Happy Birthday?Biggest news event for me was the day they drooped the drinking age from 21 to 18 - on my 18th birthday! April 1, 1971.
Michigan raised the drinking age from 18 to 19 on December 3, 1978.Only to raise it back to 21 in the early eighties, lol why I remember that event from my younger child hood memories was an omen of things to come I guess.
WI held out til they passed a law pulling federal highway funding if state drinking age wasn't raised to 21 (mid 80s). Still occasionally here stories from older folks reminiscing of xing the state lines for booze.Michigan raised the drinking age from 18 to 19 on December 3, 1978.
18 days later, on December 22, 1978, they raised it from 19 to 21.
I remember this, because I turned 18 about 7 weeks later.
Fortunately, we had a classmate nicknamed Sasquatch.
Big hairy dude. Never got carded.
We would sometimes drive 2 hours over to St. Marys, OH to buy beer. As I recall, in OH the drinking age was 18 for 3.2 beer and low alcohol wine. 21 for hard beer and liquor.WI held out til they passed a law pulling federal highway funding if state drinking age wasn't raised to 21 (mid 80s). Still occasionally here stories from older folks reminiscing of xing the state lines for booze.
Went the opposite here. The year I turned 18 they raised it to 19. Never made much of a difference. I looked older and got what I needed.Biggest news event for me was the day they drooped the drinking age from 21 to 18 - on my 18th birthday! April 1, 1971.
But, you are really getting old when you go take a whizz, and it's not down.You know that you are old (not getting old) when you go to take a whizz and find that your zipper is already down.
Cheers,
Mike