High School Life 1970-1972: Yearbook Pictures From Your Average American School

“Happiness is ‘girl watching’ in the quadrangle after lunch in the cafeteria.”

Yeah, this wouldn’t fly in a yearbook today.  Ogling girls is frowned upon.

WTF?  There’s no caption or any explanation for this picture.  That “thing” lurking behind the fern is beyond creepy.

Um.  Perhaps we’ve taken a wrong turn.  This is where the popular kids hang out.  Let’s turn around before the quarterback gives us a wedgie.

They pulled out all the stops for the prom back then.  My school didn’t have “pageant trumpeters” though.

The A.V. Club – always exclusively for nerds.  These guys are all millionaires now I’m sure, but in ’71 none of these fellas were dating these girls…