GREASE.

GREASE. Kids, the musical comedy/movie GREASE has always seemed to be about my high school. There were over 4000 students at York Community High School when I was there. There was a socioeconomic split that I was aware of more in retrospect. The students came from Villa Park and Elmhurst, and Villa Park was more of a blue collar town, perhaps because of the Ovaltine plant. I did notice that a lot of the Villa Park kids who were assigned to college prep classes as freshmen were taking a different track by sophomore year. And I couldn’t miss the greaser style (as in GREASE). Kids from both towns adopted the style, but none of those who did were in the college prep classes. They were called “hoods” and the style was called “hoody.” (It’s important that the words were pronounced to rhyme with “food” and “foody.”)