Quote Originally Posted by Jerry Oz View Post
I moved to Memphis in 1994. I was shocked to see Jheri curls and gold teeth were still the fashion choice of many of the men [[young and old) so far past the '80s. It was like I was in a real world enactment of "Boyz N Da Hood" except for the language difference. It took a month or so to figure out what they were saying and when I finally got it, it made no sense. "I'm finnin to quit this job, y'all." [[Spoken at literally half the cadence of how we spoke up north.)
Jerry I had a Jheri curl from roughly 1981 to mid 1983. I went to Atlanta in 1993 around my birthday and there were guys walking around with Jheri curls some 10 years after we stopped. LOL!!!!