We didn't have a warehouse district, therefore, no gangsters. But, we did have a few hoodlums. They wore their hair in a duck tail, black leather jackets, blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up and engineer boots. I remember watching a fight between a couple of them in an alley a couple blocks from school. One of them is now a highly respected building contractor near retirement. Another of that crowd was our county sheriff for well over 20 years. Go figure.
So...nobody remembers how many zoots were killed to make one suit? Groan if you wish but I couldn't resist.
AKA "Winkle pickers"...................no, I have no idea what it means either. Edit: Wikipedia to the rescue - see, I didn't either make it up! Winklepickers (also known as winkle pickers) are a style of shoe or boot worn from the 1950s onward by male and female British rock and roll fans. The feature which gives both the boot and shoe their name is the very sharp and quite long pointed toe, reminiscent of medieval footwear and approximately the same as the long pointed toes on some women's high fashion shoes and boots in the late 2000s. The pointed toe was called the winkle picker toe because in England periwinkle snails or winkles are or were a popular seaside snack, which is eaten using a pin or other pointed object to carefully extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell, hence the phrase: "to winkle something out", and from that, winklepickers as a humorous name for shoes with a very pointed tip.
Studebaker Dictator, later changed to President, on account of a certain Austrian postcard artist. Dave
Does anyone remember the motorcycle documentary called "On Any Sunday"? what a great film with Steve McQueen and Malcomb Smith.