Flashback... I completely forgot about this until I saw the video at the gym today.
We changed the words to Karma Chameleon from "Red, Gold and Green" to "Red, Buff and Greeen"

The drinking age was 19 . . .

ummm....18.

19 when I was an undergrad in Texas.

It changed to 21 from 19 in the early 80s in Texas.

There was a drinking age?

Back in the day, WA had a law that no matter what your age was, you had to have real, legal proof of age on you if you were in a bar.
And yes, LB would drop by and check ID's. Fines would be issued to both the bar as well as you.
At the time age was 18/19 where I lived while 21 in WA.

LOL Jon, RA was implying that the laws were so weakly enforced that it didn't matter what the drinking age was.

21 here always, but you could go across the border to Ohio or WV & get grandfathered in. We found pictures in our scrapbooks from the 70's of formals that had been in New York State and didn't get it...until we thought about it. "Oh. Lower drinking age. Duh."

I rushed in '82...

Real candles, dresses below the knee and heels for chapter, sweetheart ceremonies, phone duty, pledge notebooks, toga parties little sisters and big brothers...

We had the dance from Come On, Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners) down and the song played at every mixer. Lining up on fraternity row during Hell Week like we were waiting for a parade - just to see whose house would be the loudest. Steak and eggs at the diner at 4 am before heading home after the fraternity parties. Throwing white roses out of the windows to the fraternity men serenading us. Touch football in the suite. Christmas cocktail parties with real cocktails.

And one thing I remember most about fraternity Hell Week because we all felt so bad for the Kappas - their house was at the end of frat row - drunk pledges heading to the Kappa house at 3 in the morning singing at the top of their lungs (and one or two always ended up peeing on the lawn - ew!). Totally off key and half of the words forgotten. I later learned that most of the girls spent the week elsewhere and only those that volunteered to "hold down the fort" stayed behind.

It was 18 when I was in high school (79/80) because I bought Cold Duck (ha ha) for New Year's Eve when I was there over Christmas break.

I remember when Texas went from 18 to 19 - it happened the day before I turned 18. The bastards...
:mad:

In WA it was enforced. As my home state was one of the very last to have photo Id on DL, I had to get a non-driving WA state ID card.

It was that or pull out my DL, 3 CC's in my own name and everything else I had in my wallet to prove I was 21. IIRC the only photo ID's I had were my PADI/NAUI certs.

More 78 - early 80's
 

I forgot - we had Big Brothers at our house, which was a big deal. We pledges had to go get the rushee and escort him to and from the rush parties. Ironically enough, I ended up having my husband as my rushee - even though I didn't start dating him until 4 years later!

All of our songs during RUSH (not recruitement) were based on old show songs - the kind of songs you hear as elevator music....like Girl of AOII, You'll Be One Forever...sometimes I'll hear one of those oldies and think of the AOII words....my favorite was "Remember" - and my Theta mom and sis knew the Theta version so we would sing it at the same time...and everyone sang a version of "Pass It On" when you were doing something super serious, or passing a candle around.

We had a slide show that was a big deal - the sisterhood songs were "Thank You For Being A Friend", "All My Sisters" (a song by Anne Murray, I think) Friends " (Elton John) and one other that I don't remember. I found the Anne Murray song one day on Rhapsody --- wow, that brought back memories!

We did have phones on the wall in our rooms. Long cords. So your bed was close to the wall so you could answer the phone in the middle of the night.

REO Speedwagon was big, and Journey. Everyone else liked Air Supply but I hated them. Yuck!

My cousin turned 19 on August 30 . The law changed to 21 on September 1 at 12:01 a.m. She was legal for 2 nights.

that's a bummer!