Lunch for 65 cents? 1979 Throwback shows food options at Kearny High School cafeteria in San Diego 

High schoolers in the 70’s look like grown adults. Our High schoolers today look like they’re 9 lmfao

I graduated in 1979 and they cooked real food. The chocolate milkshakes were great and $1.00 which was a lot back then.

I miss the 70s and I was born in 01 😂

Lunch lady was straight out of three's company 😂

We had great food when I was in school back in the 70's. Not a frozen crap like it seems it is today. If I remember correctly it was $7.50 for a 20 meal punch card. They had some of the best chili.

That’s when I was in Junior High. That sounds about right. From K-6 my lunch was .45, then in Jr. High it went from .55 to .65, then it high school I think we were paying .75 to a dollar. We had more flexibility in what we could buy, but then we went off campus for lunch and payed three times as much for McDonald’s. 😏

65 cents?? Can’t even get a slice of cheese for 65 cents today!!

Graduated the year before from El Camino H.S. about 30 minutes north of Kearny HS in San Diego county. Their lunch meals looked way better than our hot and cold packs. A few students went off campus during lunch to get high!

Lunch lady banging on these kids like a real G

1979 was a great time to be a teen.

Children are so sweet❤

We couldn’t afford school lunch. Bologna sandwich and well, another bologna sandwich if I thought one wouldn’t do it!

Class of 2002, Miss high school

High school cafeteria hamburgers had its own distinct smell.

They look in their 30’s. With 3 children and a mortgage.

Such a better time! This was before rap music and every young boy acting like they were from the hood , boys were boys and girls were girls, you could play smear the queer - did not need security at school, your neighbors didn’t call the police on you, when guys had disputes they fought with their fists - guns never even entered our thoughts, the ultimate authority was our parents and we had to turn in assignments written in cursive or they were not accepted and when you wanted to call home during the day you had to pretend to be sick and use phone in the nurses office or use the pay phone at lunch, if you forgot something at home then you forgot it - no one was bringing it to you, when you got home from school, you let yourself in the house and made something to eat like all your friends- the news on tv was real news and fact checked- news reporters were respectable ( exept the Enquirer at the grocery store), you bought a tv guide every week so you knew what was on tv, if you wanted to talk to a friend you called them on the telephone and asked their parents if they were home and their parents would yell to them you were on the phone, birthday parties as a child were cake, ice cream, pin the tail on the donkey- they didn’t look like todays Pinterest boards spending thousands on your 5 year old to play with their friends, girls didn’t dress like hookers and boys didn’t dress like rappers, the good ol days!

That one girl that spoke right before Josie Hayes looked like she thought she was the total shit. 😁

1979 was when they cut school lunches at my elementary in Encinitas, CA

I live in San Diego kerny was a ghetto school it's where you got sent when you got expelled Madison High 😮

I had reduced lunch program for 40c cost in early 80s.