Somewhere in my wake (not sure if flotsam or jetsam) there is a clipping from the Tallahassee Democrat showing my ex hanging on to a stop sign with her upside down Gremlin in the background. She bought a used Toyota Corolla after that, and that was a decent car.
Those had great back seatsAnd then there was the AMC Pacer, I disliked it more than the Gremlin.
he should've gotten the shot.
Yes. The first time I was stopped, I was just blocks away from home. The cops let me go and followed me to my house, watched me go inside and moved on. Another time, I was going to visit my brother in Calistoga. I decided to travel Hwy. 1, as I'd heard about it's beauty. I was stopped at a construction site, with travel one lane at a time. I had an ice chest full of beer and a paper bag of empties. I took a drink and my luck a CHP passed going the opposite direction. I watched my rear view mirror and sure enough, the fucker turned around. When I went around a turn, out of his sight, I threw out the beer and then I was pulled over. He checked my car and said he could identify the can as Budweiser. I drank Busch Bavarian then and they were red vs. blue. I told him the empties were from the night before.That had to be at least 40 years ago I would say.
Cops back in the 60's/70's and even up to the mid 80's were a different breed
When they weren't beating up hippies or Blacks they were mostly cool at least where I grew up
They were more humane than todays cops it seems to me.
Luv ya/Peace out/stay safe
By this time, I was resigned to the fact I was going to jail, but he let me go. I still wonder if he got a more important call, but he didn't mention it. I felt blessed at the time.
i've got one in my collection.Yes. The first time I was stopped, I was just blocks away from home. The cops let me go and followed me to my house, watched me go inside and moved on. Another time, I was going to visit my brother in Calistoga. I decided to travel Hwy. 1, as I'd heard about it's beauty. I was stopped at a construction site, with travel one lane at a time. I had an ice chest full of beer and a paper bag of empties. I took a drink and my luck a CHP passed going the opposite direction. I watched my rear view mirror and sure enough, the fucker turned around. When I went around a turn, out of his sight, I threw out the beer and then I was pulled over. He checked my car and said he could identify the can as Budweiser. I drank Busch Bavarian then and they were red vs. blue. I told him the empties were from the night before.
Yup, they did that once upon a time, not anymore.Yes. The first time I was stopped, I was just blocks away from home. The cops let me go and followed me to my house, watched me go inside and moved on. Another time, I was going to visit my brother in Calistoga. I decided to travel Hwy. 1, as I'd heard about it's beauty. I was stopped at a construction site, with travel one lane at a time. I had an ice chest full of beer and a paper bag of empties. I took a drink and my luck a CHP passed going the opposite direction. I watched my rear view mirror and sure enough, the fucker turned around. When I went around a turn, out of his sight, I threw out the beer and then I was pulled over. He checked my car and said he could identify the can as Budweiser. I drank Busch Bavarian then and they were red vs. blue. I told him the empties were from the night before.
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No, no, no, never say that.
I was 18 when Busch changed over to the watered down mess it is today. The Jr store in town had all the old Busch half price, so we drank it as long as it lasted.
They stopped distributing it in my area and there is a big Budweiser brewery right there in Van Nuys. There was Busch Gardens there and it was free, also free tastes of the various beers and free tour of the brewery on a tram. They even gave employees beer breaks. I bought some Busch while going through Utah and it was 3.2 beer. It was Sunday and I'd forgotten about their blue laws. I switched to Michelob, but now I can't find that, either. It's Michelob Ultra (formerly light) only. My dad, a former Marine, used to say "I'd rather drink dishwater" than 3.2 beer. He said the same about Brew 102.
CO finally ditched the 3.2 beer a few years ago. now you can buy regular strength at grocery stores and not just liquor stores.
yeah they still have some sign up here about 'we sell full beer' and i'm like WTF? until someone explained that CO did that since it has such a drinking problem; it didn't work just like lowering the THC on weed won't.
I remember those days. The menfolk would stock up on Saturday for the Sunday get togethers. The state liquor stores were foreign to me, coming from California and liquor was just about all they sold. Drive throughs were common, too. Before pop tops, you could pick up a free can opener (church key).
i think it was the non-liquor stores that could only sell the 3.2 that complained. but then a lot of the craft brewers complained that they would lose market share if grocery stores could start selling the good stuff. our safeway has a whole section of CO beers so the craft brewers are doing fine.
We would always do Busch Gardens when we were in Tampa. Then in the Navy at Norfolk I got reduced price tickets to the one in Williamsburg.
