all the boy. Why couldn’t I have been nicer to him. We had fun together and everyone knew us as a couple.

And we we lived Happily Ever After!

The Chiffons – He’s So Fine

It was painful to still be crazy about my ex-boyfriend and have to start dating other guys. So of course it was natural to want to take the easier road and head back into the old dysfunction. I’d get amnesia and go into “Happily ever after thinking” – edit the truth about what he was really like – and only remember the best things about him. Like HE’S SO FINE!

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You must to be so careful not to get a bad reputation in High School

Posted on November 8, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 18, 1964, Saturday. Dave K. doesn’t have the class Howard has. I still like Howard. Lauri saw Howard a a dance and said he looked sad.

Had to get up early to go to Patricia Stevens Modeling School. I wore the same thing as last night. I could tell they were impressed with me, but they thought my eyeliner was too thick. They told my sister Donna and me that we could pay for the course by modeling professionally and I get an interview with a big Director. We start Tuesday. Got home from Pasadena at 4;30. Dave K. picked me up at 6:00. We doubled with Jack and Linda. Went out to eat at Truman’s. It was bitchen. I love Dave and he acted like he likes me. We went to the Centinela Drive-In and saw “Soldier in the Rain.” I kissed Dave. We left after the first show and went to his friend’s house. It was “so tough,” with a fireplace. Dave and I made out in the bedroom for an hour or more. It’s so hard after going with one boy. If I let Dave do everything I let Howard do, he might think I’m cheap and just use me. What am I going to do… What!!

Meaning of “so tough”

adj. excellent, first-rate;

used as a positive description of someone or something;
synonyms include cool, hot, tight, bitchin’, sweet, awesome, pissa, hip, rad etc.

My sister Donna was an ad in the paper about Patricia Stevens Modeling School. My parents allowed us to drive from Culver City to Pasadena once a week for our classes. We wanted to do modeling. I wanted to be an actress as well.

Soldier in the Rain (1963)

Now I’m sure Howard told everyone I let him get to second base before breaking up. Now what do you do when a new guy expects you to put out and you don’t want to get a bad reputation. But you like him. Of course if your not drinking you say no….More will be revealed, so stay tuned.

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He actually had to drink 10 beers to get up the nerve to kiss me. (Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody)

Posted on November 6, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 17, 1964, Friday. FINALLY GOT SOME HAIRSPRAY!!

While we were at the apartment, Dave Kendal was across the street at the Flying Jib. Doug say’s he loves me. I don’t love him.

Handed in Lauri’s book report as my own. I know the teacher will find out. There was a big Fashion Show at school… it was so bitchen! Doug was supposed to pick me up at 7:00, but didn’t get here until 7:30. I was so mad. I wore Mommy’s dress and coat I gave her for Christmas and my matching shoes. Doug couldn’t get over how bitchen I looked, he just kept staring at me. What am I going to do? He likes me too much! We went out to eat at Frier’s. We tripled with Gary, Dean, Sue and Vicky. After, we went to Doug’s apartment at Toes, it’s so bitchen, a real beach pad…I love it. He drank 10 cans of beer. We watched TV and listened to records. He tried to kiss me. I wouldn’t let him. I kissed him on the way home! He said he doesn’t want to loose me, he acts like we’ve been going together a long time.

With a fresh can of Hair Spray it’s easy to see the effect a great hairdo had on a guy. He had to drink 10 beers to get the nerve to kiss me.

Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody

Gee do you think Doug was setting me up by taking me to his bitchen Beach-Pad, with a stack of 45’s playing on the Record Player, including the most Romantic song ever…I’m sure!… But, it didn’t phase me!

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Without Hair Spray, my life came to a screeching halt in 1964

Posted on November 5, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 16, 1964, Thursday. Going to Friar’s Friday with Doug C., than to surf films and a dance. Saturday I’m going to Mc Goo’s and to the show with Dave K.

Was so ugly today at school. I didn’t have any hairspray!! My hair completely fell in gym, because I washed it last night. So, by lunchtime I couldn’t stand it. Everyone pulled down my hair and I had to go to two classes looking like a Lion or Hazel the Witch. In fact, Mrs. Ship marked me absent because she didn’t recognize me. After school I laid out in the sun. Doug called and said I was probably pregnant from all the things Howard was saying about me. I hate Howard for saying such lies. I never did anything with him but make-out in the back of his car in the drive-in. Went shopping with Lauri, we ran out of gas. So embarrassed. Two boys helped us. Got home about 9:30. Dave called, he’s picking me up at 5:30 Saturday. Doug called, he’s picking me up at 6:30 Friday. Is it possible Howard is getting even with me for going out with his friends?

(Funny how I was strict about the “Girl Code,” of never going out with your best friends ex-boyfriends. But, I most definitely didn’t follow the “Guy Code,” when it came to going out with my ex-boyfriend’s best friends.)

When my mother wanted to punish me for something she was mad at me about, she took away my hairspray. That was her way of grounding me. It was the worst possible thing she could do when I was 16.

You couldn’t do this hairdo, without half a can of hairspray.

And, you certainly couldn’t look like this without your Aqua Net.

And forget going out on a date without a ready supply of Hair Spray. You obviously couldn’t make-out in the back seat and come home looking as perfect as when you left without it… No Hair Spray, no dating! Thanks Mom!

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I love Bryan Ferguson. He and Howard are friends with the fat guy Mark Volman, in the Turtles band.

Posted on November 4, 2013 by saffronsrule

April 15, 1964, Wednesday. Bitchen day. Want to go out with Byran Ferguson. He’s so bitchen, but still like Dave Kendal best. Doug Cooper is a BUG.

Was so hot I wore a bathing suit under my dress. Got gas and went t Marilyn’s to use her hairspray, cause I’m afraid to ask mommy to buy me anymore…She’s in a bad mood and I don’t want to start a fight. In Gym Mrs. Mc Niven sent me to Mr. Blunt’s office for wearing a bathing suit to school. The school thought I was going to ditch and go to the beach. There was nothing he could do because there is no rule saying we can’t wear bathing suits as underwear. Marilyn was called up too. Mr. Blunt was bitchen, but got gym detention, can’t figure out why? Went to the beach after school…Dave Kendal, Doug Cooper, Bryan Ferguson, Bryan, Lew and everyone was there. Doug just kept staring at me, even though I was real mean to him. Bryan Ferguson found out I wasn’t going with Howard and was extra friendly. (If you’re going wit a guy, usually his friends will treat you cool, until you break up and are on the loose again.) I hope Bryan asks me out. I flirted wit him. Got mad at Marilyn for flirting with Dave K. (Wish I hadn’t brought her.) Doug called when I got home. Lauri came over. Bryan Ferguson, is the drummer in the band that plays at all the Westchester dances. He and Howard are friends with the fat guy Mark Volman, in the Turtles band.