fun in the 70's

I believe I am one of the older members here - tho not sure - I thought it might be amusing to list some of the things from the 70's I personally experienced.

mushrooms of course - would boil 40-50 into a tea and split between 3-4 people - melt into the universe! - I realize now this was a huge dose

orange barrel/orange sunshine - wonderful The most vivid visually of all the old acid - long duration wild stuff immense pupil dilation

purple microdot kinda generic , very small - dissolve several hits in a bottle of cheap wine-put in freezer till slushy - pass around

clear window pane clear ,hard gel like very very small less than 1/8" square very heavy and mindblowing - confusing - you could get lost in your own back yard !

Red Window Pane milder - more recreational - very warm body load liked it a lot

Pyramid -gel like window pane- small size and pyramid shaped 3d -various colors red best - green was kinda strange

various cartoon blotters - my favorites -dancing testtube and gold spade

mescaline in all shapes and forms - pills , caps , flavored powders -chocolate and strawberry were popular

Late 70's we were doing a lot of unknown powder sold as pure THC suspected variant of pcp but man we had some adventures on it

long post I know and I am sure I left a lot out memory dims

would like to hear from any other old timers

thanks
bogaziti arty:

 

Windowpane for sure. Orange sunshine, yes. Blotter acid for the most part in the 70s.

I remember when my friends and I would mail buds, mushrooms, acid, and pills through the US mail - with no worries. It would arrive all intact and we could partake of what our freinds were doing on the other side of the continent. Good times.

 

I may be a bit older Mabusa. I remeber when acid was legal. LOL

 

I remember when ganja was barely a illegal here in WV...
You could carry up to an ounce.....
This was in the 60's tho....

 

Everybody kept their seedy Mexican or Columbian in cigar boxes.

Johnny Carson rules late night TV, mainly because of the stoners that watch the show.

Southern rock is born.

Cable TV meant having more than the usual 4 or 5 channels off the antenna.

You could about fill up your gas tank on a 5 dollar bill.

Sex couldn't kill you but the drugs might.

The Olympics used only non professional athletes.

The Russian women athletes always looked a little too masculine.

Computers had switches you had to throw.

While a few TV sets had remote controls, most families used their children.

Military surplus was everywhere. Cheap too.

Most telephones were the basic black model from Ma Bell.

Most telephones had rotary dials.

Don Kirshner's rock concert on late night TV.

Benny Hill was about the only place on American TV where you stood a chance of seeing a naked breast.

Saturday Night Live! Again, made famous by stoners.

"Jaws" made everybody too afraid to go in the water. "The Exorcist" made everybody to afraid to go to sleep. "Close Encounters" made everybody want to leave earth.

Billy Beer.

The Iron Curtain.

The Red Chinese.

The Frito Bandito

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."

"Where's the Beef?"

"Two whole beef patties..."

"I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper"

The Uncola.

Mr. Rodgers.

Captain Kangeroo.



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We measured ounces by fingers if it wasn't at least four fingers you wouldn't pay 15 dollars..
I'm 50 :Lurk:

 

Oh Yeah, four finger lids. Panama Red, Alcapulco Gold, Columbian Redbud. You could buy mountains of real speed. Real downers. Quaaludes were my favorite. The Rorer's, not the bootlegs. You could see three great bands for about eight bucks...Ahhh! Those were good times...I think.

 

Oh I am so happy I have found this forum. So many fond memories!

I remember driving around and just asking random people if they wanted to get high. I can not imagine letting someone in my car today I didn't know and then having the nerve to fire up a joint with them.

Mabusa I do remember the pure "THC" I had one of the most fun New Years ever taking that stuff. I am sure you are right I imagine it was PCP although I remember it being fairly firm and moist not powdery....kinda beige.

Anyone remember power hitters? I spent about two days trying to manufacture one from a honey bear but alas he wasn't really big enough to get enough air behind it to really shotgun.

 

Interesting... I don't remember the 70s for obvious age-related reasons, but my mum is 5...3?4? ish and also talks about how it was...different, more friendly. Do you think this is true, or is it just that you were different back then? I ask as, at 23, I see a lot of my friends are more... 'guarded' than they were, say, as teenagers, less likely to have random encounters like this.
Having said that, I don't think I would ever have imagined inviting a complete stranger into my car and smoking with them...so maybe it is different. Not quite sure what point I'm trying to make here, it's just something that's always interested me.

Someone must explain to me what this means...a honey bear??

Also, mabusa...you have made me insanely jealous. I spent...a lot of time and money chasing down acid, and haven't seen any since that once...now here you are with a freakin' menu! Must have been hella fun...at least the stuff I finally got was decent quality...

 

Ashwinder I think things are totally different. Of course that is always true that times change. I seemed to have no fear, not of being kidnapped or busted or anything. Perhaps the weed was just so good??LOL

To explain the honey bear I must explain a power hitter. It was a large soft plastic container with a pointy top to it that when you unscrewed the top there was a metal tube that you put the joint into (lit already) screwed on the lid and when you squeezed the hitter and covered the hole it would shotgun out a huge hit. Probably extremely wasteful but hey the stuff cost only $15 an ounce. a honey bear would work if it held about twice the honey the average bear holds at the grocery store. It was all for those of us who had burned the crap out of our tongues giving our friends shotguns.

I went high to school almost every day. It played hell with my coordination in PE but you know I was never suspended. Now if you give someone asprin you are going to be getting suspended. I think everyone was just cooler about things.........well except some cops but then some others would let you go. I guess it was really the courts and laws back then that were harsh.

 

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/420-product-reviews/58645-squeeze-power-hitter.html

oh here are some instructions on making a power hitter from a mustard bottle. I think it would have to be a big mustard bottle! The bear is cuter but you can see that as a group we spend more time in the kitchen than most.

 

Yeah it's different... no-one hitch hikes anymore, not over here anyway and certainly not long distance. Messed up stuff still happened though, one of my mums friends got kidnapped by a trucker for a couple of days...apparently she escaped and he didn't try anything! She still hitched afterwards, just kept a skewer in her rolled up sleeping bag...crazy shit...
That power hitter thing looks like fun, going to try it if for no other reason than I've not yet...gonna try to source a bear first though.
Wish I'd been around in the 70s...

 

Ashwinder you might check out these instructions using a sports bottle.
http://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/27869-old-school-power-hitter-using.html

The honey bear didn't work as nicely as it should have. I think I got the idea from Brad Pitt's bong in True Romance. I think you just really have to have something with more air.

Used to love power hitters. You could toss them around a room rather than the strain of having the get up and hand a joint to someone sitting across the room. Funny that sounds lazy but when you are really ripped it seems like such a chore.

Makes me wonder if there is a market for such a thing. Perhaps I am missing a million dollar opportunity?

 

I just found this forum. Actually I have seen it before but never investigated. Being 61, I remember almost everything you all are taking about.
I think we all look back at those time with a lot of fondness because life was just more relaxed, we trusted people a hell of a lot more than we do today, friends were forever, and we all wanted to change the world for the better.
I remember drive in movies, 2 or 3 people in the car and 2 more in the trunk. Smoking dubbies, drinking cheap wine, and just enjoying each others company.
I remember open air concerts( The Who, Jimmy H, the Stones, etc.). Every body willing to share their drugs. As soon as the concert started, miraculously this giant grey cloud would appear over the crowds.
I remember meeting your friends at the local malt shop and just shooting the breeze and talking about drugs, rock and roll, and who did what at school.
I remember so many good things about that era.

Maybe it is because I very much dislike this technological age we are in were nothing is real except greed, corruption, and dishonest politicians. Where the average person has been betrayed by its own government that don't give a damm for us. Were you can't walk in your neighborhood unless you carry a big stick or are packing. Maybe all us old timers never really adjusted to this MODERN world, I know I have not. Maybe that is why I would give up all I own just to be able to be wisked back to that era and feel alive and human again. Maybe it just me.

 

I remember power hitters

 

I remember LEAD icesickles on the xmas tree. One light goes out on a string of xmas lights and the whole thing goes dark.

They still shocked you as you strolled across the carpet though. But not as fast as the modern stuff.

ALUMINUM xmas trees. In all their silver glory.

If you were middle class, you had a rotating color wheel on the tree.



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Late 70's we were doing a lot of unknown powder sold as pure THC suspected variant of pcp but man we had some adventures on it

In my hometown, it was called "T" and was quite abundant cheap (going rate was $65/gram), and potent (for under ten bucks you could be stoned all day) in 1978. A girl I knew named Jenny overdosed at a concert, her boyfriend Mad Dog turned over their supply, and was told by authorities that it was PCP. It soon acquired a bad reputation and went away.

Used to love power hitters.

They were nice! But man did they stink, for some reason. I wonder if my kids even know what they are/were. I was surprised to find recently that my daughter had no idea what a "smoke stone" was. In case they're really that unknown... a smokestone was a piece of "stoneware" or china or something like that, with a hole drilled through it. You'd insert the joint in one end, and hit out of the other end. When it got tiny, it would make it unnecessary to use a roachclip, but it would always go out when it got realllllly small. And you'd have a perfectly-shaped roach with no run. That's how I remember it, anyways.

At one time, a friend of mine borrowed a bunch of glassware from where he went to school (Xavier Univ in Cincinnati) and brought it over. We connected an aquarium pump and made a powered shotgun-blower waterpipe with multiple chambers. Oh those wonderful innocent years...

ALUMINUM xmas trees. In all their silver glory.

Gawd those were beautiful, with the rotating light. I forgot all about those... thanks!

 

LOL yeah, '4 fingered lid' Depends on what it was though. If it was some good shit, you could pay $20 for it.

I remember orange barrels/orange sunshine too. If I remember, you could get them as 4 way hits too.

A pound of grass was around $100. Ah shit, I'm old. LOL