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

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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

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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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The more things change ost of the changes within the city itself were minor. In fact, one might say that Bay Village almost nickled and dimed itself to death. Hungry BHSers had several new places to munch out, as a new MacDonald ' s opened up on Detroit Road near K-Mart. Besides curing those late-night Big Mac attacks, the restaurant provided quite a few jobs for students. Goomba Nick ' s and the newly remodeled Dairy Queen also did their share to ruin diets. The Dover Junction shopping center got a face lift to resemble a turn -of- the century village, although the stores To make way for expanded library facilities, the city torched the old school board building on the morning of October 21. Firefighters stood by in case the blaze got out of hand. in the mall were slow to open. Eventu- ally many of the slots became business offices. Senior Doug Guiley mentioned another difference in Bay. Wow, they built a new gazebo, he observed, but I have to admit that it didn ' t really change my life very much. The gazebo did change evenings, though, as Ecstasy and the Bay High Jazz Band played when the weather • • • permitted. Also, a new community band, under the direction of Roland Hosmer, was formed. Another change that really shook Bay Village to the bedrock was the burning of the old Board of Education building to make way for a new library. Also, a decorative anchor was added to replace ' the repossessed cannon that once stood outside city hall. However, the only major change in Bay according to Vicki Savoca, was the change of people in the city. My friends are always moving, she commented. 6 -Community