early 80s high school

1980's college class.

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Hallway in old Cleburne High School

80s high school

What did the 1980s look like? New-wavers and New Romantics existed alongside punk revivalists and the heavy metal kids in their sleeveless spiderweb-pattern t-shirts and black leather wristbands. The "scumbag look" was very popular with the middle-class suburban dudes. Cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola are everywhere, as are the skateboards and the acid-washed jeans that sat low on the asses of the boys and above the navel on the girls. Beaches, camping, stadium concerts, skateboarding down…

there's a line in a Patty Griffin song that goes "I hated every day of high school; it's funny I guess you did too." I wasn't one of those people, but that's not to say there weren't rough spots and tedious times :o) just because I like Patty, and because it sort of fits, the next cool line of her song is "It's funny how I never knew. There I was sitting right behind you." "When I wasn't too busy feeling lonely I'd stare over his shoulder at a map of the world"

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