Remember When...............

dbart said:
Awesome,
In high School we would meet up on Thursdays at a place called Burger Palace in Arcadia, was a cool car/hot rod meet up. I had my 67 fastback, my brother had his 69 Camaro RS, my buddy Chris had a 55 chevy with a blower motor, Garrett had I think a 1970's-ish Nova...it was such a cool hang out. If anyone wanted to race, we'd head over to Rivergrade road off the 605 freeway, Irwindale and guys would race...then we'd head back to Burger Palace and just hang.
The Drive-In was also cool, before I bought my 67, my parents had a 65 impala...I could get 9 people in that thing and at $5 a carload...made for great times going to the Drive-in!
I feel so lucky to have grown up as a kid when I did!
American Graffiti is on my all-time favorites of movies!
Look at that pic, NO CELL PHONES back then.....the BEST!!!!!
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Speaking of fastbacks...

Did you guys cruise Valley Blvd back then? This was my cruising vessel back in the last 70's...

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Had a 74 Chevelle (heavy ass pig, but fast) that was my weekend cruse car in Riverside and race out on Aqua Mansa.

Super Shops would cash your paycheck, next door to the Pussy Cat Theatre and if I knew more back then, I would have spent half as much money and gone twice as fast!!!!

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"Popsicle Twins" incident​

During The Gong Show's run, Barris became well known for his clashes with the network censors, intentionally bringing in risque acts as a diversion to allow some of the less racy acts to slip by. On the September 20, 1977 episode, one of these bait acts, called "Have You Got a Nickel?", made it onto the show. The act consisted of two teenage girls, both clad in shorts, sitting cross-legged on the stage floor and silently eating popsicles in a manner that suggested they were performing fellatio on the frozen treats. The nature of their act led to the two girls being referred to as the "Popsicle Twins".

While the girls were able to complete their act without being gonged, they were given low scores by two of the judges. Phyllis Diller gave them a zero (the only zero an act ever received), while Jamie Farr followed with a marginally better 2. Jaye P. Morgan awarded them a 10, quipping, "Do you know that's the way I started (in show business)?" and proceeded to eat one of the girls' popsicles.

The girls' act was approved by the NBC censors, who apparently did not see anything wrong with it during the rehearsals. However, after the episode was shown in the Eastern Time Zone, NBC cut the act from the later tape delay broadcast for western time zones. KNBC in Los Angeles, alerted to the content, was able to preempt it. The act was not cut from all the tapes, and the "Popsicle Twins" incident has been seen in reruns and retrospectives. Barris said in a 2001 interview with Salon that this particular act began making him reconsider his career.
 
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