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what were bongs like way back when?
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BOESELAGER
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Back in the 80's I made one out of a Military Gas Mask, it was kickass. You learn to improvise when you don't have something, or possibly it was the good shit we were smoking in Norfolk. FLASHBACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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bench warmer
Just tried to find a pic of a Power Toker; a bit of paraphernalia I used back in high school.
Instead, all I found online was an automated gizmo similar to the Power Toker.
Instead, all I found online was an automated gizmo similar to the Power Toker.
Remember those little acrylic red water bongs with the black square acrylic bottoms?
I had one of those in the early 80's.
I had one of those in the early 80's.
There they are. But mine was simpler and without tubes. Just a plain little red one with just 1 base instead of 2. I smoked some Purple Skunk out of it that was grow in the Original Phototron that knocked my ass through a loop.
I know my old-ass eyes are bad, but I'm doing a Sergeant Schultz here, "I see nothing, nothing!"
My connections slow too though. Is anything there?
Well dddaver, it WAS there.. I promise... now it's just a red X...
Maybe one of you younger, computer guys can tell me
what happened to the picture I posted....
Sportster
FULL TILT BOOGIE...
1978 (and earlier..)
1978 (and earlier..)
Welp- I ran across this cool thread, I looked thru page one and skipped straight to the last page (here) and I thought to myself..."what were bongs like, way back when.." I seem to remember when there was no such thing as "bongs"..all we have back then was water pipes, wooden pipes, brass bats and Zigzags....of course there was always the creative ones using apples, alumin cans, toilet paper rolls and tin foil, and GOD knows WTF else....I saw my 1st bong in 1978, and bought it, I took it with us to the Drive Inn (sorry kids..thats another thread
) and after using it a couple times, I forgot all about it on the floorboard of my truck, and kicked it out the door, smashing it all to peices....pissssssed me off, the next day I went and bought its twin brother which I still have today.....The other "toys" in the pic are pre-78 and my tools before the bong days, or at least my bong days...I know I still have my "Glass Head" water pipe somewhere, I just couldn't find it when I took this shot about last year....maybe I was going to post on this thread after all....ROF...and just spaced it out??...
Anywho....Onward Thru the Fog!!
1978 (and earlier..)
Welp- I ran across this cool thread, I looked thru page one and skipped straight to the last page (here) and I thought to myself..."what were bongs like, way back when.." I seem to remember when there was no such thing as "bongs"..all we have back then was water pipes, wooden pipes, brass bats and Zigzags....of course there was always the creative ones using apples, alumin cans, toilet paper rolls and tin foil, and GOD knows WTF else....I saw my 1st bong in 1978, and bought it, I took it with us to the Drive Inn (sorry kids..thats another thread
) and after using it a couple times, I forgot all about it on the floorboard of my truck, and kicked it out the door, smashing it all to peices....pissssssed me off, the next day I went and bought its twin brother which I still have today.....The other "toys" in the pic are pre-78 and my tools before the bong days, or at least my bong days...I know I still have my "Glass Head" water pipe somewhere, I just couldn't find it when I took this shot about last year....maybe I was going to post on this thread after all....ROF...and just spaced it out??...Anywho....Onward Thru the Fog!!
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Sportster
FULL TILT BOOGIE...
I think my all time fav-O-rite bong bar none, was a 24" Bamboo Bong...problem was they stunk after a week of hard usage, and mine eventually split!!..was lined with some kind of paraffin/wax of some sort so the bamboo wasn't actually exposed to the water, which made it smell after awhile..and I guess didn't help, it still cracked, and I never saw another one since...lasted about a year of everyday useage, not bad for 15 bux (circa 1979-80)
The bong worked really well, can you see how green-faced it got me? LOL
The rhastamon I stayed with in the hills had a pipe of his own that was called
a "chalise". It was basically a water pipe built with a coconut shell to hold the water. with a 3/4 inch X 12 inch piece of bamboo for the stem. The bowl was handmade from clay and held about 1/2 ounce of the "collie" .. He was having a new one built for him while I was there, that had a one ounce bowl... When he received the new pipe, he gave me the
old 1/2 ouncer... I still have it somewhere if I can just remember where it is....
The rhastamon I stayed with in the hills had a pipe of his own that was called
a "chalise". It was basically a water pipe built with a coconut shell to hold the water. with a 3/4 inch X 12 inch piece of bamboo for the stem. The bowl was handmade from clay and held about 1/2 ounce of the "collie" .. He was having a new one built for him while I was there, that had a one ounce bowl... When he received the new pipe, he gave me the
old 1/2 ouncer... I still have it somewhere if I can just remember where it is....
jahrastafarii
Member
Must be a huge bowl brotha
Must be a huge bowl brotha
It IS a big bowl brotha!
I got to looking thru the attic and found some of the parts to it.
(Along with parts to a "steamer", which is an old school version of what you call a "vape". That was given to me by another rhasta man I knew, in the late 70's, on my 3rd trip to Land of Jah...but that's another story)
If I can find all the parts, I'll post another pic...
PS. One of the parts I found was the clay bowl,, sorry, I was mistaken, the OLD chalise the rhastamon gave ME was just a
1/4 oz. bowl, not 1/2 oz.. But I do remember that the new clay bowl HE got was big enough to drop a tennis ball more than halfway into it.....
Bubbleman got to use a steam pipe in Jamaica. It was made by an old dude called Red. Peace GS
Hello all,
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=X&ei=99w_Uor8NYPArQGyt4DYCA&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAA
Had one of these....kewl looking...was a waste of money...smoked like shit.
minds_I
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=X&ei=99w_Uor8NYPArQGyt4DYCA&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAA
Had one of these....kewl looking...was a waste of money...smoked like shit.
minds_I
outhereinthesun
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Do these still exist? mad style!
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