Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now !

[JasperFrank]

Back in my day, we ate right off the cow patties they spored from.

 

[lman]

Have you ever taken mushrooms? I have, and they are pretty good fun.
Don't knock it, till you've tried it.

That explains it all.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

oxy-acetylene. Put a spark plug thread on the end of a ten foot length of fence post. Fill the pipe with the oxy-acetylene, insert the spud, and trigger the spark plug.

Then you add a few more counts of oxy-acetylene, and do it again. then keep adding a bit more oxy-acetylene until the pipe blows up, and rips apart teh hood of your 1958 GMC pickup. And it suddenly turns very expensive. Those hoods are kind of spendy.

OMG, you blew up an Apache hood? For my money, the classiest pickup ever designed.

 

[/pine]

Sometimes we would make chili or spaghetti and not tell anyone...!

 

[Jstpssng]

OMG, you blew up an Apache hood? For my money, the classiest pickup ever designed.

I think you would find very few people to disagree.

 

[/pine]

They're called "Mind Expanding" drugs for a reason....anyone that has never experienced it is at a disadvantage to anyone that has...!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

LSD didn't become illegal until 1968 in the US.

Now they are finding out psychedelics are helpful for cases of PTSD and depression. After all these years, it turns out Timothy Leary was right all along. Hoyt Axton was one of his patients, and wrote this song about the experience.

 

[lman]

They're called "Mind Expanding" drugs for a reason....anyone that has never experienced it is at a disadvantage to anyone that has...!

I've had a few people tell me that right before I transported them to jail.

 

[tallyho8]

It seems to me that many young people in the 60s and 70s did a little experimenting at that time and denied it through the 80s, 90, and 00s because the climate was not right, but now in the 20s, find the climate change is enough for them to admit what they have been hiding all these years. Even right wing, conservative people were young at one time.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

In hindsight, I can't believe what came in my chemistry set, (strong acids) and what additional chemicals I could easily buy at the local hobby shop (ingredients that could have made explosives), and glassware for moderately large distillations (mostly used for flavorings and floral distillation). I looked at a set ten years ago and the range of chemistry was pretty anemic, and not very colorful, making it easy to pass up as a gift for kids.

All the best,

Peter

They were great fun. You could make interesting tings like rocket fuel. My oldest sister worked at a lab for a professor who taught both of my parents. He would let her bring home glass ware for the me and the younger brother. And, bottles of chemicals which were aging out, and not usefull in the lab any longer.

We were quite literally dangerous. made rocket fuel once, and launched it across the room accidentally. Could have burned the whole house down.