We don't have an equivalent of the US Year Book, but looking at some old photos of me from family snapshots one thing is obvious: the increased clarity of modern photography with its unforgiving refusal to hide imperfections does nothing to enhance my own attractiveness. Also having hair was a bonus back in the day. 😂
I would go out of my way to look as bad as possible in school photos. Always hated having my photo taken and when younger i was convinced if i tried to make them always the worse that people would stop trying to get my photo. As a adult i have no patience for photos and my drivers licence photos alwayd come out looking like mug shots.. Neither are good or ever will be good
In my yearbooks I was young, and while some of the styles were horribly dated—I had time to be relaxed and smiling. At the DMV, however, my license photos only showed varying degrees of exasperation over the years.
"Hoods" - haven't heard that term in a long, long time. In our neck of the woods they rode around on BSAs, Triumphs, the occasional Norton but mostly Harleys. And were generally harmless.
I found an old yearbook of our high school online an hour or so ago and the girls I thought were fashion model hot all looked like nothing I remembered... and I was the dorkiest dweeb ever.
