Proof that the 70s impacted the popular culture of the planet.  Hard to believe that there was a time before "politically correct" and "just say no" took over!

Movies and Television About Our Era

• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

• Dazed and Confused (1993)

• Stöned Age, The (1994)

• That '70s Show (1998)

• Detroit Rock City (1999)

• Link to some TV commercial clips

What We Did in "Real Life".  Do you remember . . .

• . . . changing the marquis at the drive-in theater?  (Mark?)

• . . . a dead skunk thrown into the visiting team bleachers at the Homecoming Game?

• . . . dining and dashing?

• . . . the midnight showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

• . . . cruising the boulevard?

• . . . Steel Bear Deli?

• . . . the "Red-Eye" section at basketball games?

• . . . slow dancing to fast songs?

• . . . saving Care Free gum wrappers to win a concert by "Brick?"

• . . . the Senior Prom in San Francisco?

• . . . the rope swing at the Russian River?

• . . . South McDowell Blvd.?

• . . . Hardin Lane?

• . . . the on campus smoking area?

• . . . "Stoner Hill?"

• . . . when local police and sheriff deputies pulled you over and gave you a break by not writing you up and as punishment, confiscating beer and other items?

• . . . the hypnotist that can and stretched people like a board between two chairs?  Who was that?

• . . . the annual school political convention extravaganza?

• . . . freshmen getting hunted down and "pied", trash-canned, of taped to a basketball pole at lunch?  (and that terror-filled feeling of being prey?)

• . . . the snack shack?

• . . . toga days?

• . . . being able to graduate with the rest of the class?  (right CHASE club?)

Or how about . . .

• . . . bell bottoms, Derby jackets, platform shoes, shoes with cork soles, waffle stomper boots, leisure suits, polyester, terry cloth?

• . . . dome houses, A-frames, fake wood paneling, naugahide, shag carpeting, avocado greed and harvest gold kitchen appliances, earth tones - rust, browns, lemon, tans and burnt orange?

• . . . hair parted down the middle and "feathered", big combs sticking out of your back pockets, mood rings, and puka shells?

• . . . black light posters and velvet paintings?

• . . . Chrysler Cordobas, AMC Pacers and Gremlins, the Chevy Vega, Datsun B-210 Honeybees, and Ford Pintos?

• . . . fondue?

• . . . CB radios and streaking?

• . . . pet rocks and Hang Ten t-shirts?

• . . . hats made from Coors cans and knitted yarn, bicycles with banana seats, tin soda cans with pull tops?

• . . . Shasta cola, "Pop Shop" soda, Nutter Butter peanut butter cookies, Gold Mine gum, Bit-O-Honey, Pop Rocks, Pixie Stiks, Otter Pops, Granny Goosicles, Charleston Chews, and Fruit Stripe gum?

• . . . Dr. Don Rose on KFRC in the morning?

• . . . Miss Nancy on Romper Room (o.k. - that was when we were little)

• . . . mud flaps with slogans (Keep on Truckin')?

• . . . Bonnie Belle Kissables Lip Gloss?  (mmm - Bubble Gum flavor kisses)?

• . . . hang gliding?

• . . . macramé plant hangers?

• . . . dancing the "Bump" or the "Foxy Trot"?

Click here for some potential conversation starters for the 35th Reunion.

Send your memories along for inclusion by clicking here.  Don't worry about political correctness.  It is history.  You can't change it.  Only learn from it (blah, blah, blah).