What a great year.
“Party at the Moon Tower!”
Probably every student had a copy of “Frampton Comes Alive”.
We had a gun club in high school. Kids would walk to school with a rifle over their shoulder (unloaded). There were no school shootings.
I remember, more recently, a high school Assistant Principal who had a shotgun in his car trunk. He parked one foot off of school property. When some student threatened to shoot, he ran, took his shotgun, and the crazy kid stopped.
We’d wear our football jerseys on game day.
‘73
Hockey, boys basketball, and girls basketball on one court at the same time? That I don’t remember. I did own a Ford Maverick, Mustang, and a Ford Pinto shown in the clip. Thanks for posting!
I graduated in ‘77. I remember gun racks in trucks though no guns in the high school parking lot. We had coed PE because the band would transition from fall marching band to concert band and so PE was required in the spring. Good times!
We did not have co-ed gym, either, but we were a small, rural school. Co-ed gym would have been nixed right away.
Did kids sneak around to smoke cigarettes when you were in high school?
Class of 1977 myself.
35 minutes from me...
I was 8 years old in 1977. Not yet going to High school.
But the one thing that strikes me is seeing High school teens driving themselves around, to and from school. When I went to High school (in New york city), there simply was no such thing as High school teenagers driving themselves around. You couldn’t get a driver’s license until you were 18 (and even if they would have been allowed to drive, i didn’t know a high school teen who could afford a car), and most teens graduated from high school at age 17.
In my High school days, I never, ever saw any of my fellow teens driving around. We all either walked to school, took a public bus, a school bus, or were dropped off by parents.
A lot fewer fatties back then.
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.
I graduated from high school in St. Clair Shores, MI in 1977.
Nobody cared to be on camera...unlike today’s Tik Tok extroverted, me-me generations
What a great year.
it was an odd time
* 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
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.
Id this was the fall of 1977, my sister had an 8-track tape of Saturday Night Fever, and I had an 8-track of the Star Wars soundtrack (released in June)
Bump for later as I was a sophomore in high school that year - with Peter Frampton length hair.
Was that an actual Maverick in the parking lot? It’s been so long since I’ve seen one...