Tootie and Jak Ft Lauderdale 1969
One of my favorite people at the Kendall School of Design was a beautiful blond girl called Tootie . She had a funny way of talking that really didn’t fit her looks, she was very attractive, and usually funny people are not the prettiest. But she was one funny person. She made very funny comments on people and life. She and I hit it off immediately. Tootie had long blond hair that hung way past her shoulders, she claimed to be a natural BLOND. She said after the air hit her hair it turned blond all by itself . Hell what did I know: it sounded true to me. She drove a brown Studebaker Lark.
One day she told of a bowling ball flying out the door of a bowling alley on Division avenue and smashing a huge dent in her car. We were all laughing so hard we cried. She and I would write fictional wedding announcements like the ones in the paper back then, they would be making fun of people who had there receptions in the Elks basement or the Trailaways bus depot. We would go on and on describing what the bride wore etc. and read this out loud in class (there was hardly ever an instructor in the classroom) the whole class would roar with laughter, or it seems they did. We of course reveled in the attention. There were very few “kids” in our class so we all knew each other very well. One was either in or out and of course TOOT and I were part of the " in" crowd. I’ve wondered if she even had the slightest interest in Interior Design. Kendall was a very social experience for me and my friends. We saw one another almost every night we often did our home work together. And smoked lots of cigarettes…I just found out Tootie is dead, she died a couple years ago…I can still hear her when some one would ask, “what time is it TOOTIE? Her answer, Mickey says…………….take care toot!!!
One day she told of a bowling ball flying out the door of a bowling alley on Division avenue and smashing a huge dent in her car. We were all laughing so hard we cried. She and I would write fictional wedding announcements like the ones in the paper back then, they would be making fun of people who had there receptions in the Elks basement or the Trailaways bus depot. We would go on and on describing what the bride wore etc. and read this out loud in class (there was hardly ever an instructor in the classroom) the whole class would roar with laughter, or it seems they did. We of course reveled in the attention. There were very few “kids” in our class so we all knew each other very well. One was either in or out and of course TOOT and I were part of the " in" crowd. I’ve wondered if she even had the slightest interest in Interior Design. Kendall was a very social experience for me and my friends. We saw one another almost every night we often did our home work together. And smoked lots of cigarettes…I just found out Tootie is dead, she died a couple years ago…I can still hear her when some one would ask, “what time is it TOOTIE? Her answer, Mickey says…………….take care toot!!!
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