HOW OLD WERE YOU...

[Duchess]

How old were you the first time you bought alcohol, either by going into a store for it or going into a bar and ordering a drink?

I don't like to presume to know any of you really well but I would find it hard to believe if more than a couple of you waited until you were of legal age and now that I'm thinking of that, what was the legal age where you were? It was 18 where I grew up. I was all of 15 when I went into a bar with friends that were older. I drank with them and was never even carded.

[Blindgreed1]

How old were you the first time you bought alcohol, either by going into a store for it or going into a bar and ordering a drink?

I don't like to presume to know any of you really well but I would find it hard to believe if more than a couple of you waited until you were of legal age and now that I'm thinking of that, what was the legal age where you were? It was 18 where I grew up. I was all of 15 when I went into a bar with friends that were older. I drank with them and was never even carded.

Legal age to purchase: 21 How old was I: 13

[Maggot]

Armand at hilltop store would give me 6 packs and cigarettes to give to my Mom and Dad when I was 10, I would strap them onto my newspaper basket and coast down Broadway chewing sunripe orange gum. I guess handing over money and getting product would be considered "buying" even though it wasn't my money except for the 25 cents I paid for the gum. I earned that.

[cannongal]

How old were you the first time you bought alcohol, either by going into a store for it or going into a bar and ordering a drink?


17, I was traveling through upstate New York and stumbled across a hick bar. Stayed for a week.

17, I was traveling through upstate New York and stumbled across a hick bar. Stayed for a week.

Armand at hilltop store would give me 6 packs and cigarettes to give to my Mom and Dad when I was 10, I would strap them onto my newspaper basket and coast down Broadway chewing sunripe orange gum. I guess handing over money and getting product would be considered "buying" even though it wasn't my money except for the 25 cents I paid for the gum. I earned that.

There was a liquor store in Haverhill, Mass called Kappy's. I used to walk in there and buy a ¹⁄₅ of bacardi every week for my mother, from the age of 10 until 12 or 13 I think.

[Duchess]

17, I was traveling through upstate New York and stumbled across a hick bar.

That mighta been the same bar that served me.

[Donovan]

ALL bars in upstate NY are hick bars.

[Duchess]

Tis true.

There was a bar in a neighboring town that we all liked to go to because they had live music on the weekends, that town had the nickname of Hooterville.

[Midwest Spy]

18. That was the legal drinking age for me at the time.

[Maggot]

There was a liquor store in Haverhill, Mass called Kappy's. I used to walk in there and buy a ¹⁄₅ of bacardi every week for my mother, from the age of 10 until 12 or 13 I think.

I remember Kappys when I spent my summers in Boston riding the T hanging out in the Commons and listening to people like Andy Pratt and J Giels give free concerts at Copley square. Kappys was "the" place on Saturday nights. This was in 78,79 what fun!!!!

[BigMark]

The slippery nipple in upstate is a nice place.

[ramseycat]

ALL bars in upstate NY are hick bars.

Not true.

I was probably 19. Drinking age was 21.

[QueenBee]

When I was 18, legal age in my county, went with friends to next county where it was 21. My friends were all 21. Never got proofed. I was not a big drinker then or now, but just went in a a couple pitchers of beer. Did drink at home, under age. Usually wine....but we were Italian, and wine went with everything.

[QueenBee]

ALL bars in upstate NY are hick bars.

Not true.

I was probably 19. Drinking age was 21.

Dono is right. Wel, naybe not all bars, but most are. Really

[cannongal]

That mighta been the same bar that served me. [/i][/size]

Somehow, I can't picture you setting foot in the place, It was really a shack in the middle of a logging town. The place had 3 tables and a 5 stool bar, The bouncer was an old toothless guy named pepper, and the bartender was a 500 pound female.

I remember Kappys when I spent my summers in Boston riding the T hanging out in the Commons and listening to people like Andy Pratt and J Giels give free concerts at Copley square. Kappys was "the" place on Saturday nights. This was in 78,79 what fun!!!!

I loved going into the commons in the early 80's. Only, instead of concerts, I enjoyed taking pictures of the chalk outlines & the homeless guys.

I was a strange teenager....

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Drinking age in Texas was 18, I was first day out of basic training when I bought my first drink at a bar at 17.
The area I lived in was dry so it was a hike to get beer and I had to have someone else buy it before that

[sally]

21 was the drinking age. I was able to buy cigarettes and beer from Bob Moore's corner store when I was 7 years old with a note from my mom. Bob Moore was a grouchy old senile bastard who use to accuse me and my friend of stealing candy even though we weren't, but he had no problem selling me booze and cigs.

I can't imagine sending my 7 year old kid to the store and across a busy intersection to buy me alcohol and cigarettes.

[Maggot]

Sally and her trusty tricycle.