Senior Class of 1987 - 10 Years Prior

A small portion thereof. (Click image for larger view)



Ah, to be 7 years old in the mid to late '70s, living in north Torrance, and looking forward to watching this on one of the UHF TV channels. Good times.

Maybe the Food was Making Students Fat

You'll notice in the background of the bottom picture here from the 1987 yearbook some food and drink vending machines. Those machines used to be in front of the wall in this picture, which was recently taken:



I'm assuming the machines were taken away for good and not just moved someplace else on campus (like the teachers' lounge). Also, there wasn't any grass in front of the pictured building back in 1987. It all just seems so odd.

Looks Like a Colorful Manhole Cover

I don't know what the object below is actually called (click photo to see larger view) but it's right now on the ground directly in front of the North High Gymnasium.

Don't recall ever seeing it when we were students, so I'm fairly certain it was put there after 1987. Any thoughts?

Comments? Suggestions? Bleg

Alright, I know I don't update this blog on a daily basis (I can only think of so many 1987 related topics) but I also know there are a few folks who hit the site. So how about throwing a dog a bone and leaving a comment in the com-boxes, or even making a posting suggestion? Pleeeeease.

Found What You're Looking For Yet After 20 Years?

From The Joshua Tree , which seems to be the only album from 1987 that is among the top 30 of the greatest albums of all time (according to Rolling Stone Magazine).

Senior Class of 1987 (Part X)

The text box on the right are some predictions from various members of our class on what we thought we would be doing 10 years...ago! Here's a few choice selections:

Ron Williams: "I will be a dictator of a small South American country."

James Zee: "Be a principal at North!"

Ramon Lopez: "Watching 'Rocky 15' on my own VCR drinking a Pepsi."

Brad Mack: "Training for the 1996 Olympics."

Reunion Pics?

If anyone's got any, feel free to forward a few for this here blog at the e-mail address in the right hand panel. I work, but do not live, deep in the Inland Empire, and therefore couldn't really make the reunion to take any of my own pics.

Flashback: August 1987

The Dog Days of Summer of our immediate post-high school lives were about to come to a close, and while many of us were starting to not think about much more than what was waiting for us in college, here are some of the things that went on in the world around us 20 years ago this month:

• Lynne Cox, an American distance swimmer, endures near freezing waters and swims the Bering Strait between the U.S. (Alaska) and the Soviet Union.
  
• Clayton Lonetree, the first United States Marine ever court-martialed for spying, is convicted.
• Ben Johnson of Canada sets a new world record in the 100 meter sprint.
  
• The Federal Communications Commission abolishes the "Fairness Doctrine" which legally required broadcasters to give equal time to differing viewpoints on controversial issues.

It's the Big Day Tomorrow

Hope everyone who goes to the (gasp!) 20 year reunion tomorrow has a good time. I imagine the question in this classic rock song, which has since become the theme song to this already classic TV show, might be asked a few times. But not too much.