re: How your mom used to party

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Women's hairstyles from the 1960's were the worst era in American history

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That plus the big huge ungroomed briar patch bush snatches.

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K&B

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git you some !

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my parent actually used to send me to the store to get beer. when i was 12-13 and the store sold it to me.

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18 was the age when I was in hs, didn't turn 18 until just before starting college, although we had fake IDs, we never really needed them except for a couple of bars on a busy night, we'd go to the 7-11 after practice, maybe wearing a letter jacket and the cashier(while ringing up beers,) would ask "how was practice today boys?"

Regal used to have a big billboard on False River with the three musketeers all brandishing swords in one hand and beer steins in the other. That sign outlived the brewery by decades.

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Ballantine beer-99¢ a six pack and a free hangover/sour stomach to go with it.

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Never got into Dixie either, and when they came out with that bad batch in the 80's, it really got nasty.

My go-to beer as a high schooler was Carling's Black Label.

anyone else getting the pull tab picture in the "what is this" link at the bottom of the page?

Vividly remember Pat Gillen's on Metairie Rd. across from Oscar's and Nick's on Tulane Ave.

One of my nephews worked there before Katrina and a few years prior to that I replaced both double doors on the front of the place. That was fun since the place was basically falling apart about that time. The true meaning of a "dive bar" for sure.

Troof

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damn, pipehead, don't frick a good thread

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I'll admit I didnt look past the first post before posting that.