Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW . . . South ' s students ' cars are like the stu- dents who own them. The only thing that they really have in common is that each one is different. They may all have four wheels and an engine — at least almost all of them — but that is the extent of the similarity. Students’ cars. Some are new; some are not so new. Some look old enough to be d rawing Social Security. Students’ cars. Some are in mint condi- tion. They are so clean, polished and well- kept that you are afraid to breathe or even lean on them. Then there are those cars that look like they just came out the losers in a stock-car race. Students’ cars. Some were bought cheap, some were expensive. Others cost their owners their life savings, a pound of flesh and a 10-year mortgage on their so- cial life. Students’ cars. Some are shining exam- ples of reliability; they run better than their owners. Other are terminal cases, drawing out the agony to the extent seldom seen anywhere but on soap operas. Students’ cars. No one really knows ex- actly how many there are at South each day. It varies with the weather and with moods of the students. Parents, also, occa- sionally, have a say-so in the driving habits of students. The reasons vary. The reasons vary as much as do the cars that park at school. From the variety of cars that line the streets surrounding the South campus, and fill the parking lot every day, it is probably fairly safe to say the campus has at least one example of every domestic make and model of car pro- duced in the past 10 years plus a good selection of imported ones. Text by TODD GOODRICH Design by NANCY NOLAN 10 CARS

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1 Winter weather stopped many activities in Granite City, but not the workers on the barges 2 Many students tried to relax before giving their blood 3 Looking from the inside out, the snow can be a very pretty sight 4 The icy and snow-covered roads were often the cause of the closing of school for several days. 5 Fashion played a big part m many of South ' s students ' lifestyles 6 A car was on important role in teenager ' s social lives 7 Mary Jenkins and her good friend Traci Con- kovich often clowned around — this time their adventure took place in one of the many lockers at South LIFESTYLES 9

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4 1. Joe Schnefke proves that his small Datsun truck can hold a hunk of junk. 2 Angela Grupas sits daintily on her personalized Spyder 3. The school parking lot doubles as a used car lot. 4 Larry Cornett ' s Chevy brings nostalgia to the variety of cars 5 Some of the cars in the student parking lot look like winners and sometimes losers in a demolition derby 6 Tony Segobiano watches the girls pass by. while sitting in his Bug after school 5 CARS 1 1