[Walter Chronic]

I like glass don't get me wrong but,sometimes I dont't
like how fragile they can be.
Growin up uzin a No.4(think thats rt.) bong from US Bongs
so, Im partial IGuess
anyway,the newer plastics all crack after a few monrhs use
what's up w/this ans the lack of good acrylic?

[graybeard]

I don’t have any answers for ya bro, but I have been wondering the same thing. I remember US Bongs was the bomb back in the day. The first acrylic bongs that I know of. They were very successful in my neck of the woods in the 70’s. Back then the only other bongs I saw were ceramic. A friend of mine had one that I really liked…hard to describe, but I’ll try. It was probably 10 or 12 inches and clear acrylic with a one hit bowl. If you looked down on it, it was a horizontal oval shape and I believe it was slightly curved down like a frown. I think they all had one hit bowls, but you could take the bowl off of your metal pipe and screw it on there for a “party bowl”…

[HappyHemphog]

U.S. Bongs used to have a place right off I-270 just north of Rockville, MD. I remember driving up the highway and seeing the huge sign on the building. Was really awesome to see it lit up at night.. a huge "US BONGS". I believe they went out of business when MD passed their anti-paraphernalia law.

To this day, I still have and prefer my 18" straight tube. Nothing in my 30+ years of smoking has been able to deliver a huge clean hit that I could hold without my lungs feeling like they were being coated with resin. Unfortunately, I've not had anything to use in it in a long time now.

I used to own one of their largest models, the Capitol Hill. Man was that thing a monstrosity of tubes and chambers! They used nice 1/8" thick acrylic, not the cheap 1/16" crap used these days. The wooden sleeve with threaded insert that slipped on the stem allowed you to put any standard threaded bowl on from a one-hit to a party bowl on it.

Cheers!
Hempy

[bobcat1963]

They were great,I had a US2 and a Capitol Hill.The US2 fit perfectly into a metal toolbox,and when I customized my van I made a hiding spot for the Capitol Hill.

[Backwoods Bud]

I had a U.S. Bong back in the early 80's. Don't remember the model but it was about 7 inches tall, clear with one hit bowl. I kept it behind the seat of my Yota 4x4. Great for taking bong rips on the freeway!

[Harvest]

i still got my jbd and some others.

I grew up in Rockville, home of U.S. Bongs and I heard that they were pretty much roughed up by the IRS. Supposedly they confiscated the Uncle Sam Posters as well.
You can see a small version of the poster here:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=191906

[lime6161]

I had the six-shooter gatling bowl on my clear 18in. Slid right over those plastic downstems. awsome.

[sanjuan]

Originally Posted by Walter Chronic

. . . anyway,the newer plastics all crack after a few monrhs use
what's up w/this ans the lack of good acrylic?

Bing "Very Thick Acrylic Bong" -- I just bought the bubble model from a Dutch site. A review said it passed the "pissed off girlfriend" test.
I like it but the carb hole seems located for a lefty and the base needs to be glued on.

I just remembered that at one point they did have short-lived website, usbongs.com but they were only selling original stock of the posters...no bongs.