Title: The%20Watsons%20Go%20to%20Birmingham%20
1The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963
- a collection of terms and images related to
Christopher Paul Curtiss 1995 novel
2the brown bomber (p. 6)
- That was what we called our car. It was a
1948 Plymouth that was dull brown and real big,
Byron said it was turd brown.
From Mikes 1940s Automobile Page _at_
http//free.prohosting.com/plymouth/alexp15.jpg
3conk (p. 87)
- Byron had gotten a conk! A process! A do! A
butter! A ton of trouble! - His hair was reddish brown, straight, stiff and
slick-looking. Parts of it stuck up like
porcupine stickers because Momma hadnt been too
gentle when she snatched the handkerchief off.
4conk
- a lye-straightened hairdo popularized in the
1920s by Cab Calloway - definition The Racial Slur Database _at_
http//www.geocities.com/coop917/slurs.html - image the KINGS of SWING _at_ http//www2.kenyon.ed
u/Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/music/kings.htm
Cab Calloway
5Yakkety Yak
- Kennys favorite song ?
- Written by The Coasters
- Trivia! The group began in Los Angeles as The
Robins. Later part of the group split off and
formed a new group in New York. They called
themselves The Coasters because of their
coast-to-coast roots.
Info Rock and Roll Hall of Fame _at_
http//www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id81 Ima
ge http//www.clarksvilleriverfest.com/images/Coa
sters.jpg
6Yakkety Yak
Imagine Kenny and his family listening to this
song while sitting in the Brown Bomber!
7Yakkety Yak (p. 117)
Each of us kids got to play four songs each (I
played Yakety Yak all four times)
8The Brown Bombers TT AB-700, Ultraglide probably
looked like this.
PHILIPS Car Record-Player 45 rpm
Image http//home.swipnet.se/w-49476/100.htm
9Buster Brown shoes (p. 142)
I took her shoes off for her, and inside one of
her shoes was a kind of worn-down picture of a
little white boy with a girls hairdo and a
smiling dog. In a circle around both of them it
said, Buster Brown.
Image http//www.famousfootwear.com/shop.asp?shop
idbustr
10Buster Brown shoes (p. 117)
As I drifted back to sleep I wondered what a
little white boy would think if he knew he was
getting stepped on every day by my sister.
image http//www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/show
s/fashion/fa1152.php