Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Choosing. Experimenting with different types of alcoholic beverages is easy when liquor stores sell to almost anyone. EdItor's Note: Pictures were posed for by Carl Denton with permission of his parents. They -do not necessarily depict any one person but reflect a general view of alcoholic usage by teenagers. V M. Six pack. Most kids favor beer and think that they can handle lt better than hard liquor. Where can I buy some beer? Down on Asher. Let's go! Drinking often involved students even though they were not legal drinking age. Liquor stores were popular gathering spots on Friday and Saturday. Sometimes people had to travel to several stores before finding one that would sell to them. In a Spirit of 78 poll, 300 students answered about drinking. The ma- jority of students polled said that they have drunk, even though most pa- rents did not. Most claimed that they drank because their friends did, and they wanted to be socially accepted. Most Patriots took up drinking around age 15, but some began earlier. One senior male said, I started drinking when I was nine because I saw my parents drinking and I thought it would make me older. I took sips off of their drinks when they weren't looking and often got into the liquor cabinet when they were gone. Arkansas' drinking age was 21, but many remedied this problem by fixing up their driver's license or redoing an old one. One Parkview senior said, I use my older brother's ID and usually I don't have any problems getting my liquor with it. Few student drinkers had problems with their drinking, but most students agreed that drinking was a way to act older and be accepted by their peers. Student Life

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Alcohol - easy to get Drinking 52 Senior celebration. Champagne has become a part of senior prom and graduation night activities for many. ID, please. Most high school students are enterprising enough to pass an ID which they have altered or borrowed on indifferent sales people. I ll ZF 'W

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Cruisin' 54 ga 76 parks where teens gathered Also we remembered the endless dead-end streets near Pebble Beach, Kensington and Senior Steve Sherrel said don t have adate or there isn t a good party, I usually go to The Place in Kensington. A lot of kids go there. gl 'll r -' 1 0 FOCJCICD SE ss 11 9 Ssw 2? I9 3: - 46 . ' 1 ,, IfI 4, 5 3 ' - '- ll , xxx I' l.l1 We all piled into the car around 8 o'clock and headed for a night on the town. As usual, it was an ordinary dead Friday night with nothing to do and nowhere to go. We searched for a party, but it was useless. We parked it at Mac's until someone suggested that we cruise the Night life. Sophomores Keith Smith and Angie Faulkner find McDonalds an interest- ing and unusual place when the sun goes down. off Hinson Road. These roads made popular gathering spots for bored Patriots when the Rock was dead. With brightened faces and sneaky grins, we hit the road again for a night of cruisin'. Trains, Planes and Other Things in Breckenridge Village had some of the best pinball machines, Shawn Aday said. I enjoy bumbling around and the 'Teapot' seems to be the best place to do just that. The Spot off Hinson Road, The Place in Kensington and Pebble Beach in Pleasant Valley were fami- liar scenes. Everyone gets out of the cars to talk and have a good time. lt's not the best thing to do, but it beats sitting home. Finding a place to gather was not any easy assignment, many students testified. Junior Leigh Ann Jones said, I wish there was a place just for students where we could go and talk and just mess around without any interference. There was definitely not a place like that in Little Rock. Although many spots existed, few met students' requirements. ff peb Qi ble ana - ch ,i 0 153: 9,4 'I 0 KSIIEA Hinson Rd. A 4a QB of ,L,l-.-1-il-l -