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OldBaldy1701E

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

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 08:50 AM

Dec 22

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.)

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The year is 1976. Do you think these people would be your friends? [View all] True Dough Dec 20 OP

Most likely. no_hypocrisy Dec 20 #1

Nope. No doobies in evidence. Though there is one guy that seems on the nod. marble falls Dec 20 #2

Yep! jaymac Dec 20 #3

Happy and laid back. Any doing "recreational" drugs were far more likely to be using far less deadly and potent hlthe2b Dec 20 #4

Happy and laid. erronis Dec 20 #39

Yep, miss those days... walkingman Dec 20 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author anciano Dec 20 #6

Yea and they still are! flying_wahini Dec 20 #7

Friends with them? tonkatoy8888 Dec 20 #8

Women? niyad Dec 20 #42

No bongs. No booze. pfitz59 Dec 20 #9

Looks like the casting room for a religious movie bucolic_frolic Dec 20 #10

Just a random image from the internet True Dough Dec 20 #11

I posted it last week Marthe48 Dec 20 #17

Maybe True Dough Dec 20 #20

I don't have my glasses right now HappyH Dec 20 #12

Probably. sinkingfeeling Dec 20 #13

I agree with you , sinkingfeeling . Most all college students looked like that in 1976. debm55 Dec 20 #14

Very likely. highplainsdem Dec 20 #15

All of us "nonconformists" looked the same in those days. Been there, done that, I guess. Two of the people... NNadir Dec 20 #16

I think that's me PJMcK Dec 20 #18

I don't know your age, TrueDough. I was in college in 1976 and all of my friends and nonfriends looked like that . Me debm55 Dec 20 #19

I would have been 3 years old at that time True Dough Dec 20 #21

Just needed to know your age as this photo would be very much standard during that time. That's all. debm55 Dec 20 #22

Yeah, I know a little history True Dough Dec 20 #24

The blonde in front has her hand in an interesting place. Polly Hennessey Dec 20 #23

But True Dough Dec 20 #25

Probably, but I'm spooked by the guy in the upper portion on the left who looks like a young Matt Gaetz. Totally Tunsie Dec 20 #26

I was just graduating Catholic Grade School BlueKota Dec 20 #27

Looks a lot like Jilly_in_VA Dec 20 #28

Yep. I used to look like that. Ritabert Dec 20 #29

Definitely yes. We were so naive but we were not cruel like folks are today. Young Ziggysmom Dec 20 #30

Probably n/t gay texan Dec 20 #31

I would have been 9. cab67 Dec 20 #32

nope . graduated 1976. AllaN01Bear Dec 20 #33

I still relate BeneteauBum Dec 20 #34

I love the wire spool coffee table! crud Dec 20 #35

I was 14 then 15. Iggo Dec 20 #36

My parents' friends. GPV Dec 20 #37

Thats my head blocking the guitar... Golfnbrew Dec 20 #38

Looks like my crew surfered Dec 20 #40

Far Out! vanlassie Dec 20 #41

They look like many of my college classmates. niyad Dec 20 #43

The guy in the back, right side, looks like Rocky in taxi Dec 20 #44

I turned 19 in 1976, but probably wouldn't fit in with that crowd Martin Eden Dec 20 #45

not a chance. surrealAmerican Dec 20 #46

Great photo. snot Dec 20 #47

In '73? ProfessorGAC Dec 21 #48

That's me in the upper right. malthaussen Dec 21 #49

My oldest sister's friends easily. Solly Mack Dec 21 #50

Back row, 2nd guy from the left looks just like a guy I dated in 1979 ms liberty Dec 21 #51

Hell Yeah! Nictuku Dec 21 #52

Well, I was twelve at the time, but probably. OldBaldy1701E Dec 22 #53

It looks like the crowd I hung out with. Swede Dec 22 #54

I have a couple of pictures that looked like this, so yeah! lark Dec 22 #55

yes Skittles Dec 22 #56