Posted on 07/27/2023 5:34:02 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Footage of High School students attending Andover High School in Bloomfield, Michigan.
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We did as well—and that was mid 80’s.
One thing of note—outside of gym no shirts with pictures or writing on them.
Thanks to Jimmy Carter?
Eh, we did not. They took the doors off some of the bathroom stalls.
People got in big trouble for smoking in the school.
Cause everybody knows that smoking ain't allowed in school.
If you’ve not seen Dazed and Confused... watch it. Watch it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(film)
It’s set in Austin in 1976. And since I graduated in San Antonio in 1976 - I totally relate.
Except for those in the teachers’lounge
We would go duck hunting in the morning and show up with our decoys, shot guns, but rarely with a duck in the back of the car. The gun racks in trucks usually had guns.
“That’s the great thing about these high school girls, I get older, they stay the same age.”
I know I did... still have it.
Where is all the snow? Where is all the uphill both ways? No, something isn’t adding up at all.
Most of the branding then was Levi...
I graduated from high school in St. Clair Shores, MI in 1977.
EDHS class of ‘77
I saw Frampton in Sacramento opening for Loggins and Messina and Rod Stewart and Faces. He had just recorded several of the tracks for the live album that week in LA and SF. It was the Faces last tour... Ron Wood had already recorded Black and Blue with the Stones. That was in 74.. my freshman year in HS.
We had a designated smoking area... a very great deal of it wasn’t tobacco being smoked.
Our school had a smoking tree.
MUCH better times back then
“I was a Junior in 1977.”
Class of 78 Baby!
Wait until January. We seldom had snow days because the buses would always go out regardless. Now with so many kids driving there is concern about liability.
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