BC67 Beyond Academics

Guptill skating cartoon
Thacher Park Indian Ladder Trail photo
Indian Ladder Trail, Thacher Park

Count how many of these activities from our High School  years you can claim

  • Was in Honor Society
  • Made the honor roll
  • Was in DECA, Key Club, or any other school cub
  • Was in a fraternity or sorority 
  • Had a slide rule
  • Perfect attendance
  • Got detention
  • Skipped school
  • Played a varsity sport (including Cheerleading)
  • Played an instrument in band or orchestra
  • Had a transistor radio
  • Sang in choir or other school singing groups
  • Marched in the Delmar Memorial Day Parade
  • Name appeared in the Spotlight
  • Played pool or danced at the PIT
  • Skated at Guptill’s Roller Rink
  • Skied at Brodie
  • Sledded or Tobogganed at Normanskill Country Club
  • Ate Ice cream at Tollgate
  • Went to the last day of the season all-you-can eat ice cream at Tastee-Freeze
  • Bowled at Sporthaven
  • Drank a cherry coke at Clyde’s (4 corner Luncheonette)
  • Had a slice of Andriano’s Pizza (4 corners)
  • Hiked the Indian Ladder Trail in Thatcher Park
  • Swam in the ice-cold Thatcher Park pool
  • Watched a movie at the Delmar Movie Theater (Delmar Dump)
  • Went to the Altamont Fair
  • Watched a movie at the Jericho Drive-in
  • Listened to Boom Boom Brannigan
  • Danced to the Madras
  • Wore Madras
  • Wore Penny Loafers
  • Wore Converse
  • Wore Desert Boots
  • Played a Juke Box
  • Used a telephone booth
  • Took Driver Ed
  • Rode in a VW bug
  • Hitchhiked
  • Drank alcohol before 18 (drinking age 18 in ‘67)
  • Had fake ID
  • Had a beer at The Glen
  • Early morning breakfast at Miss Glenmont Diner
  • Visited the Delmar Game Farm (Five Rivers)
  • Attended Bethlehem School District from kindergarten to High School graduation
  • Hung out at the Bethlehem library
  • Visited the old Albany Museum
  • Performed or was part of Lil Abner
  • Watched Disney on Sunday night
  • Rocked at the Swiss Inn
  • Rode a CDTA bus to Albany
  • Shopped at Whitney’s and Myer’s in downtown Albany
  • Saw “The Graduate” movie
  • Still have your school ring

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5 Comments

  1. Awesome list, Swaz!
    “cherry Coke, NO ICE!!”

  2. Guptill’s is still there. Went to bars to hear bands as part of my music/drumming education. Played up at Thompson’s Lake with Little Morgan And The Pirates plus many other places. Made go karts with outings like the Game Farm and mini bikes and had a night trip to the Jericho Drive-in and watched part of Lawerence of Arabia. Did watercolors out on location.

  3. Carole Clarke doody

    Thanks for the memories and fun cartoon, Swaz! 42. I guess if life had stopped after 1967, it would still have been full-flavored!

  4. Awesome list! Thanks!
    Beth Kiley Kinder