Remember when? (Page 2 of 2)

Solo...I bet you cleaned your pot and rolled your joints  out on your record albums? Yeah, possesion  was a felony where I lived too. Seems like we got away with a lot, though. Im amazed that my friends and I never got caught. The only arrest was when our friend Larry mooned us at the same exact second a state trooper was driving by. He spent the night in jail for that one! I do remember eating a joint or two to escape from getting caught on a couple occasions.

Interesting posts !
     
      I was a military kid born in 56". We lived in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Massachusetts and England. I was in 12 schools [non -concurrent] in 12 years. I went from a one room school house in Dauphin Island , Alabama directly into the British school system. I remember the shrimper's kids on Dauphin Island who were lucky to have shoes on their feet , but always managed to have a $20 bill in their pocket in first grade! The only black family on the island collected the garbage. Blacks literally were not allowed on the island. They lived near the baseball fields just off base and we would always invite the boys over to play. One day the wing commander stopped and came onto the field to shue the black kids off. It was an early lesson in ignorance I've never forgotten.
    I spent a number of summers in New England with my grandparents. The kids in the Boston area when they came over would call for you from outside...Baawbee...Baawbee. Standing two feet from the doorbell they would still holler out....different!
    England was a real twist. My mom always insisted that we be a part of the culture wherever we went. We rarely lived on bases. I remember how strict the teachers and the head master were in British school. Expectations were very high. I remember being caned in school there for misbehaving , which was quite a shock to the senses. I can fully understand the English and their fancy for light s/m and spankings because it's woven into the fabric. We got to England in 64' just a few months after the Beatles hit the states. Here we were in the home of the Beatles and they in popularity took a backseat to a number of British acts. The Stones, Herman's Hermits, Freddy and the Dreamers, Petula Clark were all equally if not more popular than the Beatles. I fell in love with the show there called Top of the Pops , which every Thursday night featured the likes of the Troggs, the Hollies, the Who, Sandi Shaw, Dusty Springfield or the Tremeloes. We lived in a small village in Suffolk called Sudbury. It required that my mom shopped nearly everyday. No supermarkets !....You went to butcher, the baker, the chemist, the fish monger. I remember getting fish and chips there and they then used real newspaper to wrap your fish. If you waited to long to eat it the print would come off on the fish. Kind of carbon-dating myself here....sorry!
     Back to the states in 69' and things here amongst the kids I'd known prior was very different. They were into drugs and just general deviance. Granted from 8 to 13 most kids would change but socially I couldn't identify with them at all. Funny, I too remember finding the dumped porn in the woods...ha!...I also remmber telling my friend who I had to share this collossal find with that we had to cover the box of mags with something because the rain was causing the pages to stick together. Silly boy!
    In relation to today the biggest difference seems to be expectation. My parents demanded a great deal from my sister and myself. B's in school were a sign that things were slipping. We were never asked once what we wanted for dinner, we simply ate what we were served. We were required to have summer jobs by 15. There was no idle time it just wasn't tolerated. "If you can't find something to do we'll find something you can do" was a constant refrain.
  btw-My first bag o' weed was in 75' and  for $25 and I got three fingers of Columbian Red bud. That stuff was so good even visine was useless. Within a few years it was gone...paraquated away probably.

I like that analogy, and I feel the same.  Ready for the polar opposite of what we're living right now.  Let love and integrity rule!

MTV owes its entire early existence to TOtP and The Old Grey Whistle.  In those days, this was the only game in town.  So when MTV first started, this was how they got almost all of their material.  Gary Numan, The Police, The Pretenders, et. al. were heavily showcased because American bands weren't creating videos yet.

I remember watching a show in the 60's called "Shindig", I think Dick Clark or one of those guys hosted it. For the commercial, they would bring up some pizza-faced kid from the audience and wipe his face with a Stri-dex pad, which at the time was basically an alcohol pad, and then shine a spotlight on it to show how much axle grease it took off the kids face. Pretty impressive.

I remember one time my family visited some friends who had kids about my age.  Well, we were pretty much allowed to run amok in the neighborhood, and they had this old abandoned house they liked to hang out at.  Sounds scary now, but it was cool back then!  Anyways, this particular house had no furniture or anything, but it was packed to the rafters with porn.  I think it scarred me for life, because I can still remember it.

Thing is, it was about the silliest porn ever created.  I don't know if it was just a '70's thing, or if whoever collected this stuff was just really strange.  It was all in black and white, and it was still shots "old silent picture show style" that told really bizarre and corny stories about sheiks, doctors and nurses, etc.  The "dialogue " was terrible.   It seemed pretty sophisticated to my 8-year-old mind, but looking back it was really childish and corny.

I'm a girl, btw, and detest porn and what it stands for nowadays, but when you're a kid, you're curious about this mysterious thing called sex.  Like I learned anything from that silly stash!