Admit it. You're getting older

[buttahflake]

Wacky Packs, Slush Puppies and the '75 Sawx!

[snoqpass]

Wacky Packs, Slush Puppies and the '75 Sawx!

Holy Shit! I forgot about those stickers

[Tippster]

Good Lord we're turning into the average EpicSkier from 10 years ago... but with better stories.

-$5 cases of Wiedemann's
-Dime bags, but they were 2 fingers in a sandwich bag. Nickel bags were 1. Smoking a joint by yourself got you high, not polluted.
-$15 to see an NHL game at the Cap Center. $8 for an outfield ticket at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Skins games were expensive at $25.
-HS Parking lot full of Novas and Chevelles. NOBODY had a Japanese car unless it was a 240 or 260z. Of course I drove a rusted out '68 Bug.
-Cigarettes cost as much as a gallon of gas: less than a dollar.
-Drinking age in DC was 18 for beer & wine. Everyone had a fake ID when you turned 16.
-No draft because no war, but still had to sign up for Selective Service.
-Smoking area in the quad. The cool teachers would come out for a smoke and leave with a buzz
-Print shop. The easiest A ever.

[buttahflake]

best outfield ever?

[Powder Ho]

[QUOTE=Meadow Skipper;4511636]Yeah it was. Columbian or Oaxacan was the occasionally available top-shelf, but it cost more. Still, it was kind of fun to roll a couple hudge ones of ditch weed and work them down to a roach that got tossed. Hey, remember Thai sticks? Early quality weed. To think of smoking a big fattie of today's weed all by myself...well, that'd be the end of that evening.
After retiring from the USAF, and being out of the game for 20 years, I joined the the circus and the first time our crew had a safety meeting I asked why we were using a pipe instead of rolling one? They all looked at me like I was crazy. One hit was all needed to realize I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

[KQ]

I drove a rusted out '68 Bug.

was it that beige color?

[Tippster]

It was the slightly lighter "Antique White" but yeah.

[Tippster]

...I joined the the circus...

Do tell!

[Powder Ho]

Do tell!

Sorry, forest circus. No bearded ladies. Wait there was this one chick on the engine. Never mind��

[stuckathuntermtn]

Meh. 30 is the new 20.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I had a party line until '82-'83 sometime. Grew up in W WA and I didn't know what shitty weed was until I moved to the Bay Area in the late '80s. I remember sticky green buds back as far as '82, I was 14 and I'm sure it had been around quite a bit longer. We had an account at the country store that was settled once a month. My grandparents were homesteaders.

[jon gaper]

Hey, remember Thai sticks? Early quality weed. To think of smoking a big fattie of today's weed all by myself...well, that'd be the end of that evening.

You never had a real Thai stick.They were 1 baht,5cents, and 1 hit lasted 4 hours.before you could stand up.

[gravitylover]

I remember:

Paying a nickle to make a phone call from a pay phone
Gas was under .50 a gallon
Rotary dial telephones (and when fancy cool push button or "touch tone" phones became widely available*)
Mimeographs
Having a black & white TV and only 4 channels with rabbit ears (WTF was the UHF all about?)
Waiting forever, it seemed, for your film to be developed (and the advent of "Photo Hut")
With .25 allowance I could buy 3 full sized candy bars
$50 got my mom 10 bags of groceries (and she complained about the cost)
$1 got you a bag of burgers (5) from Dick's Drive-in
Popsicles from the little truck that cruised around in the summer were .10
When 9-1-1 didn't exist and you had to keep the numbers for Police and Fire written down next to the phone

Does anyone remember how you could dial your own phone number from your home phone, hang-up and it would ring? We used to do this all the time to get someone somewhere else in the house to pick-up.


* Re push button phones - when they first came out and had the # and * keys they had no function and everyone wondered about them. I remember my father telling me "someday you'll be able to push those buttons and turn on the lights in your house". LOL!

Of course. I remember going to the neighbors house when they got a push button phone just to make a call with it. What about the tv "remote" that had a wire you dragged around the room.

Most of my friends who had kids are now grandparents. - Ha!

On the other end; lot of us are down to one, or none, parents left.

Yeah a bunch of my friends are grandparents.

Dollar movies at the cheap theatre.

Dark side at the Planetarium.

Cruising the EL.

Hah, I was just thinking about the Pink Floyd laser show at the planetarium the other day. That was the perfect place to have tried (several times) quaaludes. mmm yeah

Yeah, but it was in Fairbanks AK in the early 80s. That's like -20 years off the top.

I graduated HS in 1970, so I remember things like 29¢/gal gas, $100 surfboards, traveling without credit cards, leaded gas, the draft, 5¢ sodas and candy bars, 25¢ draft beers, really cheap tuition in California state colleges, Highway 101 being two lanes and lined with cypresses, traffic-free SoCal freeways, kook-free surf spots, $1.99 albums (more if they were stereo), $10 four-finger lids...shit.

Shit you and hutash are old In 1970 I was working out complex equations and dexterity exercises like learning how to tie my shoes.

I do remember things like the 18 year old drinking age and 25 cent beers though. Sub $1/gal gas and being able to have multiple drivers licenses so when you got pulled over you could always give one from a different state and never have to pay the ticket because they weren't computer connected.

[reckless toboggan]

[Meadow Skipper]

You never had a real Thai stick.They were 1 baht,5cents, and 1 hit lasted 4 hours.before you could stand up.

You might be right, but someone went to the trouble to wrap little colas around a bamboo sliver and it was a whole lot better than the available bag weed. Then in the late 70s sensimilla from Humboldt and Butte counties showed up and you learned to work out hand signals before a session if you planned on more than one hit.

[hutash]

Cheapest gas I remember was .25 a gallon. Only occurred during "gas wars". Get four guys each with a quarter and we had gas for a beach trip, all packed into a '68 VW bug. Maybe a like skunk weed (the usual) or Alcopulco Gold or Maui Wowwie (marketing was not the strong suit of early pot heads.)

[hutash]

You know you're old when all the clips on CNN'S The Seventies you are contemporary with, even worse when you remember all the shit actually happening on their The Sixties series.

[snoqpass]

Gas station give aways...

[BmillsSkier]

Either things didn't change that much for a long while or shit got expensive quick during the past 19 years because I can remember gas being 89 cents, smokes being 50 cents to a dollar, and thinking I was the shit because I was the only guy I knew carrying a Motorolla StarTac clam phone - and that was only 1996 $20 a day in college got me beer, weed, smokes and taco bell with some change left over, life was easy.

[whyturn]

One step beyond

[KQ]

Gas station give aways...

O-M-G I had all of those! We got a set of dishes from ARCO too.

[wooley12]

Another one gets crossed off next week. '68. Me, Mrs Wooley-to-be, and our best friend who wasn't sure what gay was. Not many did. We went for the $5.00 seats. Worth it.

[montanaskier]

Just tuned 40. Certainly don't stay up late anymore. I've got a 4 year old so I'm exhausted most of the time. Ear hair...oh yeah. Lots of creaky joints. I still think I'm 28, but after a pickup bball game or running full bore throwing and catching a football, I realize im certainly not 28!

[Gepeto]

OP... nice thread - fun read - nostalgic

Humble 3 2843 - 26cent gas - 44cent cigarettes

Cap Guns, Click Clacks & Box Kites
My first Schwinn bicycle
Playing cards and clothes pins to make cool sounds in your spokes
Mr. Magoo, Felix the Cat and Soupy Sales


Learning to drive in Dad’s Corvair
First color TV... most programming was still B&W
Kennedy Assassination - Walter Cronkite
One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind
We had school assemblies to watch things unfold

Interactive TV. I can’t remember the name. It was like Gumby & Pokey.
You "sent away" for this clear film and special markers that went on the TV tube to do connect the dots and maze puzzles with the animated characters. Mom wouldn’t get me the film and I used magic markers directly on the tube. Wow, what a beating I took.

Prizes you mailed away for after collecting so many cereal box tops.

NY Giants YA Tittle and Spyder Lockhart from the $2 bleacher seats
Ballantine XXXAle (produced in Newark NJ) – Rheingold Beer, the dry beer.

KQ/ Hutash, we must be close in age as your reminisces are spot on. Meadow Skipper, you have me by 5 I think.

Kool to roll out the way back machine

[iceman]

One step beyond

Hey you! Don't watch dat! Watch dis!



Or is that not what you were thinking of?