Crowley High School - Talon Yearbook (Crowley, TX)

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Home video. Homework and regular network programming suffered from competition with home video games such as Atari. PacMan fever. Tiny ghosts and a cute little ball which gobbles things up captivates not only limmy Manous but the whole country. Donkey Kong. Dexterity and quickness are required from Karen Cain in her contest with Donkey Kong. Invasion of the quarter snatchers! Ianet Earth was invaded not by green monsters but by strange machines which beeped, whined, and swallowed quarters - the dreaded video machines! They quickly took over obscure corners in supermarkets and restaurantsg they even inhabited entire rooms, called arcades. Defender, PacMan, Asteroids, Centipede, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong were but a few of their names. Tidbits 21

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is J 'Nil Simply cal-tivating! A papier mache Garfield the Cat is the focus of an art student's attention. Cat-mania! hat was it about the little critters that caused them to appear everywhere - on picture frames, and even on pillows and sheets? Heathcliff, Garfield, and other cats of dubious lineage became the rage. People either loved cats or hated them, and cat-lovers followed their cat-heroes in comic strips or revered them on key- chains, posters, and calendars. Cat-haters retaliated by buying and quoting from the popular book 101 Uses For a Dead Catil v mc 9 NA1'uize's MOH PuRR-FEC' I CREATUR5 - m4mQ il, t.,, .1 11 E wi it Cold rush cause three-day break he winter of '82 would be one to remember. Winds blasted out the north and brought with them a record-breaking cold spell. Scatterings of snow, a thin coating of treacherous ice, and chilling ' temperatures made the winter of '82 one to remember. School was dismissed for three days, two because the gas company cut off the school's heat, and one because of icem Cold winds! A scattering of snow frosts rooftops and a schoolbus as seniors Mark Sprayberry and Mary Knight arrive at school. Fall rains. The drainage system was severely tested by deluges in the form of fall downpours.

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Teenagers' number one pastime hey turn, and without them life might roll on by. The wheel - what a great invention. Four of them make one of the biggest necessities of a teenager's life. With a great set of these round miracles, a young boy can become the great American macho-man and young lane Doe can cruise the boulevard until the sun comes up. It's the car, and the slickest one in town, that every teenager craves. Cars of today come in two breeds for teenagers. First, is the hot-rod. It's every boy's dream. From the time a boy is old enough to hold a fork in his hand, he dreams of holding the gear shift to the baddest, fastest set of wheels in town. lt's like holding the reins to a road-eating beast. While inflation and gas prices have made hot rodding a dying sport, a new car has emerged on the street, the smaller foreign job, has replaced the legendary Chevys, Mopars, and Fords. Talk about the big V-8 has been replaced by talk about the rotary engine. American girls no longer have interest in the American street machines, but long for daddy-bought wheels that come from some unheard-of land abroad. , Altogether, it's called cruisin', and it's one of the biggest priorities on a school kid's agenda. li Cars I Q As American as Chevrolet. This extra clean 1970 Chevy pickup belongs to a true Chevy fan, Richie Dalton. His dad helped him build and paint his truck that is powered by a 350 h.p. Chevy short block. Antique. When Randall Hunt's first '57 Chevy truck was totaled, he started this '58 Chevy truck from scratch. With Randall are Kelli Tanner, Pen Badgero, and Kelly Rice. The best in cmisin'. Driving a thirty thousand dollar Masareti to school is nice for lorge Medina, here with Kristi Bagley. fv M5