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MAY 2018 MONTCLAIR MAGAZINE
Fifty years after this photo was taken at the Montclair High School
prom, it’s worth considering how much popular culture of the
time has endured. According to the Montclair (MHS) Class of
1968 Alumni List webpage, the hit songs at the time were Cream’s
“White Room,” “I’ve Got to Get a Message to You” by the Bee Gees
and the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna.” The big movies were Funny Girl,
Rosemary’s Baby and 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Andy Griffith
Show was must-see TV. The era may seem like a kinder, gentler
time, until we remember that 1968 was also the year of the Martin
Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations, the Tet Offensive
and violent anti-war clashes in Chicago. What happened to the
high school students dancing in this photo, we wonder?
If you know, please pass it along at montclair@northjersey.com.
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