Crazy Throwback Thursday featured styles from across five decades

Mountain Lake Area Chamber of Commerce plans retro event; businesses, the deals

 

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The Mountain Lake Area Chamber of Commerce organized a Crazy Throwback Thursday for Thursday, July 23. Participating businesses featured “Throw Back” prices – along with crazy costumes from their favorite retro decade.

The most “fave” retro decade was the ’70s – with guys dressed in suave leisure suits and disco nights attire. But, also popular were the ’60s, with colorful “flower power” the groovy get-up costume scene, complete with a cameo appearance from “hippies” Sonny and Cher. Also represented well were the ’80s, with many young women ready to dance, dance, dance with flashdance fever. Still other women choose the flapper era from the Roaring ’20s. The ’50s, too, were all the rage, with poodle skirts popping up all over the place, along with the housewife look of the times.

Businesses sponsoring this 2015 Crazy Throwback Thursday included 10th Street Pickers, Care & Share/10,000 Villages, Country Pride True Value, Custom  Motors, Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake, Jubilee Fruits & Vegetables, KDOM, Maynard’s Food Center, Mountain Lake Family Fitness, Mountain Lake Floral, Observer/Advocate, Our Hometown Cafe, Peterson Drugs & Gifts, Salon 310, The Matchless Gift and United Prairie Bank.

Each participating business also had an area in which customers could vote on their favorite worker’s crazy retro costume. The employee with the most votes won $50 in Chamber Bucks. In addition, each voter’s name was placed in a box with one name drawn to also win $50 in Chamber Bucks.

A Medallion Hunt was a part of the craziness as well – with over $90 in prizes to the winner. Eleven-year-old Mason Fast of Windom tracked down the medallion (with help on the clues from younger brothers Maxton and Micah). He found it tucked in the limbs of a tree near the Veterans Memorial in Mountain Lake City Park. His prizes included $50 Gift Card from Maynard’s Food Center, $25 Gift Card from Peterson Drugs & Gifts and a Free Hair Cut from Salon 310. Clues were given at each participating business – beginning at 9 a.m. – and at the top of each hour – until Mason spied the medallion.

Susie Gohr – 1/2 of the Sonny and Cher duo (along with Jim Peterson) of Peterson Thrifty White Drug and Gifts, was voted “Best Dressed,” winning $50 in Chamber Bucks from the Mountain Lake Area Chamber of Commerce.

Below is a photo gallery from the crazy throwback kind of day:

 

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YOU CAN’T THINK of the 1950s without remembering the poodle skirts that were all the rage. Teens and women alike wore this style where the skirts were fitted at the waist and then poofed out, with the hem falling a little below knee length. And, rockin’ that style well during Crazy Throwback Thursday was Julie Falk of United Prairie Insurance.  

 

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MARY CLASSEN WAS quite the “flower child” with her throwback to the 1960s hippie era – colorful headband with a flower tucked in it and gaudy flowered floor-length maxi dress. She spent time on her break from Peterson Thrifty White Drug & Gifts to fill a bag for three bucks at 10,000 Villages/Care & Share.

 

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HOW BETTER TO enjoy a throwback Thursday but with throwback pop in bottles. Marynard’ Food Center’s Elijah Stoesz, pictured above left, and Victoria Hofmann were pounding the pavement marketing the retro beverages. Taking them up on the opportunity to back to a time when pop was only found in bottles was Marilyn Stoesz of The Matchless Gift, right.

 

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YOU COULD NOT be a guy dressed up for a special occasion in the ’70s without stylin’ with a leisure suit – a man’s casual suit of trousers and a matching jacket styled like a shirt. Above, Elijah Stoesz is workin’ the fashion – with the use of Jonathan Adrian’s personal outfit from his high school days.

 

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‘WHAT A FEELING” – a 1980’s “Flashdance” kind of feeling – courtesy of Victoria Hofmann.

 

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CRANKIN’ UP THE ol’ Victrola phonograph in 10th Street PIckers is Sharron Hanson, bringing forward the spirit of the flapper from the Roaring Twenties.
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PEACE, LOVE AND flowers – plenty of flowers, like Crazy Daisies – from Mountain Lake Floral. Nene Smestad was one groovy chick wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt and crown of colorful summertime flowers.
 
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BECCA JOHNSON OF Salon 310 – a self-professed “Fashion Maniac” – was looking for “Fame” with her ’80s dance moves of The Electric Slide, moonwalking, the “robot” and “Thriller” of Michael Jackson’s introduction.
 
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“I GOT YOU Babe,” and Peterson Thrifty White Drug and Gifts has “got you,” too. Sonny and Cher were “in the building” hawking crazy deals – and some vocal duets. Jim Peterson, left, was “Sonny,” having “a gas” wearing the cool ribbed corduroy pants worn by Merle Boldt in high school (and preserved for decades). Susie Gohr as “Cher,” right, with matching dress and headband, truly sparkled in the sunshine. When Susie saw the dress, she went “ape” over it and just had to have it.
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IT IS NOT every day that the check-out clerk at Maynard’s Food Center gets “Saturday Night Live” disco fever when you purchase seasoned pork burgers – but on Crazy Throwback Thursday – anything goes. John Travolta’s dance moves have nothing on those of Christian Pfeiffer. (Note the heavy-duty chest hair peeking out of Pfeiffer’s unbuttoned shirt – underneath his chains and medallions.
 
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KATHERINE HOFMANN, LEFT, hazards a guess on the number of Skittles are in the jar to win free registration to the Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake’s Good Sam Color Jam, set for Saturday, August 22. Helping her register is Amber Hughes, Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake Activity Director, right.
 
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“RETRO” IN EVERY aspect is Maynard’s Food Center’s butcher-in-residence Kevin Ratzlaff, doing the hot dog grilling honors.
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A MEDALLION HUNT was a part of the craziness as well – with over $90 in prizes to the winner. Eleven-year-old Mason Fast of Windom tracked down the medallion (with help on the clues from younger brothers Maxton and Micah). He found it tucked in the limbs of a tree near the Veterans Memorial in Mountain Lake City Park. His prizes included $50 Gift Card from Maynard’s Food Center, $25 Gift Card from Peterson Drugs & Gifts and a Free Hair Cut from Salon 310. Clues were given at each participating business – beginning at 9 a.m. – and at the top of each hour – until Mason spied the medallion. (Photo courtesy of Marcia Fast)
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