07-04-2019, 09:19 PM
(07-04-2019, 03:42 PM)Maggot Wrote: Anyone remember 1976 the bicentennial? What were you doing?
Yeah, it's one of the few 4th of Julys I remember really well from when I was a kid. We usually just lit up a few sparklers outside the house, ate strawberry shortcake, and that was it.
I was still in elementary school for the bicentennial; it was such a huge deal.
I remember my dad being jazzed over the bicentennial quarters. He collected a bunch of them.
We went to a party that 4th of July in my cousin's uncle's garage. He was a massive dude with thick black glasses, a ton of facial hair, and a marijuana leaf tattooed on his forearm, which my dad told me was a palm leaf. I liked him, but we never saw him again after that.
The first time I'd ever played pool and ever heard Pink Floyd and CCR was in his garage that night (I was hooked after that, on the music not the game of pool).