Archive for the 'High School' Category
High School Yearbook Covers, 1978 – 1979 (Part One)
Published May 1, 2014 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , High School Yearbooks , Star Wars (Original Trilogy) 3 Comments
Dungeons & Dragons Club, 1984
Published April 23, 2014 '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , D&D , D&D Clubs , D&D Portraits , High School Yearbooks 3 Comments
You can’t hide from me, Greyhawk Grognard! Every time a portrait of old school D&D geeks appears on the internets, a little alarm goes off on my aging laptop and I spring into action (i.e. I click on my Google homepage and type in a couple of keywords).
All hail the Pingry School Dungeons and Dragons Club of 1984! They can’t beat you on the football field, but they will, if you cross them, destroy you and your cheerleading lapdogs with various applications of black magic, telekinesis, and Lankhmarian-made rapiers.
How many polo animal mascots can you spot?
Dungeons & Dragons Club, Circa 1982/1983
Published March 11, 2014 D&D , D&D Clubs , D&D Portraits , High School , High School Yearbooks 2 Comments
Two successive years of the D&D Club at Downey High School in California. A Mr. Kruzan was the faculty rep for both years.
One of the kids in the first photo is wearing a Van Halen shirt. Not much else I can make out, except that the turnaround between years one and two is extensive.
More D&D Clubs (and more Van Halen t-shirts) here. There was also a D&D summer camp, if you haven’t seen it yet.
(Photos via Michael Poulin/Flickr)
High School Assembly, 1984
Published April 17, 2013 '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , High School , Ocean Pacific 1 Comment
Published in an unidentified newspaper, probably The Miami Herald, in 1984. Someone named Larry Meyer is speaking at Ponce de Leon High School in northwest Florida. I’ve got no idea who Meyer is, but the students look intrigued.
The kid on the far left of the front row is wearing an OP (Ocean Pacific) polo.
The kid in the middle is wearing a Bud Light t-shirt. (The Annual Budweiser Light… something. I can’t make it out.) The kid to his right is wearing a JCPenney-exclusive “Fox Shirt,” designed to compete with Lacoste’s crocodile. Le Tigre’s tiger polos were another big Lacoste competitor.
(Images via Big Ole Photos/eBay and Etsy)
A Portrait of Young Geeks Playing D&D (1980)
Published April 16, 2013 D&D , D&D Clubs , D&D Portraits , Goonies Never Say Die , High School , High School Yearbooks 9 Comments
These are from the 1980 Libertyville (a northern suburb of Chicago) High School Yearbook, courtesy of edenpictures/Flickr. John Olson’s explanation of the game on the first page may be the best one I’ve ever heard.
Interesting how they’re referred to as the Dungeons and Dragons people. Why not players? Or fans? Maybe because no one really understood them. They were those people. They were Goonies.
And what about the crux of the blurb: “The game provides its participants with the action, battle, and adventure they may never find in real life”? Isn’t the act of pretending a real life event? If I imagine that I’m swinging a sword at a red dragon while rolling a d20, am I not finding adventure in real life? It’s a less physical experience than running between the tackles on a football field, but it’s no less real.
Look closely at these kids. They were themselves, and they probably took a lot of shit for it. They were geeks before geeks were cool.
‘I Remain Now and Will Always Be… A Duckman’
Published April 2, 2013 '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , High School 1 Comment
Coral Gables High School, Florida, 1986. (Photo: Erica Berger/Miami Herald)
This stylish gentleman is asking a question of Vice President George Bush during the latter’s visit to the former’s high school. That night, filled with newfound confidence, he (the stylish gentleman, not the VP) surprised Molly Ringwald at the prom.
(Photo via the Boston Archive/eBay)
Dungeons & Dragons Club, 1983
Published March 14, 2013 D&D , D&D Clubs , D&D Portraits , High School , High School Yearbooks 5 Comments
Presumably this shot comes from the Menlo School Yearbook of 1983. Menlo is a middle and high school in Atherton, California. I love the dragon, but shouldn’t he be holding a polyhedral die?
What do we think is playing on that boombox (top left)? Thriller?
(Photo via Menlo Photo Bank/Flickr)
These High School Students Dare You to Mess with Their Apple II (1983)
Published March 6, 2013 '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , High School , Personal Computers 1 Comment
Cherry Creek High School, Englewood, CO, 1983. (Photo: Denver Post/Aaron E. Tomlinson)
Actually, these dudes are editors of the school paper, the Union Street Journal, after winning an award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. I love it when nerds try to look tough.
(Photo via Lexibell/eBay)
The Best Seat in High School (1986)
Published November 28, 2012 '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , High School Leave a Comment
Ingraham High, November 28, 1986. (Photo: Seattle Times)
“Don Johnson on my left, Emilio Estevez on my right. Somebody wake me up when the ’80s are over.”
Exactly 26 years ago today. Behold the notorious pinch roll (a.k.a. pegged pants) in all its glory.
(Via the Seattle Washington Archive)
2 Warps to Neptune 