1972 High School Poster NOT PC!

NY65912 · 04-10-2023, 09:22 AM

How much trouble do you reckon I could get into today by using this poster I made I used in my high school in 1972?

No on e even blinked any back then. The asst. principal helped me mount it in the lobby of the school. The Godfather movie was out and with my Italian heritage and the "guys" in my neighborhood my buddies thought this was a good gimmick. Heck, I did win after all.

Times do change.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

At my high school in 1971 to 1973 I carried a lot of Hassleblad equipment and my 35 mm camera system. It would not fit in my locker, so the principal let my store it in his office. He kept the office locked if he was not in the office.

For the first couple of weeks of deer hunting lots of the boys got out in the woods 1/2 hour before dawn, and if they did not get a deer, just came to school. In 1971 one pickup was broken into and the rifle was stolen. The principal just told any boy that wanted to, to ring his rifle and ammo inside and store in in the office next to my camera gear. It looked like a gun store that first week of deer season. All morning long I would see multiple boys walking down the hall to the principal's office with a deer rifle and a box of ammo. No one paid any attention, except the other hunters that wanted to check out each other's rifles.

I wish I had thought to take a picture of the office with 25+ rifles.

Seahawk · 04-10-2023, 10:38 AM

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I wish I had thought to take a picture of the office with 25+ rifles.

The OP's poster looks like my Kimber Desert Warrior decades before it was made

Concerning your comment above, same at both my California semi-rural HS and in South Carolina. Trust me, I am not suggesting, and I went to a very integrated school, that life was perfect, but I cannot remember any of the many rifles in trucks that one was stolen, used in a crime or homicide.

I tried to find some statistics for "Newbury Park" homicides in 1972 but I am having issues.

Different world.

A930Rocket · 04-10-2023, 11:49 AM

For show and tell, I didn’t bring the gun, but in elementary school I brought some World War I ammo, including a few rounds of cloth fed machine gun bullets. My grandfather brought them back from France, is what I’m told.

I would certainly be in hot water nowadays if I did it now.

I still have them somewhere.

Seahawk · 04-10-2023, 11:54 AM

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

My high school was in Montgomery, AL and 60% black, and never a racial problem that I ever saw or heard of.

The police said they thought a former student came on campus and saw the gun in the rear window and took at as something to pawn.

I honestly don't remember the details as it was 50 years ago and did not involve me.

MBAtarga · 04-10-2023, 12:34 PM

I played John Brown in a 2nd or 3rd grade skit. I brought my cap pistol and had it on the side of my pants in a holster during my presentation. This would have been in 1970 or so.

Danimal16 · 04-10-2023, 12:50 PM

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Looks like some dolphins on the tail gate?

Or maybe AOPA sticker?

speeder · speeder's Garage

I went to HS not long after, (mid-'70s), it was definitely a different time. A lot more innocent, though it did not seem like it at the time. Everything is relevant to one's experience and surroundings. There were mean SOBs and hostility at times but guys generally just knuckled-up or avoided those kinds of people. There were a couple of instances of kids shooting other kids when I was a teenager but they were thankfully extremely rare and no one had thought to bring a gun to school to avenge the bullies yet.

I feel bad for kids today...I can't imagine the stress of wondering everyday if today is the day.

herr_oberst · 04-10-2023, 02:27 PM

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Yep. Didn't even give it a second thought back then.

I went to a Catholic high school in a very small town in Idaho (Boise).
We'd get the occasional non-parochial student (i.e., didn't belong to any of the local Catholic parishes) who had as likely as not been kicked out of every other school in the city because of personality or discipline problems.

"Jim", one of the above mentioned problem kids, (he really was wound up tight!) brought as a prop for a speech class, a very fine, beautifully furnished Remington 12g pump shotgun to demonstrate proper field gun etiquette. We all ooed and awed over that nice weapon, and he beamed with pride as he showed it off.
In hindsight, this was the exact wrong person to be walking the halls of a high school with a weapon of any kind, even a slingshot (or for that matter a stick of wood with a long nail through it), but Columbine was still decades away and we as a society hadn't learned about mass school shootings yet.

flatbutt · 04-10-2023, 02:41 PM

My high school rifle team yearbook pic. Imagine that second pic today.

speeder · speeder's Garage

That's hilarious but yeah, no bueno today.

astrochex · 04-10-2023, 04:20 PM

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My high school rifle team yearbook pic. Imagine that second pic today.

... or even the first pic.

Por_sha911 · Por_sha911's Garage

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My high school rifle team yearbook pic. Imagine that second pic today.

But there should have been blood flowing in the hallways with all those guns!

porsche930dude · porsche930dude's Garage

I was in high school 00-03. We explored all over the school. Once we went down under the pool. It was crazy held up by pillars. We came out on the other side and found a rifle range. There were old safety posters on the walls and stuff. My freind went down range to look for lead and some janitor found us making noise and kicked us out. We had no idea there was ever such a thing.

A930Rocket · 04-10-2023, 06:54 PM

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My high school rifle team yearbook pic. Imagine that second pic today.

That is a classic!😂

NY65912 · 04-11-2023, 03:34 AM

We played army in the streets of Brooklyn using a M1 parade rifle and a M2 BB Carbine. When I was younger I got a Combat TV show playset. Tommy gun, 1911, grenades canteen and helmet. We threw dirt bombs at each other for their explosive effect. The neighbors would get pissed because we would set up positions in front yards and sometimes made full frontal attacks.

I got a set of two Colt .45 Mattel pistols in a tooled (plastic) double holster when I was 6. They had the stick on caps and "Shootin Shells". I also received a Remco Bazooka when I was 7, still have it. It shot soft blue rubber rockets. I used to attack my sister quite often.

It was only fun. Right and wrong was taught from the moment you were born back then, not sure how much of that still happens.
Such simpler times back then.

David · David's Garage

Does that bazooka fire enough air empty that you can feel it from a distance? A childhood friend of mine had a bazooka toy that would and I've never been able to find one.

NY65912 · 04-11-2023, 02:42 PM

Nope, but it shoots the rockets on full pull back about 30'

Bob Kontak · Bob Kontak's Garage

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Does that bazooka fire enough air empty that you can feel it from a distance? A childhood friend of mine had a bazooka toy that would and I've never been able to find one.

https://www.teachersource.com/product/zero-blaster-2018?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlay2qf2i_gIVVRezAB3YGQZbEAQ YBCABEgJPF_D_BwE

https://www.scientificsonline.com/product/airzooka?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlay2qf2i_gIVVRezAB3YGQZ bEAQYBSABEgI1mvD_BwE

Maybe this was the one from the way back?

https://www.retrothing.com/2009/03/blame-it-on-the-cold-war-blame-it-on-james-bond-blame-it-on-the-bossa-nova-say-what-you-will-but-the-60s-were-the-bi.html