Greetings!

[Mojave Dave]

I guess I'll have to cop to being a crusty old Southern California hippie if I want to hang with you lot, eh?
Yep...I remember just enough of the 60's to wish I could go back and visit sometime. I do visit from time-to-time when I get really stoned and take little time-warp "trips" to past experiences.
Those were indeed the days, my friend. Thai Stick could be had-- for the right money. The gang problem wasn't such a big deal then. The people where I spent most of my time-- which was in a small university town called Isla Vista near Santa Barbara, California-- were calmer, and certainly less prone to kick you to death for making unwanted eye-contact.
Hippie chicks were fantastic in a frumpy, peasanty-sorta way. Surfer chicks were bitchin', but strictly off-limits to "long hairs" like me. Pot was good and giggly and we always had a great time smoking it. It cost ten bucks in those days for a "lid" of grass. A lid was a four-finger baggy full of mostly shake and seeds. But it always seemd to get the job done nicely.

Anyway, I could ramble on forever about the good ol' days after having been there like most, or all of the rest of you here have. I just wanted to pop in and introduce myself. I'll be seeing you all around here in the future, I hope.

Mojave Dave

 

[zeppelindood]

welcome to the IC Dave.... bong, doobie or vap... we got 'em for ya ~

 

[Guest]

Isla Vista saw the dobbie bro in the stadium at UCSB in 74-75.
Things are a little hazy :wink:
What a great town, bike paths everywhere hardly any cars. Right on the beach. An like you said lots and lots of chicks Just started sing surfer girl in my head.
Before I got fat and old I use to surf Jalama not to far up the coast from UCSB.
Mojave Dave my handle means high desert jj we might be niegbors
take care and stay safe

 

[Mojave Dave]

Hello Zepplindod and hidesjj! Thanks for the welcome!

Jalama beach, you say, hidesjj? I used to take my kids there (as well as Gaviota) to go fossil hunting against the shale cliffs. Isla Vista was indeed, a great little place to be. A bazillion babes strolling or riding their bikes, surfer chicks (in those days) who looked good but were so arrogant in any situaion that mixed "us" with "them". Hairy, perpetually-smiling men dressed in virtual rags (proper hippie duds) were just not their thing. No matter though, the hippie chicks were just fine with me!

I lived in Rosamond, California, in the high desert for a good long while before moving to England, where I now reside permanently. Which means, of course, that you have an automatic invitation to spend time here if you shoulkd ever find yourself on a plane bound for a vacation in England, mate. You and your family would find yourselves most welcome guests in our home.

I also spent many years in the San Fernando Valley, near LA, and all around the Santa Barbara area, inluding Lompoc, which is 20 minutes from Santa Maria where they are holding the Michael Jackson trial.

Thanks for the welcome, folks...I'll be spending a good deal iof my time in here, I think. I rather enjoy spending time with people more in my own age group. The younger folks are all fine around these forums for the most part, but it's so much more satisfying to swap stories with others who are actually old enough remember the same sorts of things that I do. Glad to meet to both!

Warm regards,

Mojave Dave

 

[Guest]

Welcome to "wrinkle city!" LOL

I'm over here on the left coast in a small fishing village. Time has pretty much stood still around here. The majority of the population here are still waiting for the eighties to arrive! LOL

I spent a few years on Camp Pendleton. I used to live in Fallbrook. Loved California. However, being active duty at the time, Operation Golden Flow (aka Pee Pee Tests) prevented me from partaking in anything other than cold beer and the occasional Scotch :wink:

I may make it over that way yet...

Once again, Good to make your aquaintance!

 

[Guest]

Hi Guys
Dave I lived in Lompoc 3 times myself. Once with my parents in 1961. Caught the worst case of poison oak there.
I was station at Vandenbreg AFB twice in the 70's so I know Lompoc.
Remember the back road from Lompoc to Santa Maria. What a nasty road!
Thanks for the invite. There are a few of us that have been talking about going to Amsterdam for a few years now maybe we can all meet up someday. Thanks for the Memories.

Gunns: operation golden flow. Know it well. I was in the Air force 73-77 but I was lucky they didn't check for THC back then.
One time when I was in Texas the computer kick out my name.Wouldn't you know it the night before I did something that they did test for.
I was lucky again :wink: it was a Friday and I waited till the last min. to pee.
4:55 pm. Never heard a word from them.
Nice talking to you guys.

 

[Mojave Dave]

hidesjj,

Do I know that road? That road was a real 5 or 6 miles of killer asphalt, that's for sure. I used to drive it occasionally just to get a break from the highway. I lived in Mission Hills when I was a kid, and then in several places when I returned as an adult. I lived on South "H" street...you rememebr the main street where it met the hillside? That lovely tree-lined street? Right htere. I loved living in that house. I had it for several years, then moved to "Z" street, was in the middle of buying THAT house, and then ended up down on North Avenue.

My dad worked at Vandenberg AFB, at Lockheed, for many, many years. He was lead-man on a missile building crew. They built pretty much all of the missiles that were launched in the mid'60's through the mid-70's.
Remember the missiles being launched from VAFB occasionally? Everyone running outside when the ground started rumbling and shaking, and that ominous low roar that got louder and louder until you would finally see the missile-- a mile of yellow flames shooting from the engines-- speeding up and out over the Pacific ocean. Unforgettable, to say the least. I must have seen 30 or 40 launches in my life...all from Vandenberg AFB.
I'd be glad to escort you and some of your mates around "The Dam". Hell of a lot of fun! Cafe's where you can just walk in, sit down (if you can find a seat!), and order a gram of this or two grams of that...or maybe a nice gram or two of some special hash that only the Dutch seem to be able to make in that wonderful fashion that just makes your scalp sag when you smoke it. Great stuff!

Maybe that will happen someday. Until then, I'l be passing notes right here in class with the rest of you good people!

Later!

 

[Mojave Dave]

By the way...I was living with my parents (I was only 10 or 11) on "D" street in Lompoc in 1961. We may have even known each other! Did you go to Hapgood Elementary on "A" street? I did.

 

[Guest]

Hey MD
I had to recalculate and it was 1962 I lived there. I was 9 and I only went to school for about 3 months before my family move to the O.C.
I guess we where there all together for about 6 months.
Small world, I lived on "A" st. Later on in the A.F. (1973) I lived over by MacDonald's in a large apartment complex with a couple roommates.
Lompoc was a great town back then. Fields of flowers and 10 mins to the beach.
Talk to you later Dave

 

[Guest]

Tis' a very small world we live in, eh?