Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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1. The duck pond at Boston Garden quiet in the winter cold but in the warmer months a favorite gathering spot. 2. The downtown shopping area newly resurrected as a mall, 3. The handsdown favorite gathering spot, Quincy Market. 4 . Strawberries, downtown, many felt it was the only place to go if you were searching for bargain music. 5. The Malden Center T Station put Boston easily within reach. boston 19

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Saturday night. If one was very provincial, he went to the movies or bowling in the square. For those more adventuous, there was Boston. After all, Malden is part of Metropolitan Boston: just a subway car ride away. Fanuel Hall was the most frequented spot for teenagers in Boston. It was pure delight to wander through the outrageous yet amusing shops that lined the market place. The shops were usually specialized with stuffed animals, china box imports, rainbows, marionettes, or paper mache elephants. To visit the selection of food shops was worth a trip in itself for almost everyone. Boston drew the practical shopper as well. Many went to the downtown section restyled in the fashion of a mall. Kenmore Square attracted the disco-crowd. Spinoffs was the place to go for disco rollerskating. bjOiSifeOjiii sic einiei ERRY ERCIA TMU ■» ' ilS n k . H Jr i 1 ' L al« ' 1 1 ‘ i ■ it t M

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There is a theory that goes something iike this: the harder the times, the wiider the clothing styles. These wiid clothing styies supposedly diverted our attention from the hard times, we were ail going through. The more cheering up we needed, the more intriguing ciothes were. Before the Depression, hem lengths became shorter. There is also a corollary to the theory that says: the worse the times, the shorter the skirts. Rocketing inflation, woria problems in the Middle East, and the imminence of the draft were present in 1980, and the clothing styles suggested the theories were true. Hemiines became slightly shorter. Popular colors became intensely bright: Turquoise, fushia, yellow-ail eye-catching. Women ' s stockings decorated with designer stitches and the popular high heei with the t- strap were certainiy distracting. Gold, with all its glitter was in ; its popularity rose aimost as fast as its price. Dangling golden necklaces, charms, and bracelets that glistened in the faintest light, caught our eye at every turn. Often when we were feeling depressed, we bought ourselves a new dress or a new sports jacket to console ourselves; to take our minds off our probiems. On a iarger scale then, the styles became wilder to offer us solace for difficult days. hard times uiili stijlcs 20 styles