Posted on 07/23/2013 7:26:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t know. I remember my mom in 1956 buying tix on United to bring us back to NYC from SF. She didn’t drive so she had no license. Her Social was in her maiden name. The agent would not sell her the tickets. Her uncle who was the civilian chief of the SF Naval Shipyard finally laid down a plethora of his credentials and the agent relented.
When I’m in the Philippines, i could buy smokes off one of these kids who clamp on these public mini buses called jeepneys’ and have a smoke while the driver goes 40 MPH.
My dad did, in 1965, for his dad.
They certainly could!
Somehow we all survived.
#4 hasn’t been true since 1968.
Not necessarily related to freedom, but in 1975 I could at least turn on the tv and not immediately encounter something that would viscerally repell me to the point of wanting to vomit.
4.You could buy a gun without showing an ID
I think it was GCA 68 that gave us the 4474 form, and I think you had to show ID.
And 5 may be wrong, I believe there was an automatic report of transactions over a threshold that varied from day to day.
Otherwise, yes.
You could carry a knife in a school, or on a plane.
Besides, being a slave to addiction isn’t liberty. And it certainly wasn’t very liberating to the children that were turned into addicts.
LOL! I had to ride my bike into town to get 2 packs
of PallMalls, nonfilter, for my stupid stepdad. They were
39 cents each. He would give me 80 cents and want the
two pennies back after my 4 mile round trip! Asshole!
But I survived, didn’t I??
I used to ride miles out a truck route in the 60’s when I was like 7 to get to my Great Grandparents farm.
The old man would give me a dime and I would ride back into town, get him a plug of Beechnut, get 3c change and ride back out the truck route.
By then Grammer had some good lunch going.
In small towns it happened.
You could drain a swamp or fill in a low spot on your property with out the permission of the Army Corp of Engineers or the EPA.
I could see Genesis with Peter Gabriel.
There are worse addictions today.
“I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.”
We sure could. It wasn’t legal but hardly anybody enforced it. 1975 was pre-smokenazi.
You could buy a gun without getting the governments permission via a phone call to the FBI or your state in Florida.
Before 1968 you could order guns through the mail and there was absolutely nothing wrong with that but I doubt it will ever be true again.
LOL!
Good post!
Not legally. But it could be done most any store no questions asked.
Occasionally some store owner would get caught (or his employee).
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