Martrex wrote:
So you were around in the 70's what was life like back then?
8 track tapes, with a matchbook stuffed under it to get it to track right, Sgt Peppers, "window pane' acid , mescaline, hash, mushrooms and a few scattered junkies who knew who they were and so did everyone else. Dry times when a joint couldn't be bought for any money. Bong pipes filled with MD "wine". Pharmaceuticals were for lunatics but there was a lot of "ludes" (downers) and "white crosses", (uppers).
Hanging in front of the liqueur store waiting for someone to get you some beer,(and most folks would), cruising the country roads smokin' and drinkin' and if the cops pulled you over they didn't ask to search your car, and if they found beer they would simply dump it out in front of you and tell you to go home, as long as someone was still sober enough to drive.
SWAT was what you did to flies.
Alice cooper, Moody blues, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, Kiss and Black Sabbath..
Go to school stoned. Open lunch hour, hit the alleys and get stoned again.
Sex
without a condom. Sex
with anyone who would. Nothing to worry about that penicillin wouldn't cure... or marriage.
Machines couldn't auto - censor your speech.
The last great days of the Drive in theaters and hamburger joints.
Old men didn't get carded just because. And certainly not for smokes!
A kid could buy some smokes, model glue and a can of spray paint, a BB gun or a lighter without an adult present.
When the electricity went out all the stores didn't have to close.
Gas was 89-$1.19. Candy bar for 10 cents, Coke for 20 cents and 2 cents back on the 12 oz bottle. Soda and beer can tabs littered the highways and byways.
NOBODY bought water in a bottle and NOBODY imagined paying for air!
The greatest invention was probably the butane lighter. Who'da thought we'd be just chuckin 'em in the trash in a few years.
No rap.
Garage bands on every block. Karaoke?
The telephone was at home, attached to the wall with a 3 ft cord that became a tangled knot from hell attached to the part you spoke and listened through. Telephone booths were actual booths before the phone company decided only the phone needed to stay out of the elements, before they disappeared altogether. We wrote letters to acquaintances whom we did not call "friends" and we didn't write down every thought in our head and throw them out the window so everyone on the planet could read them because... the whole damn planet don't really give a rats ass, as much as some may have a hard time believing.
Four or five TV channels, and if you were too poor to own a "Tenna Roter", somebody had to go outside and turn the pole till someone inside hollered, THAT"S GOOD!!! Had to get up and walk across the room to change the channels. (makes you wonder why we bothered huh)
Saturday mornings, Loony Tunes and and Johny Quest. Movies all afternoon . All day Sunday was sports.(some things never change)
Nixon wasn't a crook, and he told us so. Walter Cronkite gave the 'Nam casualties every night. "14 Americans killed... 8,000 Viet Cong dead".
Charlie Manson and the Son of Sam.
At the gas station a guy came out, pumped your gas, washed your windshield and checked your oil.
When you lifted the hood of your car you could actually SEE the engine and the fuel pump was on the front of the engine where it belongs and not in the gas tank. Shade tree mechanics under most every shady tree.
New Harley $1,800, Dodge Charger $2,500. Muscle cars everywhere. Fuzzy dice and custom vans with built in bed, little sink and cooler. (For "spammin' " ya know)
Songbirds, butterflies, toads, frogs, diversity all over the place.
Take your pocket knife , aspirin, Mydol to school. No silly backpacks. Lockers were where your books lived until each class. No four hours of homework. We did that in study hall or on the bus... if you were prone to that sort of waste of time. Jock or freak, prick teasers or girls who would.
In every game there were winners and losers and nobody was "special" or "challenged". Bullis were handled by "My big Brother!", and real friends who may not fight well, but went on to write books like "How to get Even".
ZZ Top, Yes, Dark Side of the Moon and "My Big Ten Inch. ( Well, SOMEBODY's big ten inch)
Oh hell... just watch "Dazed and Confused", they got pretty close to the heart of it all.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go have myself a good cry and knock back a six pack of Little Kings And smoke a pack of Kools.
Oh yeah.
A four finger bag was a "lid", and you had to twist one up three or four time a day to stay high. But it was FIFTEEN dollars and most of us could only afford a nickel bag.
I'd tell you more but I don't remember much else actually.
I just know we weren't the Fascist police state we are today. Sad...
If you want to know any more, I guess charliesou was around about that time. He may remember more, but I won't bet on it.
Did I say Lava lamps and "Midnight at the Oasis"?
And no rap.
