When I was Seventeen it as a Very Good Year

[The Lone Liberal]

Seventeen was great, my last year in high school. Mini skirts. My grades were so-so and I was enjoying my last year classes. The football season had turned out okay and baseball was again just so-so. Did I mention mini skirts. I discovered the library and that it contained books that had wonderful thoughts in them.

Friday and Saturday nights were date nights. A movie, drive-in dinning.

Now for the question:

What was or is your favorite Friday or Saturday high school date night cuisine?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. 10 cent tacos in Rosarito

We'd head down to Mexico to surf every weekend in highschool

[The Lone Liberal]

13. Being an In-lander

All we could do is watch "Endless Summer" over and over.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

34. That's still a great flick!

9 miles of film went into that thing! I still have the soundtrack around here somewhere on vinyl.

[mr_hat]

37. Rosarito? Have you heard Lowell George's song of the same name?

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Well, had you paid less attention to the mini skirts....

...your grades might have been more like 3.87.

I studied extremely hard and spent lots of time in the library. Plotting revolution.

[The Lone Liberal]

15. You had a 3.87 GPA?

That is great! Takes a real brain to do that well.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Only a 3.6.

But I know someone who had a 3.87 in college and grad school.

[xray s]

3. I'm from Chicago

Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza!

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Lou Malnati's in Lincolnwood?

Know that well.

[xray s]

9. Sometimes Lincolnwood

Went to the one in Elk Grove too.

Oh...and Tastee Hastee and Superpup and Superdawg on Milwaukee Avenue were the hot dog joints we hung out at when we couldn't get enough quarters together to chow down at Lou's.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. You were in the Land Beyond O'Hare then.

Ever been to Fluky's on Western at Farwell?

I work near the Superdawg.

[xray s]

51. Been by it but never ate at it

I do remember my dad taking us to a lttle trailer stand around Lincoln and Sunnyside near Welles Park. It was called Johnnies.

Nice memories.

[greatauntoftriplets]

53. Don't know Johnnies

Though I have been swimming at Welles Pool.

[The Lone Liberal]

16. Yikes for got about pizza.

Nothing like pizza after some smoke.

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Lou Malnati's. Not far from where I live.

http://www.loumalnatis.com/

[The Lone Liberal]

40. Wow that looks good.

Do they deliver?

[greatauntoftriplets]

43. Sort of, but I don't imagine it travels all that well. Probably cools.

http://www.deepdishpizza.com/priority.html

[xray s]

54. Superdawg!

[greatauntoftriplets]

55. That is such a funky looking place.

You should come to our next Chicago DU get-together. Had one three weeks ago, lotsa fun.

[mr_hat]

4. Boarding school. So no cars, no crusing, no movies. >

Made the stolen moments all the sweeter...

[The Lone Liberal]

18. Where did you go to school?

Away from home, or close by?

[mr_hat]

32. Millfield School, in Street, Somerset UK. >

It was about 150 miles from London, IIRC.

[NewHampster]

6. Hartford Drive-In Greasy Fries

Fogged Windshield
Blanket hanging between front seat and rear

My favorite Snack was in the back seat with me.

[The Lone Liberal]

21. Fogged Windshield?

Hmmm, 3-1 I can tell you what was going on in that car.

[NewHampster]

25. You'd be right and

I can't remember the movies at all

[SarahB]

33. I had a few nights in the same place at 17

Hartford Drive In, Berlin Turnpike- 1989!

[NewHampster]

41. We broke it in for you back in 67, 68 and 69

Literally

We also had the Meadows which became the Jai lai joint
and the Berlin, and a few others along the pike

I still have the stubs

[NewHampster]

44. hmmm I coulda been there with your Mother then I might be

:evilgrin:

[SarahB]

52. Daddy, is that you????

My mom graduated in 1967!

Seriously though, she went to high school in Nebraska, so nope, she wasn't there.

[NewHampster]

57. Too old for me

:toast: to the Hartford Drive-In

[oldleftguy]

7. 1966

12 Cent White Castles!

[The Lone Liberal]

22. Good ole White Castles.

Man, everything is worse today. it was great when White Castles were great.

[MrSlayer]

8. Quart of beer and a nickle bag of weed.

And then bang the hell out of each other. High School years were great.

[The Lone Liberal]

24. Nickle Bag! WOW

We had to do sometimes with stem and seeds. LOL

[Jack Rabbit]

10. When I was seventeen . . .

. . . Nixon entered the White House.

Not a good year.

[The Lone Liberal]

26. Bummer.

Just reading Dean's Worse than Watergate. Dean says the current crop is the larger crop of crooks.

[Jack Rabbit]

30. I agree with John Dean

That says a mouthful about the current crop of crooks, doesn't it?

[ewagner]

11. After the late show at the drive in

we'd go to the old Royal Castle and pick up a box or two of slammers and a jug of root beer and sit in the parking lot acting smart and talking dirty. Warm summer nights. Girls in tee-shirts and short-shorts and barefooted. Music blaring from car radios...usually Beachboys or Beatles.......

god it was great.

[The Lone Liberal]

27. We were sooooo Cool.

Right?

[ewagner]

59. Right!!!!

n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

14. When I was seventeen, it was a damned good year. (1997)

The future looked very bright.

:(

[The Lone Liberal]

29. I sincerely hope it turned out that way.

We were in our prime.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. White Castle. The ultimate in munchies!!! But of course, the next

day....as Stephen Kings says, "Sometimes they come back" :hi:

[Droopy]

23. I wasn't popular with the girls when I was 17

So I discovered heavy metal and horror fiction. I did have a girlfriend for a brief amount of time but we didn't want to do anything but jump each other's bones. Then she found a friend of mine more to her liking and that was the end of that.

[The Lone Liberal]

31. There was a song about the time I was seveteen

had a line in it:


"To many fish in the sea."


Hang in there, it gets better and better.

[tedoll78]

28. When I was 17 (1996),

I was at an all-boys' Catholic high school in the New Orleans suburbs, and I was loving looking at my classmates :evilgrin:
No dating for me, but at least eye candy was everywhere!

I hid in my schoolwork and extracurriculars. Graduated with a 4.20 GPA in all AP classes. Got five scholarships to different colleges and was choosing.. which one? Got a date to prom with a Mormom girl with strict parents so that she'd have to be home early, and thus I'd have no pressure to, umm, behave in a certain manner:P

I began my first semester of college when I was 17 at the University of Mississippi. Had tons of fun taunting the rednecks in my dorm hall about Bill Clinton's impending re-election against Dob Bole. Began chemical engineering classes and realized that they bored the hell outta me. Started openly flirting with guys. Discovered the internet.

1996 was a great year. Right after turning 18, I fell in love:)

[The Lone Liberal]

35. You have it by the tail.

Congrats and good luck on the rest of your life. Sounds like you have it under control, so you want need much luck.

[LWolf]

36. 10 cent bottomless cup of coffee,

a crowd of us crammed into a corner booth of a 24 hour coffee shop until they kicked us out or we ran out of conversation. Usually around 1:00 -2:00 in the morning.

If anyone had money for food, it was burger/fries. Or pie and ice cream.

We didn't do dates; couples or singles, we did groups.

[The Lone Liberal]

38. What part of the country LWolf

Sounds like some of the Friday and Saturday nights I spent. What a great time of life.

[LWolf]

63. San Fernando Valley, CA

during the mid '70s.

:hi:

[SarahB]

39. 1989

The last year of childhood. I had a bunch of these short term boyfriends that year which was a fun distraction, but still broken up over my big love when I was 16 who continued to mess with my head every once in awhile. I went to school and did fairly well, good SATS, really cute, worked part-time, did theater stuff, wrote a lot of poems, did some work with Amnesty, was planning on going to Ithaca College, and thought things were going to work out for the most part in my life. My 17th year ended with ever-increasing family problems, and by 18, I was out in the cold world alone because of it.

[The Lone Liberal]

45. Anyone who writes as well as that is doing alright.

Hang in there and please accept my wishes for good karma for you.

[Triple H]

42. I never dated in high school.

:cry:

[The Lone Liberal]

47. Hey, some of my friends never dated in high school

and there were many weekend nights that I didnt have a date. The nights with my friends were just as cool, because we were teenagers and the world belong to us.

[Triple H]

49. That's eactly how I lived my high school...

we owned the world. It was awesome. Good times. (four years ago)

[SarahB]

56. I dated, but never went to my proms

:cry:

[Triple H]

58. I never went to any of my proms.

Oh well.

C'est la vie.

[SmileyBoy]

46. When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer....

I drank some very good beer
That I purchased with a fake ID,
My name was Brian McGee,
I stayed up listening to Queen,
When I was seventeen...

[The Lone Liberal]

48. Good beer is good

Good beer purchased when 17 is better. My late night was Roy Oberson.

[NewHampster]

50. 6 Million Sold

That's what the sign on the Berlin Tpke said in 1968. When I was 17

i think - old fart memory

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

60. Gay in the Southwest County..Jefferson County/Louisville KY 1976

Well....I wasnt really gay...I was in denial and so was everyone else.

Had freinds, didnt go on dates, though. My folks thought it was wierd that I would stay home on Friday nights so they would kick me out for that night...so I drove around Louisville on the Watterson Expressway (the beltway around town).

I did have some freinds,. and we'd hang out in the parking lots of fast food joints on Dixie Highway. So it was McDonalds or Jerrys fast food that I recall from back then....

Or wed head out for Bonnie & Clydes or Pizza Inn for some Pizza.

[beanball]

61. When I was seventeen

Boot camp,Great Lakes.Met some cute waves which made it a very good year.

[rucky]

62. Burrito & Sweet Roll at the Frontier

Albuquerque, NM