Remember when...

[Dan]

When I was growing up as a teenager and going to "keggers" (does anyone do this anymore), if we were busted the police would just take our beer and drink it on sunday at the volunteer fire department. Damn I miss those keggers where everyone would decide on a backroad to party on and just have fun.......

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Haha. I grew up in the midwest in a small town. All our party spots were out in the country, "The T", "Dog Town Lane", "Beer Can Ridge", an old strip mine lake "Aculpoco" and a few others. Cops would show up occasionally take the beer and send everybody home. No car crashes, no DUIs.

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[MagooBrew]

Sounds like we were neighbors. We had Coolie Creek, The Tranformers, West Sea strip mine and many others. We all knew to meet at the gast station to find out where to go. No cell phones. Man if we had cell phones!!!!

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[Homercidal]

LOL! Party spots. "The Woods", "The Pits" (Gravelpit with swimming hole. I've never partied there, but I went swimming once. There was a bunch of stoners out there that day...) "So-and-so's house".

It took me a long time to figure out how the local parents and police never knew about these places. I was NOT a party kid, but somehow I knew where the party was each week. SURELY the cops knew, right?? My uncle was deputy sherrif in town, and I finally realized that as long as the party was not in the town limits, he just let kids have their fun and blow off some steam. Not sure it was the right thing to do, but most of the kids made it to adulthood, so that's got to count for something. Then again, I know how some of them ended up, so...

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,I servived all those myself. Beer,liquor,sex,drugs & rock-n-roll...just what everybody need!

 

[Domminigan]

LOL! Party spots. "The Woods", "The Pits" (Gravelpit with swimming hole. I've never partied there, but I went swimming once. There was a bunch of stoners out there that day...) "So-and-so's house".

It took me a long time to figure out how the local parents and police never knew about these places. I was NOT a party kid, but somehow I knew where the party was each week. SURELY the cops knew, right?? My uncle was deputy sherrif in town, and I finally realized that as long as the party was not in the town limits, he just let kids have their fun and blow off some steam. Not sure it was the right thing to do, but most of the kids made it to adulthood, so that's got to count for something. Then again, I know how some of them ended up, so...

Back in the 70's, the kids would have parties in the river stormwater overflow project... we call it the "Big Ditch" Anyway, they would have big bonfire parties, kegs and such. The cops would eventually fly over in their helicopters and everyone would scatter, thinking the cruisers were right behind. Now of course we know that the police chopper pilots were laughing fit to be tied watching the kids scatter. Far better for them to be out in the open surrounded by sand in an area where they can't do any damage than have them at someone's house.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

... Far better for them to be out in the open surrounded by sand in an area where they can't do any damage than have them at someone's house.

That is definitely the case.

To our amazement, the police often seemed to tolerate us partying too in the town where I grew up.
In the center of town we had a huge, steep hill with a cemetery on top where we’d often party (just outside the cemetery fence), and if it was winter - usually build a bonfire. The police station was literally at the base of that hill and we were all in plain site of the police about 200 yards away. Once in a while they’d drive through on the cemetery access and once in a great while send us home but not all that much ... and generally never confiscated anything or searched anyone or wrote any citations etc. Later on I realized that it was a probably a lot simpler and quieter for them if they knew where we all could be found, and could easily keep an eye on us

This was in contrast to the next largest city near us, Birmingham, Michigan ... where they actively harassed kids for being found on the streets after dark or for that matter walking in the business district. Not causing trouble ... literally just walking mind you. The effect was that they pushed the considerable population of after-dark teenagers into the city’s unlit parks and onto the railroad tracks. The tracks were a wonderful place to hang out I must admit ... and Grand Trunk police (railroad cops) were rarely seen; though I did get hauled in by them once.

About the only other place one could hang out late night in Birmingham was on the top floor of one of the parking decks in the business district, playing Frisbee. This was a really wonderful place to be late night in summer and generally we did not get kicked off.

 

[GrogNerd]

That is definitely the case.

To our amazement, the police often seemed to tolerate us partying too in the town where I grew up.
In the center of town we had a huge, steep hill with a cemetery on top where we’d often party (just outside the cemetery fence), and if it was winter - usually build a bonfire. The police station was literally at the base of that hill and we were all in plain site of the police about 200 yards away. Once in a while they’d drive through on the cemetery access and once in a great while send us home but not all that much ... and generally never confiscated anything or searched anyone or wrote any citations etc. Later on I realized that it was a probably a lot simpler and quieter for them if they knew where we all could be found, and could easily keep an eye on us

This was in contrast to the next largest city near us, Birmingham, Michigan ... where they actively harassed kids for being found on the streets after dark or for that matter walking in the business district. Not causing trouble ... literally just walking mind you. The effect was that they pushed the considerable population of after-dark teenagers into the city’s unlit parks and onto the railroad tracks. The tracks were a wonderful place to hang out I must admit ... and Grand Trunk police (railroad cops) were rarely seen; though I did get hauled in by them once.

About the only other place one could hang out late night in Birmingham was on the top floor of one of the parking decks in the business district, playing Frisbee. This was a really wonderful place to be late night in summer and generally we did not get kicked off.

Grand Trunk Railroad

made me laugh. and feel the need to crank up some Mel, Mark and Don

 

[jleiii]

Wow, what a blast from the past this thread is. First time I saw it.

How could anyone forget Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, and My Mother the Car?

In my 'lab' a crystal radio kit lead to a series of Heathkit test tools - the highlight of my Birthday and Christmas. I was lucky to have an AM transmitter nearby so it always worked, but only on that station.
And a whole lot of other dangerous electrical experiments, not unlike Mr Tesla. Not every kid gets to play with high voltage arcs, vacuum pumps and what ever else I could scrounge up to knock out the TV signal. I can still hear the cry of "John what are you doing up there?" Fortunately I avoided killing myself, and made a career of electronics.

Although my last Navy duty station (1985) was still in the dark ages. We maintained a 1959 Sperry Univac computer used to teach up and coming Navy Officers ship Navigation. Good thing the ships were newer than 1959.

I 'fixed' my own trash picked electronics. Not many kids had a crappy B&W TV in their room, AND an FM Radio when it finally had good stations. One of the first regular shows I found was Michael Tearson's "Psychedelic Psupper". Ahh, the 70's. Only problem was the neighbors caught on so I had to lug my heathkits over to fix stuff for them. Need your round 21" color picture tube convergence adjusted? I could still do that.

And we played in the dirt, a lot. Biking off to 'the island' was a regular feature, and by the mid teens we had a souped up 90cc minibike that got us there faster and annoyed the neighbors. Sneakers, shorts and a tee-shirt was the only protection we had. Spent hours trying to figure out how to make a reel mower motor into a go cart. Then a neighbor came up with one, yea!

And we swam in the Delaware River....all summer long. No supervision, no life jackets. Just us and the mucky water. Maybe this is why I never get sick, I built up immunity to it all!

Yeah, not any more...... I miss those days.

 

[Beernik]

I'm watching Magnum PI on Netflix.

I don't remember anything from Season 1.

 

[shelly_belly]

I remember taking the vacuum tubes from the tv down to the drug store to test them in the vacuum tube tester. Then we found our way home by following the kerosene burning smudge pots lining the road construction on the way home.

 

[beernbourbon]

I remember taking the vacuum tubes from the tv down to the drug store to test them in the vacuum tube tester. Then we found our way home by following the kerosene burning smudge pots lining the road construction on the way home.

lol, you mean those same smudge pots we used to knock over on the way UP to the store with the vacuum tubes? That would then catch the road on fire (hey at 10 years old, you don't think a hard surface can burn, right?)

 

[krackin]

We had places called Muddy Boot, Pine Tree Lounge, Mineral Springs, Dugway, Hole in the Wall, The Trestle, First Bridge, Redstone Bridge, Hussey's Field, Common Land Camp, etc. We had to mix it up to keep ahead of a couple ofthe local cops, they were pretty good at finding us. A lot of our places were 4 WD only.

 

[soccerdad]

Opening Day 2014 - I'm trying to think how far back I remember baseball. 1957 World Series for sure .. Braves over the Yanks. Spahn, Matthews, Aaron (was he a rookie??), Joe Adcock ....

I was 5.

Pretty much remember football back to 57 but only because it was Jim Brown's rookie season.

 

[glenn514]

Soccerdad...I think you also need to add that it was the MILWAUKEE Braves!

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[soccerdad]

Yes indeed - not too many of those braves made the move to ATL

 

[glenn514]

My all-time favorites on the Milwaukee Braves teams in the 50's were Andy Pafko and Red Schoendienst. And us "young-uns" got into the ball park for, if I recall correctly, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS through "The Knot-Hole Club." Of course, we had to sit in the outfield bleachers, but it was still major league baseball!

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[lschiavo]

We had places called Muddy Boot, Pine Tree Lounge, Mineral Springs, Dugway, Hole in the Wall, The Trestle, First Bridge, Redstone Bridge, Hussey's Field, Common Land Camp, etc. We had to mix it up to keep ahead of a couple ofthe local cops, they were pretty good at finding us. A lot of our places were 4 WD only.

"The Ponds". The service road to the sewage settling ponds. It never smelled. Lots of good parties there. Cops just took your beer and told you to continue driving home drunk

 

[MaxStout]

We used to have keggers outside of town in the 1970s. We'd just drive out to some dead-end gravel road. There would be parked cars along both sides of the road for 1/4 mile. If the local sheriff deputies came by, they would just check a few IDs and leave. Unless it was getting out of hand, they usually didn't care. If they did chase us out, we would just meet up again somewhere else 10 or 15 miles away and continue.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

lol, you mean those same smudge pots we used to knock over on the way UP to the store with the vacuum tubes? That would then catch the road on fire (hey at 10 years old, you don't think a hard surface can burn, right?)

Are the ones you remember the type that looked like a black cannon ball, basically the classic depiction of a round "bomb" with a wick out the top where the flame was?
Oh man, as a kid I badly wanted some of those.

When the kerosene ones disappeared I wondered where the millions of them went? Maybe sold to Guyana or Uruguay or Argentina or something? A couple of those for the tiki bar would be just the thing.

 

[MaxStout]

Are the ones you remember the type that looked like a black cannon ball, basically the classic depiction of a round "bomb" with a wick out the top where the flame was?
Oh man, as a kid I badly wanted some of those.

When the kerosene ones disappeared I wondered where the millions of them went? Maybe sold to Guyana or Uruguay or Argentina or something? A couple of those for the tiki bar would be just the thing.

Ask and eBay shall provide.

Would be cool on a patio bar--if you can keep the drunks from tripping on them, kicking them, etc.

 

[petey_c]

Hmmm, this thread is blowing the dust out of corners of what's left of my mind. Good read.

 

[Dan]

Corn dogs. Not the crappy ones you buy at the grocery freezer section. Carny corn dogs! The ones fresh dipped and fried in something terribly unhealthy at the county fair, or in my memory the fall festival in the small hometown Central Park.




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[brewbama]

Corn dogs. Not the crappy ones you buy at the grocery freezer section. Carny corn dogs! The ones fresh dipped and fried in something terribly unhealthy at the county fair...




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I remember Fletcher's Corn Dogs at the Texas State Fair.


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[unionrdr]

I liked the cheeseburger on a stick dipped in corn batter & fried at Cedar Point. Good & different.

 

[GrogNerd]

I liked the cheeseburger on a stick dipped in corn batter & fried at Cedar Point. Good & different.

make mine a bacon cheeseburger and I'll divorce the BigHair to run off and elope with it

 

[unionrdr]

The bacon addition would've been great. Everything's better with bacon! :rockin:

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Smoked bratwurst (or a polska) on a stick, wrapped in bacon, dipped in corndog batter & deepfried...
Then dipped in your favourite mustard, oh ya baby! Wash it down with your favourite beer.
Regards, GF.

 

[MaxStout]

When I was a kid, my parents would sometimes fry up a bunch of Little Smokies (cocktail weenies) in a pan and serve them for breakfast. Yum.

 

[unionrdr]

I roll the lil smokies in crescent roll dough & bake'em. Dip in various sauces.

 

[glenn514]

^^^That is a traditional part of our Christmas Day "spread." Can't imagine Christmas Day without those little thingies!

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