Field parties, did you do them ?

[URY914]

Keg Parties even if there wasn't a keg. We had several areas that were dead end roads or city parks. Some nights it was so dark you couldn't tell who people were. And of course there were fights.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Sounds like a great idea for a movie plot... Sort of like Porky's!

The parties I attended were usually in someone's parents house. If the parents were away it was on.
No mobile phones back then so you'd rarely get crashers.

Wild times

Back in the late 1900’s Linda Roger’s parents were out of town one weekend so she threw a party by accident. Word got out during the Friday night basketball game that there’s a party at her house. She was rich.

There was a big card game in the really expensive-looking dining room that had an attached wine room or whatever it’s called and people would just grab a bottle chug some and pass it around. I got nervous and left when somebody dragged the garden hose into the sunken living room...

[fintstone]

No, never went to a party or heard of one although there was plenty of open land. I know small groups of two or three...got together and drank or smoked dope sometimes, but nothing much larger.

[KFC911]

^^^^ They weren't called "parties".... just teens hanging out. Actually can't recall anything but mebbe some beer drinkin' at most of them.
Gas was scarce...couldn't afford to cruise...so everyone just "hung out"...never any fights. Good times...

[Tobra]

We went to the river

[Hard-Deck]

We had a couple of venues in the mountains. Kegs of beer, sixers, BYOB. We never drove out, we always slept overnight and came home in the AM. Cops never came up, but they would have if anyone should drive out. Unspoken rules between cops and kids.

[porsche tech]

I had jury duty many years ago when I lived in northern VA. A bunch of teens had a keg party in a field out near Dulles airport. One kid beat another kid so bad his head was about twice its normal size (the cops had color pictures) because the guy said something to his girlfriend. Several of the teenaged witnesses said "I had 5 or 6 beers but I wasn't drunk." We ultimately convicted.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Back in the late 1900’s Linda Roger’s parents were out of town one weekend so she threw a party by accident. Word got out during the Friday night basketball game that there’s a party at her house. She was rich.

There was a big card game in the really expensive-looking dining room that had an attached wine room or whatever it’s called and people would just grab a bottle chug some and pass it around. I got nervous and left when somebody dragged the garden hose into the sunken living room...

In door pool? lol

[flatbutt]

I was a city rat so no open fields. We did have our version of Central Park with some ball fields and a few patches of trees. Frisbees and barefoot girls...good times.

[asphaltgambler]

Oh, you bet! The Northern Va area ( where I still live ) was fairly rural in the mid 70's to mid 80's. Typically on someone's property that gave permission, usually had a band of some sort, kegs, weed, etc. There was a cover charge per head. Always a blast!

I don't remember things getting so out of hand that the police showed up. Sometimes they would show up but it was to check things out. Very organized as we were....professionals....Ha!

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Baz

Also when anyone's parents went away - party at their house, of course.

A good friend of mine had parents who were pretty loose. While still in high school, we started organizing semi-regular parties in his basement that we 'decorated' with cast-off furniture, discarded lights and bits of junk that we picked up around town. Beer & wine were pinched from the home's rather large liquor supply. The drinking age was 21 and we were all underage, but the parents reasoned that if the kids were gonna drink, better that we did it there rather than drive across the state line where the legal age was 18. In today's world, they'd probably find themselves in jail for allowing that kind of thing.
At first, it was only our small group of friends, but before long, the word spread and more & more kids started showing up. After a while, there were more people there who we didn't know than those we did. There was an in-ground pool in the backyard and as the parties got bigger & bigger, people naturally started spilling out into the yard. There was lots of loud music, skinny-dipping and noisy partying right in the middle of this suburban tract-home neighborhood. The neighbors would occasionally call the cops but the parents would assure them that there was no drinking and that they were chaperoning the whole thing. Don't know how they got away with that but it seemed to work. Once the crowds got too big, the parents finally clamped down and put an end to the parties.

Looking back now, I don't know how the neighbors put up with it...that kind of thing would drive me crazy now if it were happening right next door.
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[DaveE]

Back in high school we had parties at a local closed/flooded quarry. One of the bands I was in used to do outdoor biker parties. Those were wild crazy times.

[rattlsnak]

We had a great place that HS kids went to for years.. It was an old roadside rest area on HWY 190 between La. and Miss. It used to be the only HWY but when interstate 10 opened up, this old hwy became desolate, especially on weekends at night. In my many years of going out there, I have never seen or heard of the cops ever going out that far. What a blast that place was. We simply called it "Roadside". About 20+ years ago, they turned it into some wildlife preserve or something.

[JackDidley]

We did not have a name for them. No standard location. Just like spontaneous combustion, they happened. Sometimes by a lake or near a barn. Beer, Boones Farm and pot. Not sure why we never ended up in jail.

[unclebilly]

Yup. We had all sorts of places we used to go.

The pump house, the pit (gravel pit), Baylis (bush), and 2 or 3 other places I can’t remember what we called them.

We had some great times, there were fights, people got wasted, it was crazy. If you wore high tops, you had to have a turn walking through the fire.

Also, if you let out a loud cheer, some other drunken yahoo would always return it with an similar reply.

[ckelly78z]

We had "Pond Parties" where my friends parents would leave home and travel to see family in NM, for 6 weeks every Summer. They had a 2 acre pond that we would have almost daily parties, and epic blowouts on the weekends including skinny dipping, and a toga party.

The drink of choice was usually whatever beer was on sale, but mixed several barrels of "hairy buffalo" where a few gallons of fruit punch were supplemented by every person showing up with a bottle of their favorite poison....good times !

[KFC911]

I never REALLY attended a party in hs. I learned sumthin' in college though

Jail..."good kids"....get a pass....'cause there were no cell phones back then....TRUTH!

The Flash, back of the club, Cherokee Hills Merry Hills, Spring Hill, the quarry, some just a mile away over the Co. line....we made 4x4 trails through mud bogs for a few. The power lines .....bite me Barney !