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Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 2:50 PM
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My muddled memory is that it was not as easy as now. Maybe some geezers remember different and will post?
I "think" the only liquor store near by was in Pendleton. Few had cars then. The store had few shelves, mostly just cases of this and that sitting on the floor. I want to say dirt floor, but maybe not.
There were a couple places that sold beer downtown. One was out on 123, and one was at College Ave and Sloan. I can't remember the names. Most students were on the shy side of $$ so these places were not crowded.
I remember one weekend when a buddy and I had a bottle of vodka. I got sick. We mixed it with apple juice from the vending machine. I still can't drink apple juice.
Some of us would pool $ and buy Everclear, then soak cherries in it all week. On the week end would take it to the lake for a party (very few girls on campus then, and none that would talk to us).
At football games most men (I was a boy) took in a pint of booze. By halftime you could get drunk just breathing the air.
Now students have drugs and a million places (and it seems $$) to buy what ever. In the 60's Clemson was very different.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 2:59 PM
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lucky bastage, I bet you could drink at 18 back then too. We had to forge our tiger-stripe cards, using an onion peel carefully cut out to match the emblem over the DOB, and that was readily accepted at what is now the "Fast Point Food Store", or back then something else. Maybe one of you can jog my frazzled memory on that one, the place that never carded across from Bowman Field.
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It was Magic Mart for a time. Or did they spell it Majic?
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Jul 15, 2021, 3:05 PM
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Re: It was Magic Mart for a time. Or did they spell it Majic?
Jul 15, 2021, 3:07 PM
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that's the one, I used to live out of that store.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 3:08 PM
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You could drink at 18 and also be drafted for VN at 18 which made one want to drink.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 4:18 PM
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seems only fair. VN caused my dad to drink for years.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 5:28 PM
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Also there were two liquor stores in Pendleton. One required valid picture ID and one did not. The one that sold to underage students charged more. It was kind of a rite of passage. When you aged up you paid adult prices. I seem to remember that the place out on 123 that sold beer and pizza was Capri's.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 9:11 PM
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There was a period of time in S.C. when you could go to Nam but weren't old enough to drink. Am I right???
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 8:36 PM
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i was 17 when i hit campus in '64 and had no trouble getting served.the good old days.in connecticut,my home state at the time,it was 21.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 3:27 PM
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Then and maybe now at Clemson there was a display of a working Moonshine still in a glass case (for educational purposes only).
My old lady (what we called roommates) and I borrowed (stole) some flasks/etc from the chem lab and set up a tiny still in the room. We tested it with Listerine and got a few drops of alcohol (that tasted like Listerine).
We needed grain for mash so used popcorn seeds. We put those in a gallon jug with some yeast to ferment.
That sat over the Christmas holidays. It exploded and the smell over the entire Tin Can floor was hard to believe.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 3:36 PM
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Yes, we could drink beer at 18 in the 60's. We also made our own home brew our of 5 gallons of water, 5 lbs. of sugar, five packs (I think .... maybe 3) of Fleishman's yeast, and a can of Blue Ribbon Malt (not the beer .... kind of like molasses).. Mix all together and let it brew for several days on one gallon milk cartons. One night, several days after we made it, living in the Clayton House over on Dogwood Dr. behind town, we heard an explosion in our kitchen. Sure enough one of the milk bottles had exploded. This stuff was nasty but you could get a buzz from it ..... as well as a terrific headache.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 3:42 PM
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The one and only place to get an alcoholic beverage was "the Study Hall". I spent several hours, and what $$ I had there on my 18th birthday. My 1st "old lady" was a bad piece of luck for me as no one liked him. He was a baptist preachers son, and a real drag. The SC or Clemson law then was you could have booze in your tin can room but you could not imbibe!! I kid you not. When I returned to campus from a rare trip home, I brought 6 quart bottles of rebel yell and proudly displayed them. The guy moved to another hall that very day so some of us broke a seal, and broke that dumb law to celebrate.
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Beer in SC was weaker until a few years ago
Jul 15, 2021, 4:25 PM
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Same time they got rid of mini-bottles in bars I think. Regular beer was around 3.5%, vs 5% in most other states.
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Re: Beer in SC was weaker until a few years ago
Jul 15, 2021, 5:11 PM
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Thanks for posting that old myth Scoby.
In my days at Clemson kids claimed one "real" German beer would knock you on your butt (not true).
There are many styles of beer with alcohol % responding to the style. American Lagers and my favs --> Czech style Pilsners (invented by a German) are all around 5% as that is what the style calls for.
There are low alcohol beers, but they are labeled as that (best might be Becks).
I started making great beer in the 80s before that was popular. I am kinda a beer expert and have accumulated good gear. I can make any style. Lately have been using the equipment to make wine which I seldom drink. Making great wine is easy as compared to making great beer.
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Re: Beer in SC was weaker until a few years ago
Jul 15, 2021, 5:40 PM
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Back then, my father gave me $5 a week. It was always gone by Monday night. Beer was 35 cents but if you got Old Milwaukee, it was 2 ounces more for 35 cents. Tasted like horse s*** but after 2 0r 3, it didn't matter.
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Not at all a myth. Look it up if you didn’t live thru it
Jul 16, 2021, 12:27 AM
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Been making beer myself since the 80s, but still learning (will pass the legal limit of 100 gal this year). In the 80s, Eku 28 was the strongest I knew, about 4X a SC Budweiser or 3X a TX Budweiser. But beer in SC was limited to some threshold below 5 abv (3.5, 4, whatever). Above that, it had to be called malt liquor. If you traveled to other states and drank as much as I did, it was obvious.
In TX over the same years, beer that was greater than 5 abv was sold, but the labels had “malt liquor” stamped over the word “beer.” The abv on imports was also blacked out because it was still illegal to put the abv on a beer label in the US.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 8:51 PM
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the ones i remember from my freshman year were nick's downtown,and both bolton's and lester's tiger den out on 123.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 15, 2021, 9:10 PM
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Good post Tug...
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Rabbitt’s in Pendleton*
Jul 15, 2021, 9:33 PM
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Nm
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Re: Rabbitt’s in Pendleton*
Jul 15, 2021, 10:18 PM
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In 1969, there was the Study Hall and across the street was the Red Carpet, whose front serve as a food service place until 5:00 pm weekdays and then they would pull the curtain to the back open. There was the side bar to Scottie's out on 123. The beer was 5 cents cheaper per can. In 1970, Scotties and The Red Carpet started having dancers on a platform and the Movie theater(now the
Tiger Sports Shop) had R-rated movies Friday and Saturday nights at Midnight. In 1969, the ration of female students to Males was 4.9 guys to every female registered. All single females on Campus lived on the East Campus. By the way, we had classes 5 and 1/2 days a week. there was only one fast food place near campus and that was Hardee's across 93 at the end of Williamson Road.
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My memory may be a little fuzzy...
Jul 16, 2021, 8:31 AM
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but wasn't there an liquor store in the same strip mall with Los Hermanos and Garrett's?
I know there was one in Pendleton as well near the Dairy Queen
I was always more of a beer guy so the Plez U was generally my store of preference.
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Re: My memory may be a little fuzzy...
Jul 17, 2021, 10:41 AM
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There was a liquor store on a side street off the square in Pendleton. The proprietor who is now deceased believed if you were old enough to carry money, you were old enough to buy liquor. He also had an after hours and Sunday location on hwy 93 in Clemson. The guy that ran it was a disabled veteran who had a little camper in his front yard. When you went to buy a pint, he would take you into his camper which contained shelves from floor to ceiling stocked with pints and half-pints. Every local, including law enforcement, was aware of it, but they also saw it as a way for a disabled veteran to earn a living.
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Re: Getting Tiger Drunk in the 60's
Jul 17, 2021, 11:17 AM
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We made Sangria once on B6 Johnston’s in the mid-1970’s. We all had way too much and have never felt so bad. I haven’t touched Sangria since then.
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