North Fort Myers High School - Lance Yearbook (North Fort Myers, FL)

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Let's Go Crozy ond When Doves Cry is whot mode the movie Purple Rein o fovorite for Knights. Eddie Murphys' comedy Beverly Hills Cop stole the heorts of mony Red Knights. ef .--...g-.. Locking on interest in ocodemics the students in 1 Teochers were definitely different from those ot . , , .'.'vQrZg.Q 5 North High. Movies

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One of the top rated movies of Red Knights was The Terminator. Red Knights could be seen at the popular Colonial theaters. Highly Rated One of the favorite activities of Red Knights on weekends were the movies. Movies were one of the biggest means of entertainment for teenagers. Whether it was with a group of friends or with a date, one always had an evening of excitement at the movies. Some of the popular movies of this year were Ghost Busters, Romancing the Stone, Purple Rain, and Teachers. They ranged from comedy to horror to romance. With settings of high schools, islands, and outer space. Movies Movie theaters were located all over Lee County. The price for a movie ranged from fifty cents at North's-side Drive ln, to 54.50 at the Bell Tower. Another means of entertainment for the students was the watching of music videos. MTV, the television station of the eighties, was watched on TV instead of your regular channels. You could catch your favorite rock stars such as Michael Jackson, Billy Idol, and Pot Benatar, moon walking across the stage, power hitting you with their best shot. Other popular pay television movie sta- tions were HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax. lf you didn't want to spend money at a movie theater, you could wait until the movie came on one of these stations. Some areas of North Fort Myers weren't able to get cable stations yet, and Cape Coral just recently received Cablevision. Watching the movies on TV was the most inexpensive means of entertainment. Money was sometimes scarce to Red Knights so the cheaper form of entertain- ment was preferred. , :m. i l l 5 i i 4 i l 5 3 i l a r l I I i l

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Home Awo From Home For mony North Fort Myers Red Knights, home wos where they spent their summer vocotions. This meont the worm toys of the Florido sun wos token odvontoge of ond the beoches werejust the ploces to do so. Friends gothered in the morning hours to set out for o long, fun-filled doy ot the beoch. All the beoch geor wos ossembled - food, tonning oils, sunscreen, sodos, combs, towels, rodios. Once ot the beoch, there wos plenty to do. Swimming, hocky sock, poddle boll, ond frequent extended wolks checking out the scenes, were just o few of the things hoppening. While some Red Knights stoyed on the shore skinboording ond ploying frisbee or volleyboll, others took to the oir for o short porosoil. lf the wind wos right, individuols set soil for o memoroble escopode on privotely owned or rented soil boots. Some even got up the nerve to ottempt woter-skiing. . ' ' .. ' zezmf c frk ww mf 'G . 747-if 2 gL,Q,ffai.2'11 'f,.:frfwff'.f1' A f CTWYL' ,, 1 'wwf . .f, f L.-V,.. ,,,,,, W.,-, , f ,V .. . ,.', , f,.7,,-.,,f,.g,f,+,p - f fi .1 . f f , . 1- ,-,wi ii '1 ?V':+:'f'L, Q f, .. ff:-V r ,fs .'f,, if .,,, -iw.-.r,fW,.,,f: -,ff .M :-sf-Vmww. V. f' ffffffff Q,,.- of -f rw - 1,gf1, ',F.g, cv., - ' ffl, . ,nn I ., V.. 4, iv.,-1-,,.M,s,,,g.,, ,Ly M... .., ,WW ,,, ,,- ,I N ,. ,,AV VW 1, 7.4 ,ij ..f,, f.. -.f ' 'f ' 'Z' -..g- , ' -I V, eff. fx., rf' . ff- :ffs.Mf Soiling olong the colm woters wos o reloxing thing to do while visiting the beoch. Enjoying 0 gome of frisbee olong the shore ore David Giompolo ond Monico Skinner. Beoches Although the beoch is o long stretch of sond, friends found woys of meeting ond enjoying eoch other's compony. There were fovorite spots where you could be certoin to encounter the fomllior foce of o fellow Red Knight. The pier ond orcode were populor spots. Knights took little time from the sun to escope the heot to ploy the ever so populor video gomes. They were oble to cool themselves with refreshing treots from the Doiry Queen. Mony Knights loy ond sunned themselves, trying to out-do their friends with o better ton or, in some coses, o better burn. Besides the sond ond woter, nothing else wos free, so in order to keep occupied, Knights needed on odequote omount of money. Jet skis cost oround 530.00 for eoch holf hour of rentol. The new lorge, three- wheeled bikes which people tromped through the woter ond ocross the sond were rented for onother fee. Porosoiling iii is ' M .M .. .We 1. 157- ' ' -N Qi.,f ' ' ' xiii?-55'-Q' ' . ,lf 1 Q ., '++Zff'-gf,,, 5 r' ' , 'j1F4 r.g:'c -:Q f. . ff-'1-r -we-11: , .V . 'ff'z f1f?a s.fcf1..,..,-- cost o person 325.00 for eoch holf hour. Of course, if they didn't pock their own food ond drinks, Knights ventured to one of the mony convenient stores to purchose refreshments. Toking odvontoge of fun in the sun wos exciting, but definitely costly. The beoches were not merely o ploce for doy-time octivity. Red Knights found thot toking someone speciol down to the beoch ot night wos very romontic. Wotching the brilliont-colored sunset, listen- ing to the woves crosh, ond wotching the stors ond moonlight ond the glistening sond wos very peoceful ond soothing. Some couples strolled hond-in-hond olong the beoch, soying little, but shoring thoughts which need not be uttered. For Red Knights the beoch, which in winter months wos populoted by white- skinned tourists, become the ploce to go for fun, sun, ond friends. .J- X K M ..., jf AAq if- T T '--',' I -Eff ..., . ffl 455 pri? fff'f'4-- -K 5 'T I T:.,,,--..- F -1