re: LSU Tailgating in the 60's 70's and 80's

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Its just like everything else in our lives....things have gotten worse as time goes on. Let's talk about the 50's. Baton Rouge was a 2 hour drive from our home. Some games parents would drive home after game and some games stay at the Howard Johnson's on Airline. On Howard Johnson's games kids had choice of staying at HJ's or going to game. The ritual was for kids with parents for game would mill around the HJ pool. If no good chicks we would go to game. If good prospects we would get them to stay at HJ's and we would too. For Sugar Bowl games we would drive down to NO and park on St Charles across from Tulane. For all games if driving home after the game parents would bring deviled eggs, cold fried chicken and sandwiches to eat under trees before game. Ice chests in those days were metal with old news papers used for insulation. One last memory: for some reason I will always remember a Holsum Bakery billboard on Airline that just had the name Holsum Bakery but 3 letters were much larger than the rest. HoLSUm.

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I think it's actually the opposite. It's gotten so much better that there needed to be regulations to stop it from becoming a free for all.

Back then nobody gave a shite to tailgate except for a small portion of the fanbase. Even then, some people couldn't get to the game. We were not as mobile in the 50s/60s as we are now.

The situation isn't inherently worse today. There are just too many people that creates the need for rules that push people who have been doing it for decades out. Or it makes them feel like they are targeted.

That's also my theory on why old people take so fricking long at the pharmacy. They get up there without researching or calling thinking they can just talk to the person at the register because they can't understand that the population has doubled since 1960.