Mercer Island High School - ISLA Yearbook (Mercer Island, WA)

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PLACES PEOPLE H 7 i i7f .ffl-el IIYHAKI Party? A rager? Where? . . .BBQ at-wait, where's that? Seattle? . . . No, how 'bout Dick's at ten? Yeah, after the game. No gas? O.K., O.K., then where's it at? 7-Eleven or Denny's-what'll it be? Decent. Another Friday night playing video games. So where is it at for MIHS students on those long weekend nights? lt could be practically anyplace offering lots of food and requiring little money. lSo it sounds like a GO TO JAIL card, so what?l If the student feels a bit exotic, he may go to the Big City lSeattle for all you poor, sheltered yuppies out therel and grab a Dick's Deluxe or a Domino's pizza. Some may cap off that special trip out to the dark and mysterious streets of the Emerald City with hours of dance-till-you-drop fun. Whether one checks out the Gorilla Gardens for wild and crazy slam dancing or travels to Schoochie's for some more down-to- earth groovin', the night is sure to include some fascinating people- watching, if nothing else. Nice hair, honey. Way to spike it . . . Oh my, lt's not even female. Way to be. For the less daring, however, Bellevue Square in all its suburban splendor seems much more inviting. Bellevue, the intellectual and STAY architectural equivalent of Free Parking, offers a wide variety of shopping possibilities within the pearly gates of The Square-a haven for the notoriously well- endowed pocketbooks of Mercer Island youth. Like a rummy pile, this battleship of shopping malls presents an ideal place for picking up that crucial ace, that hot T-shirt, or that even hotter member of the opposite sex-that is, for those that can tell the difference. l'BelSquare is rad. l-lot-Dog on a stik, Jay Jay's and Eastside Catholic guys. I like it, bubbles senior Lauren Guzak. But for those of us who, for lack of money, creativity, desire, or all of the above, fail to cross the watery walls of old M.l. to get our kicks, Poverty Rock does contain some places to which we can turn. Places like 7-Eleven, Denny's, Luther Burbank Park, and Dairy Queen. Good 'ol hometown places which still possess a taste of the sex and drugs and rock-and-roll of the outside world. flfiguratively speaking, of course.l Hey, doesn't it feel good sometimes to land on one's own property? Suuuure! But it feels even better to pass it and collect 200 dollars. That's where it's at. l4 l-IANGOUTS

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2:20 Friday afternoon. Time for the weekend. No sucks. No sweat. Just cruise on down to the store, cause it's . . . AYDAY. 'iSorry, I can't make it. I gotta -ark. How many times has the average ander heard this refrain? Too iany. Much more welcome is the omment, Ill get paid today. So I guess that means l'Il get my ioney back, huh? Dream on, buddy. Like it or not, a large number of 'XIHS students do hold down part- nes iobs, getting a head start in we game of Life. Forget worrying out fire and life insurance, these ung adults care only for the part out collecting 500 dollars. Yet many have quite serious asons for entering the Enployment market. College, cars, othes, Coca-Cola-you know, the -asic necessities of life. 'll got a iob because I feel it builds aracter and increases moral er, senior John Largis says. Whatever the philosophic ,rincipal involved, the bottom line in dost student iobs is money. eaucoup bucks. Mucho moola. he green stuff. KNO, not that green tuffll I like money, affirms senior auren Guzzak, and if I could, l'd uke a bath in it. Ah, but before one can rake in the Junior Michael Lillie reaps the fruit of his hard labor. green, one must mow the grass with an irascible machine. Translation: one must work one's proverbial tail off, often under the supervision of a manager whose dream as a child was to become warden of San Quentin, in order for the dough to roll in. Not even pawns on a chessboard have it as bad: players just order them around to be killed for others, the student worker must go through all that, added to the pressure of school, and must act as if he likes it! ul like the money, says iunior Jason Gordon, a onetime courtesy clerk at Safeway, 'ibut my manager is a lbleepingl lbleeplf' The dirt and sweat and ugly uniforms and annoying customers all become worthwhile, however, when the square says, Collect 500 dollars. Anyone who has ever had a job, from the freshman babysitter, to the sophomore yard worker, to the junior grocery bagger, to the senior waiter lplus an assortment of other -ers in between? knows the feeling of being paid. Imagine needing a two to land directly on GO and getting it. Yup, you understand. Getting paid, opines Class of '86 member, Jeff Berven, is like being stranded on a banana barge in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Hey some people do like bananas. But now one faces the comfortable dilema of how to dispose of the money. The games people play with their hard-earned cash defy reason. Seniors save like someone with a chance to buy Boardwalk lie., they don'tI. Juniors and sophomores spend like someone with a chance to put two hotels on Boardwalk li.e., they dol. And freshmen buy Baltic Avenue lkids nowadaysll. Ill spend my money on things my mom won't buy for me, admits iunior Stephanie Marshall. I-lowever, the money earned now is perhaps neither as important nor as valuable as the experience and references students gain from their iobs. Somewhere along the line, perhaps in a totally different field, someone will say, 'Let's play Life. And one shall know once more the sweetness of PA YDA Y!

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COPPOSITE PAGE, LEFT? Denny's Q 'l'l:30 -yeah, O.K. After that we'Il RAGE. lOPPOSlTE PAGE, RIGHTJ Jeff Johnson and Danny Dawson frequent the Wood-Pit after a day of tanning. KCENTERJ Where's the party? Go to 7-'l'l on a weekend night to find out. lUPPER LEFTl Cheap food. Grease, and playground included. l0PPOSlTE, BOTTOMJ We need O'Grady'sll lBesides, there's nothing else to do.l lBELOW, LEFTD Aaron, Eric, Matt, Paul, Duke, Maury, and Pete at Domain. KBELOW, CENTERD Vivek Mehta, Paul Selvig, Matt Gilchrist, Howard Caro, Jake Winfrey, and Grant Janes-the freshmen studs have no better place to hang out than at school. lBELOWl Bellevue Square Clock keeps on ticking so get to that sale NOW! lABOVEl KC Chapin, Marina Polack, Terry Dowell, ard Laura Hanson spend time in the girls bathroom. uw, ' X X f EW w VR