Bay High School - Bay Blue Yearbook (Bay Village, OH)

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Wages may have risen. Inflation. The good news was that the minimunn wage went up 25(t;. The bad news was, so what? The prices of everything soared to unheard-of heights. For instance, a six-pack of beer DUt SO rose 56% since 1970. And t i. w?vx Alateen reported a decline in teenage alcoholism. Gives you something to think about. But what about major expenses? College tuition was predicted to increase by $ 1 000 before the Sep- tember 1 980 fall term in some schools. Plane tickets became almost unaffordable. . A round-trip coach fare from eVerVtllinQ Cleveland to Chicago which J sJ cost $96.50 in ' 78 was $144 by 1980, unless you took advantage of a 33$ promo- tional flight to Chicago given by tO DiariG Midway Airlines. Or you might have taken a bus. Cleveland fares actually drop- -fof ao ped 30% since 1975. So what? Inflation 1 1 C?0- affected all our lives. It added up to a whole lot of small change. have prices on just about thing from beer igns of the When your parents were kids. ' they proba- 7 biy bought f candy and I I gum for a pen- II ny. For the child of the ' 80 ' s. however, even a 1 lollipop is 2 $. I And candy bars have J gone from 5 to 25 c in just 25 years. mes THE YEAR THE GREAT AMERICAN VALUE BECAME A NECESSITY. hCUfillV. 1979 CLOTHIMG PRICeS ROSG Less IHAfi iMnGcom What can you buy for a penny? The obvious answer is a stamp. What can you mail for a penny? Not much. Post- cards haven ' t gone through the mail for Id since the early 1950 ' s. If you ' re going to pay 15(t for the post- card itself, and then the 9c to mall it, you might as v ell send a letter, which, inci- dentally, has gone from 3 o to 15 e. In a little over a year, gasoline prices zoomed from 52.9 c to over a dollar a gallon in some places. June 1979 saw closed stations, and those that scayed open charged close to 70e. By October, a gallon of gas cost 84.9c. And it kept on rising.

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Well, what exactly did change? Stu- dents returning from an insultingly V l I TdCGS short summer vacation were surprised to see the color- rOVISGU fUlOS, ful graffiti on the gym corridor walls painted over in a sickly d lCl d flG A yellow. Twelve new teachers had joined the staff (retirement was in lOOK TOT vogue for the faculty.) And the new regulations were actually enforced. But, ttlQ QY all in all, these super- ficial alterations didn ' t COmOOr flGip really make a big difference in the average BHS student ' s life, which con- f (J (j0fT[ tinued pretty much as usual StSrt ttlG VRST Off CHANG[ school With its brightly painted f four vending machines, the Cjym ridor made a popular between-cl hangout for juniors and seniors in 1975. Although the vending machi and paint job have disappeared, th( Changes: School — '

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The search for a unique birthday gift takes Stephanie Buntel to The Wayside Shop where she purchases a delicate gold-filled bracelet. The price of gold steadily climbed at least $15 a week from the beginning of October until the end of 79. CHANGE inflation