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      CP wrote --   
       
   > I began my drinking, as a kid, with what we called Hi-Test (5.65% ABV vs 5.0   
   for most beers   
      
     WV was one of the first states to prohibit the sell of alcohol in 1914.    
   (It went national in 1920).   
     When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 WV only allowed near beer, I think   
   three per cent.  This lasted until the '80s or '90s.    
     Nor could an establishment be called a "saloon".  A local place here went   
   to court about that in the late '80s and won.     
     Liquor by the drink was limited to only "clubs" and not until the 1950s.    
   Each bar was a "club" and membership was like 50 cents a year and had to   
   show a club card whenever one ordered.  If known to the bartender/owner they   
   didn't have to show it, but have    
     In addition liquor bars could have no windows where someone walking by   
   could see inside.   
     But, if you had a bar in like a restaurant, the windows didn't have to be   
   blacked out.   
        
   > you don't drink beer to get drunk; you drink beer because you like/want/need   
   to pee;   
      
     Or like the old saying: You don't buy beer, you only rent it.   
      
   > get drunk you drink whiskey   
      
      I was the opposite.   
      I could drink liquor and didn't faze me, but a few beers put me under   
   the table.   
      
   > I have a couple preferred vehicles, I'd love to have all of: Ford F-350   
   pickup truck   
   > '69 Cougar (w/ the wrap-around tail lights)   
   > '67 Mustang (w/original leather buckets)   
      
      I remember when I sold cars in the mid '70s and those were just "old   
   used cars" on the lot.   
      
   > a Bluebird yellow school bus, with all the seats ripped out    
      
     When I was a kid we had a handyman working for the family.  Bob did a bit   
   of everything.   
     My father got a old school bus that was cleaned out and Bob lived in   
   there, it was sort of like a open floor plan trailer.   
     Bob was epileptic and would occasionally have a "fit".  Everyone carried   
   a padded tongue depressor and knew how to put it in his mouth so he would   
   not bite off his tongue.   
     I can only imagine up the uproar today with a 10-11 years old kid   
   carrying one in his back pocket and using it when needed.    
      
   > maybe a wacky VW Bug    
       
      Something that's strange to me about Bugs are at one time they were all   
   over the place, then suddenly, almost over night, they just disappeared.   
      Joe   
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