Slam Books - Remember them?

[JessicaR]

I'm not absolutely positive but I think they were popular when I was in jr high, could have been high school too. They were so much fun. We got in SO much trouble for them though. So were they a regional thing or did you have Slam Books too? Remember the grade?

I remember a different question on each page, sometimes they were risqué and I guess thats why they were taken away!

Late 70's early 80's maybe?

Kinda reminds me of some of the stuff on facebook that I read about here.

 

[HunnyPots]

Absolutely! I remember them in high school in the late 70's/early 80's. I guess kids don't need them now, they just use myspace and facebook.

 

[Doe]

Oh I remember them. I think they were popular when I was about 6th or 7th grade about 1983. First page had names, 2nd page phone number and by the time you got to the last page you had confessed who you thought would be the best kisser and who you wanted to have babies with someday

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Oh never mind. It's too convoluted of a story.

 

[DMRick]

I remember the books a little differently. The first page had a numbered list. You put your name next to a number. The rest of the pages had someone's name at the top. People would write something (and very often not so nice, in fact sometimes, very nasty, hence the name 'slam' book) about each person and sign it with their number. They always seemed very hurtful to other's to me. Jr high, early sixties as best as I can remember.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

We never had them when I was in school. I remember seeing a "slam book" on an episode of Sister Sister and if I remember right it had all kinds of nasty things written in it (with predictable results.) It sounds like that's not always case?

 

[JessicaR]

Nope nothing nasty about ours just lots of normal pre-adolescent curiosity. They were fun.

 

[HunnyPots]

Nope nothing nasty about ours just lots of normal pre-adolescent curiosity. They were fun.

I do remember some of them getting pretty ugly especially if they were circulated among the "mean girls" . Lots of drama of course, but then that's pretty much what adolescent girls thrive on!

 

[Macca1111]

I read about them in a Judy Blume book...does that count? I don't think they were popular by the time I was going through, but maybe I wasn't cool enough to know...

 

[Disney Ella]

I read about them in a book too. Although I was in the right time/age range for them, I never remember anyone having anything like that at my school. Sounds like they could cause a lot of problems if they got into the wrong hands, which I'm sure they did regularly.

 

[luvsJack]

We had something a little different. It was like an autograph book of sorts, but bigger. On one page everyone just signed, some with little sayings (like you would do in a yearbook) and then on other pages there were questions and "themes". Like, one page everyone wrote their favorite love song of that year, or favorite hard rock song, or favorite movie of hat year. You had a page where you wrote your favorite memory with friends or at school. These were a lot of fun to read. I still have one from my senior year and its really a hoot! Even have the menu and prices from the little cafe we all hung out in.

Anyway, we made and signed these books every year. Lots of fun and good memories and nothing mean in them like the slam books.

 

[WDWBarb]

I remember them from the early 80's. There were some that were just innocent (who do you think it cute? who is the funniest? smarest? that kind of thing...) and then those that became quite evil. Of course, the "mean girls" were in charge of that. I do remember a suspension and a huge controvery over one that was VERY wicked. I didn't see it, but the rumors were horrible.

I just don't understand cruelty..

 

[MIGrandma]

I don't remember them from high school (graduated in '75) but I did do slam swaps with a lot of people in the late 70's and early 80's. I swapped them with probably about 20 people, 50-200 per box. I had a TV tray set up in our living room and at night, after the kids were in bed, when DH and I were watching TV I would sit on the couch and sign them. I made a lot of my own too. It was a lot of fun.

 

[DMickey28]

Nope ... We didn't have them but I think it was "before my time". It reminds me of that movie Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohen though. They called it a Burn Book.

 

[DVCMikey]

I can't remember them. what were they?

 

[WDWBarb]

Nope ... We didn't have them but I think it was "before my time". It reminds me of that movie Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohen though. They called it a Burn Book.

Yep, basically the same thing.

 

[happygirl]

I don't think I would call them ""Fun""

I remember them from the SVH series

 

[tiggger1]

Our were different. there would be pages with 50 numbers on them. At the top of the page there would be a question that was something like, favorite band, teacher crush, cutiest boy, boy wanted to kiss, nothing too bad just embarrassing enough. the first page had numbers 1-50 and you would sign your name there before answeted the questions

 

[Magic Mom]

When I as in school, slam books were nasty mean things. There were two types, one was passed around and people would just write something (usually mean) about other students. The other was about a specific person and everyone would write something nasty about that person (sometimes with pictures drawn.) They were awful.

Luckily, I was never on either end of the books.

 

[CF'er]

My DS13 got ISS for starting a slam book when he was in 3rd or 4th grade. I was not happy.