Mayfair High School - Tradewinds Yearbook (Lakewood, CA)

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,f Things to do and happenings too Ti This year, like years before, there were many things that people were doing all over the country. Video games were the big thing with people of ell ages, with Atari being the leader of the video game companies. Any- where these games could be found, people were seen dropping quarters into Fiac lvlan, Defender and Centipede, just a few of the more popular arcade games. l-lowever, arcades weren't the only place these games could be found. Video game sales went up drastically this year, as more and more peo- ple were buying these games for home use on their own television sets. This saved these people a fortune in quarters. A fitness craze swept over the nation this year, and almost everyone got involved in some kind of exercise. Flunning was the fit- ness fad of the '7O's, but people began to find many faults in running. Aerobic dancing, swimming and walking are the exercises of the 'SO's. These exercises have become ex- tremely popular this year, mainly because they got you in shape, but also because they're fun. Even businessmen were getting into shape in 'l SSE. lVlany executives could 'l SCJ - Off The Wall: Social l be found in gyms during their lunch breaks, working out for an hour a day. Being physi- cally fit was definitely in in 'SE. lt was a year of gains and losses in the television industry. The producers of the movie Airplane tried T.V., this time with Police Squad , and two hit movies from last year, F'rivate Benjamin and S to.5 be- came series. General l-lopsital is still the number one daytime soap opera, even though Genie Francis, one of the most popu- lar cast members, left the show. Dallas, the first official prime time soap opera, has led to many new prime time soaps, including Dynasty, Falcon Crest, and King's Cros- sing. Only time will tell if any of them become hits. Late night comedy shows, like Satur- day Night Live and Fridays are still ex- tremely popular with teenagers, and Sunday afternoons are now spiced up with Elvira, lvlistress of the Dark land lVlistress of Bad lVlovies.J. The T.V. industry gained many new shows, but it also experienced some losses this year. CSS has announced that the com- edy classic lVlifAiiSiil-lii will be ending this season, and ASC has cancelled a long time

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oliuisfe. always a hope for freedom. Another event that put the LJ. S. back into the space race was the launching of the space shuttle, Colombia. The world saw the first reusable spaceship launch from a ver- tical position. The ship then went into space for BC orbits and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in he Nlojave Desert. Coming down, it looked like a regular oversized plane. The shuttle, like the Apollo program, should bring in new technology and a new challenge to seek out the final frontier. There were also some other news items which caught world's attention. The death of lsraeli Foreign lvlinister lvloshe Dayan stunned israel. We saw Europe strike out against the storing of American and Flussian nuclear weapons. In ltaly, American General .James Dozier was kidnapped and held by the Red Brigade, a strong underground power. After weeks of nervous waiting Italian police found the General. These were some of the bigger happenings on the international scene. '1. European countries were protesting against LJ. S. and Russia for storing nuclear weapons in Europe. E. AtIanta's convicted child slayer. Wayne Wil- llams gets taken away from the court house via police car. Cn the American scene, things in the news ranged from women gaining and losing ground to the economy going for a roller- coaster ride. While Sandra Day C'Connor was showing women can get into high places, namely the Supreme Court, the EFRA fell on its face due to the lack of state rati- fication of the amendment. When buying a car, it seemed as though Ford and Chrysler couIdn't give us enough money in rebates. Even with the rebates and a free mainte- nance plans the auto industry still faced mass lay-offs and indefinite plant closings. These lay-offs came at a time of extremely high unemployment and cost of living rates. These political events were just a few of the more important things that happened in '81 and 82. Political: Off the Wall - 'I 59

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favorite, Barney lVliller. These shows will surely be missed by their devoted viewers. There was great variety in the movies of 'BE Flaiders of the Lost Ark was the biggest money-maker of the year, acting greats Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda were teamed for the first time in 0n Golden Pond , Frances Ford Coppola tried his first musical, 0ne From The Heart, and prehis- toric times were dealt with seriously in 0uest For Fire. 0ther popular movies this year included 0hariots of Fire, Arthur, lVlommie Dearest, and Warren Beatty's epic, Fieds. ln the music world, the big news this year was the Fiolling Stones concert. The two- night show drew 180,000 dedicated Stones' fans. 0ther rock performers, in- cluding the Police, Journey, A0!00, and Foreigner also had successful concert tours. Some other popular performers in the rock industry included the J. Geils Band, 0zzy 0sbourne, Joan .Jett and the Black- hearts, and don't forget 0livia Newton- John, who had everyone getting Physical, New Wave has become very popular this year, 0ingo Boingo went from playing small clubs to being the opening act for The Police. The Go-Go's were the first all-girl band to be taken seriously, and they proved it when their first album went number one. And like the year before, DEVO and Elvis Costello were still favorites of the New Wave scene. And unfortunately, a year will not go by without the deaths of some famous people. Natalie Wood and .John Belushi both met with tragic, untimely deaths. Edith Head, who won a record eight Academy Awards for costume design, died at age 81. William Holden, Jack Albertson, and Paul Lynde, all well known in the film industry, also passed away this year. And Walter Knott, who founded Knott's Berry Farm as a fruit stand in 1 940, died at 91. Pac lvlan, Pond. .. XM 2'- VI'-pw 1. Pac lvlen, the beginning of the arcade game fad, led to the creation of its female counterpart, Nls, E. .Joe Montana shows who's number one after winning Superbowl XVI. 13. 0scar-nominated actress Katherine Hepburn takes a break from the filming of 0n Golden Social: 0ff The Wall - 1 S1