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All out for the Wildcats' Den as Don Riley brings his jalopy, Atom Smasher, to a groaning stop. The girls frown on twosomes, like to travel in packs. "We want fun, not heavy romance," they declare. For fun they often throw hen Slumber Parties, giggle- and gabfests that go on till the tired guests fall asleep on blankets in the living room. |
The juke box is neglected as jitterbugs stomp to Pollock's recorded music, piped via telephone wire to the Den from a central broadcasting studio in Oak Ridge. Dancers telephone their requests to Mr. Pollock. Currently they're for Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette), and Vaughn Monroe's arrangement of Racing with the Moon. |
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The girls steady their nerves with lollipops during a tense game of chinese checkers. Chester Painter (left) has just pulled a boner, and Tommyy Stephenson comments: "That's rare"—standard Oak Ridge for things good, bad and indifferent. A bad joke gets flattened with the quip, "Dear John, that's all she wrote." |
The Wildcats' Den is a one-room wing of a rambling one-story building, typical of Oak Ridge architecture. It is crowded afternoons and evenings but the big dance night is Friday. The football season is marked by a series of gay victory or consolation hops but other times of the year "Just Because" dances furnish excuse for fun and frolic.
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