And greetings to you from America.

Yes indeed all the girls in my high school kept up with Arlene and Kenny!!!!

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Margaret were you one of the regulars? If so did younknow Pat Frank Arlene? Tell me some stories please

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"So very unlike the kids of today?" That's a generalized statement. Yes, most of the "American Bandstand" kids were good kids. And there are good kids today as well, (I should know since I work with them.) And there were bad kids back then as well. Often, Philadelphia's violent street gangs would pick on the "American Bandstand" kids for the "fun" of it, and sometimes they would physically assault them, like what happened to Ken Rossi and Arlene Sullivan when they had to face off against a violent street gang after getting off of The El. The Green Street Counts of Philadelphia murdered 61-year-old Jacob Ewald in a 1953 bungled bar robbery (one of their own would later murder a father of five named Robert Kehoe the following year), a 41-year-old housewife, Martha White, was shot down when two rival gangs were having a running gun fight in the middle of Philadelphia's streets in 1957, and on April 25, 1958, just outside of the University of Pennsylvania, literally one mile away from where "American Bandstand" was being taped at WFIL, a South Korean foreign exchange student named In Ho Oh, was beaten to death by a youth gang led by 19 year old Alfonso Borum. Borum and his crew did not know the Korean student, but they had been ejected from a local rock and roll record hop, and in their frustration, came upon the South Korean as he was mailing a letter to his family. His Korean family were born-again Christians and actually wanted forgiveness for the boys but Mayor Jefferson Dilworth had had enough of the youth gang violence, especially after Governor Leader had actually paroled members of The Green Street Counts for serving less than 2 years for the murders that they committed. You had bad kids back then too, and that's not to say that "everyone" was bad, but you had them. For anyone else following this thread, remember, a teenager of the 1950's would have been either born during or raised during World War II in the 1940's. Juvenile delinquents were not goofy pranksters like what we saw in "Grease." They were marginalized inner city yourh whose home lives were disrupted because their fathers often had undiagnosed PTSD following the end of World War II the previous decade. Those are just uncomfortable facts.

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