Yearbook Weirdness

When you picture us poring through old yearbooks, is this what you imagine?  From Taylor's 1977 yearbook.

From Western Carolina's 1987 yearbook.  For instructions on how to be your own stray cat, see How to Be Your Own Cat.

They gave this sentient dot two whole pages in Atlantic Christian's 1971 yearbook.

From the Toronto yearbook of 1959.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

I used one of those old school acquaintance finder programs, and these faces came up as probable hits.  What's weird is that I do, in fact, know two of them!  From Salem's 1978 yearbook.

Though this is a drawing, the phenomenon occurs in yearbook photographs, too, as seen here.

Pursued by a ghost, in the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"College is a time when young adults want to experience things never available to them before" (This Book Is Not Required, An Emotional Survival Manual for Students).  From Catawba's 1981 yearbook.

From Duke's 1971 yearbook.

The caption admits, "We don't know what it is."  From Presbyterian College's 1961 yearbook.

Bras weren't the only thing getting burned in the 1970s.  From Taylor's 1977 yearbook.

From Duke's 1971 yearbook.

From Rockford's 1969 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Wearing funny mouse or bunny ears is timeless fun, but there's some serious math behind it.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

Pinball as an illustration of a college's department of religious studies?  According to the Church of the Silver Ball's Pinball Museum (which, sadly, is neither a church nor a museum, according to its own description), pinball can be a religion.

Our photo is from Colorado College's 1975 yearbook.

Here's why the caption is a lie.  It says, "A single trumpet is calling you, a mystic note only you can hear."  But it's not a trumpet -- it's a saxophone solo.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

Orbs are here identified as the "bright people."  From Richmond Technical's 1973 yearbook.

For how to tap into the strangely potent spirituality contained within an old yearbook, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From Pennsylvania State College's La Vie yearbook, 1920.

You noticed the lie here -- life isn't a carousel.  Rather, "life is a cabaret, old chum."  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

This crystal ball appears in the 1974 University of Massachusetts Amherst yearbook.