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« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2005, 01:10:06 PM »
Mt. Pinatubo turned a good chunck of my Childhood into a pile of Ashes.

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« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2005, 02:31:09 PM »
Way up in the mountains where I used to live there was a little lake called Squaw Lake that you could only reach by driving up a steep winding one lane dirt road with parts of it built up with sandbags so that there were 90 degree drop off's in places.

Once you got there you had to hike about a mile till you got to this massive madrone tree on a steep bank hanging way out over the lake with a cable tied to a branch high over the lake.  

My friends and I had many a happy summer day swinging out over the lake getting twenty or thirty feet of air and then splashing into the clear cool water.

Of course someone thought it much to dangerous and cut down the tree to save us from ourselves.

The fishing, swimming, canoeing and camping are still great but given the choice of any place in the world, I would rather be swinging high out over that lake, in the summer, on a tree that is forever gone.
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Re: Things that have changed from your youth
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2005, 03:17:54 PM »
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What things have changed from your youth?


I feel like a part of me was stolen. Almost violated.
That was my childhood  it held for safekeeping some of my very best and favorite memories. and now its gone.




It used to stand up and watch me brush me teeth.

Now it just hangs; and watches me brush me shoes.

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« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2005, 03:29:13 PM »
The band room and its sacred rear steps are no more.

Offline JB73

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« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2005, 03:32:06 PM »
this one time at band camp funked?


dear God where did you stick that flute?
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« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2005, 03:47:13 PM »
all the beaches down A1A south of Ponte Vedra are now private property with no parking signs where we used to  park and hike over the sand dunes to nearly deserted Atlantic Beaches during HS 74 -77
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« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2005, 06:12:52 PM »
Sitting here thinking about it. the Brook and some of the memories.

Funny one that just struck me.
we were around 14 or so. Just started drinking beer.
We used to get quarts of ... Colt 45 "cause it was a malt." Also cause it was cheap. you could get a quart for like 50 cents

LMAO wtf did we know at that age.

There this chick named Jackie. She used to get us the money for the beer. Real cute chick with these eyes that could make anyone melt just by putting on her lost puppy dog face.
 so she would hang outside the strip mall  which was about 2 blocks from the brook and hit guys up for change usually with a story of her having lost her bus fare money to get home or needing money to call her mom so she wouldnt get in trouble.
Dont beleive I saw a guy ever not give her some spare change and usually it only took about an hour to get up enough money for a case.

 At that point it became Jimmys job to get someone to get the beer for us.
Jimmy was our resident con man and flim flam artist.
We used to joke that he could probably Con the Pope out of the Vatican. He was that good.

So he would con someone into going into the liquer store and getting us the beer and we'd take it and head down the brook.
I say "down" the Brook cause here in Jersey you never go "to" anywhere. Your always going "Down to" whereever your headed.

Example. In Jersey you never go "To the beach" or "to the shore" You always go "Down the shore" and even when your "at the shore" your still "Down the shore"
From there you go "down to the beach" And only when you are actually standing  on the beach in the sand are you ever "At the beach" And even then. your "on the beach"

Anyway, Point of the story.

There was this other chick name Laura, I remember sitting there  down at the brook watching her drink from the bottle in the firelight and noticing she wasnt drinking it like one would normally drink. She had like half the bottle literally in her mouth guzzling away at it. I pointed it out to a couple of other folks and we teased her about it.

Bout a year later my oh my did she develop that talent into something useful
:D
Much to my delight
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« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2005, 08:02:30 PM »
The very person that was always there for me when I needed her for help , support , and general life issues , now relies on me for most of if not all those very same things.


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« Reply #23 on: May 17, 2005, 09:20:48 PM »
I grew hair in places where I didn't think hair would grow, and I lost hair where I need it most-my head.
it's like every night some little ****ers transplant my follicles from my head to random parts of my anatomy.

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« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2005, 09:42:16 PM »
The fields where I grew up hunting rabbit and pheasant are now a maze of monstrous trucking warehouses. :mad:

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« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2005, 12:17:17 AM »
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Originally posted by mosgood
About 7 years ago, I went back to the high school I went to in Seirra Vista, AZ.


I have to say... of all the places I've ever traveled because of work, Sierra Vista is the only one that I would consider moving to. I love that place.

Back on topic... while not necessarily youth, I was certainly young (23) when I joined the crew and I literally spent years onboard.



I just discovered that the ship has been reduced to scrap.



I'm sorry it's gone.
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« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2005, 07:32:37 AM »
Now thats sad
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« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2005, 07:52:40 AM »
Colour TVs and more than 2 channels , no analog mobile phones (10kg car phones, not really mobile...), no smoking in the busses or trains, no plastic furnitures...

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« Reply #28 on: May 18, 2005, 08:00:33 AM »
sheesh... I grew up in Los Angeles in the 50's...  the place was paradise.  

Talk about never being able to go home again.

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« Reply #29 on: May 18, 2005, 08:43:49 AM »
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sheesh... I grew up in Los Angeles in the 50's...  the place was paradise.  

Talk about never being able to go home again.

lazs


hehe yup.. even into the 60's.

The town I live in now didn't exist when I was a kid....

Now has a population of 170,000