Millwood High School - Talon Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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The year’s fashions revived the 40’s styles. Flowered combs played an important role in high- lighting hair styles. Slogan T- shirts, Levi’s, cowl necks, and drawstrings, were very popular. Left over from last fall were the three-piece suits for men and women in tweeds, plaids, cordu- roy and silk. Opposite top. Slime!!! Bottom, Drawstr- ing slacks displayed by Jovan Boyles. Top left, A star is born from a different of view. Top right. Spring adorns the hair of Gail Overall and Gayetta Lawrence. Cen- ter left. That’s a bad three-piece Ruby McCleary’s modeling but the blob is going to eat her up in one piece. Center right. Showing his best side is Eddie Den- son Bottom left. What’s hip? Bottom right, “Somewhere over the rainbow.” 13

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 ■ii wkttMi kit) I n the roaring '20's there were the flappers. In the '30’s the fad was a necessity — feed sack clothing. When the ’40's rolled around everyone was jitterbug- ging their way to a world wide victory and the baby boom.” Then the nostalgic '50’s brought hula-hooping, followed by the violently changing '60’s which led up to these swinging '70’s. The current fads were mostly “fun fads” which proves we still have a little kidstuff in us. Skate- boards were a zooming item along with the cold, clammy, slithering slime. Slogan t-shirts were definitely popular attire. Ears were also a big thing. Not only the ladies had pierced ears, but the dudes did, too. If you were really brave you could dou- ble the earrings by having another hole added to your ear (or sometimes your nose).

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C7 work and no play makes Millwood students rich — or at least richer than their peers who did not have summer jobs. The most common places for Millwood student jobs were res- taurants. These included That’s Entertainment Part I, Taco Bell, Dairy Queen, Sonic, Sirloin Stockade, Roy Rogers, Across the Street, Alberta’s Tearoom, A W, and McDonald’s. Gayetta Lawrence, a hostess at the Red Lobster Inn, said, Working has taught me what the rest of my life is going to be like. . . HARD!” Various locations included Deer Creek Golf and Country Club, Steve’s Iron on Shop, FAA, Tinker Field Air Force Base, Community Treatment Center, Sears, Streets, Montgomery Ward, Margo’s La Mode, The Riverboat, The Ranch, Lincoln Park Zoo, KFJL and KAEZ radio stations, and the baptist churches. Junior Darrell Evans said, Working makes you very tired. but the money gives you lots of energy.’’ The average work schedule was 40 hours a week, at approxi- mately $2.30 an hour. Students worked as cashiers, sales per- sonnel, musicians, electrical assistants, hosts, hostesses, maintenance personnel, ste- wards. Junior Sonya Ewing, com- mented, A summer job is defi- nitely a financial advantage and a very constructive way to spend a summer.