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

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Cabbage Patch Kids Cause Huge The Plight of the Cabbage Patch Kid Unlike most people when Christmas rolls around, | can’t stand to shop. Luck- ily | was endowed with only one jewel of a sister, so therefore, | had only one present to purchase. As | soon found out, even purchasing one present was a monumental task. | know! A Cabbage Patch doll — just what she wanted, and! wouldn't even have to return it. Unfortunately, every other kid presently residing in the conti- nental United States wanted one too. After standing in four feet of snow wait- ing for the bus, | began to think of giv- ing Little Freak Face my last year’s gym socks. They should fit her by now. My thoughts were interrupted as | was sud- denly buried. Déja vu! No, not home- work; snow. The bus had arrived. The doors opened and | was propelled amidst a sea of shoppers into store after store after store. No remains of Cabbage Patch Kids could be found. Even the names had been changed to Chatty Cathy and Baby-Cries-a-Lot. Discour- aged, | turned and heard a distant rum- ble. The Manager screamed in panic. Eight Cabbage Patch Kids were being made into slaw. The shoppers, in their eagerness, were unknowingly wring- ing the necks of the Cabbage Patch dolls. | went home. The situation was impossible. If my sister was going to get a Cabbage Patch doll, it was up to Saint Nick. -Kelly Sedlachek apy - a | Cay rt my e so

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Shopping Riot Current Prices In ‘84 Oxfords- $12.00 - $16.00 Ties- $3.00 - $5.00 Penny loafers- $22.00 Gum.- .25¢ Can of pop- .50¢ Levis- $16.00 Designer jeans- $28.00 - 32.00 Sweaters- $20.00 - $40.00 Suede rolled down boots- $26.00 Earrings- $3.00 - $5.00 Pizza- $5.00 - $10.00 Dress pants- $27.00 Haircut- $8.00 - $14.50 Movie- $3.75 Class ring- $70.00 and up Albums- $5.00 - $12.00 Seventeen- $1.75 Bandanas- .75¢ - $1.00 Purses- $8.00 - $12.00 Keds- $17.00 Beret- $12.00 14. Testing the new shades of lipstick at Prange’s Lois Carpenter, Traci Tollard, and Libby Davies experiment on each other. 2. At the Mad Hafteur, Ken Levine and Mike Heinbigner examine the top hits in music. 3. Reading what's new in books at Waldens, Mark Gordon and Wayne Zdanovec leaf through several. 4. Finding the latest fad in hats at Brooks, Kari Bohlssen and Brenda Herbst try them on. 5. Sizing up the shoes at Kinney’s, Christa Wolff and Jodie Schutz select the boots they like best.