Charlestown High School - Pirates Yearbook (Charlestown, IN)

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Pizza Hut pizza sm White Castle hamburger Candy Bar Concert Ticket V.H.S. movie Video Game Coke Videos! Videos! Videos! In l986-87 V.H.S. movies were very popular, and many places were around to supply the demand.

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Blasting away the Boredom C.H.S. students keep entertained. fter going to school for five days straight. many CHS students felt a need to break away from the pressure of homework. And what better way to escape than to sit back and watch T.V.? Although T.V. was popular with Max Headroom in his own show, Cable T.V. was also popular. But many students, instead of messing with commercials, chose to just rent or borrow a VCR and have their own little theaters. Some of the more popular VCR movies for l986- 87 were: Top Gun, Aliens, Nightmare on Elm Street III, Crossroads and The Karate Kid II. Although T.V. and movies had a part in 86-87, music was just as important. With REO Speedwagon and Huey Lewis 8 the News in concert at Louisville, students kept busy enough. But Rock n' Roll wasn't the only kind of concert going on in 86-87. Billy Joel and country rock singer Hank Williams, Jr. were also on tours which included the Kentuckiana area. Some of the more athletic CHS students will remember that one form of entertainment in '87 was keeping up with Indiana University as they went all the way in the NCAA. or keeping up with the Super Stick out that chest. One of the more popular forms of fun for C.H.S. stu- dents was wearing souvineers from concerts to school. Bowl and the World Series. But on more local scale, watching the Kentucky Derby festivities was also interesting. There was also hunting. camping, fishing, etc., for CHS students who were close to nature or who just wanted to escape for the Big City . But one of the most popular pastimes was hanging out . Convenient, the car wash, and the square were the most popular places for CHS students to spend any spare time. But students didn't just hang out around Charlestown. Aladin's Castle, in the Greentree Mall, was also a good place to look for people from Charlestown. Zapp those monsters. Enjoying video games at Convenient are Lenora Leon- nard and Billy Treece.

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A Ithough many students from CHS didn't keep up . on many of the world 33 events and news. many will still i: probably remember the Iranian 1 Arms for Hostage Deals. To many r3: people. the fact that American weapons were going to Contra- rebels didn't cause much con- cern. But when President Regan denied any prior knowledge and was proven different by an offi- cial investigation, many people were shocked by the fact they had been deceived. In congress many senators were seriously thinking of impeachment. AlthOugh Iranian Arms deals re- ceived a lot of the headlines, an- other scandal was discovered in I986-87 on a lower level. When Get that seatbelt on! Mr. larry Dean teaches good driving habits. Marines in charge of guarding the American Embassy in Russia, al- lowed Russian spies into grounds, it came as a surprise to many Americans. What came as an even bigger shock was that the Marines also allowed the spies to plant cameras and microphones inside the embassy and to photo- graph top secret information. With anti-aparthied movements sweeping South Africa and fam- ine ravaging Ethiopia and many other African nations, Ameri- can's economy wasn't helped very much. While Africa was having a rough time of it. the medical world was making good speed. The fear of bread gasoline phone call school books car wash Money Graph World News Blasting away Charlestown woes AIDS struck many people. But the Red Cross and other blood banks had the worst time of all. Since many people were afraid of con- tracting AIDS through needles. many just didn't donate blood at all. Also, in l986 the third Jarvick 7 heart patient was admitted to Hu- mana Hospital in Louisville. On a smaller scale, safety belt laws went into effect in Indiana in l986 and congress was debating whether to raise the speed limit to 65 mph. Also. in l986, NASA technical discovered the reason for the space shuttle disaster was in the seals on the booster rock- ets. And a 7 year old boy was the youngest person ever charged with murder when he shot his best friend with his fathers gun. $ .87 per loaf S .79 per gallon S .25 local $l50.m average 5 .50