Flops and the Halloween Meatballs

 

What do you do when it's 7:30 on Halloween night and there's a line of hundreds of kids in costumes at the door and you've run out of candy?

If you're my grandfather, Dick Tramonti, circa 1963, in a neighborhood full of trick-or-treating kids in Rhode Island, you take a small meatball that you've made for dinner, wrap it in a napkin, and put it inside a kid's candy bag while surreptitiously grabbing a handful of the kid's candy from their bag to give away to the next few kids. 

Once you've run out of stolen candy, you simply put another meatball in a child's candy bag and steal some more candy out for the next trick-or-treaters.

My mom estimates at least 12 kids went home with meatballs in napkins that Halloween.

my old clothes: priceless edition

as promised, what seems like 16 years ago, i'm addicted to vintage t-shirts and am going to share some of my favorites here.

we'll start with my most blockbuster of heavy hitters - my parents' college t-shirts. i don't wear these, but i could.

first off here is my mom's souvenir from the University of Rhode Island SAE Spring Weekend 1970.



it's a beautiful faded red-orange color.




awesome contrast stitching seams




sweet v-neck style




ooooold sportswear label

best part is it's a nightshirt! pretty bold that the fraternity t-shirt giveaway is a NIGHTshirt. gotta love the 70's!

(my dad was not an SAE. i'm not asking too many questions about how she got this one. just loving it.)

the other most prized t-shirt in my collection is this one of my dad's also from URI, circa 1968.

extremely faded navy blue




distressed, but hanging in there




check out that 60's vintage champion runner tag




air conditioning vents on back

these shirts are not for sale, nor will they ever be for sale. you know what, if somebody wants to send me $1 Million for them ($2M for both), i would part with them. other than that, forget it. 

this concludes the priceless edition of 'my old clothes.'  stay tuned for more of my favorites, ones that i actually wear, sometime in the near future.