Yes I was weired even back then.lol
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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* Bell bottoms
* Turtle necks
* Ford LTD 400
* Senior skip day
* All you could eat field trips
* Kent State
* Peace with dignity - Nixon
* “Alright, alright, alright....”
* R0TC
(Vanna)
I just want to know if places really did haze the incoming freshmen like in the movie?
The high school I went to had a community college adjacent, down a large entrance area to the gym. The JC had a smoking lounge for JC students, but plenty of bold high schoolers used it too. Don’t remember anyone getting in trouble for it.
There’s one scene in that movie, that stuck with me, and shows how the rot was starting in the schools even then:
The teacher (who was kinda cute), told her students that when they celebrated The Bicentenntial, they were celebrating slave owners who didn’t want to pay their taxes.
You slay me, DFW.
No. Not in my time.
The sex, drugs and rock and roll? Oh yes.
Other than the long-haired dudes, if I observed all that in a 2023 high school, I’d say it was an elite $40k per year private prep school.
Also observed: no tatts, no weight problems, no phones, almost every one of them looked serious about life.
Something changed, some time around 1995-2005, where our culture declined rapidly.
Really? I overlooked that part. The film itself was made in 1993 so maybe by that time that line of malarkey was more common.
But if any of my teachers in that era thought that - they kept it to themselves.
Too real. Boston was my favorite, mostly, at the time. But their limited release of albums made it hard to keep arguing they were the best. Styx was probably my second favorite, along with Zeppelin, who most didn't really know about, but I did from my older brother.
One of my best friends was an REO fanatic, and loved Gary Richrath (sp?). Brian was a guitar player, and I think the reason Richrath was his favorite, was that he could actually play the licks lol.
Kiss and Nugget were considered hard rock, to us kids. Once VH came out, everything changed. At least in my hometown. People started taking note of Rush, but VH just had that something special, they seemed to just be different from anyone else. Fearless, and aggressive. Made Journey look old, overnight.
I noticed the cars in that video were pretty upscale. Nicer than the ones in my 1979 high school parking lot.
* “Alright, alright, alright....”
Wait, like Matthew McConaughey? That’s a bit later, right? Or is there a 70’s reference that I’m oblivious about?
The thing about VH, is they were the first hard rock band a lot of girls got into, even the “cheerleader” types.
My big-time crush at that time was Jacqueline Bisset.
Yes I was weired even back then.lol
Most of the chicks I knew were into Journey, especially when their ballads starting coming out, which was probably more in the early 80’s, after they conceded the hard rock genre to VH. That and Foreigner is what they would play whenever they had a Friday night party at one of the girl’s houses, where spin the bottle was the main attraction starting about 10PM.
The guys who liked VH usually only listened to that with other guys, when riding around out in the country, with car stereos that could do 120 dB lol.
The silliest thing about Carrie, is that in that movie Edie McClurg played a high school student, and even then she looked like she was 30. I mean ten years later, she’s playing Rooney’s secretary in Ferris Bueller.
“Something changed, some time around 1995-2005, where our culture declined rapidly.”
The Woodstock daddies.
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