Nostalgia

Remember When ..........

• A gallon of gas cost $0.55 and you could go cruisin' all weekend for $5.00 ?
• The freakiest person you could think of was Alice Cooper ?
• A movie cost $3.00 ?
• Eight-track tapes were more popular than cassette's ?
• The "All Purpose Patty" served in the WWHS cafeteria ?
• Vans were driven by the party crowd and service repairmen ?
• A sporting event at the high school costs $0.75 ?
• Our yearbook cost $11.50.  I paid $55.00 in 2005 for my son's.
• You had to drive 15 miles to go to a fast food restaurant ?
• A boys class ring cost $65.00 ? They cost $250.00 this year.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus was on television ?

Do You Know ? ..........

• What was the Team Name for Lake Ariel High School was before the schools merged ?
• What was the Team Name for Waymart High School was before the schools merged ?
• How many of our teachers are still at Western Wayne ?
• What was the most common female name in our class?  How many?
• What was the most common male name in our class?  How many?
• What are the words to the School Song at Western Wayne High School.  What Music ?
• The date that we graduated?
• Where the Senior Prom was held?
• Who were the Senior Homeroom teachers?
• What color caps and gowns were worn at graduation?

Twenty of the Thirty students pictured in the First Grade photograph above are graduates from the Western Wayne High School-Class of 1976.  

Can you identify them?

Nostalgic Photos

Even more Nostalgic Photos

Links to the 70's ..........
 

Super Seventies Rock Site:  http://www.superseventies.com/index.html  Hit TV Shows of the Seventies: http://www.tvparty.com/70hit.html Baby Boomers: http://www.babyboomers.com/

1976 TV Shows	1976 Bands/Albums	1976 Movies	Top 10 - 45's
Top Five Shows in 1976 Were: 1. All in the Family 2. Rich Man, Poor Man 3. Laverne & Shirley 4. Maude 5. Bionic Woman Others: Happy Days The ABC Monday Night Movie  M*A*S*H Charlie's Angels  The Big Event  The Six Million Dollar Man  The ABC Sunday Night Movie  Baretta  One Day at a Time  Three's Company  Welcome Back, Kotter  The Waltons  Little House on the Prairie  Barney Miller  60 Minutes  Hawaii Five-0 NBC Monday Night at the Movies	Aerosmith - Rocks Bee Gees - Children of the World Bob Dylan - Desire Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live! Boston Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees Carpenters - A Kind of Hush Chicago - X Eagles - Hotel California Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-75) Elton John - Blue Moves Jackson Browne - The Pretender James Taylor - Greatest Hits Joan Armatrading Joni Mitchell - Hejira Kate & Anna McGarrigle Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road Olivia Newton-John - Come On Over Paul McCartney & Wings - Wings Over America Paul McCartney - Wings at the Speed of Sound Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! Ramones Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Warren Zevon	All the President's Men The Bad News Bears Bound for Glory Bugsy Malone Car Wash Carrie Gus Logan's Run Marathon Man Network The Omen The Outlaw Josey Wales The Seven Per-cent Solution The Shootist Silent Movie Silver Streak Small Change Taxi Driver Two Minute Warning	1. Silly Love Songs        Paul McCartney/Wings 2. I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"        England Dan and John Ford Coley 3. If You Leave Me Now     Chicago 4. Let Your Love Flow       Bellamy Brothers 5. Don't Go Breaking My Heart       Elton John & Kiki Dee 6. Disco Lady       Johnnie Taylor 7. Afternoon Delight       Starland Vocal Band 8. Moonlight Feels Right       Starbuck 9. December 1963 (Oh What a Night)       Franki Valli 10. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover       Paul Simon

Major News Stories of 1976 ..........

• January 21: The supersonic transport Concorde enters commercial service.

• January 30: Former Texas congressman George Bush is named the new Director of the CIA by President Ford.

• February 4: A devastating earthquake in Guatemala kills more than 25,000 and leaves a quarter of the population homeless.
• April 5: James Callaghan becomes prime minister of Britain.
• July 2: North and South Vietnam are officially reunited with Hanoi as the capital.
• July 4: Year-long Bicentennial celebrations in the United States reach a height on the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
• July 20: Viking I lands on Mars and begins sending back the first pictures from the surface of another planet.
• July 28: An 8.2 earthquake, the worst of the century, shatters 20 square miles around Tangshan, China, leaving over 650,000 dead.
• August 1: The Summer Olympics in Montreal end leaving the city more than $1B in debt.
• August 18: A clash in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea leaves two American soldiers dead.
• September 9: Mao Zedong of China dies.

Major Sports Champions of 1976 ..........

• Baseball: The Cincinnati Reds beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 0.

• Football: The Oakland Raiders beat the Minnesota Vikings 32-14 on January 9, 1977, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California in Super Bowl XI.

• Basketball: The Boston Celtics beat the Phoenix Suns 4 games to 2.

• Hockey: The Montreal Canadians beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 2.