hey, we did this a while back....

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Boxes, beer Kansas you could by 3.2 at 18 Nebraska was 21 then 19 then 20 now 21

3.2 beer sucks. Sorry for you. I'm sure you were happy you could get anything. :D I had a buddy with a mustache who was never carded.

I came of age in Texas. I was legal at 19. Then illegal at 20 when Texas changed the legal age to 21. I was not grandfathered. o_O
 

HUSKERFAN66

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The Bruning Air base has been a feed lot for probably 30 years.... But there was so much concrete up there, away from the POLICE that we went there and had drag races, keggers, stupid bb gun wars, trap shooting, and sled races (car hoods pulled by cars). How did I survive!
Yep .we pulled our car hood behind our Ford tractor. We had a 10' snow pile that we figured out how to swing it up there and ZING it went flying. That was hard on the knees so we mounted a bucket seat. That was great until we flipped it. So we started to build a roll Cage. Then we looked at each other and came to our senses and scrapped the project because we figured we would not stop until somebody died!!
 
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3.2 beer sucks. Sorry for you. I'm sure you were happy you could get anything. :D I had a buddy with a mustache who was never carded.

I came of age in Texas. I was legal at 19. Then illegal at 20 when Texas changed the legal age to 21. I was not grandfathered. o_O
Oh man that would have sucked not being grandfathered
 
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Cloud_a_Heart

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Yep .we pulled our car hood behind our Ford tractor. We had a 10' snow pile that we figured out how to swing it up there and ZING it went flying. That was hard on the knees so we mounted a bucket seat. That was great until we flipped it. So we started to build a roll Cage. Then we looked at each other and came to our senses and scrapped the project because we figured we would not stop until somebody died!!

Our shop teacher, Mr. Randy Jess, let us build our car hoods in shop class with bucket seats and seat belts!
 
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HUSKERFAN66

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The Bruning Air base has been a feed lot for probably 30 years.... But there was so much concrete up there, away from the POLICE that we went there and had drag races, keggers, stupid bb gun wars, trap shooting, and sled races (car hoods pulled by cars). How did I survive!
Pretty sure itsi been a feedlot more than 30 years but no biggie. Didn't a Curry run it in the 70's and early 80s? They lived west side of 81 and daughter went to bruning. Think her first name was Carmen. I think he fell off his roof and was killed. Ted curry.
 
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We turned pigeons loose during a basketball game at meridian, Jim had to use one of your BB guns to shoot them the next day. Nobody knew who did it until I told Jim when he retired

The Durflingers kept that FB field the best in the state from 1980 until 2000!
 

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Pretty amazing the number of reinke pivots I see out here in Montana! Crazy that no one out here knows where they come from.... My stomping grounds as well in 32 county, start of the Alphabet towns: Alexandria.

I see Reinke pivots in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington as well.
 

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Sparky, I see you like my post, did you ever make it to Alexandria for a dance?

Did any of you guys ever go to DJ's in Concordia? When Kansas had the legal drinking age for 3.2 beer at 18, DJ's would be full of us Nebraska kids on Saturday nights.
 

TruHusker

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What is this Stage Coach and what did they have that you had to leave Nebraska to get?

There were three places in NW KS in the "day" that had live bands, 3.2 beer for 18 year olds (hardly ever remember being checked), and tons of people, many of which were of the opposite sex. I lived just over the border in Nebraska and my wife to be was from Oberlin. In those days, the highways between Kansas and Nebraska were well traveled by youngsters heading south for the drinking age and beer that sold for $2.10 a twelve pack. When the age was changed to 21 for all states things changed dramatically and the McCook area kids didn't burn up the highway anymore.

There were always lots of cars from Nebraska at the following:
Captain Hooks Harbor - Goodland, KS
Rusty Bucket - Colby, KS
Stage Coach - Norton, KS
 

Wasker77

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Like I mentioned even some liquid store in Kansas didn't card ya so you could buy hard liquor

I don't remember buying liquor in Kansas when I was in high school but I think it is safe to say most of those places south of the state line knew we weren't 18, but they also knew they did not have to deal with our parents like they did with the hometown kids. I once bought beer for a local kid who I knew was older than me. The tavern owner would not sell beer to him.
 

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My nephews keep telling me there's no way we could do the stuff we did back then in today's world. Like pheasant hunting before school and leave you shotgun in your vehicle looked up in the school parking lot. And having a kegger on a dirt road

I can't believe kids can't have keggers out on an old dirt road anymore. Who is going to stop them? I don't see a lot of police out in the country when I am back there. We still do some pretty silly stuff out in the country when we are all back in the summer. I never would do any of those things here in Washington. Last summer I was at an old friend's house just on the edge of town. He was shooting a spud gun off in his backyard. If I did that here I would have the police knocking on the door in minutes. 3-4 years ago I was shooting pop bottle rockets off in my backyard at Christmas time. We live about a block and half from he edge of town, we had 12 inches of snow on the ground and no neighbors behind our house. They were all landing harmlessly on the private snow covered gravel road behind our back fence that is used for access to a small irrigation canal. (It is plain stupid to do fireworks here over the 4th in the summer. You are going to start a wildfire). I talked to all my neighbors and they were fine. (They laughed. They just think I am some crazy Nebraskan). After lighting up a few rockets I get a call from my next-door-neighbor's son, a city cop. He tells me I better shut it down because his sergeant was already getting reports about fireworks on our street.
 

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I can't believe kids can't have keggers out on an old dirt road anymore. Who is going to stop them? I don't see a lot of police out in the country when I am back there. We still do some pretty silly stuff out in the country when we are all back in the summer. I never would do any of those things here in Washington. Last summer I was at an old friend's house just on the edge of town. He was shooting a spud gun off in his backyard. If I did that here I would have the police knocking on the door in minutes. 3-4 years ago I was shooting pop bottle rockets off in my backyard at Christmas time. We live about a block and half from he edge of town, we had 12 inches of snow on the ground and no neighbors behind our house. They were all landing harmlessly on the private snow covered gravel road behind our back fence that is used for access to a small irrigation canal. (It is plain stupid to do fireworks here over the 4th in the summer. You are going to start a wildfire). I talked to all my neighbors and they were fine. (They laughed. They just think I am some crazy Nebraskan). After lighting up a few rockets I get a call from my next-door-neighbor's son, a city cop. He tells me I better shut it down because his sergeant was already getting reports about fireworks on our street.
I think it still goes on but not near as much back in the 70's-80's, today with cellphone cameras and procurement of alcohol for a minor is a very hefty fine. Plus you have some a hole kid that will go to the party but call it in after they leave. You don't need a ticket to get kicked off a team just a adult or someone saying you had been drinking or smoking. With the exception if your family has a big name or in the elite crowd
 

HUSKERFAN66

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There were three places in NW KS in the "day" that had live bands, 3.2 beer for 18 year olds (hardly ever remember being checked), and tons of people, many of which were of the opposite sex. I lived just over the border in Nebraska and my wife to be was from Oberlin. In those days, the highways between Kansas and Nebraska were well traveled by youngsters heading south for the drinking age and beer that sold for $2.10 a twelve pack. When the age was changed to 21 for all states things changed dramatically and the McCook area kids didn't burn up the highway anymore.

There were always lots of cars from Nebraska at the following:
Captain Hooks Harbor - Goodland, KS
Rusty Bucket - Colby, KS
Stage Coach - Norton, KS
Sherman tank
 

Baxter48_rivals204143

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Pretty sure itsi been a feedlot more than 30 years but no biggie. Didn't a Curry run it in the 70's and early 80s? They lived west side of 81 and daughter went to bruning. Think her first name was Carmen. I think he fell off his roof and was killed. Ted curry.
I believe the federal government gave it to Nebraska state aeronautics in 1946 from what I know several guys use the air strip for crop dusters someone had a big chicken operation there, they used the hangars to store surplus wheat in the 1960's. I think it became a feedlot in the late 60's it went broke lots of farmers lost money. Was reopened sometime in the mid 70's been open even since. Yes ted did run it about the time it reopened to about 1986 just guessing. Think his daughters went to hebron high school think the younger one was darn good looking ok hot. He died in 99 after falling off the roof cleaning his rain gutters
 

HUSKERFAN66

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I believe the federal government gave it to Nebraska state aeronautics in 1946 from what I know several guys use the air strip for crop dusters someone had a big chicken operation there, they used the hangars to store surplus wheat in the 1960's. I think it became a feedlot in the late 60's it went broke lots of farmers lost money. Was reopened sometime in the mid 70's been open even since. Yes ted did run it about the time it reopened to about 1986 just guessing. Think his daughters went to hebron high school think the younger one was darn good looking ok hot. He died in 99 after falling off the roof cleaning his rain gutters
Thanks. Kinda how i remember. Didn't know about the chicken deal!!
 

Baxter48_rivals204143

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Thanks. Kinda how i remember. Didn't know about the chicken deal!!
Use to be a shop gas station right on highway 4 and the road to midam 5 brothers I just remember 3,when I'd stop by for gas ole lee would start talking and I learned a lot from him, he had some really good stories mostly true but I'm sure grew throughout the years. Been farming around there since the 80's. Really short trip to haul corn if you want to deal with a slower leg and other issues at midam
 
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