Throwback Thursday: National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody

My lone appearance in the Ancestry Yearbook collection, with the 1987 Mission Bay badminton team (p. 209, center top row, with the bleach blond hair and dark roots).

When I was a kid my parents had a copy of the brilliant National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody.  I was obsessed with this even before I ever stepped foot in a high school.

It is online, although it is best in hard copy form (just like a real yearbook).  If you want a good laugh, be sure to take some time out and peruse the pages.  You have to look through it several times to get an idea of what's going on, but I can't think of a better parody of the yearbook genre ever.

Not too far from the truth--the freshman pictures page of the National Lampoon yearbook parody.

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Throwback Thursday: On the Mission Bay Badminton Team, 1987

Since I transferred to Mission Bay High School in the second semester of the 1986-87 school year, I didn't have a portrait done for that school, but I did manage to get in a picture for the badminton team.  I'm in the top row, middle, with the obviously bleached blonde hair.  From Ancestry's U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 database.

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Mary Esther Hartley in the 1928 San Diego High School Yearbook

My grand aunt, Mary Esther Hartley (1911-2007), sister to my grandfather George Hartley, Jr. who also attended SDHS, and daughter of Minnie Nosler and George Henry Hartley,  in the 1928 yearbook.  She was on the Glee club!

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George Hartley Jr (1907-1977) On the Baseball Team at San Diego High School in 1925

I think I have the actual copy of this yearbook (San Diego High School's "Gray Castle Yearbook" for 1925) somewhere, but I don't have to dig it out because it is also available online at Ancestry's U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 collection. Shortest guy on the page (I see where I get my stature lol).

My grandfather George Hartley Jr, about 17 years old.

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