I saw this photo on a “Remember When” Facebook page and saved it so I could show my classmates. I honestly didn’t think it was my senior prom, it just had the look of the late 1950’s, early 1960’s to me. When I emailed it to my classmates, Betty McAbee spotted herself and her date back far right. It was her in her yellow formal. Then we saw Donnie Alford, the boy facing the camera on the right. Claudia Keeton is in white on the left, with the tiara in her hair. Then different ones said the girl in the middle was Linda Casey. She emailed me that her mother forbid her to dance, she and her date John Cummings (married 62 years this year) sat on the sideline and watched everyone dance. The boy in the middle is Donnie Bumpass. I am the girl in the strapless blue formal with the long white gloves in the background, just left of center (dark brunette hair, smile). As it turned out, it is our senior prom. I do not know which Facebook page posted it originally, it sure generated a lot of classmate conversation though!
Wow Lou Ann what a fantastic photo! I have nothing like this…..no idea but we didn’t seem to do photos in those days so much. Thinking all the folks having photos taken are so lucky now.
I love this….such sweet memories of fun filled carefree days. Can’t help thinking no girl should have been forbidden to dance….your friend was very obedient & good on her young man for agreeing! Thank you for posting & reminding us of our youth!
This is amazing--the dresses, the long white gloves, the white tuxedos. Even more amazing is that you found it and that you and so many of your friends are in it!
@happypat thank you so much for your wonderful comments. Our student school photographer (in my class) emailed me that he didn’t take the photo because he had a date that night. We have no idea who took this photo, I’ve now printed it off for some of the classmates, it brought so much happiness to them. You can’t tell but I had a hoop skirt under my formal, instead of petticoats, it was so hard to dance with that hoop. Ha!
How fun! I've always wondered what happened to the fellow I went to the Sr. Prom with. He stepped in to take me when my boyfriend at the time decided to stay a couple weeks longer at college. I was devastated! So Tom stepped in- and won my heart!
@dide Linda said it was quite a few years before she realized she would not go to hell if she danced. I imagine after she went to college (and got way from her mother-ha).
All look very elegant.
I love this….such sweet memories of fun filled carefree days. Can’t help thinking no girl should have been forbidden to dance….your friend was very obedient & good on her young man for agreeing! Thank you for posting & reminding us of our youth!
Oh that’s too funny not wanting to wear a gown…I couldn’t wait. Nowadays you could probably wear most anything you wanted to.
Lucky Tom, Lucky you!