Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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A CROWDED TRIP HOME was par for the course for most cor drivers. Charles Schwartz, Kim Washer, Chris Greer, Don Sellinger, Dan Dover, and Colleen Har- rington left the school parking lot after climbing into their car. sew w .. . -- 6 i f e l S .NE CLASH between forms of transportation, students rode toward the school as buses arrived on campus. ' ' BEATING THE TRAFFIC, Ronnie Harris walked along 118th Avenue as car drivers backed up waiting to turn into the parking lot. ONE OF THE FEW motorcycle riders, Mark Hartley traveled to school on a Kawasaki. A few students rode motorcycles and car- ried their helmets with them throughout the school day. TRANSPORTATION I 19

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t y e there or be square, ordered Fonzie on the T.V. series Hoppy Doysf' Even though Fonzie's there re- ferred to ci gong rumble, his messqge wos o lot like school boord members' ottendonce rule, lt wos HOW students got to ond from compus thot mode 'getting there' os interesting ond fun os cz Hoppy Doys episode. Bus riders hod the most rigorous tronsportotion schedule. Yowning students wolked to bus stops regordless of dripping roin, chilling winds, or blistering heot. No, they didn't corry moil like postmen. lnsteod, students houled text- books, folders, ond, on speciol occosions, posters, brownies, ond gym clothes. Mony could hove put U-Houl Vons to use. After orriving ot the bus stops, students prepored for the woit. Piles of books trons- formed into choirs, gym clothes into pillows, poster boords into umbrellos, ond brownies into breokfosts Cwho cored obout the culturol experience? D When buses finolly orrived, students climbed the three owkword steps, drogging 18 I TRANSPORTATION THE ARRIVAL OF THE MASSES occi every morning ot opproximotely when the mojority of the studen rived vio school buses. Students wc from the bus circle into the school. I 1 Getting There books, brownie crumbs, posters, ond P.E. clothes behind them. After filing into seots, students gossiped, studied, ond slept. The ride never seemed to lost long enough - before students knew it, they were descending those three owkword steps ond hiking from the bus circle into the school. Bus riders envied cor drivers. Cor drivers seemed to go through less hossle 'getting there,' but still hod their shore of tronsportotion troubles. There wos no woy to describe the crunching sound in on eorly morning fender bender, the frustrotion of hitting every red light, the despoir of running out of gos on both street, ond the onger of finding thot someone took your fovorite porking ploce. Students who didn't ride buses or drive cors hod their own unique woys of 'getting there.' A few students wolked to school, rode bikes, drove motorcycles ond mopeds, or rode with porents. At 2:00 'getting there' meont getting home or getting to work. Six hours loter, the ot- mosphere wos completely dif- ferent. Yowning morothons subsided. After seculsion in on olmost windowless building, students squinted os their eyes odjusted to the sunlight. Bus riders unoble to bum o ride home wondered through the moze of buses which were togged with confusing route ond bus numbers. After finding buses, students struggled to find seots ond then tolked with friends or worked on homework during the ride home, Some cor drivers tossed books into bock seots ond heoded for home. But most cor drivers were unoble to throw onything into bock seotsg cors were usuolly filled with students. lt wos common to see the reor bumpers of cors close to the povement. Regordless of the possenger number, students beeped ond woved to friends ond hod Chinese firedrills ot intersections. The rumble of students getting to ond from school mode Fonzie's gong rumbles look tome. His commond Be there or be squore lived on! News if ! 'm 'Mmii5'- 'q ii ' sas,.:.ss-:s-- .- gf , . .. .... . . g .,. .

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