Teens, 1954
A teenage couple going steady hold hands together as they walk.
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Teen Fads, 1953
If a girl wears a dog collar on her left ankle, she is “taken”, if she wears one on her right, she is “on the lookout” for a steady.
Date Nite at DISNEYLAND! c.1960
Date Nite at Disneyland began in 1957 and was an annual event which continued through the 1970s.
Bowling Night, 1940
Debutantes bowling with their dates
Teen Dating Fads, 1957
Sword Signals
Teens have developed an ingenious signal code with homemade sword pins, which at a glance will tell anyone who knows the code, all he needs to know.
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Teen Fads, 1947
Girl ties her hair scarf around her boyfriends neck as a fond token. Boy often gives football sweater as token to his girl.
Teenagers, 1944
“Holding hands in movies is all right but any girl who has a date regularly each weekend soon runs the risk of ostracism. “Nobody should be that popular.” say members of the clique.”
Foursome, 1950s
College Boys, 1954
Students having lunch at Hotchkiss Prep. School, boys hiding faces are embarrassed because they told college girls on a date that they were students at Princeton.
