I went to two proms in my junior year and one in senior year. Proms back then were really lavish and never held in a high school gym. We had them at country clubs with live bands. All the girls with long hair got our hair done professionally at the beauty shop in an up do called simply, "curls." After proms were usually a fancy breakfast buffet after which you finally went home to sleep. The next day was a trip to Cedar Point a very big, and nice amusement park (even bigger today) and an evening hay ride. Girls never wore revealing gowns and nobody had a hotel room to go to after the prom.

I guess I'm older than you, beecause our prom was held in the school gym. Same elaborate updoes and fancy dresses, though. After the prom, anyone who was anybody went to see Andy WIlliams at a nearby nightclub, that was reserved for prom parties from all over southern MA. My date hadto mow many lawns that spring and summer to pay for that evening. It seems like a long time ago now.

It WAS a long time ago. Heck, my kids HS proms seem like a long time ago already. LOL

Jackie, the proms I'm speaking of were in 1969 and 1970. I think that this might have been a Catholic school thing because I don't recall where public schools held their proms. I'm 54.

ladybug, I went to an all girl Catholic school and our proms were also held at country clubs, or venues other than school. I took my husband to both junior and senior proms. And no, he wan't my husband at the time, just my "steady" boyfriend. Remember that word? I don't think they use it any more.

Jackie, we had ring and Christmas dances in our cafeteria, and "mixers" in our gym. They would cover the gym floor with huge tarps so it wouldn't get ruined. That made it tough for dancing! People were forever tripping in the gaps.

Dotsie, we had Christmas Ball in our gym and once had a mixer. My friend Peggy and I went to all the Cathedral Latin mixers. Cathedral Latin was an all-boys Catholic school. Girls from other Catholic schools also attended. We never missed going to one of those on a Friday night. When I first saw a few of the boys doing the "gator" I thought they must've been on something!

My senior prom was in 1965. It was in a country club. I had the "curls/updo" and tiara. Also the white bunny fur and a hoop under my gown. We had a breakfast party the next morning at one girl's home and spent the day (NHJackie, you'll know this one) at Canobie Lake.

Louisa

I sure do, Louisa. It's still there and still popular. One of the few small amusement parks that's managed to survive around here.

I forgot about the bunny fur. I had one of those, too. My daughter thought it was hilarious when she saw my prom pictures. But what do kids know?

I think I know what you mean by the bunny fur but in case I don't can you tell me what you are referring to?

We had ours in the school gym, all decorated. My town was small and we didn't even have a country club or large hotel!

I suppose some of the kids had the breakfast thing. My curfew was 11:00 and it didn't even change for prom. My date was less than thrilled that we had to leave before the prom was even over.

The young man that was to take me to my Senior Prom was drafted at the last minute.
My roommate asked her boyfriend to ask his friend to take me because I didn't want to miss my Senior Prom. (I didn't know she had done this)
Two days before the prom she told me that she got me a blind date.
I wasn't real happy about the idea, but decided to go.
I will now be married to my blind date for 41 years on the 28th of this month.
It's been a long tough road, but I'm still in the marriage.
Lynne

Ahhhh, what a cool story!

D.

These stories bring a smile to my face. Here's another perspective...I have two kids going to Senior Proms this year. Those were the days. I get to relive them all over again. Well, sorta!

I think I was more excited and nervous when my eldest son went to his first Prom....what a story that turned into, but all ended well and he had a wonderful time.

Yeah chatty, we have 2 senior proms and senior week to look forward to. Parenting teens isn't for cowards. I just pray for their health asafety day in and day out!

I never went to my Prom one it was expensive and two I didn't have a date and three I was hated in my class anyways. I am thinking not going to my class reunion that is coming up but oh well, my friend wants me to go to it because her and I graduated in the same year.

Oh...Myangel, I hope you go...Hold your head up and have a great time with your friend. Don't let anything or anybody get in the way of you and her celebrating each other.

chick

Lynne...I love your prom story...my senior prom was on a party boat that sailed up and down the 3 Rivers in Pittsburgh...my date was a sophmore at Penn State and had a final that day...since the boat left the dock at 7pm he couldn't make it back in time so he sent his cousin (a HS junior) to fill in and he met me at the dock afterward and went to the After prom with me...I hated the prom..it was raining and so we had to stay inside the whole time..the whole idea of having it on the boat was so we could dance under the stars...but the after party was so much fun.they had a great DJ and we danced until dawn..after that we went home and changed and then went to an amusement park..it was a very long time ago..

Junior prom date I was 'selected' from the pool of dateless girls hovering on one side of the library by one of the dateless boys trucked in from the boys school. What really hurt was that my HS was co-ed.

Senior prom I put a noose around the neck of a good looking bagger at the grocery store where I was working.

We had nuns as chaperones and were threatened with expulsion from school if we tried to have a post-prom party.

I thought I'd share a really funny prom story. My by mother ran into someone whose daughter went to high school with my brother. This woman told her that her daughter cried for three days when my brother refused to go to their prom with her.

My brother has no memory of her ever asking him to the prom, which he didn't attend at all. He and this girl were friends, they played the leads in the senior class play. But he never knew she had the crush on him her mother claims she had.

We all got a big laugh out of this, and wondered who's memory was correct.