curfew was suspended on nights when the defendant attended drive-in movies. He was also ordered not to associate with friends who might be a bad influence on him.Ĭuriously, the 11 p.m. "Whiskers" was sentenced to a six-month curfew for stealing an automobile part from a local junkyard. "You're not trying to be one of those beatnik fellows, are you?" the judge asked. Tales of passion aside, another report, published in 1960, told of a Vineland judge ordering one young defendant to get a haircut, and another to shave off his goatee. "These parking lots were never intended to be a dating center," he scolded. Grasso cracked down on teens using the Vineland Acme and Kress parking lots for after-hour rendezvous. Two years after the kissing couple caper, Municipal Court Judge Daniel J. Perhaps South Jersey wasn't the place for nurturing young love in those days. It seems she just couldn't keep from planting one on her blond-haired beau after he said "something cute" while driving. The man was found to be an innocent victim of his passenger's "irresistible impulse." "As the car came closer I saw an arm around the driver's neck."Īfter a spirited defense, the reckless driving charge was dismissed. "All I could see was the back of a lady's head," said the serving official. Such was the case of a 20-year-old Franklinville man summoned to court in 1959 for necking with his girlfriend while driving. Of course, not everyone suffered such levels of indignity during that era of high conservatism. The Vineland Times Journal reported the boys bent over a desk as "each father moved up behind his son and the smack of open hand against rump resounded through the courtroom." In April 1963, for example, an Atlantic City judge sentenced three teenage boys to a public spanking after they admitted to larceny and receiving stolen goods. No-nonsense South Jersey municipal judges administered law as they saw fit during the 1950s and '60s.
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