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Never Heard of It

Friday, 3 May 2019, 21:50 BFH Uncategorized 125

Someone mentioned this to me like I was supposed to remember it fondly from my childhood.

I don’t remember it at all.

Let’s get the yays and nays in the comments.

125 Comments on Never Heard of It

  18. forgot – Southside Chicago, ’53-’73.

    Too scared to use my fake name – Bomb shelter kid. Like that.
    Probably explains some things about us, and, I’m certain, other readers here.

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  27. You carried your homework in them! Everyone had several of them! Some of them we covered our books with. If we couldn’t afford them, then we used the brown paper bags.

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  28. No, from Da Bronx, NYC years…

    @BFH – there was a book called Illustrators or something like that, THAT we used in the office pre-internet and the graphics of that cover that you posted remind of that.

    I just remembered:

    https://www.amazon.com/Entourage-Tracing-Architecture-Interior-Drawing/dp/0070089302

    Late 70’s-early 80’s I am thinking there is a black football player ‘appearing’ for the first time on a yearbook, female tennis player? #11 could be Hispanic (in the 70’s when we called them…Puerto Ricans!)

    The artwork is excellent, it shows motion….and fun.

    The front and back covers are intergrated and job well done to the layout guy…

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  30. The FUK?
    The football guy always got Viking horns drawn on.
    The ski lady got the handle bar mustache
    PeeChee was in California where Little Lazlo was indentured to a blacksmith

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  31. Pee Chees! Loved mine throughout junior and senior high school (early to mid ‘70s). I looked forward to a trip to Savon’s each fall to pick up my school supplies and Pee Chees were always on my list. In junior high we wrote song lyrics all over them and wrote notes on our friends’ Pee Chees. I had all the lyrics to Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog on my 8th grade Pee Chee. I was a simpler time. We personalized them with drawings, etc. They reflected a whole year’s worth of songs and memories. We would scotch tape the fold inside and out to hold the pieces together. By the time I graduated from high school the paper stock of which they were made was getting woefully thin. When I had kids in the late ‘80s I was sorry they had been replaced with plasticine Hello Kitty folders and trapper keepers….they just weren’t the same.

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  34. Pee Chee folder.
    Converse high tops. (later it was Vans)
    Bermuda shorts.
    Ray Bans
    Beach Cruiser bike.

    What am I missing? A Walkman? Baggy socks? Polo shirt or short sleeve farm shirt?

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  36. Yep! I began using these, one for each subject, around 6th grade, I think. I attended school in a rural town in New England. Wow…that was a long time ago.

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  38. Rapidiograph art pens that had to be rotated as you pulled across the vellum..clogged…(.oo2) …shortly there after finishing if you did not pay attention.

    I am thinking now that pen weights, in computer programs, came from previous industry standards…duh.

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  39. No. Old enough though. Nurnberg Germany (the PX) and NC

    Loved those Schafer ink cartridge pens.

    Vintage erasers that looked like a Chinese man and woman. A triangle shape with paper clothing. Can’t find pictures of them.

    I expect there is an old type writer eraser with the brush some where in this house.

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  41. I say, nay nay. Maybe they were around and I just don’t recall seeing or using them.
    However. We all forget stuff. Just yesterday Vietvet couldn’t recall Howard Jarvis for goodness sakes. And HJ’s Prop 13 was a national topic.

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  46. Trapper Keepers were for nerds and Asians. Pee Chees were for everybody else.

    But then…. they started making these really kool trapper keepers with pouches and calculators and other gizmos….

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  50. Haven’t the foggiest.

    But just started a job in a county guv job that is in an old high school built in 1939 as part of FDRs WPA. Old HS lockers still line the hallways. Some unopened with combination locks still in place.

    Most are probably empty. The rest i am dying to see.

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  51. This must be some kind of generational divide. I don’t recall Pee Chee at all, and I’m the same age as BFH. I do remember Big Chief, though.

    Those runners are laughing their asses off. Weird. Most runners look like they’re in pain. Somebody must have farted.

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  56. “I expect there is an old type writer eraser with the brush some where in this house.”

    LOL! I remember correction tape. (Rich people used white out liquid 🙂 ) I learned to type on an actual typewriter. Not those electric ones, or even the Brother ones with thermal paper. Because we had a cruel teacher. lol. The WORST!
    If you made a mistake, you had to ‘erase it’ and then carefully go back and type the correct word in the EXACT SAME SPOT. Ugh!

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  58. You non pee chee people had to use SOMETHING. Look at the video tRuth posted. They were hella handy.

    Also, Al…. c’mon. Muddy clay? Seriously? I mean how many symbols do you need to write down grunts?

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  60. “You non pee chee people had to use SOMETHING”

    Big Chief tablets 1st through 3rd grade, generic spiral-bound notebooks and three-ring binders from then on.

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  62. Yep. Pee Chees. Grew up in Washington state. Went to school in the ’60’s and ’70’s.

    They were very handy. Had more than just the multiplication tables in the inner flap. But I don’t remember what all the other crap was in there. By the time they were so worn out you had to get a new one they were covered in notes and drawings.

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  63. I didn’t have folders, I folded my papers in half and stuck them in my textbooks. And we did not lock our lockers either! I did have a notebook with rings and tabs. They did not have us cover our books at my rural school. We might pass notes in the hallways between class. Oh and lunchtime was open campus where you could go uptown and therefore smoke or drink alcohol if you had some. Which I never did. I still remember and use some of my Gregg Shorthand.

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  64. “… Bermuda shorts …”??? ’round my area you would get your ass kicked, or at least noogies, for being such a wuss (if you were older than elementary school age)

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  66. Pee Chees weren’t regional. I guess we all know who the organized, studious people were. And you were a weirdo if your Pee Chees weren’t inked in by the end of the first quarter. Loved the math tables on the inside flaps

    (I still have my first TI-something-or-other, handheld calculator purchased in 1975 for a small fortune.)

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  71. Yep – LA area. In fact, I’m looking at one just like #2 on my bookshelf right now. Opened it up. All the info for the summer camp I worked at from ’76-’82

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  75. @AbigailAdams:

    I guess we all know who the organized, studious people were.

    (-: In high school, I found that – with a few delightful exceptions – it was the organized and studious who weren’t very bright. They memorized a lot of information and couldn’t connect it up; no logical / analytical / synthetic talent to speak of.

    I am 100% certain you were one of the delightful!

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  77. Dearest Uncle Al (Deplorable Dreg Peasant) —

    I was always the class SmartA** who tied the teacher’s (if I didn’t like him/her) logic in knots. This was before teachers were hip to the possibility that a kid could be doing something so evil on purpose — especially when I could keep my halo face on without cracking. Some things never change….as you well know. 😉 Takes one to know one, they say.

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  78. “You grew up on the set of Rumble Fish?” not exactly, MD DC suburbs …
    remember many ‘rumbles’ (more like hit-&-run fights than the bullcrap they portrayed on tv & the movies) between Adelphi/Greenbelt, Queen’s Chapel/Hillandale, Riverdale/College Park, Greenbelt/Beltsville …. Little Tavern in College Park, Mighty Mo in Queen’s Chapel, Queen’s Chapel Drive-In, Little Red Rooster & the Tin Dipper in Beltsville … & on & on

    btw, you ‘B-shorts’ folks were referred to as … collegiants … bet you wore white jeans too

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  87. The women folk in our family chewed sticks to form a pulp and flattened the stuff to make paper. A lump of coal was the writing implement.
    My teachers learned to excuse me from turning in homework if it was still soggy.

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  88. In High School we sat in those single chairs with a desktop and a bin under the seat for notebooks. Do those have a name?

    Anyways, one particular English Teacher was my favorite. She arranged the desks in a U shape for her classroom.
    I loved that class. Cindy the Cheerleader sat opposite me and wore the short skirt outfit at least twice a week.

    She was blond, too.

    *AB, should break 100

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  89. Never heard of a Pee Chee, woke up my husband who is older than me, he never heard of them either. Texted my older sister and older brothers and they asked what the hell a Pee Chee is.

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  92. @AbigailAdams:

    I was always the class SmartA** who tied the teacher’s (if I didn’t like him/her) logic in knots.

    “But, teacher, if, as you told us, A is true and also that B is true, doesn’t that mean that C must also be true even though you just got through telling us it isn’t?” was a favorite pastime of mine and a few similarly subversive friends.

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  94. 39 is the new septuagenarian, right Uncle Al?

    Or is it septuagenarian is the new 39?
    Orange man bad is the new black?

    BTW, my birthday is this month too.
    The 20th, last day of Taurus, and yes I am indeed a stubborn son of a bitch! 🙂

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  99. BFH it’s getting harder to convince people I’m 39 when my damn kids keep getting so damn old. My daughter told someone the other day with me standing beside her that she’d be 33 at the end of the year. I asked her why she couldn’t just lie and claim to be 21 or better yet 18.

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  100. Never seen ’em, but if they didn’t come in until the mid-to-late 60s, I was already out of school by then. I suspect they were from a different region of the country, though.

    P.S. – @Blink: Prop 13 may have been a national topic, but Howard Jarvis sounds like a local personality to me. I only vaguely remember reading something about Prop 13 at the time, but then I wasn’t into political news and such in 1978. Especially not from California.

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  101. I’m a foreigner. I grew up with “The Beno’ “The Dandy.” “Kit Carson,” “Rip Kirby,” “Buck Jone,” “Desperate Dan,” and “Andy Capp.” Oh,and Hopalong Cassidy, The Phantom, and when we got a radio in the mid fifties, Radio Luxenburg, “The Black Museum. The Gallery of Death,” with Orson Wells. Scared the shit out of us. Women killing their husbands with ball peen hammers, shovels,beer bottles,kitchen knives, Knitting needles; murderers
    using tire irons, axes, sledge hammers, tractors and whatnot to kill. Very few guns used in “The Black Museum, The Gallery of Death.” Just sayin.’ OK I’m phucked up.

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  102. I remember Pee Chees from Washington State ’68-’69. I think my schools banned them when I moved to California for the ’69-’70 school year.

    How I remember that far back when I am only 39 I don’t know. And how my son is 32 when I am 39 is another mystery.

    And 101 comments on an IOTW thread? How did that happen? Next thing you know someone will say I will be 63 this year.

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  104. We don Need no stinkin PeeChees or Pinche or putos
    we got iPads and laptops now bois and grrrls and non-binaries and the rest of you NPCs and incels and duracels and you flaming flamers that flame just to flame.
    although i do remember drawing don martin characters from mad magazines on these in schools i attended before i was axed to leave prematurely. but that’s an entirely different and totally related story, and that beer they found in my locker before graduation, well that wasn’t mine, i was just holding it for a friend. yea, that’s what it was.

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  105. I mastered the multiplication table using a Pee Chee. And I also perfected the Van Halen logo on mine. I bought several at a garage sale for a dime apiece!

    🙃

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  107. Jerry Manderin — lol! That’s what I remember PeeChees selling for at the student store — a dime apiece. Adjusting for inflation, you got a great deal! Or our district was heavily subsidized.

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  108. JIMMY, DOC, et al

    when Ike was (for a short time) protecting Americans with “wet Back) many of my friends used ’em.

    GOLDEN

    I wrapped my books in “Butcher Paper”

    CHALUPA

    I and 17 of my kin worked the fields 60 years ago, We needed money for college. All have at least 1 Sheepskin; some of us have many on our walls.

    UNCLE AL

    I was not organized, but was studious! even after spending many days in detention for arguing with my America hating teachers about how “Wet Back” was the best thing to happen for Americans in decades – I still graduated in the top decile!
    At least 3 “B”s should have been “A”‘s except teacher bigots! IMHO!

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  109. west coast thing – i remember these from late 70’s early 80’s – it was a junior high thing. If you didn’t have pee-chee’s and 3/4 length jersey shirts you sucked balls

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  111. Clueless – It might be back in my mind mind somewheres, but its cluttered like a dump in there. I do recall using a slide rule in the Air Force. But using it today would be a job.

  112. OK, as long as we’re all on some sort of nostalgic bender, grew up in E Iowa, went to Catholic grade school. Everything was Scholastic, so no, I don’t remember Pee Chee. We’d cover our books with the Sunday funnies.

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  113. Sounds like it was a left coast thing, but Grool brings that into question.

    Northwest of Chicago fifties through early sixties so not quite as old as Moe Tom and have no recollection of them.

    But…
    Anonymous MAY 3, 2019 AT 10:16 PM
    Schafer ink cartridge pen.
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=he4dj3%2f0&id=F90815098C382275B94E3C3FEBAB2BBDC527FF4D&thid=OIP.he4dj3_0wmGKdsSUeNixkAAAAA&q=sheaffer+fountain+pen+with+ink+cartridge&simid=608029619694865993&selectedIndex=113

    Grade school we used to catch flies and put them inside the barrels of the pens without the cartridge. Had one lay the maggot eggs inside. The nuns loved us. Finally drove one to distraction in eight grade and she grabbed one of the guys by his hair and slapped him silly to the point he dropped when she finally let go of him. Behaved for almost a week after that one.

    A few of the “penguins” were downright scary…

    Should I change my alias to thread ender? Surely some other Catlickers have a few stories to add.

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  116. Asked friend wife and she remembers them. She was Taylor Street Sicilian before they moved to Campbell. Forty five minute drive for me from the boonies into the city before they moved out to the burbs.

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  123. I was born a poor black child….. We covered our books with grocery bags. I do not recall ever taking notes but I doodled incessantly. Perhaps my brother will chime in with some Pee Chee memory.
    THIS PEE CHEE SUCK
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  124. “Charlie Chan is a woman.”

    That is what my older brother inscribed on his Pee Chee folder. I read it when I was maybe seven or eight years old. To this day I have no idea what the hell it meant but then my brother was probably already a stoner by that time.

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