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Eating raw eggs and stepping on live snails was part of Saffrons pledging, Hell Week
November 17, 1964, Tuesday. Pearl and I were too tired to go to the Saffron meeting, instead, we worked on the school play. The meeting was sickening anyway. They made the Pledge’s eat raw eggs and kill live Snails. … Continue reading
Posted in 1960's Surf Culture, 1964 High School Diary, Chick Secrets, diary, Little Sisters, Maybelline Girl, memoir, REALITY BLOG, Southern California 1964, teenage reality blog
Tagged 57 Chevy, Culver City California, Culver High School, dating, dead battery, Maybelline, Maybelline Story, Pledge rules, rehearsing the school play, Saffron Hell Week, Saffron pledges, Saffrons Rule, Sharrie Williams, Surfer's Rule, West Side Surfers, Westchester High School
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Saffron Hell Week, Pledges had to beg UCLA Fraternities for cigarettes
October 13, 1964, Tuesday. Took Saffron Pledges to Gary’s and Jack’s. After school I came home and went swimming for two hours. Went to a Saffron Meeting at Linda Klein’s and put Pledges in a room with a tape … Continue reading
Posted in 1960's Surf Culture, 1964 High School Diary, Chick Secrets, diary, Little Sisters, Maybelline Girl, memoir, REALITY BLOG, Southern California 1964, teenage reality blog
Tagged 1964, 57 Chevy, Beach, ciggarettes, Culver High School, dating, Maybelline, Maybelline Story, Playa del Rey Los Angeles, Saffron Hell Week, Saffron pledges, Saffrons Rule, Sharrie Williams, Southern California, Surfer's Rule, the trees in Playa del Rey, Tiny Nailor's Westchester, Toes in Playa Del Rey, Westchester High School
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Stuffing 11 Pledges in the back seat of Sandy’s car, kicked off Saffron Hell Week in 1964
October 6, 1964, Tuesday. Saw Dave Kendal at Toes. Today I wore my black wig in a new style and this convinced a lot of people it was real. After school, Sandy my sister Donna and her friend Linda … Continue reading
Posted in 1960's Surf Culture, 1964 High School Diary, Chick Secrets, diary, Maybelline Girl, memoir, REALITY BLOG, Southern California 1964, teenage reality blog
Tagged 1964, 57 Chevy, Beach, Car Stuffing, Culver High School, dating, diary, Maybelline, Maybelline Story, Playa del Rey Los Angeles, Saffron Hell Week, Saffrons Rule, Sharrie Williams, Southern California, Surfer's Rule, teenagers, Toes in Playa Del Rey, West Side Surfers, Westchester High School
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Being asked to do the most humiliating things during Saffrons Hell Week was Tradition
October 1, 1964, Thursday. The Jaketts tried to be halfway friendly today. We couldn’t pledge the girls, Marilyn Collier, President, said, but we did anyway. Marilyn looked so sloppy today, actually everyday, but, today topped it them all. She … Continue reading
Posted in 1960's Surf Culture, 1964 High School Diary, Chick Secrets, diary, Little Sisters, Maybelline Girl, memoir, REALITY BLOG, Southern California 1964, teenage reality blog
Tagged 1964, 57 Chevy, Beach, Culver City, Culver High School, dating, Maybelline, Maybelline Story, Saffron Hell Week, Saffrons Rule, Sharrie Williams, Surfer's Rule, West Side Surfers, Westchester High School
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