▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1978
Middle School
1971–1973Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1974–1978The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1976–1978Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1978–1982Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1983–1987First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
30-year reunion
2008
Generation
Baby Boomer
You'd be about
66
🔙 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
A wood-paneled-basement afternoon, 1978: the TV was playing Super Friends, a Slush Puppie was in the kitchen, and later you'd hang the drive-in speaker on the car window.
🎬 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
- Jonestown mass deaths
- Camp David Accords
- First 'test-tube baby' born
- Proposition 13 (California)
- Garfield comic debuts
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Space Invaders released
- Magnetic-stripe ATMs spread
- TI Speak & Spell
- Laserdisc (DiscoVision) launches
- First computer bulletin board (BBS)
🏆 Sports
- Yankees win the World Series
- Cowboys win Super Bowl XII
- Bullets win the NBA title
- Affirmed wins the Triple Crown
- Argentina wins the World Cup
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Disco peak (Saturday Night Fever)
- Space Invaders
- Roller disco
- Garfield merchandise
- Smile buttons
👖 Clothes
- Disco gold (Travolta white suit)
- Designer jeans rising
- Spandex / Lycra
- Wrap dresses
- Gold lamé
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 63¢/gal
- Stamp: 15¢
- Movie ticket: $2.34
- New car avg: ~$6,400
- Median home: ~$55,700
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember Class of 1978?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1978
“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 1978 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 1978 gear
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