Start with the local library where the school is located, and go out from there to the next biggest libraries in the county and/or state. Many accept donations of school yearbooks for local history collections. If the school is still around, you can try them, too, of course, or the school district.
I only ever had one. Not only do I still have it, I was looking at it a few months ago and showing it to a cousin whose grandfather was a teacher there. There was a kind of famous African-American in my class who came to look more and more like me as we both aged and this had been noted by several people. We didn’t look anything alike in HS.
I still have my yearbooks from each year of high school, plus the one that my middle school sold. They serve the same purpose as my old college textbooks: they hold up dust. I never look at them and probably never will, but there is no pressing reason to get rid of them either.
I’m about 95% certain I have my senior yearbook packed away somewhere. It at one time had a little bit of sentimental value from all the stuff scribbled in it by classmates. But other than one of my step-brothers and a sister-in-law, I am literally in contact with no one from my HS class anymore and haven’t been for decades. Not even on social media. So that little bit of sentiment has declined into the infinitesimal :).
I may also have one other from my sophmore year( the only other one I remember shelling out cash for, partly because it had non-picture day picture of me and a little more relevantly at the time, a picture of a HS crush that moved away that year ), but I haven’t seen that one in forever, so maybe not.
Regardless I probably haven’t cracked any of them in more than 20 years.
Never got any. There was nothing going on in high school that I wanted to remember. It’s been 44 years. Spirit of 76!!
Yup, class of 65, still have them all. So far 33 out of 165 have bit the dust that we know of. A dozen or so have moved with no trace left behind.
Class of 75 and I threw them out 15 years ago. I’d rather have pie anyway.
No, none. They were actually stolen just a few years after high school by this weirdo my then-roommate and I let crash on our couch for a while. At least, I’m pretty sure it was him, because after he left is when I discovered them missing. The guy didn’t even go to my high school, but he was a con-artist, bullshitter type, so who knows what he planned to do with them. I hated high school anyway, so I was not put out too much.
I still have not only my high school but my middle school yearbooks. I was the Asst. Editor in 7th grade, Editor in 8th and then on the yearbook staff for a couple of years in high school, so some of them are not just yearbooks, they’re my yearbooks.
And sometimes it’s fun/comforting/sad/curious to look through them and remember what once was.
I think we had the same couch surfer. Kept stealing from me, I understand the money. I couldn’t understand the clothes as they were way too big for me. Really couldn’t all the minor bath stuff. Kicked him out for good and then got played as a sucker one last time as he said he was nearby doing a clopen (close one night, open the next morning) I had less than a dollar in change, and he only had a small backpack so he wasn’t getting any clothes. Fucker stole my passport!!! Thank God I noticed it a week before an overseas trip but cost me a fortune, a huge hassle and made no friends at work having to take time off.
Never had mine, although I would like to find my Freshman & Senior years. Those schools do have yearbooks at classmates.com but not the right years so far.
I have two: my freshman year (which I found in a bookstore!) and my senior one, from 1993. I almost never open them but they have been useful. When I applied for a passport the State Department said my initial evidence wasn’t good enough to establish identity. One thing they suggested, and which I sent in, was photocopies of my high school yearbook.
I still have my yearbooks; I have no clue why. I am in touch with only two or three people from those days and one of them actually went to school with my little brother, not me. I much prefer pie, but I did select that I had all the yearbooks.
I have all mine, including junior high. I also have a couple of my dad’s. I was looking at them shortly after he died, and it was so weird to think of my dad as a teenager doing teenage things. There was even a long, sweet note from his then-girlfriend in it.
I possess the middle of three junior high yearbooks but none from nearly three years of senior high and a semester of adult high. I wasn’t at any of my six high schools long enough for a yearbook because family disruptions, and the adult high didn’t bother. Nice features of adult high: everyone is there voluntarily, eagerly; and cliques are irrelevant.
Never had any. I had part time jobs in high school. My mum said if I wanted a year book I could pay for it myself. I had more, err, frivolous yet exciting ways of blowing my money in high school.
Besides the high school ones, I also have some from elementary school. It’s pretty fun to open up your first grade yearbook and realize you still remember all those kids’ names.
I do. One day I’ll get around to burning them. The kid that bought them, and to whom the messages are addressed, he’s an asshole. I have no desire to even acknowledge that period of my life.
Never had one.
But my wife went to the same high school and she has at least our senior year yearbook. We just recently brought it back from her mother’s house. It’s in our house… somewhere. I didn’t really care for most of those fucking people anyways.
I only bought my high school yearbook as a senior, so I have the only one I ever had. I should probably toss it though. I’ve never looked at it. When Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court, his yearbook became a focus of attention. I wondered what mine said about me. Turns out, there’s a scan of it online so I didn’t even have to crack the spine of my yearbook to take a quick peek.