Minnetonka High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Excelsior, MN)

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Nickels an J Diivies PAGE 20: Top Left; Beth Cutter and Leslie Nelson making another withdrawal from their savings accounts. PAGE 21: Top Right; Megan Tully discovers the high cost of eating out. Bottom Right; Dan Zeyen sees what his money can buy in a new car. Bottom; Amy Ecoff and Chris Strom stretching the dollar. The Dollar 21

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VN Easy come easy go. Students at Minnetonka found out how easily money could go. Having a job became a necessity as inflation pushed prices higher. Movies moved up to four dollars and the price of gas it took to get there went over a dollar a gallon. On a grander scale inflation could be monitored by the price of gold which skyrocketed to S633.00 an ounce in London. The worth of a dollar was constantly declining and everyone felt the pinch. The luxury of driving a car to school, clothes, partying and just having fun with your friends left students with very little money left to save and often left a spender penniless and wondering where the money went. Doughnuts even went up to 25C in the Ala Carte room. Rising inflation was inescapable and spending hard earned money was inevitable but it can't be denied that saving money made lots of cents! 20 The Dollar

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Dance NiqliT ThE AwAy Disco moved out and the new Punk Rock took over the sound stage. No matter what the changes in music were, dancing remained popular at MHS. Friday night canteens offered a chance to get together with friends and share anything and everything. It also provided an opportunity to meet new people, as one junior put it The canteens were a riot and I met a lot of people I had never known before. Dancing was not however, only confined to canteens. People brought parties to life by boogieing with friends. It not only forced a casual, relaxed atmosphere but it was also an accepted release of pent-up energy caused by the tension of being a student. It seemed that no matter what type of popular music the times suffered from, dancing was able to withstand its constant change. 22 Dances