Oshkosh West High School - Notebook Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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-P--mi-i-ef-1 o 15 1 3. The price of cars has greatly in lhe past ten years from 354,400 to 36,000 Caroline Slye drives a Nova. 4. Prices of lunch inthe O- room have gone up. Vince Darland eats .gg grilled cheese sandwich, chocolate milk, andgaf plate of cookies for 556. 5. Those who wished to purchase a class ring inf19'1s, noticed the rise in cost from 338.00 inwlhe early 70's to S65.00. Erron Voss displays one of the ri'ngs available to Oshkosh West High school stug dents. 6. X,Tamie Thomas and Laurel Zwigky leave school for lunch atVDz3irylQueen wheiiefiig hlamburgenccoke, and friesicost 51.45. 'Alf though America complsiihs about inflgtioxgi, the restaurant business is booming. If Tllil tlmlii 0 'Q' Costs - 11

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DN UHEMKWQ Minimum wage may have increased but inflation has definitely surpassed it. Re- member when gum was a nickel a pack and stamps were 5m ? when a dime of pen- ny candy filled you up? when movies cost only a dollar? when the sales tax was non- existant? and the phone was only 1012 ? or when . . . COSTS ITEM '70 '78 Jeans 39.00 315.00 Braces 312,000 314,000 Gas 3.36.9 3.66.9 fRegu1ar with service per gallonj Contacts 3120.00 3150.00 College CUW-OJ 31331 32,195 Lawerence 32365 34,400 Hamburgers 3.15 3.35 Movies 31.00 32.50 Hiroshima 3.75 31.75 Of Mice And Men 3.75 31.75 Chevy Impala 34,400 36,000 ifi' if .,. K 'QD ' .T 3 Q 1 If 't 5' it H ... 3 10 - Costs

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CSQILIMWQ UGMTHK f S T.V. It was the luxury of the fifties, the necessity of the sixties, and the addiction of the seventies. Video sex and violence were blamed for everything from rising crime rates to sinking SAT scores. In spite of all the accusations, though, attempts at reform by such projects as the Family Viewing Hour proved ineffectual. Only the Nielson ratings appeared to have the power to decide which shows would receive renewals- or the axe. With the debut of All in the Family in 1971, television took a more serious and con- troversial view of comedy. As soon as the Bunkers were settled comfortably in the rat- ings, spin-offs and copies abounded. The characters and settings might be different, but the plots all involved the trend set by All in the Family. TV wives no longer worried about whether to make a roast beef or a ham for dinner, new decisions involved abortion, menopause, and extra-marital affairs. Some of the more noteworthy shows included: San- ford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jef- fersons, and Threeis Company. Life in the fifties were humorously recalled in such shows as Happy, Days, and La Verne and Shirley. Name shows also appeared in bewilder- ing numbers: The Carol Burnett Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Donny and Marie, and 'The Sonny and Cher Show. Another show appeared which defied any sort of clas- sification: The Gong Show. The Westerns of the sixties were replaced by policefdetective shows. Conestoga wagons gaveway to squealing cars as Baretta, Kojak, Cannon, Police Woman, Barnaby Jones, and the SWAT team chased video villains in 'theil' respective shows. The Old South was seen in highly different perspectives in two of decade's most watched shows: Gone With The Wind and Roots. The latter show spawned a rash of mini-series hoping to capture some of Root's success. And of course, there were the so-called jig- 12 Communications gle shows, such as Gharlieis Angels. Hollywood valiantly tried to lure televi- sion audiences back to the silver screen. The disaster film made its appearance, and audi- ences experienced anything from capsized ships to flaming skyscrapers in such movies as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, and the endless supply of Airport films. The devil and his legions made guest appearances in The Exorcist, The Omen, and other occult-related films. Wildlife also took its toll on audience's nerves in Jaws, The Swarm, and Grizzly. All was not grim, however. Money-making comedies included Annie Hall, Young Fran- kenstein, Foul Play, and Animal House. Musical films like Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and A Star is Born boosted the ca- reers of John Travolta and Barbra Streisand. And not to be forgotten were those out-of- this-world films - Star Wars and Close En- counters of' the Third Kind. f