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[releventchair]

Good morning everybody

Mornin Evan!

 

[Pick_axe]

Good morning everybody!

 

[Oregon Viking]

Good morning !!

 

[Oregon Viking]

Good evening !!
Yes it is !!

 

[unclemac]

does anyone here remember when in the old days you could stand out side of the convenience store at night and have some older guy buy you beer and a pack of smokes?

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️ A hot week ahead. The last blast of summer I hope.

 

[pepperj]

Morning everyone

 

[Pick_axe]

If insomnia is a vampire, then coffee is the cross in your hand.
Good morning, Count!

 

[newnan man]

Launch this morning & the 2 boosters coming back down.

 

[releventchair]

does anyone here remember when in the old days you could stand out side of the convenience store at night and have some older guy buy you beer and a pack of smokes?

Early seventies the stores started reducing tobacco sales to us kids. Though a parental note in writing could work.
Such a kid was encouraged to buy "extras".

A friends Dad drove truck.
2.00 a carton for ciggs when they ran around 4.00 retail. Bought a couple of those.

Machines didn't discriminate. Often in vestibules of entrance ways a kid could drop 35 cents and not only escape with a pack of smokes , but on some machines hit the thank you button and recieve a complimentary pack of matches. Which indeed held value among kids. (!) Things like camp fires and tennis ball cannons . Let alone tobacco.

Got to where one store would sell us rolling papers and a small package of Masterpiece pipe tobacco (.05 ) and no packs of ciggaretes.
But between smoking rolled pipe tobacco and the unsupervised machines and the varied random sources ; we got by.

Beer wasn't hard to come by.
Stores were miles away from me most places I've lived.
Still are for that matter.

 

[pepperj]

 

[releventchair]

 

[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[AU Seeker]

does anyone here remember when in the old days you could stand out side of the convenience store at night and have some older guy buy you beer and a pack of smokes?

Are you saying the older guys won't do that for you any more?

 

[Assembler]

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One smart cat I say................

 

[pepperj]

One smart cat I say................

Cobbs is doing her daily desk work.

 

[Assembler]

Cobbs is doing her daily desk work.

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Hard at work I see.........

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning everybody

 

[unclemac]

Are you saying the older guys won't do that for you any more?

funny thing is that at nearly 70, new regs make me show my ID to buy any alcohol!

 

[unclemac]

Early seventies the stores started reducing tobacco sales to us kids. Though a parental note in writing could work.
Such a kid was encouraged to buy "extras".

A friends Dad drove truck.
2.00 a carton for ciggs when they ran around 4.00 retail. Bought a couple of those.

Machines didn't discriminate. Often in vestibules of entrance ways a kid could drop 35 cents and not only escape with a pack of smokes , but on some machines hit the thank you button and recieve a complimentary pack of matches. Which indeed held value among kids. (!) Things like camp fires and tennis ball cannons . Let alone tobacco.

Got to where one store would sell us rolling papers and a small package of Masterpiece pipe tobacco (.05 ) and no packs of ciggaretes.
But between smoking rolled pipe tobacco and the unsupervised machines and the varied random sources ; we got by.

Beer wasn't hard to come by.
Stores were miles away from me most places I've lived.
Still are for that matter.

yep, I used to buy pipe tobacco for my dad, I store owner knew me and who it was for.