Altus Senior High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Altus, OK)

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■ ... Music Awards presentations. Debbie Boone was busy lighting up lives with her hit single “You Light Up My Life , which was vot- ed the most popular rock single of the year. Although the lives of music lovers were brightened, the lives of the futures of the nation's farmers were far from bright as the farmers organized a nation- wide strike for 100% parity. On the flip side of Jimmy Cart- er's smile was his brother Billy’s smile, as Billy introduced a new line of beer to America. Billy Beer cans rapidly became collector's items. In the city of Altus, fast food places and convience stores sprang up throughout the city. Jif- fy Food Stores boomed along the streets...... 8

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 Jo ojMu , %r ° • Ck Cy j yxK mstf c?nr,Iu2 Wrt i W T-A fl idoKA-JL er JiiJvM.. ‘te Jkfiap isf v J hhQ. ! ... velocity of US culture reached the speed of light. In the movie theatres, Star Wars rocketed its way toward the biggest gross in movie history (at $3. per head) transporting millions of people into an interga- lactic shoot out using a simple good guy-bad guy” plot outline. The most engaging moving star turned out to be a stubby tin can named R2-D2 from the Star Wars flick. Another movie Rocky which won the 1977 Acade- my Awards, warmed the hearts of every warm blooded American, while George Burns in the movie Oh, God! was tickling them. Still adjudged the best feature film ever made was the classic “Gone With the Wind. Games, toys and dolls deplicting these TV and movie characters were at the top of many Christmas lists. In the pop rock music, the talk of the town was Rumors” as the Fleetwood Mac Album swept award after award at the annual American...........

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. . . . of Altus and self-service gas stations became even more widespread. The price of gasoline stabilized at about .55 for reg- ular and .57 for unleaded. Prices for junk food continued to rise. Even the coke machine in the high school cost 30$ to operate. Fifteen cent candy bars went to twenty cents and became smaller. Blow pops became the lolly pop fad and Pop Rocks burst on the scene with their loud and tingling sweetness. The City of Altus demolished the East Park swimming pool with plans in the making to build a new recreation com- plex. Fire destroyed the Altus Auction and the cotton gin suffered several damaging fires. A new medical facility valued at $6,818,000 was built at Altus Air Force Base. A new housing area containing 100 family units was opened. For the first ....