Time Machine 1970s -- Sheet 49, February 1971
South High School, Torrance

Who: Victor Lin, Jim Elliot, Steve Halpern, Kurt Ankerberg, Danine Cummings, soccer team
What: School dance, streaking car lights, team portraits, prank
Where: South High School, Torrance, CA
When: February 1971

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Names from the yearbook: Pete Adamson, Mark Fehlman, Jim Allen, Allan Garner, Kurt Ankerberg, Tim Jicha, Andrew Casey, Matt Klasila, Wyatt Casey, Brian McLaughlin, Steve Donnell, Carlos Ortigoza, John Ehman, Fred Parker, Kenton Parker, Doug Sakaki, Mike Shuler, Russ Tercero, Ken Wright, Coach Bryant, Manager Scott Freeman; not pictured: Gary Chan and Jim Stiles. From the pictures, it look like they had 20 nice jackets, but they actually had only two between them all. They had to keep changing the jackets quickly for the photo sequence.


soccer team with shirts, ties, shorts

Shorts Prank

Is there something funny about a bunch of guys wearing shirts, ties, and athletic shorts? I thought so, but this photo didn't make it into the yearbook.

Kurt was my lab partner in chemistry and was on the soccer team. For some reason, he was not wearing his jock strap that day. And for some other reason, word of this got around to some pranksters on the team. They waited until Danine, who was organizing the photo session, came around. They snuck up behind poor old Kurt, and quick as a wink, pulled his shorts down to his ankles!

Danine whirled around away from them, and Kurt quickly pulled up his shorts. I didn't catch the prank itself, but I took a picture of Danine a few seconds later. That photo nearly made it into the yearbook. The next shot on the roll shows Kurt stifling an embarrassed laugh.



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