Reposted from @nytarchives In December 1972, #nytimes spent a week following “a ‘normal’ teenager of the nineteen-seventies” as she went about her everyday life in New York City. Natalie Wright (left) was a 10th grader at John F. Kennedy High School who loved singing in her school chorus, skating at the Riverdale ice rink and studying algebra (although, on the whole, she viewed school as “at best, an obligation to be fulfilled rather than an intellectual adventure,” The Times reported). But “first on her list of life priorities comes the tight, select circle of girl friends that are at the center of her everyday existence,” our reporter William K. Stevens observed. “When she is with them she displays a smiling, happy personality that seldom breaks through the mask of shy reserve and self-possession that she usually wears in class.” Our photographer Don Hogan Charles captured Natalie and her best friend, Naomi, as they left school at the end of the day. After taking the subway 90 blocks south to her home on 135th Street, Natalie stopped at the grocery store for a snack of 3 chocolate cupcakes. She spent the evening doing her homework, eating dinner with her parents and little sister and watching “The Rookies” and “Lucy.” “I don’t pay any attention to moon landings,” Natalie told The Times. “But I did watch the first landing because there wasn’t anything else on TV.” #nytarchives #DonHoganCharles - #regrann (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7YQDXyghbD/?igshid=1gufyn98u056g