Same here. Old videos like this is the closest thing we have to a time machine. I was probably 1 year old at the time. The people in this video have around 35 / 40yo today. It's crazy how times fly. Life is too short.
victoriasecrxts I just stumbled on these videos! What a great time to grow up I miss it everyday I graduated in 1985 going on 52 years old....I want to go back....
Googled this Sam Rutherford guy out of curiosity. Apparently he passed away in 1995 from some sort of heart condition. Saddening, as it seems that he was a well liked guy. Bummer.
I just read the same article. If you look at the date you will notice it says Jan 23. Schools in CA get out in June so that means he died just 7 months after making this video. So sad.
percussion jamz what are you talking about? I know its true. Its just an expression. Like. "no way" or "get out of here". I thought it was cool. I didn't expect it.
Same here. Old videos like this is the closest thing we have to a time machine. I was probably 1 year old at the time. The people in this video have around 35 / 40yo today. "The best years of your life are over." It's crazy how times fly. Life is too short.
Yeah, I really don't get all these downers always saying that we must be so miserable in our 30s and 40s? I think these posters might be depressed or something. I'm as happy, energetic and in good physical condition right now at close to 39 as I was back at 19. *TAKE CARE* of yourself, mind and body, and you'll not have to worry about older age when it hits you! :) Live life NOW, no matter your age, 8 or 80, and do *NOT* focus on the past or future, since they do not exist. Only NOW exists and that *is* a fact. o/ :)
"Look how good she is on camera, a natural actress." If you only knew Sam, if you only knew. You would have been proud of her, just 5 years later she was the lead role on Roswell.
+African Warlord Yeah but people weren't on them constantly back then. People definitely were a lot more social back then. I spent a few years as a kid in an apartment complex and there was about 15-20 kids constantly out playing games outside all day whilst the parents and other tenants sat on the outdoor steps talking, laughing etc. Everyone knew everyone. I recently went back to visit as an adult and the lady who has lived there for 33 years said that the children now barely play outside and the adults no longer sit out on the steps. She said it started changing around 2010. She barely knows anyone in the complex now. So yes people used to be more social and welcoming. I'd give more examples but you get the point. People especially the younger generation are not as social as they used to be.
Harley Quinn Exactly. As a kid growing up in this decade and late 80's i can testify to this. People were more social then today's kids. And kids seemed to care about each other more back then as well. Also kids had more of a bigger imagination.
ERIKA: "I am so glad we're out of here, that's all I have to say. But I'm really glad we're out of here. And you can look us up in 20 years, I'm not sad." I wonder if she still feels the same way now.
Never knew Sam, of course, I did not enter CHS until 1996 and I graduated in 2000. But it sounds like he was well-liked by his classmates. Seeing teachers who we shared (such as Mister G), and seeing underclassmen of his who were upperclassmen of mine, brings me back to that campus. I have some very wonderful memories of that place, just as I am sure everyone who was there has very wonderful memories of Sam Rutherford.
So nice to see everyone are friends with everyone, I remember Brandon's interview he mention that when Incubus were starting they have to sell tickets to their friends and that was never a problem coz a lot were supportive and bought tickets and watch them. So cool!! 90s the best!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
This is such a trip to watch. I didn't go to this school at all....and was younger. I graduated high school in 2001....but much of the "aesthetic vibe" of this video resonates. I remember when kids looked like this, acted like this, etc. I don't want to get all Andy Rooney....because the internet and social media and smart phones DO have positive things about them.....BUT.....overall, I think they've absolutely had a lasting and almost entirely negative impact on social interaction and the psychological well being that comes with that. I feel kinda lucky tbh....after highschool I worked for a bit, and then started my freshman year of college in 2004. And THAT year....was the year we got facebook, back when it was a college only thing. And through it, I literally met every single one of the friends, and two girlfriends, that would dominate my entire social life for the next decade. I started on social media like THE year it came out....and so I got all the positives and none of the downsides. Kids today? Nowhere near as lucky. Social media is something else entirely now....and it has decimated kids' chance for a healthy social life. Sucks.... Man, why am I even ranting about all this lol?
I think about this every time I watch videos from the 90's and before. Life used to be so much more spontaneous and for some reason the world felt like a much bigger place.
Impala 412 I don't think I'm in the video but I was definitely there that day. We didn't all have video cameras in our pockets in those days, or a way to share videos online with each other. So it is very special to see a video like this and hear the voice of someone you knew well and who has been gone for 20 years.
Alyson Brewer how odd things are. I wasn't even born yet (1995) and that's not even my country, they don't speak my language, that way of life during teenage years is nothing like mine was. But I can't help to feel this huge sentiment of nostalgia. WTF! I don't even want to know how I would feel 20 years from now.
This is incredible. Fills me with nostalgia thinking about my own last day of high school and how nervous yet excited I was to be starting a new chapter in life.. gahh the feels
In the 90's, I had sex with a famous movie star actress while I was in Calumet CIty, IL. Juliette. Let's say that she was the one who played in Cape Fear. Okay. How that happened. I went to a famous club, and she was in there. She walked up to me and at first she said, "Jesus." Like that. I laughed, and I replied, "close. My name is actually Tim." She started hanging on me and she even told me that she was an actress. That is before I seen that movie. I said, "yeah yeah, well, I'm not Jesus I'm Tim." She looked at me and smile and she said, "yes you are and I traveled a long way to meet you." I said, "uh okay." We got a room. She stipulated that I wear a condom. Okay. I did ANYTHING the girl I was with told me to do, and I do mean ANYTHING! Literally! She took off her clothes. I took of mine. She said, "What? Those damn liars! You're a friggin' horse!" I thought that was strange. We had sex all night. She bought me breakfast, and before she left, she gave me a flower. A rose. I looked outside, and she got into a very nice Limousine. It DID happen!
For a while, I was the lead guitar player in a band called CROSS ROADS, and every time we started to play, this mysterious Latino girl, very pretty, would walk up to me and hand me a rose! Very very true. Get it? CROSS roads. All of my life weird stuff happened. When I was a teenager, I had a friend who was very strongly into spiritualism and fortunate telling. Her entire family and all of the generations before them were very real fortune tellers, and also very rich. In 1975, I went to her house. We sat down at the table and we were talking. I looked at her, grinned, and I said, "Hey will you tell my fortunate?" She laughed and she said, "Tim, I thought you said you didn't believe in that stuff." I replied, "I don't, but flatter me anyway." She pulled out a special type of Tarot Cards that was designed by her parents. She pulled up a chair at the table and was sitting directly across from me. She started turning the cards over, and her face turned paled WHITE! I looked at her and I said, "Sharon? What's wrong?" She quickly replied, "You're HIM! It can't be possible. You're HIM!" I replied, "Him? Him who? Him Who?" Like that. She said, "You're Jesus!" Look. It showed a picture of a guy that looked just exactly like me who was sitting on a white horse while holding up a sword. She fell to her knees and was crying. "You're him! You're him! You're him!" That girl's name is Sharon Kaylor. She grew up to become a famous fortune teller. She passed away when she was in her mid 40's.
I have so many stories in my life, and they're all true too. Recently, I was employed at a place where my boss tried to introduce me to a gay man! Mr. Rawlings. She said, "you'll like him!" Like that! I said, "look. I'm not gay! Why are you harassing me?" I was fired from the job for no reason. Well, there was a reason. Prior to that incident, a weird lady who calls herself Ms. Jones but I think has an Adam's apple approached me, and she said Mr. Halcomb. I want to show you something. She walked over to the bathroom and pointed inside. She said, "go in there and you'll see." I went in there and the commode was full of crap! I can sense evil from that person. I've heard that before! That I caused the curse, but it's not true. I'm not saying that I am Jesus, although a lot of crazy things have happened, but I did go into a coma in 2019. One of the things I seen was what happened with the curse. I was actually yelling, "NO NO NO DON'T DO IT!" Like that. I could hear a very strong voice and he was administering the curse of aging. It's all true! I know it! I am different. I don't think I'm Jesus, but I am definitely linked to this stuff. I know it now! Can you help me?
Oh that's something else that happened when I was in a coma. I heard a voice that told me that the reason Satanists are trying to get me to become gay is because they want to capture me, hold me, and say, "Oh God! Behold! Your Son the abomination!" I was warned! But, it won't happen. If I am murdered without doing it, I win! If I am forced, I still win. The only way I can lose is if I decide to do it on my own recognizance, and that is NOT going to happen. Again, they are trying to use economic pressuring to get me to do it, but if I don't, and I pass from the world, they will burn in Hell. Literally. I seen that too!
I was only three when this was made. Crazy it's been 25 years since this has been filmed. I wish I grew up during the 80s or 90s. It seems fun. Too bad we're all addicted to our phones and social media now.
I was just watching last day of school videos from 1991-1993 and for the most part it still looks like the late 80's. What a difference another year makes. All the 80's hairstyles are gone. The shift in youth culture and style definitely took place between 1993 and 94 everyone went and got makeovers, stopped their hairspray routine and set their hair differently, and changed their wardrobe / image.
This video is Making me feel old, I am 43 I was originally supposed to graduate in 1994, but had the pleasure of graduating in 1995. Its amazing how time fly's by. I went to high school in Northern California PLEASANT VALLEY ( CHICO)
i'm pretty sure what he means is that people talked back then, were happier back then, and my guess is that technology broke our lives. it has broken my life, i can't get off the computer anymore :(
It's amazing how back then (I was born 84, graduated 03) we never wanted the camera on, so embarrassed and told them to "shut it off!" And now we are begging to watch memories from then. Thanks for keeping the recording going and getting these moments! My mom was the same way, we have dozens of tapes from the 90s, just don't know how to get them on RU-vid lol great vid! 💕💕
CHS class of '93 here. Thank you for posting. Awesome to see your last day a year after my last day. I'm the guy that did the illegal graffiti mural on the H building when you were a freshman or sophomore.
I was disappointed not seeing Brandon as the title suggested, only Dirk and Jose. But this was a cool video. "Mr. T" at 9:39 is freaking awesome! Would have loved to have a teacher like that.
"the best years of your life are over" I don't think anyone ever knows how true that statement is at the time. I remember being desperate to leave high school, even though I had everything that someone could want.
I don't know how far you are out of high school or what your high school experience was. I'm not sure I agree. Life can be much more purposeful/fulfilling when you have an established career, family, and ultimate direction.
As a kid of the 90s, I love watching videos like this. People were so much cooler back then. I graduated in 2002 and if you tried to make this video at my HS all you would have is footage of a bunch of pretentious douchebags. Maybe that's an Orange County thing. I always thought the LA kids to the north were probably cooler than us lol. Glad to see we still have a piece of nostalgia to look back on.
Lol kids were cooler in my high school as well back in the early 2000's and I lived in florida. I think everyone was more relaxed and didn't get offended as much as people do now.
It's really interesting to see this footage. Calabasas High has definitely changed over the years...for the worse. The principal is now a brute, and the sports are still god awful. However, the kids are, for the most part, nice and exciting to be around. Calabasas, although I only attended for a semester of my freshman year, will never be forgotten, both all the bad and all the good.
Whitexican16 I’m not a kid and it seemed to me you were I grew up in this time as well. So to answer your question yes you are correct but today’s tech has made people lazy. You can’t deny that
Ha, funny this popped up in my feed today. I went to Monterey HS, about 4 hours up the CA coast from here. Really the same kind of vibe. Everybody was just friendly and cheerful. My wife and I just visited my hometown today and I drove her up to my HS even though it’s closed. She was like,”this was your school????! WTF?!” Almost the entire school has a view of the entire Monterey Bay surrounded by trees. Beautiful field and stadium. Just a great place to be raised and go to school.
I am a class of 1994 Man, we/I had no idea what we were about to embark on. No amount of talk from your parents or peers can make realize the importance of those days. We only found out in the days to come. To the teenagers of today I wanna say embrace every minute of it, you’re going to miss it one day, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do today to be back there tomorrow.
Jesse Rochon well a lot of things. Let alone that most of us grew up through a recession and the boom of blogging and smartphones. Let alone that we have shit ton of student loans. That really is hard to be happy and progressive.
I love how so many of these kids are ..so modest & humble - hiding their faces and saying get out of it Sam cos they are camera shy. Teenagers these days revel in competing for attention & spotlight when the camera is on them... so self absorbed. Hate to think what the seniors of 2030 will be like.
This was the school year where we lost River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain within a matter of months. Did those events affect you guys? Did it solidify an end of your youth?
Mary Hughes It was a time of unity and feeling the urgent need to live our lives to the fullest. Oh how we had no idea what tragic events would change everything. How the violence would ruin it all. Just before social media came and took bullying and exploitation to a whole new level. How I miss those days before the shootings, and bombings, terrorism, and the awful internet.
I was in HS at this time. It really didn’t mean much to the average student. I’m sure some were shook up, but it’s not like today where media is so connected in our everyday lives. I didn’t even know who River Phoenix was until they announced his death on the news. And I went to a diverse school where hip hop ruled the scene. Kurt Cobain was not much news to us. But when Selena died, holy shit some people lost their minds. People stared dressing like her.
Internet memes tik tok people doing stupid crap for views, all of it has turned kids into complete morons. An outspoken teenager is very rare nowadays.
The reason why you're saying that is because you couldn't see their sadness on social media. Do you seriously think kids weren't depressed in the 90's?
@Nicholas Adam hmmm...I mean, Incubus created Make Yourself for a reason. I believe that album is filled with messages about how to improve yourself and be happy even if the world seems rotten. So, be fresh no matter what.
its kinda crazy how much more mature high schoolers came off, tik tok and internet memes have turned us into morons. Being well spoken is very rare today for younger teens
High school back then must've been pretty rad but going to highschool in the 2010's sucked because they give every school a budget for damn security cameras
