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Yes, in 1967.
Yes I did attend my prom, but the thing was a disaster (akin to a John Hughes movie). Apparently other folks had fun though…
My high school was a small, day prep school in Brooklyn. I mean small. We had twenty-two girls in my graduating class at the Berkeley Institute. There was a Senior Dance, not a prom.
I didn’t go as there was way too much real-life angst going on in my teenage life including mourning for my friends from the Six-Year Ph.D. Program who’d died in the Residential Club fire at Cornell. A number of girls from my class had an anti-prom weekend at a beach house when Poly Prep (the boys school with which we were most closely associated) had their prom. It was definitely the ’60’s.
Fast forward to Philadelphia about twenty-five years later when the Community Education Center had a prom as a fundraiser. So while I did not attend my high school “prom,” I did have the prom experience of my date drinking too much, drooling over other women, and making a clumsy pass in my later years.
I went to the prom both my junior and senior years. At my school, the juniors put on the prom for the seniors.
The cool fact is that the person I went to my junior prom with is my wife. We have been married 16 years.
I went with a very pretty girl named Valerie that I had a crush on at the time. We dated later on in life, for about a year while we were in undergrad. We broke up and are both happily married to other people.
Nothing very memorable about the prom itself, but the afterparty was fun;)
No I did not attend my high school prom because my high school did not have a prom.
Yes, I attended my high school prom., in both my junior and seniors years. Ours school was a small, rural school. The prom consisted of a meal served by the parents in the school cafeteria followed by a dance in the school gym. The gym was decorated by the junior class. The music was records~~~this was in 1959 and 1960~~~played on a hi-fi. And we enjoyed it every bit as much as today’s kids do the fancy-smancy proms held at country clubs with live bands and limos for transportation.
I attended my senior prom under protest. I was very much a tomboy as a teen and HATED dresses. My so-called friends said if I didn’t find a date (I wasn’t dating anyone at the time) they’d find one for me. Having already been through that experience, I asked a male friend to go with me. It was fine. I survived but would have been okay not going, too. 🙂
I didn’t attend my prom. Instead, I worked a shift with one of my good friends (we’re still friends to this day), as he didn’t attend our prom either.
Our prom wasn’t planned as well as other years and the location left much to be desired. Neither my friend nor I could justify spending our hard-earned money on it.
Towards the end of our shift, which was most entertaining I must add, several of our classmates stopped in & told us that we weren’t missing much and that most of the attendees had already taken off towards greener pastures.
I still feel that was one of the most fun nights of my high school career!
I went to high school prom junior and senior year as well. For some reason the thing I remember most is that our Dean of Students shook everyone’s hand as we walked in–to make sure no one had been drinking. Lovely.
No. I couldn”t. My school didn’t have one!
Junior Prom, Yes. Senior Prom, No. Small town high school in upstate New York. Took daughter of family friend to Junior Prom, so we really did not have a lot of common ground, but OK time. Shy, then (may be now too). Really want a mug, though.
My husband and I broke with the status quo (’75) and decided to double-date to a fancy restaurant instead of doing the prom. We have slightly different memories of the evening though… because our dates were not each other!
Yes I went to prom but I ditched my date after about 45 minutes and went to a really fun after-party without him.
I took my best friend to my junior prom instead of my girlfriend. We’d already agreed to go before I got into a relationship. The girlfriend wasn’t too bitter, and we did go the next year.
But it turned out that my best friend was actually gay and was going to the prom with me to dance with her girlfriend, who nobody knew about.
I still think it’s funny that I never noticed what was going on. Is it typical teenage male for me not to notice something so obvious in someone I cared so much about?
Either way, the best friend is still my best friend, but I haven’t talked to the love interest in years.
I went to my senior prom with a group of friends & we all had a blast. Taking the “date” out of the evening made it easy to relax & enjoy ourselves. As a previous poster said, we didn’t have our prom at a country club or have a live band. We didn’t get there in a limo, but we did have a lot of fun.
I went to junior & senior prom. Typical Texas small town. My date senior year wore a cowboy hat with his tux. Gotta love it.
I went to both Junior and Senior proms with my high school sweetheart, who I am still with. Cute the aww-ing.
I went to prom all 4 years of high school. Senior year was the best bc it was a group thing instead of boyfriend girlfriend thing. My fav dress was my junior year, a super short white brocade dress with a mandarin collar. I got it for $5 at a goodwill in Indianapolis.
I attended with someone a grade younger than me who assumed (correctly) that I remained among the great “un-asked” masses and it turns out that he just obtained his license the day before the prom and also had a trick knee! So that made for an eventful ride and interesting dancing (I think he invented break dancing unintentionally).
I attended prom during my senior year of high school. I didn’t want to go nor spend the money, though it seems my date’s parents only wanted me to go with her, they liked me a lot.
Yes. Afterwards, we went on a cruise around Manhattan, had breakfast at a greasy-spoon diner in our tuxes and gowns, and walked right across the Puerto Rican Day Parade on camera. It was nice to be 18.
No, but I wish I had.
I attended my High School prom and proudly wore a hand-me-down gown from my cousin Elaine (she was an only child and had a fabulous wardrobe).
My high school boyfriend was a foot taller than me, tall, dark and handsome. When my kids would come across my prom picture, they referred to it as:
“when mommy was a princess”
Yes I did in 1956. Had a blast and the after prom at the El Cortez wasn’t too bad either. (It was chaperoned too.)
Wow!! I’m so excited.