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ISO 80's high school, stuff and info

TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254
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I am trying to write a coming of age story of a ninth grader in the mid 80's.   I am looking for a high school that could pass off as a Midwestern school in that period.

Reasons to put it in that time is that the character is about a dozen or so years older than Kulay Wolf and she was officially born in the eighties that would make it so he was found in the seventies which would put him in high school at the eighties.

How can I search for info for my story?

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,248

    http://www.daz3d.com/school-s-out-19787

  • DestinysGardenDestinysGarden Posts: 2,553
    edited November 2016

    Schools haven't changed much over the years. I'm a graduate from a school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, class of 1988. These would certainly do.

    http://www.daz3d.com/school-hallway

    http://www.daz3d.com/interiors-corridors

    http://www.daz3d.com/class-room

    http://www.daz3d.com/science-classroom

    http://www.daz3d.com/parkside-high-lobby

    http://www.daz3d.com/east-park-high-lobby

    http://www.daz3d.com/parkside-high-hallways

    http://www.daz3d.com/east-park-high-hallways

    This one looks like the music room, or the drama room, and the hallway resembles where the guidance counselor's offices were, and the principle and nurse.

    http://www.daz3d.com/big-city-drama

    A very straightforward gym. Ours was much, much larger with different bleachers.

    http://www.daz3d.com/gymnasium

    Our school was built next to the local police station, and rumor was it was built to have been a prison. (There were defiantely jokes about that, let me tell you.) The entire basement level where our cafeteria was looked exactly like this set.

    http://www.daz3d.com/ten-rooms-three-halls-ubiquitous-interior

    Hope that helps.

    Edit: Did you ever see the movie "The Breakfast Club?" It was filmed in a school a few suburbs away. Actually, I think they filmed different parts across 3 locations, but they blended well. Also look at other John Hughes movies from that time period. Sixteen
    Candles, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off were also filmed in the Chicago area at local schools and locations.

     

     

    Post edited by DestinysGarden on
  • ServantServant Posts: 765
    edited November 2016

    I'd recommend this product from Maclean for the interior classrooms, as it has the ambiance and look you're aiming for and comes with a load of furniture and props.

    http://www.daz3d.com/interiors-the-classroom

    If you have the time, you can quickly add appropriate era props (like a picture of Ronald Reagan somewhere) with a little tweaking and texture.

    Post edited by Servant on
  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 8,048

    There's also after school detention,  http://www.daz3d.com/after-school-detention

     

  • DaWaterRatDaWaterRat Posts: 2,885
    DestinysGarden said:

    Schools haven't changed much over the years. I'm a graduate from a school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, class of 1988. These would certainly do.

    http://www.daz3d.com/school-hallway

    http://www.daz3d.com/interiors-corridors

    http://www.daz3d.com/class-room

    http://www.daz3d.com/science-classroom

    http://www.daz3d.com/parkside-high-lobby

    http://www.daz3d.com/east-park-high-lobby

    http://www.daz3d.com/parkside-high-hallways

    http://www.daz3d.com/east-park-high-hallways

    This one looks like the music room, or the drama room, and the hallway resembles where the guidance counselor's offices were, and the principle and nurse.

    http://www.daz3d.com/big-city-drama

    A very straightforward gym. Ours was much, much larger with different bleachers.

    http://www.daz3d.com/gymnasium

    Our school was built next to the local police station, and rumor was it was built to have been a prison. (There were defiantely jokes about that, let me tell you.) The entire basement level where our cafeteria was looked exactly like this set.

    http://www.daz3d.com/ten-rooms-three-halls-ubiquitous-interior

    Hope that helps.

    Edit: Did you ever see the movie "The Breakfast Club?" It was filmed in a school a few suburbs away. Actually, I think they filmed different parts across 3 locations, but they blended well. Also look at other John Hughes movies from that time period. Sixteen
    Candles, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off were also filmed in the Chicago area at local schools and locations.

    Yeah, I'll just second what DestinysGarden said, having graduated a year later from a High School in the Near West suburbs. :)  There are some items over at Renderosity that I use too, mostly by Greenpots.

    Also, if it's in the midwest, there will be sport fields.  We had half our campus devoted to them (Baseball diamond, Football Field, LaCross/Soccer/Field Hocky field, Basketball court in the Field House (along with Track and Field stuff), Tennis Courts, and two pools.  One standard Olympic sized, one specifically for Water Polo. Gym class also took place in any one of several rooms that flanked the field house, giving us 3 floors of gyms)

    http://www.daz3d.com/collective3d-baseball-field will get you started.

    As of yet, I haven't seen any non-freebies that are suitable for a High School American football field, and the freebies are usually only good for the field itself, not the stands.

    Now, our campus was kinda on the huge size, and we had an "old building" (opened in 1907) and a "new building" (an expansion completed sometime in the late 60's) so with a similar structure in your storyline, you can do even more mixing and matching of school rooms and hallways. Everyone wanted a locker in the old building, because they were bigger than the lockers in the new building.  :)  But the classrooms were nicer in the new building.  And that's where the lecture halls were, too.

    http://www.daz3d.com/lecture-hall-with-props - though I understand most High Schools don't have such things...

  • bytescapesbytescapes Posts: 1,905

    Just for information, Notilize's Classroom is currently at 70% off in FastGrab. 

  • pwiecekpwiecek Posts: 1,598

    FYI, the Parkside school locations do not fit together to make a large building. Just treat them as individual locations.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254

    Any new stuff 80's style?  I thought of starting a new topic but remembered this thread.   My story takes place in September 1983.   I would like things that would be from that era.

  • hphoenixhphoenix Posts: 1,335

    For school 80's reference material, I would recommend both "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Paker Lewis Can't Lose"  for clothing styles, fads, tech, etc.  It was quite a bit different than now.

     

  • Mighty MysterioMighty Mysterio Posts: 419

    Unless a community was founded and built in, say, 1980, it's likely that the community's schools/libraries/other public buildings were built decades earlier. In the US, for instance, suburbs sprung up after WWII, so much of the look of suburbia reflects the styles of the late-1940s-1950s. Maybe the paint schemes of the classrooms were updated a bit to reflect early 80s-obession with pastels? Doing this in your artwork would help to set a certain period feel. Maybe having a portrait of Ronald Reagan up on the wall would also help to give period dating.

    Also, remember that by the mid 1980s, VCRs were being used in the classrooms. If you went to a public school similar to mine, the VCR and TV would be bolted to a cart and wheeled into the room when needed. Having one of those in the corner of a classroom would be very realistic. Chalkboards (as opposed to whiteboards or smartboards) are what we had back then too..

     

     

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970
    edited August 2017
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Any new stuff 80's style?  I thought of starting a new topic but remembered this thread.   My story takes place in September 1983.   I would like things that would be from that era.

    I don't know if this will help, but I've made an 80's style workout outfit for G8F that I'll be releasing as a freebie soon:

    I just need to find out how to package it for sharing.

    Post edited by 3Diva on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254
    hphoenix said:

    For school 80's reference material, I would recommend both "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Paker Lewis Can't Lose"  for clothing styles, fads, tech, etc.  It was quite a bit different than now.

     

    Okay but are they on Netflix?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254
    divamakeup said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Any new stuff 80's style?  I thought of starting a new topic but remembered this thread.   My story takes place in September 1983.   I would like things that would be from that era.

    I don't know if this will help, but I've made an 80's style workout outfit for G8F that I'll be releasing as a freebie soon:

    I just need to find out how to package it for sharing.

    Looks great!

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970
    edited August 2017
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    divamakeup said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Any new stuff 80's style?  I thought of starting a new topic but remembered this thread.   My story takes place in September 1983.   I would like things that would be from that era.

    I don't know if this will help, but I've made an 80's style workout outfit for G8F that I'll be releasing as a freebie soon:

    I just need to find out how to package it for sharing.

    Looks great!

    Thank you! :D It hasn't been officially approved as a freebie over at Rendo yet, but you should be able to download it here: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/80s-style-workout-outfit-for-g8f/77666

    If not let me know and I'll send you a PM with a link to where you can download it. :)

    Post edited by 3Diva on
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