San Diego’s Clairemont High School class of 1979, the students immortalized by writer Cameron Crowe in his book (and movie) Fast Times At Ridgemont High, had its 30 year reunion this weekend and San Diego Union-Tribune writer Helen Gao says the class didn’t turn out all that bad.
At its 30-year-reunion celebrations this weekend, the crowd is filled with firefighters, teachers,professors, businessmen, engineers, mechanics and many others who are gainfully employed and contributing to society. . . “I am actually depressed no one is smoking a joint right now,” quipped Mike Ghareeb of Ramona as he surveyed a roomful of his former classmates at the Skybox bar in Clairemont, where they also gathered Friday night.
It’s nice to know that the kids responsible for the world’s most iconic surf archtype are alright. Original copies of Crowe’s book are now selling for upwards of $100 and yet we still rarely feel tardy.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
Oh they smoked weed, just at their age they didn’t have naps planned in the evening. Speaking from experience I guess………
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