JUVENILE DELINQUENTS Young people bear a special burden during and after war. With their fathers away fighting, and their mothers working and trying to raise them on their own, a new social problem began to be apparent. Many of these kids got into trouble. They were angry, wild and undisciplined. And now, with still another war, they were disillusioned and the term “juvenile delinquent” was heard for the first time. Some of these kids hung around Shooster’s Drive- In. Maybe because of his own wartime trauma, Herman seemed to understand the trouble they were having trying to find themselves. He formed a club for young patrons of Shooster’s, they had their own club jacket and activities. It is hard to say what impact this had but it tells you two things – that the Fifties were not as bland as the television shows were – and that Herman Shooster did his part to help the kids he could.
The Shooster brothers, Izzy, Herman, Harry
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