The Way It Was
Do you remember what was going on our senior year at YHS?
* The following is contributed by Sarah Anders and Chris Ripper
Top Songs
Top Songs
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Close To You
- American Woman
- Rain Drops Keep Fallin’ On My Head
- War
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- I’ll Be There
- Get Ready
- Let It Be
- Band of Gold
- Sugar Sugar
- I Can’t Get Next To You
- Honky Tonk Woman
- Everyday People
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Easy Rider
- Hello Dolly
- Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
- Airport
- MASH
- Patton
- Aristocats
- Woodstock
- Sesame Street
- Monty Python
- Brady Bunch
- All My Children
- NBC Nightly News
- Tie dye
- Bell bottoms
- Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
- Ford Pinto
- AMC Gremlin
- Dodge Challenger
- Datsun Z Car
- Phone calls from land lines in the dorm room or halls (now cell phones)
- Research in the library stacks (now internet)
- Corona electric typewriters (now MacBooks)
- Trend toward co-ed dorms (now toward co-ed rooms)
- First year UVA accepted women (are very own Debby Denno and Connie Clark)
- Tuition, fees, room and board – public 4-year college: $8,131
- Tuition, fees, room and board – private 4-year college: $16,807
- Metro construction begins
- I-66 outside the beltway opened
- Population has grown from 174,00 to 205,00
- Vietnam war rages
- My Lai massacre in Vietnam
- Anti-war demonstrations
- Kent State shootings
- Cold war with USSR rages
- Manson murders
- Aids virus first appears in the US
- Voting age lowered to 18
- Woodstock
- Beatles break up
- First ATM
- Microprocessor, starting computer revolution
- Internet, developed by the military
- Wal-Mart incorporates
- First Earth Day
- Cigarette advertising banned on TV
- Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 premiers
Just for fun
Click on the link to relive the Yorktown- WL football game of November 1969. Thank you Charlie Clark!