Did anybody else do this during HS, any class year? As teenagers in the early 70s, my GHHS friends and I would concern ourselves on Fridays at school with where the parties were going to be that night. Wed line up a number of places to head out to later on, but never had an exact address for any of them. PARTY LOCATIONS WERE ALWAYS DESIGNATED BY CROSS STREETS! Like Plummer and Shoshone, Lassen and White Oak, Zelzah and Sunburst, Tulsa and Lurline, Parthenia and Louise, Mayall St. and Oso Ave., and neighborhoods on even smaller street intersections. Sometimes wed drive across the Valley for a really fer sure party, but usually stayed around GH, Northridge, Reseda and Chatsworth, often criss crossing our earlier path to seek out the next location. Hell, gas was cheap at 35¢/gal in 1972! Each person in the car (usually four to six of us), would chip in 50¢ or a buck apiece, and wed be set for the night. Seat belts? We don need no stinking seat belts!! We wouldnt know if thered be a party at the first set of cross streets or not. Not until we reached the locale, pulled over, turned the car stereo down, and yep, youd hear it a block or two down. Pretty soon the LAPD choppers would be flying overhead, shining their lights down on the party house to break it up. Before scattering in our cars, wed all be checking in with other partiers, Where you headed next? Heard there was a party at (insert cross streets here), and off wed all go! Sometimes wed circle back later and hit an earlier party house once the excitement had died down. Those chopper pilots usually always found the parties, but wouldnt come back later. Now, I can only imagine what they saw from 1,000 ft up! LOTS of cars crammed into a small neighborhood, kids running wild. Too funny. Eventually, wed end up at Bobs Big Boy, usually the one on Devonshire and Zelzah (was there one at that intersection back in the early 70s?). Stuffing our faces, wed be laughing like wed conquered the world that night in the pursuit of happiness. Good times, good times! ;)
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:32:08 +0000
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