I went to three of them..Freshman year, junior year and senior year. can't remember about soph. year.

I remember buying my own dress my freshman year and getting in trouble for having a more expensive dress than my cousin who I lived with. And she didn't work or pay for her own. She always had problems with me being there.
They were hers alone....lol

But I think I remember the junior one the most because it was put on for the seniors by the juniors and I was very active in doing the decorations. I've always enjoyed getting my artsy fartsy juices flowing.

Oh and I guess what should have been the most memorible was being on the prom court my senior year. No I wasn't chosen for queen. being on court was enough for me. (I bought that dress too..hehe)

I went to one prom, don't remember which one... but I still have my dress. Pink satin with white lace which my Mom made. Didn't have a date, but went with a couple girlfriends. I don't remember if we danced or not.

I worked on the decoration committee for at least one other prom, but I don't remember if I actually attended that one or not. It wasn't memorable if I did. lol

Went to my high school prom over 50 years ago. Still have that handsome young man that took me to the prom. Also have my long drop rhinestone earrings and bracelet that I wore. Our granddaughter plays with my hoop skirt that I wore under my dress. We double dated with my best friend , who was dating my first cousin, afterwards we came back to my house and cooked french fries and hamburgers. My friend spent the night at my house, and our sweeties left after we ate our burgers. Life was pretty simple in our country town in the 1950's. That was a huge event for me.

went to the prom and then to sunset bl to a prom-friendly nightclub(they had the show no booze)was home by curfew...wore a full lenth white gown that later was my wedding gown (with added sleeve) i bought it with that in mind! (under $50) my date became my dh but only lasted 4 years...1964...

remarried in 1970, and that has lasted 41 years...i still see my prom location every year cause hollywood hs celebrated at riveria cc, home of the la open golf...

DH and I went to our prom together, as we had the one before (which was really his senior prom as he needed to stay one more year to complete his studies)Both of them were in our High School Gym....decorated by our classmates. A photo of us seems to appear at every reunion...I in a puffy white dress with glitter, the year before was blue. We did go into SF after wards, I do have a photo of that too. We went to a Coffee house that became quite famous for the (soon to be famous) entertainers that began their careers there. Can't remember just who this morning, but this sounds like one of the questions that would be interesting to focus on in writing "Our Life Story". (We are leaving shortly for one of our 21 day trips, so you all be good, I'll be checking in) Nanny

In Chicago we had two graduating classes each year a June anda January so I went to 5 senior proms 5 Junior Proms and our Student Council gave a dance each semester so I went to 5 "Club de's . The Senior Proms were formaland we always went out to a night club or Hotel after to their floor shows. I dont know where the guys got the money bu they always paid for it, and drove their families car.They also brought a a beautiful corsage and many times we would go to the florist and pickout the flowers.
I was fortunate to have an older sistr in design school so I always had a different formal gown for each dance. Wonderful time of my life We also had sororities and HiY clubs and managed to have a dance too each semester not affiliated with the actual school.
I think I have all my dance cards somewhere. They were little books about 3" sqauare that were for keeping track of who you danced with but each was done by a committee and were designed specifically using the theme of the dance. . The Proms and Club de's all had orchestrs but the other usually were in soeones house with records.

I was a 'brain' not one of the popular crowd. But, in my small graduating class of twenty some students, each student was allowed to be royalty at only one dance (homecoming, snowball, prom, etc) so by the time prom rolled around, I guess I was the least unpopular of the girls that hadn't been chosen as royalty yet. So... I was prom queen. That was kind of fun, I guess, I don't recall much about it but I do have the pictures.

I had a pale lavender dress, princess style, with a fitted bustline and a filmy layer over a satiny type a-line full length skirt that I wore to both my Junior and Senior prom.

You had to take your shoes off to dance on the gym floor. My date for the Junior prom had white socks. White socks weren't popular yet then (this was in 1972) but white shoes apparently were. One of the girls in my class commented on how cool my date's 'white shoes' were. Guess she didn't realize they were socks!

We all went to breakfast at the home of one of the girls in my class.

My first husband was my date for the Senior prom. He was 5 years older then me, and his mom was an excellent seamstress. She made him a red sports jacket for the prom. He had long sideburns at that time, and for many years afterward. I had a white crocheted shawl that I wore over my lavender dress. I still have the photos and we looked really nice :-) We were married in June, shortly after graduation, and he is my kid's dad. We were married over 25 years, but eventually grew apart and separated. I have to say, though, that he was and still is one of the nicest people I'll ever know. He is a good man.

My current, and forever, DH is also a super nice man. I am lucky to have been married twice to such good people.

Guess I'm rambling... talking about years and years ago will do that to me :-)

Nanny mentioned the high school gym That is wehere the dances were held except for the Senior Proms which were always at a hotel ballroom. Yes we decorated the gym too.
Golly too many memorie flooding in . We (My steady and I ) usually double dated. I still write to my girlfriend. My steady went off to college being a year ahead of me and while I did go to a few dances there we eventually split up and he died a few years later. I still hold him in my hert

Love your stories! Minnie, five proms and five custom-made dresses? No wonder it was a wonderful time of your life! :-)

Looking forward to seeing children's/grandchildren's prom pictures this year. Meanwhile, anyone have one from "way back then"?

sophomore, junior, senior proms, homecoming and tolos.
the were all so fun. I didn't have a boyfriend for any
of them, but I always went with guys that were friends.
We always had a ball..

HS is just a blur for me. I should have done as my mother wished and gone to boarding school.

I didn't go to proms. I was on the school newspaper and yearbook staffs. I couldn't WAIT to get OUT.

My graduating class was over 1000. The school was bursting at the seams. We were on split shifts my junior and senior years. Passing in the halls between classes was like being in a subway. We had some staircases that were 'UP' only and some for 'DOWN'. We were the last 'combined towns' class. A second school opened the year after I graduated. Eventually a very nice, much smaller school opened walking distance from my home. Too late for me!

Not sure how many proms I went to maybe 3. I bought one dress the others were hand me downs from either wedding brides maids or my sisters. I had a steady boyfriend in high school, he was my date for all of them. We were so sure we were getting married but we didn't, thank goodness...

Susan, you want one from 'way back when?

How about 1942. I went to the Senior Prom with 2 other girls.

My Steady had already graduated college and had just been called into the Navy; an Ensign no less.

I really don't remember who the two girls were, but probably their BF's were in Service also. My Mom encouraged me to go, rather than staying home feeling lonesome. She helped me choose a dress, which If I remember right was blue. She also bought me a little white beaded "evening bag."

This was in Arlington, VA and the Prom was held at the Shoreham Hotel in DC, Again if I'm remembering the name right.

The three of us went to and from in a taxi, and shared the cost. No girls drove in those days, at least none that I knew.

I have a picture of me in the Prom dress, but it is somewhere in a stack of albums in the garage. Maybe by Prom time next year I will have found it. I have the little dance book and other memorabilia also.

Didn't marry the Ensign. And since I had met his Mother, it is a good thing I didn't!!

Nothing exciting about my Prom story but I will say Proms and other activities were quite a lot different then.

Sue

I remember my hoop getting caught on the door of the car - so when I sat down, and my dress didn't, my unmentionables were exposed for all to see.

Awkward!!!

We only had senior prom, not jr. or sophmore. I went with a boy I was dating at the time. We double dated for the Senior Prom with one of my BFFs and a friend of his. We drove around and went up to this lookout over the city and snuck a couple of beers, and then went to dinner and then to the prom. It wasn't held at the school but at the Masonic Temple downtown. Big and fancy. It was okay, I was really ready to be done with high school at that point and didn't even want to go to prom all that much.

I went to lots of other dances througout high school (Homecomings, Valentine's Dances, etc) that were much more fun than my prom.

Remember my high school sorority gals and I spent the nite at Pat Moody's home.

Lots didn't come in until daylight.

No me!

I went with my first love, and got in to Pat's at a reasonable time.

Oh, I meant to add this, just for kicks.

I live in a Retirement Community.This coming Saturday the local High School National Honor Society is sponsoring a "Senior Prom" for us in our Fellowship Hall.

Jazz and swing music, fun games, voting for Prom King and Queen, and a raffle for a chance to win prizes. All that plus light refreshments. Dress attire is casual.

A chance to be a kid again!

BTW this is the High School where my DH taught, some of these kids could be the grand kids of his students.

Sue

I was normally a very good girl, but I will admit that my best friend and I didn't go to the prom...we went to a local nightclub instead! I think it must have been her idea, as I was too innocent to have thought something like that up myself. LOL

We did manage to get in some trouble too, just like you'd think two 18/yo girls would hanging around a nightclub.

But I didn't care for such a life and went back to being my librarian-type self afterward. :)

I never went to prom. In fact, I never went out on a date until I was in college. I was a late bloomer. When the other kids were going to dances and ball games and developing social skills I was either doing chores on the farm or wandering through the woods with my dog.

Ron

i went to a private catholic high school, it was 1985-1986 and the excess 80s LOL, we lived in chicago. i can't remember who i went to junior yr prom w/, one of my guy friends i think. my dad let us use one of the funeral home lease limos w/ driver, stopped at our usual liquor store to load up (did every fri & sat)LOL, went by high school for awhile then the driver took us into downtown chicago to the Hotel Intercontinental on Michigan Ave where we met up w/ the rest of our friends for dinner at some restaurant at the top of a high rise. for the life of me i can't remember the name LOL have never been there since. we went back to the hotel and were left there to spend the night. about 50 of us got rooms all on the same floor, a friends' uncle was the general manager. we took the train home the next day after eating breakfast out. very tame...

senior yr was similiar but on a bigger scale LOL. i designed my own dress, i worked at a bridal salon and had the seamstress make it. i ALMOST didn't make it to prom w/ that plunging to my waist, open fronted dress LOL hahaha, my dad had a fit when he saw it as i was walking out the door LOL. it was short, mid-thigh held out w/ netting, strapless, the front 2 pieces held together w/ a gold lame bow and was backless down to the waist, held up by alot of side & front boning that was uncomfortable! very mid-80's Madonna. i do remember i went w/ a guy friend, can't remember his name thou lol. did the limo thing, skipped prom all together, as most seniors did, to get up the same hotel. this time we had 2 floors, liquor and a case of champagne. we bar hopped downtown w/ the limo, never went out to dinner and went back to the hotel to party. partied all night, it got really out of hand and we never ever went back there again LOL... ~ liz

What do I remember? My date (blush). Although we were just friends who decided to go together, I had a secret crush on him. Alas, it didn't develop, but it wasn't for lack of my wishing it did!

I went to 3 proms. Went with the same guy to all 3. We eventually married and stayed together almost 28 years.
The prom I enjoyed the most was my junior year. We put the prom on for the Seniors. We had a banquet before the dance and several of us served it. Since we had decorated the gym with a Paris France theme we dressed as artists. It was so much fun. After the banquet we rushed home to put our dresses on.

The prom in my little town was a junior prom but the whole high school was encouraged to attend. Freshman, sophomores and junioers were there but by the senior year, we didn't bother to go anymore probably because we thought we were too cool for that childish stuff. LOL. My first 2 proms I went with friends, my junior prom with a date. By the time we were juniors, we were allowed to stay out all night. We went to a party of someone that was on the court. It got very wild with lots of drinking. I think back to it and remember how stupid it all was especially the drinking. It also amazes me that the parents just thought that this is just what kids did. They were probably right but I can't imagine today allowing kids to hold big keggers like they did then. It was truly no big deal.

On the other hand, I went this weekend to an adult prom at a local establishment here. DH & I dressed up along with about 6 other couples. The women wore formal wear, the men not so much but they did look good. I thought it was nice that some men with other women actually rented tuxes. These men though were just over 21. Their dates wore their dresses from past proms. It was really fun dancing with the young people.

I remember that I didn't go.

Pictures Liz, PICTURES!!!!!!! :)

I went to three proms. All were in the HS gym and decorated by the junior class. They were Junior/ senior proms. First one was MY sophomore year, and I went with my steady BF, Bobby, a junior. He wore a white dinner jacket, and I wore a pale blue net strapless dress with a stole. The next two proms I went with my husband. I was a junior and he, a college freshman. I wore a pale yellow net dress, ballerina length to that one and my last when I was a senior, I wore a while chiffon dress which was very pretty. We didn't go out to eat like kids do today nor did we have limos. We did have all night chaperoned activities. We went to the Elks club after the dance and after we changed into casual clothes. Then we saw a movie at the local theater from 3-5 and then it was breakfast at the Eagles club. Fun times.

Lily, I wonder how many fell asleep at the 3:00 a.m. movie. I would have! :-)

Yeah, Liz--don't tease us like that without pictures! LOL

LOl i actually do have a little wallet sized pic of me in that dress here in orlando LOL. i will try my best to post it tonight, it's my "tax Season" for landscape shipping and i only have 2 hrs from when i get home to bedtime during the week LOL. i was sooo in love w/ that dress that it is amoung the very few things i do have kept in chicago, along w/ most of my pics from age 30 and under. back then i had an 18" sized waist (lots of exercise then lol) weighed 98lbs and was a size C cup hahahaha the days of lots more time for me... i kept that dress as a reminder :-/ ~ liz

I was not asked to my prom. Only had one boy friend in 4 years of high school. we had broken up by that time. so i went out for hamburgers with two female friends who were also dateless.

I didn't attend my high school proms. When I was around 50 and married, the youth group at our church put on an "adult prom". I borrowed a prom dress from a friend and had it altered. Jim wore a suit and tie. It was so much fun. We elected a prom queen at the dance, she was a "trophy wife" and was very pregnant. LOL. I have a picture of us but I don't know how to scan photos into Photo Bucket.

Linda, if all else fails, you can always take a picture of the picture with a digital camera. That's basically what a scanner does.

We'd love to see it!

Thanks Alisande. It worked

i finally got time to get the pics scanned...but my flickr acct has been deactivated lol. could someone please post them for me if i emailed them please? Thanks! ~ liz

Our school only had a senior prom. I think you had to be a senior to go to it. There was no dancing allowed in our school so there was no dancing. You also could not bring a date from another school. My boyfriend, (future husband) was from another school. He took me there for awhile and picked me up later and we went out and ate and then went home. I remember my dress was deep blue satin.

Sue

What I remember most is that I never got to go to one, because the HS didn't believe in them. (No dances in HS-)

I still look at prom dresses and get a longing feeling.....

I went to a private christian school. They didn't call it prom, it was the spring banquet. We did have to dress in formals and we were loaded on the school buses, vans and cars and whisk away to a beautiful restaurant/banquet hall in the next town over. The meal was great, with alot of talking and socializing. But, after the meal it was rather boring. You stood around and socialized AGAIN. After the meal I was socialized out. Both my date and myself were shy so that made for an interesting evening. LOL

Senior Prom 1967 Des Arc High School

These were ALL my dates! LOL

I'm the third one from the right. Had on, of course, a black and white dress. Top was black velvet. Skirt was white chiffon. It has a row of yellow daisies around the midriff. My mom made all of my formal (and informal!) dresses.
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Liz, try emailing me through GW and see if that works.

Ya Ya, you and your dates look beautiful! Love that sixties hair!! And how cool that they named the high school after you! LOL

Thanks Alisande! the email on our GW acct is not active anymore i am sending it from a gmail acct. Thanks again! ~ liz

Our school had a junior-senior prom. It was a small school so I guess they needed two classes to fill the Elks Club ballroom. Don't remember my gown or date my junior year. I'd have to get out the yearbook--wherever it is. :0

My senior year I was dating a guy from the next town. I was very small and we had a terrible time finding a gown to fit. I don't know why my mother didn't make it. She always made our clothes. About a month before prom, mother and daddy went to Columbus, Ohio to visit my aunt and uncle and mother found the prettiest dress. It was a size 3 and she had to alter it. It was short, dusty rose organdy with spaghetti straps (nothing to hold up a topless gown). Across the bodice was a row if deep rose and dusty rose organdy flowers that could be removed (I kept them). I loved that dress! My date brought me a corsage of pink baby roses with babies breath that I pressed and kept for years.

After the prom ended at midnight (a treat for all of us to be up that late back then), the Seniors had an all-night party. It was also at the Elks Club. We all changed into bermuda shorts, which were the new hot thing, and danced, played games and ate until about 5 when they served us breakfast.

It was a lot of fun and emotional because we were graduating and sure we'd never see each other again. You know how emotional HS girls can be. A lot of kids in my class ended up back in R-ville. Nice little town to raise a family.

It'll be 50 years next month since that prom night. Sure wish I was going to the reunion in June!

I never did school dances or proms except for a couple of school dances with a guy friend who went to a all Catholic boys school. It was fun. I was the hot chick in the micro minis.

He was sick during his junior prom so we didn't go. I had no desire to attend mine.
I was probably rocking it at the Avalon or the Filmore in San Francisco on that prom night. Most of my social life revolved around people much older than me.

By the time my senior prom rolled around I was in a relationship. Definitely not a guy I would take to the prom. LOL

I don't think any of my girlfriends went to prom either. We were in school to do our time and get out. Weren't into the high school social scene at all.

Here's Liz!

Liz, you look so much like my cousin Dottie when she was young. Both of you were adorable! I played with these a little......Cropped one, attempted to remove the scratches from your date's pants, on the other. :-)

The second picture posts too small or too large. I've tried resizing it several different ways, and I get the same result. Blame Photobucket. I'm leaving it small because the large is quite blurry.

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