Nostalgia meme
Feb. 14th, 2008 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljThere's a meme going around wherein you leave a comment and your (approximate) age and then you are given a year to write about, all nostalgic like. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarcaustick gave me 1974 which goes back a fair ways for me. So if you want to step back in time, leave me a comment and your age so i don't go back too far.
1974, i was 15. In September, I had started high school (grade 10) so it was back to being the bottom of the heap as far as school seniority goes. The last half of junior high was fairly good. I'm sure i had a crush or two or three, at least one of whom i think was on the basketball team because i remember going to a few of the games. There were several different routes i could take to walk home and depending on my crush of the week, I would often take the route closest to his house in case we might be found to be walking home at the same time.
High school, though. That was different. All the senior Grade 12 boys! W00t! I and several of my girlfriends joined up the yearbook committee. The office at that time was in a long narrow room between the cafeteria and the grade 12 lounge. Much peeking through the neighbouring doors, yes indeedy and it wasn't the cafeteria doors we were interested in! The grade 12 lounge had a jukebox and they played one song in particular that soon became my favourite and is still one of my all time favourites, Sweet Home Alabama. That's the only song that really sticks out in my mind from 1974 though i'm sure i could find others if i looked up the top 40 lists. What tv shows did i watch then? Happy Days, Maud, All in the Family, Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore, Little House on the Prairie, Chico and the Man (Freddie Prinz!) we'd come home after school and watch the soaps, Another World and Edge of Night.
Most of my teachers in grade 10 were ok. None of them stands out in my mind as really enjoyable and a couple were quite boring including French and Geometry. I think the Algebra teacher, Mr. Coveyduc was quite funny. It was also my first experience with a "foreign" born teacher other than French in the persona of Mrs. ... oh heck her name escapes me at the moment. She was Indian (Asian) and taught biology. I found the accent a little tricky at first but got used to it. Mind you, all year i thought the name of one guy that sat near me was Don when it was actually John because of how she pronounced it. Oh and my history teacher (ancient civilizations) was an older woman who fervently believed in UFO's. You could write short extra research papers for extra points and if you managed to suggest alien invaders built the pyramids or something like that, all the better! She was a daft old thing lol
The year started with small lockers, about 2 foot square but about 3 feet deep but they soon got different ones, orange and they were about 18 inches wide by about .. oh maybe 3 or 3.5 feet tall, one up one down. You could store your coat in it and your books and lunch. Very nice. By that time the yearbook office had moved upstairs one floor to our own set of quieter officed. Only they weren't quiet when we were in them and we got told off frequently by the history department head who was in the next office. In the back of the offices, there were two smaller rooms and one of these was used for a computer terminal that was hooked up to a mainframe at Dalhousie University. The physics students sometimes used it and it was a Big Thing back then. It was just a keyboard and a roll of printer paper and i think you could write programs in ... hmm.. APL maybe. or Fortran. Because of the yearbook club and the computer club, i met a lot of new friends, boys and girls, in addition to the gaggle of girls i'd hung around with through junior high and some right from childhood.
I used to go to some of the school sports games, soccer but not our sort of football, hockey, basketball on occasion. Our football team really sucked. Mainly i was going to watch the boys play. :) I didn't have a job, not until the next year when i was 16 and i didn't babysit so i depended on an allowance. We would go to school dances, rallies, assemblies.
Politics don't really stand out much but that summer was the year Richard Nixon was ousted and resigned after the Watergate scandal.
sarcaustick gave me 1974 which goes back a fair ways for me. So if you want to step back in time, leave me a comment and your age so i don't go back too far. 1974, i was 15. In September, I had started high school (grade 10) so it was back to being the bottom of the heap as far as school seniority goes. The last half of junior high was fairly good. I'm sure i had a crush or two or three, at least one of whom i think was on the basketball team because i remember going to a few of the games. There were several different routes i could take to walk home and depending on my crush of the week, I would often take the route closest to his house in case we might be found to be walking home at the same time.
High school, though. That was different. All the senior Grade 12 boys! W00t! I and several of my girlfriends joined up the yearbook committee. The office at that time was in a long narrow room between the cafeteria and the grade 12 lounge. Much peeking through the neighbouring doors, yes indeedy and it wasn't the cafeteria doors we were interested in! The grade 12 lounge had a jukebox and they played one song in particular that soon became my favourite and is still one of my all time favourites, Sweet Home Alabama. That's the only song that really sticks out in my mind from 1974 though i'm sure i could find others if i looked up the top 40 lists. What tv shows did i watch then? Happy Days, Maud, All in the Family, Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore, Little House on the Prairie, Chico and the Man (Freddie Prinz!) we'd come home after school and watch the soaps, Another World and Edge of Night.
Most of my teachers in grade 10 were ok. None of them stands out in my mind as really enjoyable and a couple were quite boring including French and Geometry. I think the Algebra teacher, Mr. Coveyduc was quite funny. It was also my first experience with a "foreign" born teacher other than French in the persona of Mrs. ... oh heck her name escapes me at the moment. She was Indian (Asian) and taught biology. I found the accent a little tricky at first but got used to it. Mind you, all year i thought the name of one guy that sat near me was Don when it was actually John because of how she pronounced it. Oh and my history teacher (ancient civilizations) was an older woman who fervently believed in UFO's. You could write short extra research papers for extra points and if you managed to suggest alien invaders built the pyramids or something like that, all the better! She was a daft old thing lol
The year started with small lockers, about 2 foot square but about 3 feet deep but they soon got different ones, orange and they were about 18 inches wide by about .. oh maybe 3 or 3.5 feet tall, one up one down. You could store your coat in it and your books and lunch. Very nice. By that time the yearbook office had moved upstairs one floor to our own set of quieter officed. Only they weren't quiet when we were in them and we got told off frequently by the history department head who was in the next office. In the back of the offices, there were two smaller rooms and one of these was used for a computer terminal that was hooked up to a mainframe at Dalhousie University. The physics students sometimes used it and it was a Big Thing back then. It was just a keyboard and a roll of printer paper and i think you could write programs in ... hmm.. APL maybe. or Fortran. Because of the yearbook club and the computer club, i met a lot of new friends, boys and girls, in addition to the gaggle of girls i'd hung around with through junior high and some right from childhood.
I used to go to some of the school sports games, soccer but not our sort of football, hockey, basketball on occasion. Our football team really sucked. Mainly i was going to watch the boys play. :) I didn't have a job, not until the next year when i was 16 and i didn't babysit so i depended on an allowance. We would go to school dances, rallies, assemblies.
Politics don't really stand out much but that summer was the year Richard Nixon was ousted and resigned after the Watergate scandal.
