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That's from the early 14th century, right?
Bring back my magma pies, damn it!
Bring back my magma pies, damn it!
I was recently reminded of something that younger generations have no experience with, and in the case of kids today might not believe you if you told them: designated smoking areas for students in high school.
Arguably as much of a cutoff for Gen X as many other dividing lines.
I'm Gen X and I know these areas existed, but they were gone around here by at least the '90s, if not earlier. But being towards the end of the generation, my experience is likely different from earlier members.
I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.I finished high school in 95 and at that point the Catholic HS I went to had just banned smoking on campus that year.
With my high school it wasn't cigarettes polluting the bathrooms but pot.I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
This was my high school as well at the end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s. Can't tell you what happened after that but this nailed mine for sure at the time. We also had a lot of cigarette smoking but it was out in the parking lot.With my high school it wasn't cigarettes polluting the bathrooms but pot.
They still have one at the bar where I work.Cigarette vending machines.
It ended at my school as soon as the gym teacher walked in on the sole kid doing it. I suspect it wasn't a more widespread problem because the main bathrooms were directly across the hall from the main offices.This was my high school as well at the end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s. Can't tell you what happened after that but this nailed mine for sure at the time. We also had a lot of cigarette smoking but it was out in the parking lot.
Cigarette vending machines.
Probably sells for $50 on eBay or is banded from being sold, take your pick /s
The Darth Vader at the bottom looks a little walleyed. "Dah, what we gunna do today Palpy?" "Same thing we do every day, take over the galaxy!"In light of the last photo, I see your awesome McDonalds Ash tray and raise you Star Wars Burger King glasses.
In the U.S. there was a push in the late 80s to try to curb teen smoking, and in '89 most states increased the minimum age to purchase cigs - usually a minimum of 16, but sometimes higher, varying state by state. In Georgia, it had been increased to 17 a couple of years earlier (don't remember what it was before that). I never smoked, but growing up several of my friends did.
A related thing that kids today might not believe was that my parents would sometimes send me to the local convenience store to purchase cigs and/or beer for them. They would give a little extra money so that I could purchase candy or soda for myself (which in my case was actually usually a comic book or two instead), or just pocket the difference instead as some extra allowance money. You had to bring a written note the first time you went to a particular store, but didn't afterwards once the person behind the counter recognized and remembered you.
I had those growing upIn light of the last photo, I see your awesome McDonalds Ash tray and raise you Star Wars Burger King glasses.
Aka The Mare of Steel!
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"rub dirt on it and take a lap."You know what's funny, when I watched that thing in the movie as a kid I laughed at first because it really did have a similar height as those slides. But there's more platform security measures in the Mare of Steel to allow multiple people at the top.
Oh yeah, this was life before PG-13 and parents taking their media guidance role seriously. "Jaws" is a PG movie. "Return to Oz" is for children. What? They're not bleeding, they'll be fine... Mmmm, now with lower tar per cigarette pack.
I finished High School in '92 and smoking was positively verboten anywhere on school grounds. Apparently this did not apply to the bathrooms, as I often felt I should have been issued a respirator to safely access a urinal.
OMG, you and I lived parallel lives! My dad would send 9-10 year old me, on my bike, down to the local liquor store a few blocks down the street to buy beer, cigarettes, and whatever candy I wanted (for the record, my dad was an alcoholic, and smoking eventually led to COPD, which killed him ) I'd go get his beer out of the fridge, grab the candy I wanted, then go to the counter and tell them I wanted a pack of Marlboro's. The Iranian guys behind the counter looked at me like I was crazy the first time I did this. They asked, "Is this for you?" I'm like, "No, its for my dad. The candy is for me" And they were like, "Ok" and rang it up. Insane...