• Looking Back On Joyce Maynard

    Joyce Maynard was writing for Seventeen Magazine when she was still a teenage prep school student at Phillips Exeter Academy.

  • DIY Teen

    We recently acquired a goldmine of teen-ager cartoons thanks to Ed Halter.

  • Poster Youth

    La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s.

  • You Can’t Be 20

    “In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock’n’roll band… he had just newly turned 19, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you’re over 18 you couldn’t get in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it’s one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn’t play in this club anymore.

  • Miss 19

    A 1960s French pollster interviews Elsa, the winner of “Miss 19,” a Parisian beauty queen, about political, social, and cultural opinions.