YOUR QUESTION:

07/31/2020 JC

What was Eureka High like in the mid.80s? Was it like every other high school with different cliques and social structures? Were you and Trey and Mike part of the metal denim jacket Judd Nelson Breakfast Club circle or were you guys not in any circles? Did being in a band impress those Eureka girls?

MY ANSWER:

Yes, cliques galore. The punks & metalheads did not hang out together, the jocks and beauty queens walked proudly and the goths and ROTC geeks were banished by everyone. We didn’t subscribe and had skater punk and J.R.R. Tolkien nerds as friends. That said, we ate lunch off campus away from everyone else. So yes, Judd Nelson mostly. Impressing girls, yes, likely, although our general anti-social and misanthropic auras kept them at bay.