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Originally Posted by marianne237
Duck and cover for sure, but did your home city offer blood type tattoos? Civil Defense in northern Indiana in the 50's was a test spot for children in schools to be blood typed. Since my father was a city official and we should set an example, we were also tattooed with this info...left side of torso. Grew up with a funny smudged O+ sign on me that only got reactions from folks who said "hey, you have a dirty spot on your side".
I always hoped Garfield Goose would have one too so I wouldn't feel alone.
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Blood type tattoos? I never knew about that one. I'll have to check out my Hoosier friends.
At the risk of being accused of hijacking a thread, (Oh who cares? Our generation always did think outside the box.) I have to throw a book rec in here for my fellow front-end boomers:
The book is
Growing Up with Dick and Jane: Learning and Living the American Dream by Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. The book has pages reprinted from our famous school readers interspersed with events that were happening in our real world. I received the book as a 50th birthday present. I don't know if the book is still available easily, but it could make a great 60th birthday present for someone.
btw Though we were pretty busy hiding under our desks or learning to read from Dick and Jane, we always took time every Wednesday morning to line up and walk to one of the local Protestant churches for a service. There were 4 mainstream denominations within walking distance of our public school. Each one got a turn.
Hey, I think I can actually tie this back into the original thread. I guess all that ducking and covering and praying prepared us well for riding out bad weather.