Yearbooks have a unique way of preserving the personality of a generation. They capture not only the students themselves, but also the fashion trends, hairstyles, and cultural influences that defined a particular moment in time. Few decades left a more recognizable visual fingerprint than the 1970s, a period known for its style and unmistakable swag.
Big hair, wide collars, and wonderfully dated poses all make an appearance, creating the kind of images that could only have come from the seventies. Some are nostalgic, some are funny, but all of them capture a piece of what it was like to be a student during one of the most distinctive decades of the twentieth century.
1. Rolling Into Homeroom in Cowboy Hats and Plaid Skirts? Must’ve Been in Texas
2. No High School Experience Was Complete Without a Science Experiment Gone Wrong
3. ‘The Girls All Have the Prettiest Hair in These Old Photos.’ Agreed
4. Getting Down at the School Dance, 1970
5. When Your High School Shoot Doubles as a Modeling Audition
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6. ‘Stache Goals: A 17-Year-Old’s Yearbook Photo From the 1970s.’
7. How Could You Fail When You Were Rocking That ‘Fro?
8. Just Another Day Wearing Plaid in the Teachers’ Lounge
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9. Flared Pants and Feathered Hair: Peak ’70s High School
10. ‘My Aunt Lisa, My Dad’s Little Sister, Circa 1979’
11. Art Class Never Looked So Groovy
12. ‘1970 Columbia High School Yearbook.’ Talk About Dropping Some Serious Pearls of Wisdom. You Tell ‘Em, Merle!
13. The OG Ultimate Frisbee Boys
14. Experiment or Accident? Hard to Tell in a ’70s Chemistry Lab Where Apparently Goggles Weren’t Required
15. Taking School Pageants to a Whole New Level
16. ‘My Mom’s Yearbook, Late 1970s’
17. Lunch May Have Ended, But the People-Watching Was Just Getting Started
18. Big Smiles and Even Bigger Hair: Serving on the Homecoming Committee in the ’70s
Nostalgic for vintage school days?
Take a look at 20 School Photos That Show Just How Much Has Changed Since the ’70s. Plus, you might also be interested in 11 Photos of School Lunch Menus Over the Years and 15 Old Playgrounds That Should Have Been Illegal.
