Who's who in Nowata High School's classes of '79, '80, '81, and now welcoming the Class of '82.
January 15, 2008 3:04 PM Subscribe
Is there something here besides people mocking old photos of people?
I mean, that cool by me, I just don't want to miss anything else.
posted by GuyZero at 3:13 PM on January 15, 2008
I mean, that cool by me, I just don't want to miss anything else.
posted by GuyZero at 3:13 PM on January 15, 2008
I watched Dawn of the Dead last weekend and I wonder about the parts of the late 70s that I am too young to remember. Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:13 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:13 PM on January 15, 2008
Phew. Good thing I didn't look like a dork in high school.
posted by adamrice at 3:23 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by adamrice at 3:23 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
That's just what people looked like before the hipster virus.
posted by srboisvert at 3:26 PM on January 15, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by srboisvert at 3:26 PM on January 15, 2008 [3 favorites]
I see tinted glasses were compulsory
Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
Yes, there's a great bit of writing that I wish I could track down about a bloke remembering being in a pub in the 70s that had a brown carpet, brown wall paper (three different shades) , brown plastic seats, brown beer, everyone in brow suits... even the food was brown (pie and gravy)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:30 PM on January 15, 2008
Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
Yes, there's a great bit of writing that I wish I could track down about a bloke remembering being in a pub in the 70s that had a brown carpet, brown wall paper (three different shades) , brown plastic seats, brown beer, everyone in brow suits... even the food was brown (pie and gravy)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:30 PM on January 15, 2008
I see tinted glasses were compulsory
Oh hang on... there was one rebel, way to go James
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:35 PM on January 15, 2008
Oh hang on... there was one rebel, way to go James
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:35 PM on January 15, 2008
One-third of these young men and women resemble David Koresh in some way. That is a fact.
posted by rokabiri at 3:39 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by rokabiri at 3:39 PM on January 15, 2008
If my calculations are correct, here is the curve:
yearbook plus 5 years = no discernible difference yet
yearbook plus 10 years = kinda funny, but we've seen worse
yearbook plus 20 years = funny
yearbook plus 30 years = funny
yearbook plus 40 years = kinda funny, kinda cool
yearbook plus 50 years = old-fashioned and quaint
yearbook plus 60 years = old-fashioned and quaint
yearbook plus 70 years = old-fashioned and quaint
etc
(Mefites, please feel free to add more science and/or math to this.)
So, the people featured in this link just have to wait until the year 2029 and then they will be free of mockery.
posted by TheClonusHorror at 3:58 PM on January 15, 2008 [4 favorites]
yearbook plus 5 years = no discernible difference yet
yearbook plus 10 years = kinda funny, but we've seen worse
yearbook plus 20 years = funny
yearbook plus 30 years = funny
yearbook plus 40 years = kinda funny, kinda cool
yearbook plus 50 years = old-fashioned and quaint
yearbook plus 60 years = old-fashioned and quaint
yearbook plus 70 years = old-fashioned and quaint
etc
(Mefites, please feel free to add more science and/or math to this.)
So, the people featured in this link just have to wait until the year 2029 and then they will be free of mockery.
posted by TheClonusHorror at 3:58 PM on January 15, 2008 [4 favorites]
"That's just what people looked like before the hipster virus."
And, ironically, after the hipster virus.
posted by klangklangston at 4:07 PM on January 15, 2008 [12 favorites]
And, ironically, after the hipster virus.
posted by klangklangston at 4:07 PM on January 15, 2008 [12 favorites]
Oh hey, that's Erin Lady Byrne, fellow Okie.
Nowata is a town NE of Tulsa and E of Bartlesville. In other words, nothing to really write home about. They were the "Ironmen" because that part of Oklahoma was a heavily mined area until the 1960s and 70s when the iron played out and the lead wasn't worth mining anymore. It led to Tar Creek, which is one of the largest Superfund sites.
posted by dw at 4:08 PM on January 15, 2008
Nowata is a town NE of Tulsa and E of Bartlesville. In other words, nothing to really write home about. They were the "Ironmen" because that part of Oklahoma was a heavily mined area until the 1960s and 70s when the iron played out and the lead wasn't worth mining anymore. It led to Tar Creek, which is one of the largest Superfund sites.
posted by dw at 4:08 PM on January 15, 2008
Votes for the class heartbreaker?
Janet B is a likely candidate. But what are all those activities? We did not have the "Five J's" at our school - rip off, man!
And rokabiri is dead on. First glance - all look-alikes. Maybe many are, in fact, related? Who's who, Nowata High?
posted by AppleSeed at 4:11 PM on January 15, 2008
Janet B is a likely candidate. But what are all those activities? We did not have the "Five J's" at our school - rip off, man!
And rokabiri is dead on. First glance - all look-alikes. Maybe many are, in fact, related? Who's who, Nowata High?
posted by AppleSeed at 4:11 PM on January 15, 2008
I actually had a great uncle who lived in Nowata around this time. We would visit him a lot because my father liked to drive. My uncle would make the same joke every time we were there. It went: my sister and I would ask for something to drink and he'd say that we could have anything we wanted except for water. It wasn't even funny the first time (when I was 5), but everyone else thought it was, everyone except for my mom who would just smile the smile of Jesus-Christ-not-again. My uncle also decided to show us his zipper after his heart surgery. Crazy bastard scared my sister and I so bad we never wanted to go back. Turns out we didn't have to because he died around the same time this yearbook scan does.
Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
Yes. My parents had a cargo van that we would take camping a lot. It had wood panelling in it. Wood. Panelling. Luckily, no mermaid on the side of it, just a reverse Starsky and Hutch red stripe on white, or else I'd be scarred for life.
posted by sleepy pete at 4:15 PM on January 15, 2008
Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
Yes. My parents had a cargo van that we would take camping a lot. It had wood panelling in it. Wood. Panelling. Luckily, no mermaid on the side of it, just a reverse Starsky and Hutch red stripe on white, or else I'd be scarred for life.
posted by sleepy pete at 4:15 PM on January 15, 2008
My uncle also decided to show us his zipper after his heart surgery.
Oh yes, elderly relatives showing you their scars and/or stumps... happy days.
Most likely to win a knife fight.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:32 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
Oh yes, elderly relatives showing you their scars and/or stumps... happy days.
Most likely to win a knife fight.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:32 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
And Avocado Green, usually used in close proximity to orange.
posted by lekvar at 4:35 PM on January 15, 2008
And Avocado Green, usually used in close proximity to orange.
posted by lekvar at 4:35 PM on January 15, 2008
I'm actually getting fashion tips from these photos. Does that make me weird?
posted by champthom at 4:50 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by champthom at 4:50 PM on January 15, 2008
That's just what people looked like before the hipster virus.
Havent you heard? Using 'hipster' as an epithet is SUCH a hipster thing to do.
posted by ElmerFishpaw at 4:53 PM on January 15, 2008
Havent you heard? Using 'hipster' as an epithet is SUCH a hipster thing to do.
posted by ElmerFishpaw at 4:53 PM on January 15, 2008
Hell, these aren't so bad. In my senior picture I have a mullet and a skinny black tie.
posted by jonmc at 4:55 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by jonmc at 4:55 PM on January 15, 2008
Holy crap, it's CORTEX.
Eh, too much beard and not enough hair.
posted by cortex at 5:28 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
Eh, too much beard and not enough hair.
posted by cortex at 5:28 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?
Oh yeah. Yeah, it certainly was.
I was laughing at all these in the mean-spirited kind of way that one does when I came across the notes about which ones were now dead and under what circumstances (an odd cluster of stomach cancer, at least one suicide). So, um, yeah.
Still, there are some lulz to be found.
posted by jokeefe at 5:28 PM on January 15, 2008
Oh yeah. Yeah, it certainly was.
I was laughing at all these in the mean-spirited kind of way that one does when I came across the notes about which ones were now dead and under what circumstances (an odd cluster of stomach cancer, at least one suicide). So, um, yeah.
Still, there are some lulz to be found.
posted by jokeefe at 5:28 PM on January 15, 2008
Heh. I imagine this guy was the senior class heart breaker, too. Bet he still looks back at his glory years when the girls were throwing themselves at him and wonders why it had to end...
posted by jokeefe at 5:31 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by jokeefe at 5:31 PM on January 15, 2008
The comments and the tags are hilarious. Plus the background gossip about the students from the poster and her sister.
posted by LeeJay at 5:31 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by LeeJay at 5:31 PM on January 15, 2008
Nowadays you just can't wear a dark brown suit without people laughing at you -- but back then you evidently couldn't not wear dark brown without attracting snarks.
posted by clevershark at 5:59 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by clevershark at 5:59 PM on January 15, 2008
I graduated during the same era and had the same level of dorkitude, which I attempted to disguise by wearing a Blue Oyster Cult t-shirt whenever possible.
posted by davebush at 6:47 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by davebush at 6:47 PM on January 15, 2008
This one is pretty darn close to my Class of '82 picture. Lets see. Cheap ugly suit, check. WKRP haircut, check. Cheesy wispy mustache, check. Brown aviator glasses, check. Yup.
posted by octothorpe at 7:27 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by octothorpe at 7:27 PM on January 15, 2008
What is the point of this? Any old crappy yearbook from a couple of decades back?
meh, this is not best of web, especially when the hoi polloi take it upon themselves to snark about the crappy pictures of people who might as well be them.
delete
posted by caddis at 7:29 PM on January 15, 2008
meh, this is not best of web, especially when the hoi polloi take it upon themselves to snark about the crappy pictures of people who might as well be them.
delete
posted by caddis at 7:29 PM on January 15, 2008
"My Dad was her science teacher. He told me that she came to class one day and told him she had a dream that he was chasing her down the halls hurling protons at her."
posted by hermitosis at 7:36 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by hermitosis at 7:36 PM on January 15, 2008
Do girls today still take Senior photos wrapped in the fuzz?
posted by Dr. Zira at 7:38 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by Dr. Zira at 7:38 PM on January 15, 2008
omg, Thank you so much for a just heading to bed bellylaugh! Wonderful photos!
posted by nickyskye at 7:39 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by nickyskye at 7:39 PM on January 15, 2008
people who might as well be them.
Hey! I'm nothing like those people! I was a completely different kind of ugly in high school. The kind that wore lots of polo shirts and rolled its cuffs and used way too much Manic Panic and had Mall Bitch Bangs*.
Besides, I didn't snark on all of them. Some of them are pretty hot. Like "Big Stew." Rowrr.
*Not me but a particularly fine example of the phenomenon.
posted by LeeJay at 7:39 PM on January 15, 2008
Hey! I'm nothing like those people! I was a completely different kind of ugly in high school. The kind that wore lots of polo shirts and rolled its cuffs and used way too much Manic Panic and had Mall Bitch Bangs*.
Besides, I didn't snark on all of them. Some of them are pretty hot. Like "Big Stew." Rowrr.
*Not me but a particularly fine example of the phenomenon.
posted by LeeJay at 7:39 PM on January 15, 2008
I wonder how many of these people lead broken lives today, and whether they look at old pictures of themselves and find themselves weeping, overcome with regret.
posted by Pastabagel at 7:42 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by Pastabagel at 7:42 PM on January 15, 2008
What is the point of this? Any old crappy yearbook from a couple of decades back?
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I love yearbook pictures, and I don't think (for all the silliness and snarking in the flickr comments) that this is really driven by malice so much as a kind of sense of joyful nostalgia (and a dose of post hoc 20/20). I've thought about doing this sort of thing with my own yearbook.
posted by cortex at 7:49 PM on January 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I love yearbook pictures, and I don't think (for all the silliness and snarking in the flickr comments) that this is really driven by malice so much as a kind of sense of joyful nostalgia (and a dose of post hoc 20/20). I've thought about doing this sort of thing with my own yearbook.
posted by cortex at 7:49 PM on January 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
I wonder how many of these people lead broken lives today, and whether they look at old pictures of themselves and find themselves weeping, overcome with regret.
Shit, I'm ten years younger than these people and I do that NOW.
posted by LeeJay at 7:52 PM on January 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
Shit, I'm ten years younger than these people and I do that NOW.
posted by LeeJay at 7:52 PM on January 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
Blazecock Pileon writes " I watched Dawn of the Dead last weekend and I wonder about the parts of the late 70s that I am too young to remember. Was everything really colored beige, brown, pale orange, and all shades of wood in between?"
Yes.
Well, almost ...
I grew up in a very '70s house, with some leftover late-'60s decor. Our kitchen had wallpaper with fat, blood red vertical stripes on a white background, and the linoleum tile was fire-engine red with flecks. My parents' bedspread was this zebra print pattern, and the wallpaper in their room had these elaborate black filigree designs on a white background. It could make you dizzy. The den had shag carpet. That was brown. We had color tv. It had a dial - UHF local channels were my saving grace back then, with all their Sunday matinee classic films. I'm getting to be an old geezer ... Ah, but I digress.
Great movie. Check this one out next. A lot of people didn't like it as much as the first two, but Romero said he liked it the best of the three. I don't know how you can really top Night of the Living Dead, but there you go ...
posted by krinklyfig at 8:10 PM on January 15, 2008
Yes.
Well, almost ...
I grew up in a very '70s house, with some leftover late-'60s decor. Our kitchen had wallpaper with fat, blood red vertical stripes on a white background, and the linoleum tile was fire-engine red with flecks. My parents' bedspread was this zebra print pattern, and the wallpaper in their room had these elaborate black filigree designs on a white background. It could make you dizzy. The den had shag carpet. That was brown. We had color tv. It had a dial - UHF local channels were my saving grace back then, with all their Sunday matinee classic films. I'm getting to be an old geezer ... Ah, but I digress.
Great movie. Check this one out next. A lot of people didn't like it as much as the first two, but Romero said he liked it the best of the three. I don't know how you can really top Night of the Living Dead, but there you go ...
posted by krinklyfig at 8:10 PM on January 15, 2008
Oh, and olive green. That goes well with brown and orange.
posted by krinklyfig at 8:17 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by krinklyfig at 8:17 PM on January 15, 2008
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I love yearbook pictures, and I don't think (for all the silliness and snarking in the flickr comments) that this is really driven by malice so much as a kind of sense of joyful nostalgia (and a dose of post hoc 20/20). I've thought about doing this sort of thing with my own yearbook.
Yeah man, most of these people look like they'd be pretty fun to hang out with, once they learned to accept my outlandish futuristic sartorial and tonsorial peculiarities.
posted by Divine_Wino at 8:49 PM on January 15, 2008
Yeah man, most of these people look like they'd be pretty fun to hang out with, once they learned to accept my outlandish futuristic sartorial and tonsorial peculiarities.
posted by Divine_Wino at 8:49 PM on January 15, 2008
Divine_Wino, I heard that after you have your tonsorials removed, you get to eat a lot of ice cream. Is that true?
This is definitely our man, though. Offset Printing, ftw! He's probably on Metafilter right now, maybe even commenting in this thread. Caddis?
posted by taz at 9:54 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
This is definitely our man, though. Offset Printing, ftw! He's probably on Metafilter right now, maybe even commenting in this thread. Caddis?
posted by taz at 9:54 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
I was in high school around this time. I seem to remember the girls looking a lot better. Or was that just all the hormones talking? (The guys though, yeah, about that dorky.)
posted by Naberius at 11:05 PM on January 15, 2008
posted by Naberius at 11:05 PM on January 15, 2008
Sigh. I just couldn't bring myself to wear my hair as long as most of these guys -- I stuck to an almost-crew-cut for convenience's sake. Now that I'm wearing it long enough to comb, I look around and see that the look among my age group is a shaved head and a goatee.
And the girls I remember, seen through a prism of nearly 30 years, definitely looked better than this lot.
posted by pax digita at 3:20 AM on January 16, 2008
And the girls I remember, seen through a prism of nearly 30 years, definitely looked better than this lot.
posted by pax digita at 3:20 AM on January 16, 2008
Where are they now? I present the Independence High School, Charlotte, NC, class of '84 20-year reunion (self link).
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:46 AM on January 16, 2008
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:46 AM on January 16, 2008
Is there something here besides people mocking old photos of people?
Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.
posted by nax at 8:23 AM on January 16, 2008
Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.
posted by nax at 8:23 AM on January 16, 2008
Carey Jean D., call me!
Rrowr.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:34 PM on January 15 [+] [!]
Thank you so much for making me laugh uncontrollably! I needed that!
posted by matty at 2:22 PM on January 16, 2008
Rrowr.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:34 PM on January 15 [+] [!]
Thank you so much for making me laugh uncontrollably! I needed that!
posted by matty at 2:22 PM on January 16, 2008
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