Proms

[Moliphino]

I went to my prom without a date. A bunch of friends rented a limo together. It was at a nice banquet facility in the area (commonly used for weddings, showers, etc).

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I went to a prom with a friend of a friend as a favor. My dress was a direct knockoff of the prom dress Lori Singer wore in Footloose. I had a lousy time, mostly because this friend of a friend kept hitting on me all night. The next year, I went to my then-boyfriend's senior prom for the same high school I went to, and then the next year, 1985, I went to my own senior prom with a different boyfriend. Man, I didn't realize until just now how much I got around.

 

[jimmalru80]

Went to the senior prom with my steady GF who became my wife. It was held at a country club in Northern New Jersey. When we arrived back home, we headed south to the Jersey Shore to a house that was owned by a cousin of mine and her family. There was a group of about a dozen of us. It felt like we were driving off the ends of the earth before we got there. Little did we know, but we would end up moving to that town after we got married some seven or so years later, and we've been there ever since.

 

[SC Minnie]

I went to my junior and senior prom with the same guy. We dated ~ 3years and broke up after I went to college. Started seeing each other again a little bit after I graduated college then I met DH and stopped seeing him.

I grew in a smallish town, no one had limos in the mid 80's.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Did you go to your high school prom? Was your date a steady BF/GF? And did that date eventually become your spouse/S0?

Yes, No, No.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I did not go to my prom. Wasn’t dating anyone at the time. At my school, most who attended were those with a steady BF/GF, and the really popular kids, which I was definitely not. It was very formal and expensive, and they didn’t allow singles or groups to go back then, you had to be coupled off. I didn’t mind; none of my close friends went either. We went to a bar that night and had a good time (legal to drink at 18).

 

[Minnesota!]

My BF at the time, senior year, we had been together for 3 years. We went to different schools but went to both of the proms. One was in downtown Minneapolis (took a limo with a large group of his friends, all of us stayed at a hotel afterwards...oof, that was a hell of a night and morning), and for mine we went with 1 other couple in that guys Cadillac, to a place in St Paul. Stayed for the whole thing then back to my house for movies and sleep. Boring.

Married my BF 4 years later, will hit 29 years together this summer, 22 married this fall.

My oldest son is going to prom next month - lots of memories popping up...that I sure hope he does not recreate

 

[TippyThomas]

My school didn't have prom so it wasn't an option.

 

[disneyseniors]

Did you go to your high school prom? Was your date a steady BF/GF? And did that date eventually become your spouse/S0?

My HS prom was held in a local hotel ballroom. The drinking age was 18 at the time, but the prom was alcohol-free. That didn’t stop many from going out to their cars for liquid refreshment.

My date was a guy named Brian in my friend group. We dated casually a few times but were never a couple. I lost track of him after we went to separate colleges.

Hiring a limousine was unheard of in the Stone Age. He picked me up on his parents’ Chevy Monte Carlo.

After the prom some people hosted private parties. We went to two, then there was breakfast in the school cafeteria from about 4 to 6am.

Prom was Friday night. After sleeping most of the day Saturday, The Thing was to go to the Jersey Shore. We went to Lavalette, near Seaside Heights. I still don’t know who actually owned the house. I think it belonged to the grandparents of one of the students, but I’m not sure which student.

I went to the Prom in the 60's, and it was very different from today. I went with a classmate who was just a good friend.
We had our HS Proms in the gym. It was decorated to a new theme each year by the Junior class. Ours was "Under the Sea". I dont' know how they transformed the gym to an enchanted sea scape, but it was beautiful.
After the Prom, we went to a private party on base. Our school had kids from the local AFB along with us "townies". They usually don't mix. That was apparent at the party on base. We were kind of ignored just because I was not a base kid. They had alcohol and their parents left them alone for this party. Needless to say, we left quickly, and we were both kind of embarrassed by those kids actions. My date was horrified. We remained just friends from then on.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I went to my senior prom in the 80's with someone I was dating, but wasn't a steady boyfriend and stopped dating a few months later. Our prom was held at an ice skating rink. Not many limos I recall. And as was the tradition in my area of Ohio, everyone went to Cedar Point on the Sunday morning after prom.

 

[lynxstch]

Did you go to your high school prom? Was your date a steady BF/GF? And did that date eventually become your spouse/S0


Yes, yes, and yes~

 

[Cadiewampus]

Did not go to either of mine. Was just not something i wanted to waste money on. Well that and for my senior one I was already in boot camp.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Did you go to your high school prom? Was your date a steady BF/GF? And did that date eventually become your spouse/S0?

My HS prom was held in a local hotel ballroom. The drinking age was 18 at the time, but the prom was alcohol-free. That didn’t stop many from going out to their cars for liquid refreshment.

My date was a guy named Brian in my friend group. We dated casually a few times but were never a couple. I lost track of him after we went to separate colleges.

Hiring a limousine was unheard of in the Stone Age. He picked me up on his parents’ Chevy Monte Carlo.

After the prom some people hosted private parties. We went to two, then there was breakfast in the school cafeteria from about 4 to 6am.

Prom was Friday night. After sleeping most of the day Saturday, The Thing was to go to the Jersey Shore. We went to Lavalette, near Seaside Heights. I still don’t know who actually owned the house. I think it belonged to the grandparents of one of the students, but I’m not sure which student.

I went with a friend. I wasn't going to go but my parents really wanted me to. A friend broke up with her boyfriend about 3 weeks before prom, so I asked her as strictly friends, and we had a great time. Nothing romantic ever came of it.

Back then the local custom was the guy had to get a tux that color-coordinated with his date's dress. So somewhere deep in our family's archives is a prom photo of me rocking late 70s hair and a powder blue tux (with dark blue lapels and a ruffled shirt!) with my prom date. Very chic in 1981 (where I lived, the 80s didn't arrive until about 1983).

 

[Darcy03231]

I didn't go to my prom. I had enough credits that I only had to do the first semester of my senior year. I probably wouldn't have even gone to graduation but my parents insisted.

Most of my friends were a year ahead of me, including my boyfriend at the time, so I went to their senior prom. Had a blast. The relationship with my boyfriend didn't last once I went off to college.

 

[mrodgers]

Two proms, mine and hers. She was a girlfriend. Went with a friend of mine and his date to dinner prior. To dinner with a friend of hers and her date prior to my girlfriend's prom.

Prom was until 11 pm I think, maybe 10, at a local hotel. After prom party at the school until 4. We left the after prom early, I stayed at her house on the couch, and we went to Cedar Point the following day, both years.

The 2nd year at Cedar Point we didn't do anything. It was cold and massively windy. We got there, ordered a pizza, I put the pizza on the table (a real sized pizza back then, would probably be called an ultra extra extra extra extra large these days) and the wind blew the pizza off the table and onto the ground (face up still in the box.) We ate the pizza and went back home.

 

[WDWDancer]

Didn't go to prom at all and I didn't date in H.S. so even if I did go it would have just been with a friend group

 

[CdnCarrie]

We don't have a prom. There is a formal Grade 12 graduation dinner/dance. I did attend with a group of friends. Couple friends had dates and some of us did not.
There are no formal dances for any other grade in high schools in my province. Maybe a school dance but those are casual and in a school gym not in a hotel banquet room like grad is.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I hung around with the guys from the neighborhood. They went to the public HS, I went to the Catholic HS. I was never interested in my HS activities, life centered around my neighborhood. No proms. I don't think any of my buddies from the neighborhood went to any of theirs either.

So, I guess, no, no, no.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

lol, I thought you were talking about THE proms!

 

[nene0182]

Junior year- I went with my HS boyfriend. We broke up a few months after that. I don’t remember much so it must have been semi ok

Senior year- I went with a friend of mine that was in the Air Force and only a few months older than me. He had graduated HS early and never got to go to prom. We had a great time and we are still friends almost 22 years later.