Gardena High School Class of 1976 Salutes Peary Jr. High & GHS Teachers of 1971-1976 Luncheon

In 2009, the Gardena High School Class of 76 held a luncheon to salute teachers (1971-1976) from Gardena, California's Peary Jr. High and Gardena High School. Although I couldn't attend the event, I put together a movie slide show from stills I obtained from Mary Ann Takemoto (GHS 76) to honor some of the faculty. Check it out, perhaps you may be in some of the stills. Too bad I didn't have any film from the 70's that would have been great. Oh well, the musical soundtrack is good.


I spent a few hours putting it together, researching music, audio news events of those years and shot some stills of the campus. I have been working in tv news for over 24 years so it was easy for me to produce, actually I began an interest in journalism at Peary Jr High, so that's where my roots lie. I also want to thank Gardena (Mr. Ford) for influencing me to get into journalism after high school as well...Today as a result I wouldn't have my 2 emmys and a bunch of other worthless awards, lol. But they are meaningless now, because who cares? Enough of me, I'm old now and I don't give a sh*t about stuff like that or other materialistic things in life. Go drive your Mercedes Benz off a cliff.


The real winners of this video are the teachers who taught us at Peary Jr. High and Gardena High School during 1971 through 1976. They varied---some were hard asses and some were liberal, but in all they were great teachers.


Back then the halls of GHS was a stale beige and brown, now they are a horrid green.
The mascot was a Mohican, now because of the weak minded LAUSD, they had to PC all the mascots and GHS has changed from an Indian to a Panther.. Who knows, maybe Peta will make the LAUSD change the Panther (an endangered specie) to an inanimate object. Welcome the GHS Step Stools in 2022.


Maybe it was good to be young then, although there wasn't the internet and better medical technology, people sure seemed to be smarter & tv shows weren't as stupid as they are today.The pop music was a lot better, that I can say without a doubt.

To the teachers--- I salute you and God Bless.

To my fellow classmates---Enjoy this video and remember the past was great, but always look forward to the future...well maybe not too far ahead, your future may be at a gravesite. LOL

Bring back the bell bottoms, Afros and the sheen, I'm a sex machine, you know, Right on man! DY-no-mite, Sho 'Nuff Be cool and remember to cover your tool, fool.

Take care everyone! ---ernie muraoka

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Those were some of "THE BEST" days of our lives!!!!

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