Memories

Prom night at Disneyland	We need your input to complete this page!! Things you did !! Cool words or sayings of your High school days??	"Grad night" at Disneyland
The 1984 Olympics	"Let's not forget Earth Shoes". The rockers used to buy them at Tom McCann's of HP's Pacific Blvd. Brown was the specialty color shoe worn with Levis jeans, long sleeved plaid shirts with sleeves folded up and Levis jacket. Plus your hair had to be sliced down the middle and feathered back. 'ORANGE IS IT!"
Sporting Good's and Ziggy's on Pacific	See's candy store on Pacific	Petrie's, A&W Hambuger's on State and Florence
THE MUSIC OF THE 80'S LED ZEPPELIN, AEROSMITH, THE CARS, PINK FLOYD	Hanging out at Spartan Burger (Santa Fe and Florence) after a Football game
Seeing the guys pop-locking and ticking to music		Cruising St Mathias High after school
Permed hair and lathered mouse on it for the sleek look		Hi NRG Disco
Aqua Net girl Hair do's	Wearing painted on Jordache, Sergio Valenti and Calvin Kline jeans
Janet Jackson, Adam Ant and Culture Club	Victory Parties!! at Shakey's Pizza Parlor	Your first CD
Pump high heels, Fluorescent colored clothes. Bright rain bowed color eye shadow		MTV
THE APPLE MACHINE !!!	Hanging out at Salt Lake Park	Painting the Rock in Stockton Court
Wearing Vans, one color on one foot and another color on the other foot		Chicken Delight, Randolph St.
The annual Christmas Parade on Pacific Blvd, and seeing our school represented!		Zito's across from GAGE JR. High
Throwing toilet paper in the trees in Stockton Court	Hart Burgers on Slauson	Shopping at J.C.Penny's and Getting a ride on the Wineman's Dept. store elevator
Feeling great, jogging to some of our football games during 1982; Marshal High, Bell High, Rosevelt High., and been able to see our team play		Watching for bombarting seagulls at lunch time
“A & G” BURGERS on Florence & State	Cold 25 cent nectarines from vending machines	You got moded
Muskraths tight shorts	KLOS & KMET stickers	hash lines
Dances in the girls west gym	Fake attendance notes	Track A, B, & C
Whatever your shop class was	Levi's 501 jeans	The 80's were the BEST!
After the concert wearing your baseball style concert shirt to school the next day		Food fights in the cafeteria and stockton court
Cool Words of our time: Booya!....... Bam! Guys calling each other "Babe"	Michael Jackson “Thriller” Movies Flash dance & Scareface
	Sports with the marching band flag staff, & the cheer leader's
Fighting against the Toxic Waste Incenerator slated to be built less than 500 ft away from HPHS.. helped change state legislation as to require all toxic waste incinerator proposals to adhere to Environmental Impact Reviews. Can't believe it wasn't the law before. The Community WON this first environmental justice victory! No incinerator was built.
The passing of John Lennon	In the 80's HPHS was STILL the only high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District without fences
First flight of the space shuttle Enterprise	President Ronald Ragan wounded by gun fire	KROQ DJ Richard Blade
My First MEMBER'S ONLY Jacket	CHEMIN DE FUR	DRESSING UP LIKE MADONNA
KMET ROCKS	THE SURFER GIRLS	VANS
CHEEK JEANS	BEACH PARTIES	House parties and dj clubs
Duran/ Duran!!!!!!! Hot Group of the 80's	Hiding bottles of booze inside the instruments at football games, and swapping instruments thinking nothing of the fact that it was filled with someone else's saliva
“The Bleacher Bums with the greatest cheers of all time at the Football Games” Class of '85....'86		SEEING MICKEY DRESS IN HIS DIFFERENT COSTUMES, AND DANCING TO “OH MICKEY YOUR SO FINE”.
MARGIE & ERICKA & OF COURSE THE BOYS!!!	THE BAND “JOURNEY”!!	The movie: "The Breakfast Club"
The well dressed school police team known as "Miami Vice"	PLAYING FOOTBALL ON SUNDAY’S WITH THE MARCHING BAND TEAM AT MILES PARK OR SALT LAKE PARK.
PEEPING TOM at St. Mathias girls during their class, just before the school added bars to the windows facing the sidewalk.		Being drum captain & playing really loud at Stockton Court after 2nd period, pep rally's, football games, and of course the Christmas Parade. The marching band from 82-85 was the best ever!!
The infamous "fence ditching hole" located on Miles off the girl's gym side softball field that was mended over and over again.
The 1987 earthquake fiasco	The rebirth of the drama club/drama productions lead by super cool Mr. Jack Richardson.
HP got a computer room	Wearing the Football jersey's on Friday's	THE “US” FESTIVAL!!! HEAVY METAL DAY!!!
Going out for lunch at Wendy's on Pacific	Introducing Break dancing to the Dance Class	Halley's Comet
Chicago Bears get a REFRIGERATOR named PERRY	Challenger's fatal explosion	Gage Bowl
Breakdancing in football uniforms	Writing in everyone yearbooks to say GOODBYE & GOOD LUCK
Being in class with Ms. Rudolph while the space shuttle exploded . Ms Rudolph applied as one of the teachers to be on that space trip		POWDER PUFF - C/O 1984 WON BOTH THEIR JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEAR - GO OLYMPIANS!!!
Sitting in the Gazeebo at lunch time	Toyville on Pacific between Gage and Randolph? I remember eyeing the Transformers behind the counter.
Pup 'N' Taco on Florence and Seville	One episode of "Chips" was filmed on Pacific Blvd. and Clarenden Ave. in HP
Marching Band Car Wash Next to A&W Burgers off of State & Florence. We all got wet and fun that day . We had a band fund so the school can buy new uniforms for the Band .Our work paid off and the school got new uniforms with our help. Thank You Mr.Dorothy for putting up with all of us. No more shutting off the lights in the band room. We were the Best Marching Band HP ever had . The Band also had a football team .They were the (Band Wizards ).
"My first PENNY LOAFERS"	Taking a nap in Dr. Uhlman's French Class after lunch	LUNCH TIME DANCES
NINJA BIKES	FAST VW BUGS WITH A CHROME ENGINE	TRYING TO LEARN ENGLISH IN ESL CLASS!
MUSICA DE BANDA THE FAMOUS CHIQUILLOS BAND!	MISS BREIGHTENTON (CHORUS CLASS) OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TRYING TO MAKE US SING LIKE THE VIENNA BOYS CHOIR WITHOUT OUR LATIN ACCENT IMPOSSIBLE!
DITCHING PARTYS AT CHANTRY FLATS!!	THE LIQUOR STORE ACROSS THE STREET	BUYING SINGAL CIGARETTES FOR A NICKEL ACROSS THE STREET
THICK BLACKEYELINER!	Lets not forget words like: Trip out!!! and You want to go around (asking someone out in school) or I call it quits!!! (when you dumped the person)
Surviving all the construction around Stockton court. They even made T-shirts that said "surviving construction" in 87 or 88		Being a student worker in the student store and some of the most popular snacks were nacho cheese doritos, Snikers bar and Hershey's almond chocolate bar. Abba Zabbas and Chico sticks were also pretty popular
Mickey Mouse heart shaped lolly pops which the girls liked to use to bring out the color on their lips around valentines. Also during valentines, we used to have candy grams delivered to our classes. That was awesome.
"scaming" or "making out" with a boy who was not necessarily your boyfriend	Ruffled socks with high heels were one of the most awful and popular fashions	Girl's pants were so tight that they had to have zippers on the ankles in order to get them through your feet. Bubble gum pants were one of the first stretchable jeans available and speedos with a long tee-shirt tied on one side were my favorite.
Class of 1982 1st. Period Class Mr. Mermans 7:00am during the beginning of the Track's A,B,C.........Allowing me to sleep in class
Always visiting Mr. Granados because he was always willing to lend a ear!	REMEMBER "BONDED AS ONE PUNK BAND!! from our school H.P.	Remember that we used to have different colored shoe laces and as many as four on one shoe and different on the other
Party at Micky's house on Bandera Street	Remember Hart's? It was the place to be. I remember the place before it was torn down to make room for another burger joint!! Tam's burgers stands on the old spot where Hart's was.
Finks fun city on pacific	Riding around in Rudy's orange van and green '81 Datsun	Learning English in Mrs. Morales and Mrs. Aguilar's class. The best ESL’s teachers ever.
Mickey's infamous blue button suit..when I think of it, it still makes me laugh	Having our hair feathered	Coffee Cake with Sprite drink for recess break
All the "older" guys cruising the school in their really cool brightly colored VW Bugs!	Pizza Hut slogan, Make it Large Medium Charge...	Sloppy Joe's, Spaghetti or Burritos with hot sauce for lunch break Yum Yum
	Mr. Hellopeter, (Check spelling) :) the math teacher who I used to call Mr. Helicopter. letting us leave class to go to the liquor store to bring back snacks. I also talked him into bumping my grade up from c to a b!
In and Out Burger stickers....	Hello Kitty	Mr. Durr, riding the same bus to school as us.
KNAC Rocks!!!
How about ‘candie’s shoes ladies???? I loved those.
Pure Elegance Party Girls and the Fantasy Dolls!		Baby Boys So. Cal
Every time we had a Sub Teacher, we would turn off all the lights in the Band Room and it would be completely dark. The whole room would go crazy. Students were yelling and screaming and the funniest of all, you would hear the chairs flying by and the piano roll across the room. Keep in mind all this going on while the room is completely dark. Those were the crazy days!!!!!!!
Hanging out in the music room for lunch with Mr. Andrews! Thee coolest music teacher!		The neon yellow or white sweatshirts that had "WHAM" or "GO-GO" in reference to George Michael and the group WHAM giggle (those were fun days...
Mrs. Razzo forfeiting the girls track team meet against Jordan High School tall fast skinny ferocious girls track team	OOOHH! and when the FILA sweaters came out, EVERYBODY had on a FILA sweater matched with FILA tennis shoes and those who knew how to make them...a FILA friendship bracelet!
1984 bug jam party at Adriana's( eclipse girls) featuring lights and sounds of total experience, omg! now that was a trip! wish I could go back. oh and hiding from Mr. Garcia the principal as he chased other students around the block! go Spartans!		HEARTS BURGERS!!!
The marching bands famous Duck walk on the the field at half Time QUACK!	The out of control marching band , class of 85-88. when we had a sub we would turn off the lights and throw things across the room. Then the sub would run out of the room screaming and yelling, and shortly be replaced by the principle............. heheheh.......... those were the days!!!!
Mrs. Razzo forfeiting the girls track team meet against Jordan High School tall fast skinny ferocious girls track team		The oddest vehicle in the parking lot would be Mr. Goldstock's bright orange Volkswagen "The THING"
"Mr. Sugarman"	1985 " leadership class" 2nd period Mr. Glos, lots of laughs great memories.	Whenever the phone rang in the band room everyone would yell at the top of their lungs.. "PHONE!!!"
All of the classrooms finally got air conditioning	The diamond jubilee. HPHS turned 75	I loved Jim Dandy's Fried Chicken!!! Yummy
Loved wearing a roach clip in my hair with orange & white feathers, until the dean took it away from me.		I loved Steve Perry !!! Journey was the BEST
Summer style with terry cloth dresses and wooden ("cloncks") sandals	All the guys drooling over Ms. Patronoff!	The coolest 3 years in DRAMA class w/Ms. Thompson
Mrs. Hann (typing class) ALWAYS with her elephant theme! Elephant earning, bracelets, clothes, purses... I mean everything!		Hanging out by "Rock" during nutrition
Afternoon ditching Parties to watch General Hospital for the Luke & Luara Wedding	Hearts or Harts on the corner of Miles and Slauson. Closed down and replaced by another burger stand. Not the greatest, but the memories were good.	Bee's Football - Out did the Varsity in 86 and 87
Woolworth's on the corner of Zoe and Pacific or Kress Dept. Store on Pacific Blvd	Winemans on the corner of Gage and Pacific Ave. The used to sell Esprit clothing there along with all the cool jeans of the day Valente and Jordache Jeans!
What ever happened to awesome Ms. McIntyre (dance teacher), Ms. Barbara Barnett (AP English teacher '87) or Ms. Cear (Math teacher Ms. Barnett's best friend)?		Most of us kids had long rat-tail hairstyles when we were in grade school or Junior High (Middle) School
Metal up ur ass Metallica concert shirt the best!	Shopping stores like Wymans on the corner of Gage and Pacific Ave. The used to sell Esprit clothing there along with all the cool jeans of the day Valente and Jordache Jeans!
What about the five and dime stores like Woolworth's on the corner of Zoe and Pacific or Kress Dept. Store on Pacific Blvd. Those were kind of neat to browse.		What ever happened to awesome Ms. McIntyre (dance teacher), Ms. Barbara Barnett (AP English teacher '87) or Ms. Cear (Math teacher Ms. Barnett's best friend)?
Ms brown the coolest biology teacher and Mr. Lapper math teacher	Beating Bell High School 34-6 at East L.A. College.1973 Eastern League Champs Baby!!!!	Favorite bands such as America, Toto, Steely Dan, Chicago, and singers like James Taylor and Carly Simon
Chic brand jeans and high heels	Santa Cruz clothing brand for the ladies	1980 Senior Prom at the classy Beverly Hilton Hotel
Dancing to Cold Duck at our prom	Being water girls for the Varsity Football team in 1980	Our Hawaiian themed 1980 Senior Breakfast
1980's graduation at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion	El Ranchito Restaurant on Santa Fe Avenue

The 80s' Memories of Huntington Park