the year was: 1968
I won't be following any kind of order here - I'll post whatever comes to mind from which decade as I go along.
[click for bigger image] That's my first grade class picture, 1968. Notice how all the girls are wearing cute jumpers. You don't see that much anymore, do you?
1968. The Record of the Year was Simon and Garfunke's Mrs. Robinson. The Best Picture Oscar went to Oliver!
I grew up on show tunes. My mother played them so much that to this day I know every word to every musical ever recorded. Not only that, but the lyrics to those tunes have been so embedded in our brains, so entwined in our daily lives, that every time someone would ask for seconds at dinner, they would invariably say "Please, sir. Can I have some more?" At which point we would all burst out into song.
We still do that. It's a sickness.
And they certainly don't make musicals like they used to.
So, do you know which one is me in that class picture?
Comments
blue dress with white stripe?
Posted by: GFanny | July 26, 2003 09:33 AM
blue dress, white stripe.
Posted by: Wind Rider | July 26, 2003 09:34 AM
bash the french! bash the french!
Posted by: Wind Rider | July 26, 2003 09:35 AM
I'll bet you were the one in the back row, far right - you were big for your age back then....
Posted by: Barry | July 26, 2003 10:05 AM
I have pictures just like this. I'm not silly enough to post they anywhere. ;)
Hi honey!
Posted by: Faith | July 26, 2003 10:13 AM
Gawd, how is that everything makes me feel so old? 1968, the worst year of my life. I went from being one of the most popular boys in city Jr. High to being an outsider in a small inbred country all-grade school, and I never recovered from such.
There are times when I wish I did have a therapist, or that my dogs could talk back.
Posted by: Tiger | July 26, 2003 10:42 AM
Definitely the blue dress, standing next to the kid in the yellow shirt.
Posted by: Keith | July 26, 2003 12:57 PM
My 1st grade picture -- also 1968 -- is in black and white. But other than that, they look very much alike!
Posted by: Ith | July 26, 2003 01:52 PM
You taught elementary school in the 60s?
Posted by: Ravenwood | July 26, 2003 07:25 PM