Lynwood High School Year/Class of 1970
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- Film footage shot over a half a century ago during the 1969/1970 school year at Lynwood High School in Southern California. Some of the footage is out of focus and Kodak's film stocks were a bit contrasty and grainy back then (consumer videotape didn't exist), but what the heck, you get the idea. We had a blast.
Sad to see what it was and what it became, we don't have a shortage of housing in California. What we have is a shortage of good neighborhoods worth living in.
Class of 1974... good times, good memories, friends in band, and Friday night football!....thanks, Neil
The late-60s and 1970s was the best. I wish so much I could go back. I'd appreciate it so much more now.
It’s crazy that Lynwood , watts , Compton we’re actually white neighborhoods back in the 60’s and mid 70’s
Nice safe middle class neighborhoods.
Nice and safe because the white people ensured themselves good schools, stores, parka etc. They could care less..many of them...what happened to the Black people when they moved. The good schools/ stores etc. Vanished...and the least amount of support to Blak communities as possible.
This is an awesome throwback, C/O 2020 love for this video. Amazing to see how LHS was in LMS it was so different but we love a blast from the past! ❤
Thanks, Nicole. I hope that your life is full of happiness. Believe it or not, someday you will be old...like me.
Thank you for putting this together Scott. It was AWESOME!!!
+Gloria Reid
Very glad you enjoyed it. It seems a lifetime ago.
My mom was LHS class of 1959. I believe that was the first graduating class that attended all 4 years at LHS. The year this was shot I was attending the elementary school behind LHS, Mark Twain, where my mom was our school librarian. I'm really enjoying watching this and thank you for sharing it! Can't wait to show it to my mom. Great job! Thank you!
+KouklaK
Thank you!
Do u have any pictures of lynwood during those times i also went to Mark Twain
I have VHS tape of the Graduation ceremony for the class of 1983. I will try to upload it to CZcams. I graduated with the Class of 1978. I also attended Mark Twain Elementary around the time you were there your I know that"s not your real name. Remember the teachers Holcomb, Lambert, Brian Boston, Tys, Cohen? etc.
Sorry, I don't - only motion pictures of the school. But there are great pictures on the internet of the Food Giant supermarket (actually known throughout the country for its size!), the bowling alley, the Community Center, Sears (actually in Compton, I believe), the gigantic Adventist school (that eventually became the new high school), the water tower with "All American City" printed on the side, the Allen and Arden theaters, and more. Most interesting to me (because I drove a 1956 Ford T-Bird) is that George Barris's Car Customizing shop was on Atlantic in Lynwood (a few block from where I lived). They are famous for such creations as: the Batmobile for the television show, the Munsters Coach, the Beverly Hillbillies truck, Kitt Nightrider, the General Lee, the Monkee Mobile and more; also cars for the stars - Clark Cable, Liberace and others.
I went to Lynwood graduated in 91..i also went to mark twain elementary and hosler
What memories, especially seeing the band. LHS band member/drum major and class of '68 here. And I think I spotted my good friend Bob Ruddy (class of '70) as one of the two drum majors.
Yep. That was Bob. A good friend of mine.
Where is he?
You can't imagine what that did for me! I was able to see my twin sister Cynthia Conklin again in physical form. It has been 11 years since i have been able to see her move and be her. I was so shocked of how great the quality of this movie is! What a wonderful novie you made! You did an amazing job putting this together! Thank you again for bringing is back to the good ol' day! Ps. Do you have any more footage of me and my twin sister? If so id love to see more.
+Suzanne Jones
I am so glad you were able to see your sister. When I shot this, I put all of the footage into the finished product. Unlike today when digital video is so inexpensive that it often gets edited, back then, 16mm motion picture film was somewhat expensive to buy and to then develop, so I included everything. Sorry, there are no other outtakes.
Who's your sister?
all moved out and left a mess in lynwood compton and watts
Waves and muscle Tim dude honestly. I was supposed to graduate in 2014 man LHS was a mess. Drugs man I mean (drugs) everywhere.
word is their grand kids moved to Lancaster and got hooked on meth
Great vid! Many thanks to the dedication of the teachers and the school district.
Thank you for uploading the video! even though I am class of 97 some of the school stay the same. And brought amazing memories from a place I spend some of my best times of my life!
Some of my best times, also.
Class of 2015 !!! 🎓💜💛 🎉
What a time to be alive.. wish I was in that era. Everything seems so much simpler. Not that I dont love my years at LHS but man, yall made it look a good time. Anybody has s story for me about your time at LHS, please feel free to comment down below, i'd love to hear the shenanigans and debauchery as well as the bad stuff lol GO KNIGHTS! 💜💛💜💛
Great to remember what LHS was like in those innocent times, so long ago..............Class of '67............
Innocent - happy - lots of sunshine - and the greatest music ever!
I'm class of 2001, I'm glad to see a fellow knight still representing from long ago. May God bless you! 🙏
Great Footage, brings back alot of memories. I was class of 72.
1970 HS...a little before my time as I just started Jr. High in 1970.
What great memories I am so glad you did this
What a treasure thank you, from Janice class of 1976
This is fabulous. Thank you!
Great job! The quality was so good in some segments that I originally thought it was shot recently and made to look of the era. Awesome!
+Jerry Leyva
Thank you, Jerry. I was a bit self-conscious about posting it because of the quality. I appreciate giving me the benefit of the doubt. It was actually 1 of 3 lenses I had on the camera. The 28mm and the 75mm were sharp, but the 50mm was soft.
I didn't go here but know people who did. A time before cell phones, students respected their teachers parents, and the demographics were different.
I graduated back in 89. It was really bad in school. Wished my parents would have moved to South Gate. Grew up on El Segundo Blvd. and Santa Fe Ave.
@@fidelgarciaarriaga7215 that gang era was something huh 😂😂😂
Just like my high school days in the 1970s, I need a time machine. Loved the race at the end 🤣🤣
Great footage! I recognized lots of people!
Hey, Dan - I know YOU. Thanks for watching! Great memories.
1970 WW2 ended just 25 years earlier and ww2 vets were still fairly young men, we had great music still being produced, we had cool American cars still on our roads and America was still sane. Today America is a sh!thole.
Class 98, the best.
+Julio Reynoso Aguilera
Ah, a youngster! So you were at the new high school. My house was 1 house from the new high school.
Wow 😢 What a dynasty. Glad to of been a part
Class of 2017 here.
[ Kɪʀɪᴛᴏ ] how’s the school? I’m thinking of going there for a fresh start
@@acidmetal7750 i go there to its nice
Dark clan what are the dress code rules lol? So I don’t get dress coded
@@acidmetal7750 there is a dress code
@@acidmetal7750 thats what i now
That was when the high school was on Bullis rd. Now it’s Lynwood Middle. I’m class of 2008.
Wow, lots of memories, class of 92.
That was great, it looks like you spent a lot time time filming. What type of camera did you use? I have VHS tape of the Graduation ceremony for the class of 1983. I will try to upload it to CZcams. I graduated with the Class of 1978. I also attended Mark Twain Elementary and Hosler Jr. High.
Ha! Thanks for the kind words. I know both Mark Twain and Hosler very well. (I went to Hosler also; we would run to the cannon in the park and back again during P.E. - not fun -- and I had a friend who went to Mark Twain). I shot the film on Kodak 16mm Kodachrome stock (ASA 25 - so the interiors were a bit tricky) - this was well before VHS home video. The camera was a Bell and Howell "Filmo" camera. It had a turret with 3 lenses: 75mm/50mm/25mm. By the way, the City of Lynwood eventually removed the cannon in the park because it was deemed "offensive" - representing war. Give me a break, That's also why, when you take the Safari Jungle Cruise at Disneyland, they are no longer allowed to shoot blanks at the hippos in the water. "What a world!" as the Wicked Witch of the West said.
These were back in the days when kids were kids and you could go to school without worrying about getting shot.
I lived in St. Louis, and was the class of '75. You are so right. We were blessed to be living in this wonderful time.
Did you lived in Lynwood in 1970 ?
@@JuanLopez-do6tf nope
@matrox why are you watching a video of a city your not familiar ?
@@JuanLopez-do6tf Why? Is this some new DemocRAT sanctuary city law? And who says I am not familiar with it?
I came to this school from 1999 to 2003 best years for me
I went here my jr high . In 2002its crazy to see this video. I dont know why I got soo sad...
Hugo, I get sad looking back on those days sometimes, also - I miss them. I get happy about those days, as well. A lifetime ago...things were so different...not a care in the world. Wouldn't change them for anything! The beginning of my career in film.
I was there!
nice
I hope you ended up doing something in film! You were very creative.
Thank you! 30 years in advertising.
Class of 89. Go Lynwood Knights!!!
Looking for Cynthia Crowley Class of 1969
Mike Collins 12:04 on the sousaphone
+Marcella Collins
That's great! So glad you could recognize him with the quality of the film!
The highlight is clearly at 21:15 between me and Dennis Begley.
+ronzoni10001
Hey, Ron. Great to hear from you. I remember our days as partners on the debate team! I wasn't sure that the powers-that-be were going to let me leave that shot in. (Or shooting Mr. Cosman.)
Who is this? I remember you, of course, but I've forgotten your name. How did you get this? from Scott Campbell? Yeah, that scene with Cosman plays a lot different now than it did in 1970
Class of 2018 babe.
Carry on the legacy!!
lynwood high had a swimming pool?? didn't exist when I went there back when it was a middle school. they recently turned it back into a high school
You are correct...the old high school never had a pool. Those shots were at "away" meets.
Class of 76 LVP.
Class of 2012 GO KNIGHTS !!!
Lynwood class of 1989
U old
Me too class of 89!
What state is this in?
California....the suburbs of Los Angeles - just to the south.
Class of 69, the tasty number. Not good times, next stop Vietnam. I survived it and the war on poverty. Though we lost both. Yeah we had a blast,sano.
THE LOTTERY! I was #209.
Can someone shed some light on what happened to the All American City? Was it the 105 Frwy, the Watts Riots..both? By the way, great video!
Combination of it all, I was a young kid in the 80s in Lynwood and by the early 90s I remember seeing all the white neighbors moving out one by one... was a beautiful and clean city and now it's overpopulated and unrecognizable at times... I miss Taco Quickie lol
Class of 1997
I don't get this. I went to high school class of 1970s (admittedly, on the East Coast) and the big thing was student protests--indeed, we shut the school down after Cambodia and Kent State. I see very little of that here.
West coast is a different vibe.
High school was a difficult time for me I was foot shorter than the girls 40 lb overweight with crooked yellow teeth and a bad case of gas the ugliest girl in school would not give me the time of day so predictably I played with myself a lot and over time went blind
when it was white
Before WHITE FLIGHT .....
Alot more white ppl back the. Now it's all black and Mexicans and the school is worst then ever and I'm Mexican cx
I have no complaints. Producing advertising was my career. Although retired now, I worked for McCann-Erickson as Head of Production; they were the largest international ad agency and featured heavily in the TV series: MAD MEN. Some of the advertising I did was for the Spanish market (about 10% of what I produced): IKEA, Wells Fargo, Disneyland. We did a Coca-Cola commercial with Cantinflas...what a wonderful man. So I am happy for the Hispanic heritage and the Hispanic market (I learned the difference between Mexican, Hispanic, Latin and Spanish). Although I spent 2 years learning Spanish at Lynwood High (Mrs. Boudreau was the teacher), I didn't retain much of it, but whenever I did a Spanish commercial, everyone was nice enough to only speak English (until we shouted "roll camera...action!").
Cyclone Productions that’s so cool, I love watching these, Although it feels weird knowing I’m gonna watch my own one of these in like 30 years lol. I haven’t even graduated yet I’m class of 2024!
@@kimberlychavez176 Good luck to you, Kimberly. I'm an old, old man now, but I have to tell you: First, thank you for your nice comment. Secondly, Please study and get good grades (this isn't bull...., it's absolutely true)...and please go to college - but NOT an expensive one - a good education doesn't need to put you into debt! This will allow you to do the things you want to do in life. btw - my wife and I have 2 wonderful sons who are now also grown up themselves; but if we were going to have a girl (way back then), we agreed her name would be "Kimberly"..."Kim" is a cool nickname! Have fun in life!
Scott Campbell 100% I love school! I wanna be a mechanical engineer!
@@kimberlychavez176 EXCELLENT! Just like my 2 sons, who also went into Engineering. But be sure to also remember the "have fun" part!
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