Oh yes...I ‘grew up’ in NY State and we could drink beer at 18 and there was ‘always’ an older looking kid plus playing sports in a small town/high school 18 year olds were always around to supply our ‘alcohol needs’ to us.
But in ‘those days’ school kids and teenagers were ‘kept in line’ by the whole town and since 1 coach did all 3 sports and summer baseball, there wasn’t much we could really ‘get away with’, no matter how much we thought we were....
I like to think that HRC meant the above scenario in her “It takes a Village” nonsense but she was going much much further than that....
In 1965...there was a huge story..5 HS kids from Greenwich were killed in a car crash on I-95..they’d been drinking at their parents homes..CT raised the age to 21 soon after. NYS didn’t for a while..and Vista, NY ( just over the line from Fairfield) soon had one traffic light, and about 15 bars and liquor stores..