Sluckey, your high school Strat pix reminds me of a story....
Around 1980 I used to have the habit of going into any music store I saw. There was one in the next town over which was a complete hole, real mom & pop, and when I went in, it really was. Looked like it had last been painted in 1957. They had nothing I was interested in, but they had this rabbit-warren of small rooms where they gave lessons. On the hallway walls were black and white pictures of kids playing guitars in school assemblies...exactly like yours. All the photos had dymo labels stuck on with the names of the kids. There were no bad guitars nor amps, there. There was maybe one Harmony guitar, otherwise all the amps were white Tremoluxes or Bandmasters or Bassman. All the guitars were Les Paul Jrs or in this one case, a single P-90 ES-175. So, I thought, "how stupid would it be to copy down the names of the people and invest $2 in dime telephone calls to see if I could find them in the phone book? (no internet in 1980!) So I went back to the shop with pencil and paper and gathered about 8 names. Obviously, I could not do much with Smith and Jones but there were several unique names. On the third phone call, I found the guy who was in the picture with the ES-175. Not exactly my all-time favorite guitar but nothing objectionable about it. Anyway, Iasked if he still had the guitar. He said he had traded it for a Fender something, "a supermaster or something like that" that was only good for country and if I wanted it, I could stop by and buy it for $125. I said I had some country gigs coming up and got his address, went there, and bought his 1959 Strat in about 7 condition, which was just about the worst Strat I have ever owned, very weak output. Too bad I sold it for $1300 the next day.
