Back in the day . . .

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by 33girl

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."

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.

[OldAOPi]

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!