Comments on: Pee-Chee Memes

By: Wick

Wick — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:29:38 +0000

Just today we were trying to teach our east-coast-transplanted co-worker about Pee Chees. I had to come home and scour the web to find examples. We had fun building them up into much greater nostalgia than they probably rank. Your Pee-Chee was indispensible and in time it became a unique “fingerprint” for that semester in school.

I’m glad this comment thing is here!

(Luckily I still have a brand-new Pee-Chee that has been sitting two feet from the computer for a decade or more)

By: dave

dave — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:14:39 +0000

this was the late 80’s btw.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:13:10 +0000

Seeing this late but a brilliant topic!

At my junior high school in Los Angeles we’d alter the relay runners to turn the two runners with batons into cops with billy clubs, and the runner in front into a black guy with a big afro and a ghetto blaster in his hand.

Oddly it never occurred to us that this was racist…the black kids would do it too. I think we understood on some level, even at that age, that this was a commentary on the violent tactics of the LAPD.

Anyway, very interesting discussion of adolescent folkways.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:10:32 +0000

I was digging through a desk drawer and found one of the lame blue Pee-Chee folders. They changed the pictures so you couldn’t do the proper doodles.

I mentioned to my junior high aged daughter that when we had the old yellow Pee-Chees everyone drew the knife in the basketball player’s hand and the fuse on the baton. Don’t remember the battle axe, but I’m sure it happened. Went to school in Spokane, WA in the late 60’s and early 70’s.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:54 +0000

Um, I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. Went to elementary Catholic school 1959 to 1967. We had Pee-Chees. I do not remember them in high school, though. (Catholic all-girls)

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:39:05 +0000

I currently live on the east coast and no one I ever talk to knows what a pee-chee is. I grew up in Washington state & used them all through school. My husband grew up in the east coast & thinks I’m out of my mind reminiscing about old pee-chees.

By: crowleyj

crowleyj — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:27:13 +0000

for those looking for the golden pee chee I may have found the fount of misspent youth. http://www.innisbrook.com

By: Milan

Milan — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:44:38 +0000

We had them in Chicago in the ’60’s. They cost about a dime. There was a competing product called “Hep”. It was made out of a stronger cardboard, greyish brown in color. Mine never lasted more than a couple of semesters.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:01:54 +0000

Where have all the Pee Chees gone?

I got lucky and found a stash of 1980 new folders but I am running out. Only to find that Los Angeles stores don’t care them anymore. Help me find where Pee Chees are still sold.

* side note
Pee Chees lost their appeal when they changed, they went green, blue and I think pink

By: laurence

laurence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:31:01 +0000

Adam,

If you can still find them at Bi-Mart, I would love to get some from you (Paypal, cash, whatever)…

My wife and I both grew up in CA and we have mentioned them several times (away from a computer) to friends and coworkers here in NYC (clueless about this childhood staple).

Yesterday, we were at Landmark Cinema in Soho (independent movie house) and found a promo postcard for the DVD release of the movie “Rocket Science” that we saw last year. The postcard design is a play on the Pee-Chee! Very nostalgic.

Laurence