▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1976
Middle School
1969–1971Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1972–1976The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1974–1976Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1976–1980Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1981–1985First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
30-year reunion
2006
Generation
Baby Boomer
You'd be about
68
🔙 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
1976 smelled like screen static, warm sidewalks, a Laffy Taffy, and a Fresca.
🎬 At the movies
📼 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
- US Bicentennial
- Carter elected president
- Legionnaires' disease outbreak
- Viking 1 lands on Mars
- Apple Computer founded
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Apple I computer
- VHS format launches
- Concorde begins service
- Cray-1 supercomputer
- JVC's VHS arrives
🏆 Sports
- Reds win the World Series
- Steelers win Super Bowl X
- Celtics win the NBA title
- Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10
- Montreal Summer Olympics
🤪 Crazes & fads
- CB radio peak
- Bicentennial fever
- Mood rings
- Disco dancing
- Pet rocks
👖 Clothes
- Disco fashion rising
- Leisure suits
- Wide collars
- Tube tops
- Wrap dresses
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 59¢/gal
- Stamp: 13¢
- New car avg: ~$5,400
- Median home: ~$44,200
- Gallon of milk: ~$1.65
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember Class of 1976?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1976
“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 1976 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 1976 gear
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