It was Friday night at 7:30.  I’m standing in my kitchen wearing a sweater set, pearls, plaid skirt, and wide head band.  Setting up appetizers of Ritz Crackers and cheese, hot dogs, White Castles, Turkey Meatball Sliders, and a crudite consisting of cauliflower, radish, and cucumber.  The dessert table is made up and consists of Chunky, Charleston Chews, Red Hots, Bazooka, Chuckles, Rasinets, Sugar Babies, Peanut Chews, Toll House Cookies (made that afternoon), brownies, Cool Whip Cheesecake (made that am with the help of my Kitchen Aid), and black and white cookies.  ”Yakety Yak” plays on and my husband wearing a Titans jersey and cleats tends bar.  In walk our friends.  She is clad in a poodle skirt, and neck scarf, her hair pulled up in a ponytail, carrying chips and dip in one hand and pom poms in another.  Her husband is wearing a sweater vest.  Another couples arrives, one is dressed in a leather jacket with a white T and cards rolled up in his sleeve, his wife wears glasses, a long straight skirt and a sweater draped over her shoulders.  We snack on the food,  and people sample their first White Castle.  Finally the last couple arrives, she is clothed in tight jeans, tight shirt, open toe shoes, and neck scarf, he in a button down, high waters, and a pocket protector.  We eat some more.  We drink.  We bring the appetizers into the dining room.  Everyone introduces themselves as the character they have been invited to portray.  We go to play the cassette tape.

You read right- the CASSETTE TAPE.  It is 2010, who uses cassette tapes?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I bought this came on sale back in the 90′s.  The Class of ’54w mystery as dated as 1996.  Cassetes were more popular in the 1990s, but that could explain why the game was on sale.

We tried the tape player our friend brought- nothing happens.  My husband digs out ours, nothing happens.  We could not play the game without hearing essential game information on the tape.  So, all dressed up and no mystery.

So, we ended up just having a 1950′s dinner party.  Dinner included meatloaf, green bean casserole, mac and cheeses, lasagna, roasted potatoes, brussel sprouts, iceberg wedge salad with Russian dressing, and the famous jello-mold.  It was tasty in a retro sort of way, not the typical food I would serve together on a Friday  night to guests (besides the meatloaf of course, and lasagna- I guess I would make the food- just not altogether.) We ate more, we drank more.  Then we had dessert.  J made delicious adult milkshakes to accompany  dessert.

After dessert we decided we need to find out what happened to Rock N. Roley.  We read the solution.  The night was definitely fun.  I think I will search for an 80′s Mystery that comes with a CD next.  Too, bad one isn’t available on itunes!