South Side High School - Optimist Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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FOREWORD

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Page О HAPPY DAYS IN BRIGHT COLORS ORANGE It is difficult to remember everything: the movie, the song, the papers and Andy takes me by the everything else until I see Andy pulls me over to a corner of the room and let’s talk old again Then arm and says, Come on, about the days. That's the way it | see him. When he Come on, goes every time and old everything, takes me by the let's talk all comes back to me arm says, about the days, it and I can see him and myself just as we used to be. Andy and I were sitting on a bundle of old papers and leaning against the brick wall trying to feel the heat of the build ing. It was cold and all the news kids had on heavy sweaters and jackets. Their breaths were lines of thin white smoke blown away by the wind. Tell me, I said, what I should yell. You know what to yell. No, Í don't, Andy. This is the time Гуе sold papers in all my life. Well, then you just listen to me And you say what I say and you know what first to say anyway. W here Evening papah.” You gotta yell more than that, I used live they just yelled, Andy said, or else nobody's gonna buy one. Should 1 yell like movies ? No, Andy said. they do in the Anyway, nob: dy yelled papers in the picture we saw today. I know, but it was a good picture. My mother says we shouldn't go to the movies, Andy said, because they're too dirty. The picture we saw today wasn't dirty, I said. No, that wasn't dirty at all. lot in it, though. Yeah, I said, they kept singing that song, Happy Days Are Here Again. I don't know why they Neither do I They sang sang that song. Six AND BLUI They know people don't believe it, 1 said Maybe the colors. Yeah, Pretty soon, they just wanted to show off I said, them colors were nice. Andy said, all pictures will be made in color. But why did they sing py Days,” that song, Hap to the people 4 don't know, ture, Andy said. No, not dirty at all. When the papers came off the press, Andy and | up the but it wasn’t a dirty pic were the first ones running alley to Halsey Street. Andy was running yelled, fast on his long thin legs and Andy, should 1 Listen to me, yell, he out of breath and Branford I listened to Andy and heard just what what say? come on, said and both of us were yelling and running up Place. he yelled as we stood out on Broad Street by a shoe store. Seven stah final papah, and 1 yelled. Papah, mistah ? Andy yelled, Andy kept yelling and I stood next to him quietly. All these people, I thought, And they will sleep the sleep of peacefulness. are going home to eat and sleep. They will keep saying, I am home, I am home, but somewhere down in them there will be the pain; some will be hungry, 1 know; some will weep. Paper, sonny? a woman said to me, a Blessed are the I thought as I looked beautiful young woman. strong of the worl l. at her. You're selling them, aren't you? she asked me when I didn't move, just kept looking Yeah, papers for two cents. at her. I said finally, Yeah, Im selling I sold her one and she walked away, beautifully, Yell, can’t yo u? Andy shouted at me over the noise of the street. strongly.