Were bookbags around in the 60's?

[CatWoman]

:shrug:

some Abrams emailers disputing Hillary's claim that she flung her bookbag in disgust upon learning that MLK had been killed.

[jgraz]

1. They were. Until the snipers took'em out.

[truebrit71]

83. ROFL!!!

:rofl:

[MichiganVote]

2. Yeah but only the nerds had them.

[purji]

113. hey, I resemble that remark.

yes I had a book bag,didn't realize I was a nerd,but I was.

[MichiganVote]

116. :)

[AllentownJake]

3. Bookbag gate is so last news cycle

We are onto stuffgate with Obama now...didn't you know?

[Barack_America]

92. Well, that would explain why Abrams is covering it.

;)

[dchill]

118. What - she took HIS stuff, too?

:shrug:

[supernova]

4. Yes, but they used to be called satchels

rather than book bags or even back packs.

I took a satchel to school when I was in elementary school.

[NashVegas]

18. In the South

You say "sack." In the north they say "bag."

I was in the Northeast in the 60s and they were bookbags.

[CatWoman]

25. and

in the South you say "coke".

In the north you say "soda"

:hi:

[NashVegas]

29. Unless

You say "pop."

But I say soda. I had cousins who said pop. I thought they were weird.

[CatWoman]

30. my grandfather, who was from South Carolina, called it "pop"

[Maddy McCall]

31. My Mississippi Dad calls it Pop. My Texas mom calls it Coke.

:hi:

[CTyankee]

114. Growing up in North Texas in the fifties, we called it a "cold drink."

We loved Dr. Pepper down there.

[CatWoman]

132. "cold drink"??

like in Cool Hand Luke???

:hi:

[CTyankee]

133. No, "cold drink" really meant what I would now call a soda.

It would be like a Coke or Pepsi. Not iced tea or milk. It would have bubbles and be flavored. Of course, in those days we didn't have flavored waters the way we do now (I'm talking about the fifties!). We had tap water, milk, tea, coffee and "cold drinks."

[NashVegas]

37. That's Messed Up

Were his folks born in the midwest?

[CatWoman]

42. no, but he spent the bulk of his time in NYC

he and my grandmother had, er, "issues" and he left.

that was before I was born (1955).

He returned home for good in the 60's.

[OhioBlue]

45. I had a roommate in College that said "soda"

I thought she was weird.

it's pop.

lol

:hi:

[CatWoman]

46. lol - not in this household

I call it soda.

are we going to have a "less filling; taste great" battle???

:hi:

[OhioBlue]

64. naw... if you wanna call pop "soda"

you can. it's okay.

It's those people that call pop "coke" that are really weird.

lol.

:)

[NashVegas]

91. Oh Good Lord No

I drink Newcastle these days. Or Yazoo.

[flowomo]

47. it was "tonic" in New England (Boston, at least)

[JBoy]

96. The data on use of "soda" vs "pop" vs "coke"

http://popvssoda.com:2998/images/smalldrawn.gif

[NashVegas]

108. That's Really Pretty

What do they say in the white spaces?

[polmaven]

128. Except....but....

Wheah is the tonic data?

Ah you tryin' to leave New England outta this? Watta you, a Red Sox hatah??

[JBoy]

139. That's undah "othah"

It's the lavendah colah.

[polmaven]

140. I Object!

Tonic is the right way to say it....It is NOT OTHAH!

I know it's right because that's how we say it at Fenway Pahk, you Red Sox Hatah!

[salbi]

102. I'm from Chicago, we say Pop

[NashVegas]

107. That's Cause You're Messed Up

But that's okay. You have nice pizzas.

[BornBlue]

110. Depends who you are.

I am from Chicago too, and I hear both. In fact growing up I called it "pop" then my bf when I was 16 said "pop" was wrong and forced me to call it "soda". 4 years later, my new bf now fiance, has made me change back to "pop". It is really quite confusing.
Just to satisfy my own curiosity, does anyone else's parents or they themselves say "ice box" for a refrigerator? I can't tell you how often I got made fun of for that one. . . I have now changed my ways.

[CatWoman]

123. my parents/grandparents called it an "ice box"

and when I grew up, I found out that literally that's what is was.

There was a man who actually delivered blocks of ice that went inside them :)

[Blue-Jay]

84. I had a backsack.

But the doctor fixed it.

[ourbluenation]

89. In the west, in the 60's and 70's, we called them bookbags. n.t

[Muttocracy]

5. Wasn't there a really long snarkwar on this a couple of nights ago? nt

[CatWoman]

8. I missed it

I just saw Abrams read emails from viewers about it.

Got the link to the other thread?

[Muttocracy]

35. I didn't bookmark it but it was that night. nt

[polmaven]

129. Bet the e-mailers were DUers

:crazy:

[NashVegas]

6. I Had One In First Grade

Which would have been about the time.

So HC was a dorkette in college. I wonder if we've forgotten there was a time when 20 year old women didn't walk around campus or go to work in camisoles as a fashion statement.

[flowomo]

7. LOL -- what brought THIS back?

somebody been on vacation?

[CatWoman]

10. lol

seems i'm late to the party :)

[flowomo]

38. you'll enjoy the older threads on this....

I can't believe I got caught up in them, but I did. For the record, yes, we had bb's back in '68 in the Boston area, and I posted a memoir from a student at U of Indiana back in '65 who actually mentioned that some radical, anti-war students there were well known for their "green bookbags." Here's the link:

http://alumni.indiana.edu/magazine/issues/200103/protest.shtml

[evlbstrd]

9. Yes.

I never had one. We were too poor for such luxuries.
There were no baggies, either. Just waxed paper.

[CatWoman]

16. I remember waxed paper!

my dad said they his mom wrapped his school lunch up in newspaper.

[evlbstrd]

44. We got that, too.

Mom made the mistake of letting us pack our own lunches once.One of my little brothers took his to school in a Kotex box. He liked the pretty flowers.

[CatWoman]

48. now, you're just pulling my leg!!!

:rofl:

[evlbstrd]

54. Afraid not.

We were creative kids. And resourceful.

[Adelante]

105. used brown paper grocery bags nt

[Coexist]

137. My sandwiches were always wrapped in waxed paper

and we had to bring home our brown bags to reuse them.

And I did have a thermos (a really short, fat one) for soup in the winter - and if you dropped it, the glass inside would break and you had to throw it away!

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Yes.

In fact, bookbags were a status symbol for the pointy-headed studious types.

[QC]

12. This is so old now. You really need to call the compound

and get the new talking points.

[CatWoman]

19. just what the fuck are you 'trying' to insinuate?

and what the fuck are you talking about?

[TahitiNut]

53. The echo chamber inhabitants have been looking at fun house mirrors too long.

When they venture out into the 'world' it seems hostile to them. :shrug: Everyone that's not tied to the tracks alongside 'em looks like Snidely Whiplash.

This place is getting more nucking futs every day ... one clique even more than others.

[CatWoman]

71. can't..catch.....breath

DAMN that's funny!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ruggerson]

13. No

in the sixties, college aged youths wore hand hewn garments and pelts, lived in stone huts, had no shoes, and balanced all their books on their heads.

[CatWoman]

22. oh quit it

it's an honest question.

In the 60's I attended elementary school in Brooklyn.

I have/had no idea what was the norm for college students.

[Sinistrous]

14. As one who was in college then: Yes.

And quite popular among the Harvard / Wellsley crowd.

[TahitiNut]

58. I didn't see them at Conn College in 1961-63 when I was at the USCGA.

I never saw them at Spring Hill College (Mobile) in 1963-64. And I never saw them at Wayne State University in 1964-66, either.

I don't recall seeing them until the 70s ... when I saw my cousin's WW2-era messenger's pouch. (War surplus was a popular fashion with the high school peacenik faddists.)

[Adelante]

106. '70s for me, too

In the '60s I carried them in my arms and in the 70s I had a messenger type shoulder bag. At the same time, I don't doubt there were people using bookbags before I was. This is one of those topics, except for a bit of reasonably interesting fashion history, that is mostly about taking up time and energy.

[Sinistrous]

109. It probably was a Boston thing.

After all, the bags I'm referring to were called "Harvard Bags".

And by the way, I attended college in Boston, which makes my observation relevant.

Sinistrous

[Johnny__Motown]

15. It was Gucci..... she just used it for books

[Eric J in MN]

17. Any bag someone carries books in can be called a "bookbag." NT

NT

[Cooley Hurd]

20. I had one in 1970...

...wait, that was actually my Kindergarten teacher.:o

[SemiCharmedQuark]

21. Why can't it just be a bag...used for books?

Who cares anyway?

I imagine people have been putting books in bags since bags existed.

[Jamastiene]

138. Who let the book out of the bag?

:rofl:

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :P

[Cleita]

23. I don't think I remember so.

It seems much later than MLKs assassination. I never had them when I grew up and remember thinking what a good idea they were when the kids started to use them. In my day and I believe for many years after, we just piled our books on top of our notebook and carried them in our arms. Hillary is only eight years younger than me.

[midnight]

24. I had a book bag in the sixty's. A nice plaid one with a strap and

handle. I loved that book bag, and flung it over my shoulder everyday.

[Binka]

49. Damn I Had The Same Bag! I Adored It And It Smelled Of Tuna Fish

My mom always smashed my lunch bag in it and I was a tuna freak. Whenever I smell tuna I think of "Gracie." Yes, I named it too.

[CatWoman]

51. Binka!!!

:hi:

:loveya:

Hope you and your's are doing well :)

[Binka]

60. Thinking Of You Too Cat Look Down Thread!

We are all doing great. Ben has taking up jumping out of airplanes, he is a couple hundred hours from getting his instructors license. The kid lives through Iraq and now he does THIS to me. Oy! Gotta love his fucking spunk. He is a great son! LOL!

[CatWoman]

72. you are truly blessed

you go, girl!!! :)

[Hepburn]

26. No such thing....

...and I was in college at the same time HiLIARy was.

[leftynyc]

103. A lot of others on this thread

disagree and used them - perhaps it was a geographical thing. And the way you write Hillary is childish.

[H2O Man]

27. Louis and Mary Leakey

found book bags at the Bed 1 level at Olduvai Gorge in 1963. There was a National Geographic special on ABC in 1966 about this very topic.

[CatWoman]

36. and let me guess: they found pics of Al there too

:)

:hi:

[TahitiNut]

61. (lol!)

:thumbsup: Love it!

[Lucky 13]

Ok. This one is just silly.

YES there were bookbags in the 60s.
Even if there weren't maybe she meant her purse or satchel or hobo stick with a sack on the end.

Regardless, this one is SILLY. We as Obama supporters need to let this one go. It makes us look petty and stupid.

[Evergreen Emerald]

28. Isn't the book bag where Obama kept his drugs?

two can play at this game. You want to post distortions and lies designed to attack?

[CatWoman]

*groan*

some of you people in here are absolutely certifiable.

play all the games you want, Hon.

I just asked a question, based on a news report I was watching.

[Name removed]

55. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[TahitiNut]

66. Uh-huh.

Hiya, sweetie! (oops!) :blush:

:loveya: :hug:

[Binka]

69. You Make My Day When You Call Me Sweetie

But you never call often enough!:loveya: back!

[Hepburn]

74. ~~ nodding head in agreement ~~ n/t

[Evergreen Emerald]

82. Right. That is the only reason you asked that question.

At least be honest.

[CatWoman]

124. your crystal ball appears to be in great need for repair

how dare you question "my" thoughts.

what in the world is wrong with you?

don't project your stupid crap onto me.

[Kahuna]

32. Yes!!!! I checked ebay Saturday. They had one from 1917. The reason

why people didn't use them is because they weren't sturdy and didn't last very long. I had one before 1968. It lasted about a week.

[CatWoman]

34. you know, it's so weird

nowadays, it's standard issue for students, of all grade levels.

:hi:

[Kahuna]

41. Think about it. The reason people didn't use them was because they

weren't practical. They could only hold a couple of books or maybe a looseleaf notebook and one book. When people posted pictures Saturday of students on campus carrying books in their arms, notice how big a pile of books they were all carrying. The bookbags back then didn't handle those types of loads. So why bother? :shrug:

:hi:

[marlakay]

33. Yeah the good students and geeks

had them. I had a backpack in the late 60's early 70's in school...semi-hippie used it more for hiking than school. Lot of large purses and bags made with macramae.

[WinkyDink]

40. Some of us "good students" eschewed them.

[WinkyDink]

39. In 1968, in college? Well, yes, there were nerds then, I suppose.

[madrchsod]

68. nerds..yup she was one

there`s a couple others she`d like to forget


come to think of it there`s some i`d like to forget ..what the fuck were we thinking in the 60`s

[rinsd]

43. Its Al Gore all over again.

[SunsetDreams]

50. Catwoman...

you just opened up a bag of worms

It's now WormbagGate

not BookbagGate

:rofl:

Seriously, it doesn't really matter whether she had a bookbag or not, does it people?

Just to vouch for Catwoman, I saw Dan Abrams talking about the emails, so try not to be too hard on her, k?

[CatWoman]

52. lol

it is a silly issue, isn't it?

but I actually had problems remembering back then, hence my inquiry :)

:hi:

thanks.

[SunsetDreams]

59. it is rather silly

the drama can be debated, but not bookbag

let's talk about worms. They're great for fishing. I've caught plenty of fish using worms, while they may be squishy to use, the end result can be quite delicious.:spray:

:hi:

[CatWoman]

76. true story

long ago, when I was a young private in the Army, my sergeant major took my room mate and I fishing.

I was stationed in Germany then.

He hooked me up, baited my hook, and the first thing I caught was a carp.

It was fucking HUGE. And the ugliest fish I had ever seen. It looked like a swamp monster!!

That fish was 50 percent lips and 50 percent body!! :rofl:

I started screaming, when I saw what I had reeled it. It was freakin hilarious :rofl:

Needless to say he never took us fishing again :)

[SunsetDreams]

78. scared of a wittle fish?

Did it cause you fishmares?

Boogiefish gonna getchya!

:rofl:

[CatWoman]

79. that was a big, ugly fish

SCALEZILLA!!!!

[SunsetDreams]

81. Zoiks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These things really need warnings!

Incoming deadly lips!!! Run for your lives!!!!!!!!

HOLY FISHLIPS! That's big!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

56. If you were you would recognize bullshit when you read/hear it...yes they were

[madrchsod]

57. yes but i never used them

stoners never carried books or bags...well not book bags.

[BootinUp]

62. heres one from 1966:

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/cartoon/disney.htm

[Binka]

65. Missing The Strap! The Strap Is Essential Still That One Is Wicked Cool

I'd carry it as a purse! Currently I am using a 1950's wicker fishing basket as my purse.

[madrchsod]

70. 89 dollars?

to much money.

[road2000]

122. Not it's not.

It's one of the bare necessities.

[tilsammans]

63. Yes, definitely!

But it was mostly the nerdish who carried them.

[spooky3]

67. Yes, nerds like me had them. At least one of mine was plaid. Can we drop this now?

[MaineDem]

73. Oh for goodness sake, of course they were

Mostly they were canvas drawstring bags. I went to college in New England in 1969.

Hillary may make misstatements but this isn't one of them.

[Historic NY]

75. I had one and a lunch box too, I graduated to a book strap.

[Warren Stupidity]

77. Why the heck is this important?

[workinclasszero]

80. I graduated HS in the 70's

I never had a book bag, never saw one. They didn't exist the whole time I was in school as far as I know.

[shaniqua6392]

85. There was already a thread on this a few days ago.

It was stupid then and it is stupid now. Of course we had book bags in the 60's. What are Abrams viewers smoking? Do we hate her so much that we would deny that the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King would not be upsetting to her? That horrible event in history was felt deeply by most Americans. I think it is pretty low to try to determine if we carried book bags in the 60's to refute the story of her reaction.

[MethuenProgressive]

86. They know. They don't care.

Hate is a self-administered poison.

[rodeodance]

87. The OP reminds me a school-yard bully. Obama must be proud of his followers here on DU

[kikiek]

94. Makes me think they don't feel too secure. We should feel sorry for them.

Really pathetic.

[rodeodance]

97. I have pity for many of them

[MethuenProgressive]

121. You're a netter DUer than I am.

I find them as welcome as a fart at a funeral.

[dchill]

104. OP is irrelevant. Even if Hillary had a bookbag...

who, at this point is prepared to "take her at her word" that she hurled it? It's the credibility, after all.

[rodeodance]

112. I do sweetie

[dchill]

117. Well of course you do...

:pat on the head:

[CatWoman]

127. I admitted as much up thread.

for the record, I don't hate either Hillary or Obama.

I save my hatred for Republicans.

And you're right -- that tactic is normally employed by Republicans. Remember the "type face" crap brought up about the Bush NG memos?

[xmas74]

88. My aunt had a satchel back in 1949

for her first day of school. She'd told me her story of her new satchel on my first day of school (back in the late 70's) and then she said "But you call them book bags now."

And now I no longer call them book bags. Any kind of carry-all tends to be referred to as a "school bag" in my house, whether it's a satchel or backpack or whatever else. You tend to call things whatever your kid calls them and my kid calls them school bags.

Maybe Chelsea called her carrier a "book bag" and the name just stuck?

[Arkansas Granny]

90. Not this again!

[Life Long Dem]

93. v

B-)

[Barack_America]

95. I honestly could not care less about this...

Even if she did not have a book bag, she certainly had a handbag.

If she misspoke and called a handbag a book bad, who cares?

What concerns me more about her MLK speech, is that it showed once again that she only gets choked up when remembering HER own emotions.

[Maribelle]

98. Green canvas book bags were around for decades, especially in the 60s.

My mother said these green book bags were a requirement at some private schools and catholic schools.

[underpants]

99. I have to admit that I actually took a second and thought if that were possible when she said it

we didn't have bookbags in high school in the mid80's. They may have been around but I don't remember anyone using them. I got one the first week at college though

[CatWoman]

125. and yet I'm accused of so many vile and stupid things for having those thoughts

I'm 52, and actually could not remember.

but look at all the accusations being hurled on this thread, trying to make something out of a completely innocent question.

This forum should employ a full-time shrink.

[polmaven]

131. I think you will see why

if you look at some of the really hateful things said a couple of nights ago about both Hillary and her supporters.

To think someone actually went searching the net for pictures people carrying book bags then, couldn't find any, and so used that as "fact" that Hillary had dissed the memory of MLK with her lying.

[ronnykmarshall]

100. Jane Fonda basher!

[CatWoman]

126. but did she carry a book bag?

:hi:

:loveya:

[Emillereid]

101. Just looked through my '67 college yearbook and no where is there anything resembling a bookbag.

Everyone was simply carrying their books. We did use bookbags in elementary school though.

[Texas Hill Country]

111. of course they were.

[Crunchy Frog]

115. I don't think they had yet been invented. The technology had not progressed

that far yet. I think that they had arrived at the general principle that things could be carried in bags, but the notion that this principle could be applied to books had not yet been arrived at.

[Rosemary2205]

136. NINETEEN sixies Hillary not EIGHTEEN sixties McCain. LOL

[Bucky]

119. How is this even an issue?

[Major Hogwash]

120. Hillary's credibility has more holes in it than a slice of Swiss cheese.

All those holes weren't caused by sniper fire, either.

LoL

[Mezzo]

130. Yep. They were flown over on a plane chartered by the Kennedys. nt

[Jamastiene]

134. zOMG, this shit again.

:popcorn:

:beer:

I'm prepared and pulling up a chair this time. This shit is about to get heavy. :rofl:

[Harry Monroe]

135. I remember having a green army surplus knapsack that I carried on my shoulders

But I don't remember bookbags. I started first grade in 1968, the same year King was assassinated. I doubt Hillary would have had an army surplus knapsack.