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In reply to the discussion: The year is 1976. Do you think these people would be your friends? [View all]ms liberty
(11,238 posts)51. Back row, 2nd guy from the left looks just like a guy I dated in 1979
Except he just had the fu manchu, not the full beard.
Yea, that looks like my peeps, but where's all the reefer?
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The year is 1976. Do you think these people would be your friends? [View all]
True Dough
Dec 2025
OP
Nope. No doobies in evidence. Though there is one guy that seems on the nod.
marble falls
Dec 2025
#2
Happy and laid back. Any doing "recreational" drugs were far more likely to be using far less deadly and potent
hlthe2b
Dec 2025
#4
I agree with you , sinkingfeeling . Most all college students looked like that in 1976.
debm55
Dec 2025
#14
All of us "nonconformists" looked the same in those days. Been there, done that, I guess. Two of the people...
NNadir
Dec 2025
#16
I don't know your age, TrueDough. I was in college in 1976 and all of my friends and nonfriends looked like that . Me
debm55
Dec 2025
#19
Just needed to know your age as this photo would be very much standard during that time. That's all.
debm55
Dec 2025
#22
Probably, but I'm spooked by the guy in the upper portion on the left who looks like a young Matt Gaetz.
Totally Tunsie
Dec 2025
#26
Definitely yes. We were so naive but we were not cruel like folks are today. Young
Ziggysmom
Dec 2025
#30