Haltom High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Haltom City, TX)

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Band director Dee Tucker monitors the sound during the Christmas choir concert over the system in the library. Resembling an audience at a major concert at Tarrant County Convention Center or Reunion Arena, students cheer for Rick Presley in the auditorium. Concert popularity exceeds price Tape decks, portable radios, concerts, and mini-headphones The instant the lights went out, thousands of lighters glittered in the darkness. The roar of the crowd subsided as everyone rushed to his seat. Suddenly an explosion of sound burst from the stacks of amps surrounding the stage. Colored spotlights illuminated members of the warmup band at a major concert. Although ticket prices continued to climb upward, usually costing between S10 and S15 each, concerts remained a popular form of entertainment. Country and soul concerts did occasional- ly take place, but rock concerts were by far the most prominent occurrences. With groups such as Rush, Journey, and ACXDC, The Police, Ozzy Osborne, Van Halen, Loverboy, Foreigner, and even the Rolling Stones appearing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, rock fans had plenty concerts to attend. Most students who went to these shows did so to see and hear the band in person, to buy T-shirts, stickers, and pins, and to be around other people who liked the same sort of music. Yet senior Lonnie lVlcGrew said, The only reason I go to concerts is to meet girls, have fun, and pass out. Many music fans went to every concert that came to town simply because they liked concerts, but a few expressed strong preference for one group. Tracy Hines, senior, emphatically declared, Led Zeppelin is the best! Attending concerts was not the only way students showed how much they enjoyed music. Anyone standing in front of the school before classes started, at lunch, or in the afternoons could have heard radios blar- ing the latest test tunes through windows of passing cars. Cassette and 8-track tape decks often ac- companied AM-FM radios in dashboards and home stereo systems. 'il buy albums to play at home, then record them on cassettes to listen to in my car, explained one senior. A few students couldn't survive without music even for a few hours, and thanks to a new product they didn't have to. Head- phones, with speakers no bigger than a quarter, wired to mini cassette players that could be clipped to the listener's belt debuted and soon became a common sight around school. It seemed that students had become ad- dicted to music, but sophomore Randy Sprinkle gave his explanation, relating, i'Listening to my favorite groups calms me down so I can get my work done. l

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. K.: W up 70 ff iwiw KRS 2 r' E og MUSIC iff-P ,2 i - 1. fl A f 9 vm ?i'F6ii'fE's5Al'I!'1N E mm ww -asm Q .si ,tw f While eating lunch in the cafeteria, junior Jim Pikul listens through mini-headphones to a tape playing on a portable cassette player. Junior John Brown, wearing a Journey concert jersey, reaches for one of his favorite cassettes and his books before leaving school in the afternoon. Junior Dena White displays, along with a macho sticker, the name and album design of a group whose concert she attended on the front of her shirt. , if Q g 'W 6 Qf 1 n gf I , K , sal. W- e ,M un fu X ,Airy My 5 ,fi M 'L I 2 ' Q 'fi , ,n,i 2 ai hifi: O

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-so oy 1.35, XIV After attending a French club meeting, students enjoy the teeter-totters at Little Fossil Park. ,fr Sophomore Mark Borge practices motorcross racing, a dangerous but exciting sport enjoyed by several students. Tossing a frisbee passes the time for Mark Wood before school starts. RECREATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT