▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1971
Middle School
1964–1966Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1967–1971The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1969–1971Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1971–1975Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1976–1980First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
30-year reunion
2001
Generation
Baby Boomer
You'd be about
73
🔙 The world when you walked the stage
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
1971 had a simple formula: Scooby-Doo, a Laffy Taffy, a pitcher of Kool-Aid, then circle the roller rink under a disco ball until somebody called you in.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
📰 Headlines
- Pentagon Papers published
- 26th Amendment (voting at 18)
- Attica Prison uprising
- Disney World opens
- Mariner 9 orbits Mars
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Intel 4004 microprocessor
- First email (the @ sign)
- Pocket calculator (Busicom)
- First videocassette (U-matic)
- Liquid-crystal display advances
🏆 Sports
- Pirates win the World Series
- Colts win Super Bowl V
- Bucks win the NBA title
- Ali-Frazier 'Fight of the Century'
- Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Hot pants
- Schwinn Sting-Ray choppers
- Black-light posters
- Pop-rock musicals
- CB radio
👖 Clothes
- Hot pants peak
- Maxi skirts
- Platform shoes rise
- Wide collars
- Suede fringe
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 36¢/gal
- Stamp: 8¢
- New car avg: ~$3,700
- Median home: ~$25,000
- Gallon of milk: ~$1.15
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember Class of 1971?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1971
“The back of the band bus, somebody's boombox playing Floyd the whole ride home from the away game. Those bus rides were honestly the best part.”
— Anonymouson this song →
📸 Your Class of 1971 card
A neon card of your class's year — post it to your reunion group or tag your class.
👥 Find your class
The people who came up on the same songs are hanging out right now.
🎓 Class of 1971 gear
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