Minnetonka High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Excelsior, MN)

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Dances 29 he Disco craze. As with everything else that begins on the East coast, we watched New Yorkers hustling on the dance floors of Brooklyn long before it ever reached the Minneapolis discos. But, when it eventually I ame, it got a hold on everyone .vho was into dancing! Some lard rock fans eventually evan egan to bump and boogie to lusic from all sorts of disco :omposers. Bar owners, who :ad seen a change coming, Wisely began to rearrange their i stablishments, being able to | -redict that within a short time Minneapolis-St. Paul would be | poking for places to ‘get down.’ II hit the high schools too, along with everyone else. Teen-age discos began popping up for younger crowds all over the cities. Discotrek,” a take-off on Star Wars, was built in f.agan right around the time that Saturday Night Fever” hit the movie screens, and it was just what the kids seemed to need. For once, trying to get into Uncle Sam’s with a phony I.D., was no longer necessary. Disco music drifted over into school sponsored dances as well. The Christmas dance was a disco first at M.H.S., when we danced to records instead of a band. Clothes created by disco-goers gave meaning to the old saying: Imitation is the best form of flattery. You wouldn’t dream of going out on the town to boogie in a pair of Levis and a sweater. Instead, clothing manufacturers created disco-wear for up and coming disco maniacs, consisting of silky, satiny dresses worn with high thin heeled shoes and three piece vested suits, all of which were supposedly to make you appear to be right in the height of fashion. It used to be that Homecoming and Prom were slow PAGE 28 — Top left: The band •‘Ryzer played at a few of the school dances. Top middle: Roger Ellsworth and his date enjoy the dancing at the Lafayette Club. Top right: David Cermak enjoys the music right next to the band. Middle left: Anita Peerman, Patty Lane and Pete Feldmeier. Lower: Leanne Peterson and Holly Binger at the Voyageur canteen. PAGE 29 — Top left: Sue Walker and Jill Robertson dance the Robot” at the Christmas dance. Lower left: Kris Mitchellette’s date pins her corsage on. Right: The Homecoming dance provided Paula Ersbo and Billy Kiefer with a variety of tunes to dance to. mellowed out events. Not so anymore! Dance, Dance, Dance” has become a theme song.

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30 Out to Lunch Muncln could quickly munch on a junk-food breakfast, on which every high school student could never have done without. Satisfied for the moment, classes were bearable and at times enjoyable, until visions of Quesadillas began to dance in our heads, and we could hardly wait for chemistry to end, so we could get down to the basic ‘elements' of lunch, and head for the Taco Shoppe. Not going “out for lunch, actually was one of those rules we were suppose to abide by, but we were blissful in our ignorance and broke it whenever we just couldn’t Food is just one of those things — it's always on the brain! It seemed as though we were continuously hungry, from our waking moments until we fell into bed at night. With these common feelings of compatible starvation, Mtka. ala carte room ladies did all that they could to keep the edge off that gnawing ache for milk and a Hostess cherry pie, by keeping those shelves well-stocked. We would sit in the commons before our first class, watching and waiting for those doors to open, so we munch