▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1974
Middle School
1967–1969Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1970–1974The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1972–1974Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1974–1978Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1979–1983First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
30-year reunion
2004
Generation
Baby Boomer
You'd be about
70
🔙 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
1974. A sunburned summer evening. You had a MoonPie, a Slush Puppie, and just enough of the day left to ride in the way-back of the station wagon.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Super Friends👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
📰 Headlines
- Nixon resigns
- Patty Hearst kidnapped
- Ford pardons Nixon
- Hank Aaron breaks HR record
- Inflation and recession bite
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Intel 8080 microprocessor
- UPC barcode scanned in store
- Rubik's Cube invented
- TI handheld calculators boom
- First programmable pocket calculator
🏆 Sports
- A's win the World Series
- Dolphins win Super Bowl VIII
- Celtics win the NBA title
- Rumble in the Jungle (Ali def. Foreman)
- Hank Aaron's 715th home run
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Streaking peaks
- CB radio craze
- Pet rocks dawning
- Sea-Monkeys
- Mood rings
👖 Clothes
- Leisure suits peak
- Platform shoes
- Wide bell-bottoms
- Polyester everything
- Toe socks
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 53¢/gal
- Stamp: 10¢
- New car avg: ~$4,400
- Median home: ~$35,900
- Gallon of milk: ~$1.39
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember Class of 1974?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1974
“Oh the good ole days before all the controversy. At least Michael is making a comeback!”
— Anonymouson this song →“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 1974 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 1974 gear
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