The year is 1976. Do you think these people would be your friends?

[True Dough]

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Most likely.

I was sent to an independent women's college, replete with debutantes from private schools.

The photo in the OP displays the genre of friends I hung with.

[marble falls]

2. Nope. No doobies in evidence. Though there is one guy that seems on the nod.

[jaymac]

3. Yep!

Looks like 'em

[hlthe2b]

4. Happy and laid back. Any doing "recreational" drugs were far more likely to be using far less deadly and potent

drugs (in general, given even the strains of cannabis were far less potent, opioids were not yet an issue/heroin was not overwhelmingly prevalent-- yes, some psychoactives, like LSD were in use, but in general less deadly drugs than today).

[erronis]

39. Happy and laid.

Ah, I remember those days.

[walkingman]

5. Yep, miss those days...

[flying_wahini]

7. Yea and they still are!

They are my people.

[tonkatoy8888]

8. Friends with them?

Hell, looking at the photo, I think I slept with a couple of the girls.

[niyad]

42. Women?

[pfitz59]

9. No bongs. No booze.

They're dressed correctly, but missing the 'enhancements'

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Looks like the casting room for a religious movie

Are these real people, or am I missing someone famous in there?

[True Dough]

11. Just a random image from the internet

Cannot vouch for its authenticity. No one famous was highlighted.

[Marthe48]

17. I posted it last week

If not that group of people, one pretty darn close!

lol

[True Dough]

20. Maybe

they all met up at the same music festival!

[HappyH]

12. I don't have my glasses right now

But I could be in that pic!

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Probably.

[debm55]

14. I agree with you , sinkingfeeling . Most all college students looked like that in 1976.

[highplainsdem]

15. Very likely.

[NNadir]

16. All of us "nonconformists" looked the same in those days. Been there, done that, I guess. Two of the people...

...in front, the guy with glasses and the woman touching him, look like people I used to know quite well, but my memory of them is almost half a century old.

[PJMcK]

18. I think that's me

In the back in the middle.

(wink)

[debm55]

19. I don't know your age, TrueDough. I was in college in 1976 and all of my friends and nonfriends looked like that . Me

dark brown hair down to my waist.

[True Dough]

21. I would have been 3 years old at that time

But I was also in college, studying biophysics. My mama always said I was a smart one!



Just looks like a friendly crowd, deb. I figured people in the Lounge would get a kick out of the picture. Turns out quite a few have.

[debm55]

22. Just needed to know your age as this photo would be very much standard during that time. That's all.

[True Dough]

24. Yeah, I know a little history

Like I said, looks like a fun crowd.

[Polly Hennessey]

23. The blonde in front has her hand in an interesting place.

The guy looks happy. Note: my hair was down past my shoulders and straight and had bangs, too. 😇

[True Dough]

25. But

you always kept your hands to yourself, right?

[Totally Tunsie]

26. Probably, but I'm spooked by the guy in the upper portion on the left who looks like a young Matt Gaetz.

Are we sure he isn't a ringer?

[BlueKota]

27. I was just graduating Catholic Grade School

So probably not.

[Jilly_in_VA]

28. Looks a lot like

the people I hung around with back in the day.

[Ritabert]

29. Yep. I used to look like that.

[Ziggysmom]

30. Definitely yes. We were so naive but we were not cruel like folks are today. Young

people today have feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and fear. The world is a cruel place now and we were more open, accepting and loving back in the 70s.

[gay texan]

31. Probably n/t

[cab67]

32. I would have been 9.

So most likely, no.

[AllaN01Bear]

33. nope . graduated 1976.

was aware something was going on but no clue.

[BeneteauBum]

34. I still relate

Had a ponytail in ‘76 and still have it albeit a bit thinner and gray.
Peace ☮️

[crud]

35. I love the wire spool coffee table!

We had one in our off-campus single wide.

[Iggo]

36. I was 14 then 15.

So I hope not.



(In 1980, my guy friends looked just like that. The women looked a bit different, though.)

[GPV]

37. My parents' friends.

[Golfnbrew]

38. Thats my head blocking the guitar...

Okay, maybe not, I don't remember these folks, but i definitely hung out with groups like this. Usually smaller groups, but parties, yep.

[surfered]

40. Looks like my crew

[vanlassie]

41. Far Out!

That looks like every Saturday Night Live watch party at our brand new first home! How did you get the picture?

[niyad]

43. They look like many of my college classmates.

[taxi]

44. The guy in the back, right side, looks like Rocky in

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Peter Hinwood.

[Martin Eden]

45. I turned 19 in 1976, but probably wouldn't fit in with that crowd

Even though I had long-ish hair and indulged recreational drugs, I wasn't confident hangin free & loose with a crowd like that. In high school I would have been categorized as a "head" but not a hippie. Academics and sports were much easier for me than social interactions outside my longstanding friends.

[surrealAmerican]

46. not a chance.

I was 13, a nerd, and had no friends.

[snot]

47. Great photo.

I was a bit younger than that, but my memory of those times was that they felt happy, liberating, inspired.

Since then, a deliberate effort seems to have been made to disparage those times (which I believe were frightening––but only to authoritarian PTB).

[ProfessorGAC]

48. In '73?

Probably not. I was a glitter boy. I didn't mix with the post-hippie crowd.
We would have been oil & water.

[malthaussen]

49. That's me in the upper right.

Just kidding. Yeah, most of the people I knew looked pretty much like that.

-- Mal

[Solly Mack]

50. My oldest sister's friends easily.

But late 60's.

[ms liberty]

51. Back row, 2nd guy from the left looks just like a guy I dated in 1979

Except he just had the fu manchu, not the full beard.

Yea, that looks like my peeps, but where's all the reefer?

[Nictuku]

52. Hell Yeah!

[OldBaldy1701E]

53. Well, I was twelve at the time, but probably.

I was always hanging out with people older than I was... probably due to being bored with kids my own age.

(Yeah, I started partying kind of early. I quit bourbon when I was 16 because one afternoon I went to a Jr. class party and drank an entire bottle of Jack Black and then drove home and sat with my mother while she was getting ready to go to work at 11 pm. And, as I sat there, I realized something... I was stone sober. I had finished a bottle of bourbon like four-five hours before, and I was sitting there realizing that I felt nothing from it.

That was the day I stopped drinking bourbon.)

[Swede]

54. It looks like the crowd I hung out with.

Booze and weed are missing however.

[lark]

55. I have a couple of pictures that looked like this, so yeah!

There was definitely drugs and alcohol involved, though these were not in evidence in our pix.

[Skittles]

56. yes

even though I was a teenager and enlisted