A historic St. Louis magazine could be a reason people ask: 'Where’d you go to high school?'

From the 1940s to the 1970s, St. Louis teenagers flocked to drugstores to buy a magazine called Prom, which recruited student correspondents to report on the ins and outs of social life in high schools across the region.

The publication was so popular that it may be a reason St. Louisans started asking people, “Where’d you go to high school?” The teens would reportedly ask each other that question and look through their old copies of the magazine to see if their new acquaintance was a SNIP (See Name In Prom).

Now, a new exhibit is highlighting St. Louis Public Library’s archive of the publication. It features firsthand accounts from Prom reporters, an opportunity to look through the digitized collection and examples of prom outfits and pop music throughout the decades.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Kate Grumke spoke with St. Louis Public Library CEO Waller McGuire about the exhibit at the Central Library.