Slam Books - Remember them?

[Mouse House Mama]

They had them when I was young. I never had one because I thought they were terribly mean. They always made someone cry. It really was horrible. Nothing but bully behavior to be honest.

 

[JessicaR]

Thats too bad that some slam books had nasty connotations. The Slam books I was referring to were spiral notebooks that had a question on each page (mentioned already by a few in this thread). Questions like:

Favorite Color
Favorite Food
Zodiac Sign
Favorite Vacation
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Smell - So many Loves Baby Soft answers!
Chocolate or Vanilla
Have You Ever Been in Love
Who is Your Crush

Questions like that and yes they were fun! The only controversy they created was when they became too sexual in nature - they were taken away if a teacher spotted one.

I did read a bit about them online and it seems there were definately two kinds - the other slammed people - not nice.

 

[Jacoby 46]

We didn't have them in our school, but I remember reading about them in Sweet Valley High Series when I was younger!

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Thats too bad that some slam books had nasty connotations. The Slam books I was referring to were spiral notebooks that had a question on each page (mentioned already by a few in this thread). Questions like:

Favorite Color
Favorite Food
Zodiac Sign
Favorite Vacation
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Smell - So many Loves Baby Soft answers!
Chocolate or Vanilla
Have You Ever Been in Love
Who is Your Crush

Questions like that and yes they were fun! The only controversy they created was when they became too sexual in nature - they were taken away if a teacher spotted one.

I did read a bit about them online and it seems there were definately two kinds - the other slammed people - not nice.

This is more like the ones we had. Only sometimes people would ask questions about people too like "do you think so and so is a good friend?", "would you date so and so?". For the most part nobody ever got nasty in either as far as I can remember. Ours were fun. This was in Jr. High in the early 90s.

 

[GoodFairies]

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

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

Thats too bad that some slam books had nasty connotations. The Slam books I was referring to were spiral notebooks that had a question on each page (mentioned already by a few in this thread). Questions like:

Favorite Color
Favorite Food
Zodiac Sign
Favorite Vacation
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Smell - So many Loves Baby Soft answers!
Chocolate or Vanilla
Have You Ever Been in Love
Who is Your Crush

Questions like that and yes they were fun! The only controversy they created was when they became too sexual in nature - they were taken away if a teacher spotted one.

These are how ours were in the mid-late 80s. We called them Sign In Books.

 

[LaraK]

Ours were nothing like that...they were straight up cruel.

 

[MinnieMe87]

Thats too bad that some slam books had nasty connotations. The Slam books I was referring to were spiral notebooks that had a question on each page (mentioned already by a few in this thread). Questions like:

Favorite Color
Favorite Food
Zodiac Sign
Favorite Vacation
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Smell - So many Loves Baby Soft answers!
Chocolate or Vanilla
Have You Ever Been in Love
Who is Your Crush

Questions like that and yes they were fun! The only controversy they created was when they became too sexual in nature - they were taken away if a teacher spotted one.

I did read a bit about them online and it seems there were definately two kinds - the other slammed people - not nice.

We had them when I was in junior high, and they were just like what you listed above. Never mean and nasty, just about fun things. We had some great fun with those books! (That would have been 1998-2001) Haven't heard much about them now.
We also had notebooks that we carried and passed between our group of friends that had notes in them to each other. We did that so we didn't get in trouble for writing notes in class, because it just looked like we were taking notes on the lectures!

 

[DMRick]

Thats too bad that some slam books had nasty connotations. .

I think the very name says what they were meant to be..slam books. Why were the nice ones you remember called slam books, if they didn't slam people.

 

[freepixie]

Ours were nothing like that...they were straight up cruel.

Same at my school, just mean and cruel, another tool used by the bullies

 

[C.Ann]

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

Thats too bad that some slam books had nasty connotations. The Slam books I was referring to were spiral notebooks that had a question on each page (mentioned already by a few in this thread). Questions like:

Favorite Color
Favorite Food
Zodiac Sign
Favorite Vacation
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Smell - So many Loves Baby Soft answers!
Chocolate or Vanilla
Have You Ever Been in Love
Who is Your Crush

Questions like that and yes they were fun! The only controversy they created was when they became too sexual in nature - they were taken away if a teacher spotted one..

We had them in the 60's and they were great!! However, ours were called "Slang Books" (NOT "slam") and the questions were along the lines of what you have listed above.. Absolutely nothing mean or nasty about them - just good, clean fun.. Learned a lot about each other that way.. I often wish I had kept the one of the ones that I made.. It would be a blast looking back on it now to see who had a crush on who; who everyone thought was the cutest couple; who actually became what they "thought" they would become (career wise) etc..

 

[JessicaR]

I think the very name says what they were meant to be..slam books. Why were the nice ones you remember called slam books, if they didn't slam people.

Since you mentioned you recall them from the 60's and me from the 70's & 80's they could have evolved into something else. The name remained. Not a mystery really. Since I didn't name them myself I cant tell you how they got their name. I can tell you the books I recall did not slam people. I was there and I remember.

 

[Magic Mom]

Since you mentioned you recall them from the 60's and me from the 70's & 80's they could have evolved into something else. The name remained. Not a mystery really. Since I didn't name them myself I cant tell you how they got their name. I can tell you the books I recall did not slam people. I was there and I remember.

I went to school in the 70's and 80's, and also remember them as very nasty things.

 

[JessicaR]

I went to school in the 70's and 80's, and also remember them as very nasty things.

I don't doubt that you do. I did catch that in your first post. I was just saying that 'I' don't. As I stated a few times already sorry for those that had nasty connotations, ours didn't. I guess I have to say that maybe they evolved into something nicer at MY school.

Since the author of these books obviously were not the same each book was unique.

 

[DMRick]

I guess I have to say that maybe they evolved into something nicer at MY school.

I'm sure they could have been different in many schools. I do wonder why they called them slam books in your school. This is what a slam book was back in the school I attended: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slam book

 

[daisax]

Laura Ingalls Wilder had slam books in one of the Little House books (I think when they moved to the Little Town on the Prairie)

Young teen girls have always been pretty mean to one another.

 

[amberg@eastlink.ca]

when i was in grad six i actually had a sweet valley high slam book.....altho from what i remember of it, it wasnt the nastiest. it was who is the class flirt, whos annoying, whos prettiest etc. but this was the late 80's early 90's.

but to agree with the pp- teen girls are mean to each other...and speaking from personal experience some of those mean girls(lol) never outgrow it and become mean women....but thats another thread for another day!

 

[NYPDwife]

My mom found and read them. It's how she found out I got to 2nd base. They grounded me by sending me to my grandmother's house for the summer. My grandmother lived in the middle of nowhere in PR. Ugh.

 

[muffyn]

yup

from "MY" era in school the 60's.

1st page name
2nd page : fav color
3rd page : fav tv show
4th page : fav song
& so on
ours never got nasty.

(bet I stil have one stashed in the attic somewhere)