W F West High School - Chehalin Yearbook (Chehalis, WA)

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We ll remember l959 as the year everyone had watery eyes from wearmg contact lenses the glrls wore short sklrts long sweaters and appeared to have no fag ures at all old songs like My Happmess and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes became popular agaln the glrls had thelr legs from admurmg males by covering them wnth multl colored leo tights the science craze hut the United States In an effort to match the Russlans boys wore flaps on thelr pants pockets button down collars and narrow narrow tles teen age glrls swooned over Ricky Nelson and Elvls Presley whsle clean cut Pat Boone captured the hearts ofthe nation everyone mcludlng teen agers spent much tlme swmgmg around try mg to keep a clrcular piece of plastlc hula hoopmg and those crazy women s styles chemuse balloon Empire and Tru peze dresses pointed shoes colored nylons and headache bands 1 I I - I ' Il ' ll II ' ll I Il - ll - - - . I the Army's Explorer went hurling and whirling around the globe, . I I I I I . . . . - . I , . . - 1 1 1 ' I D 1 1 ' '

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