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A Small City with a Big Voice

Thanks to a magnificent team of devoted documentarians and a city full of once-in-a-life-time stories, the World's Best Prom Website has launched a project committed to documenting the voices, stories and memories of all Racine-Prom goers.

Here are some of my favorite stories and pictures:

brittany, southwest dekalb, 2006

My junior prom had to be the best and the worst day of my life......i will start with why it was so great. i got to get up put on make-up and a really expensive dress along with getting pampered all day i felt like a princess!!!!!.....now comes the worst i hated my date he was so rude he stayed on his cell phone the whole entire time and it's like he didn't even notice me on top of that my dad drove us how horrifying is that.......but anyway i am a senior now and it's senior prom so i have decided to go with a really cool guy friend we will probably hang out at prom for a minute and then leave (no one stays at prom the whole night anyway) lol!! i really want to go bowling or something after but until then chow!!!!!!

Daniella Suarez, North Shelby High, 2006
My prom sucked...but whatev...First of all my hair looked major sucky...I cried and cried because I spilled juice on my white dress and then everyone asked me if I was high because my eyes were puffy. Also, I rolled my ankle on my heels when walking down grand march. Then, to top it all off, I had sex for the first time ever and 9 months later out popped little Promenade. Well, top that. Thanks Tina!

nkechi, cherry, 2005
well i went to the prom last year and i met the boy of my dreams he was called elvis i love him so much we plan to get married the prom didnt just let me have fun it let me have love

Jim Smith, Washington Park H.S., Racine, WI, 1965
I had asked 13 girls and gotten 13 nos. On the morining of the day of the prom back in '65, I walked into a shoe store selling stuff door-to-door. There stood a tall, good looking Danish blond with a sexy accent who was buying low shoes so she could go to the prom with some guy who had always treated her poorly. Well that took about 30 minutes to change. We walked out of there together, cooked up a story to tell that guy, got tickets from the principal, borrowed money from an English teacher and made all the arrangements at the last minute. Three bands at the post prom, fooling around in the balcony, seeing that guy there with another date, the next day at Brown's lake. Wow, what memories. It was the start of a wonderful relationship. I wonder where she is now.


To read more stories and see more pictures, go to The World's Best Prom Website.

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