Replies

Wow, drugs didn't hit San Mateo until '75? Amazing. We were in the North Bay, lower Sonoma County, and drugs hit during '66-67, by the end of the Summer of Love ('67) it was almost universal. That was pretty much true also for my cousins in Marin and in San Francisco, and my friends in SF and on the Peninsula (Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Atherton, etc.) I had a girlfiend in grad school who was from out towards the Delta past Livermore, she said drugs hit there and the world changed around '68-'69.

By '68 or so, the lethargy about sports had hit, pretty much as you described it: only the athletes and their parents cared about sports, plus the girls in their clique who were the cheerleaders. Dramatic changes from our day.

You know, those were what the Chinese call "interesting times" -- good and bad. I had a lot of fun in those years, and did a lot of things I hope my daughters don't do. I marvel that I and most of my friends survived more or less intact.

Yes, I was at Cal ain '67 and we had one guy in the dorm who used MJ. (We shunned him (engineering students do that) and called him a pusher. Drugs were around since then, but San Mateo HS was a hold out til bands like Pablo Cruz came into vogue. The school had so much spirit till '75 it was a breeze to be a teacher then, even if I had no room of my own, and had to coach after school too. There were probably a few druggies earlier, and they joined the smokers out by the bleachers. The mainstream was into alcohol, but not the other stuff. My wife and I went to a high school football party and the adults were drinking upstairs while the kids had a keg in the basement. Because of my position, I made an excuse and left the party.

Yeah, we all did things then that I had to confess later to the FBI for my clearence. All they wanted to know was was I clean now?

I grew up in Concord, (out by the delta). The town had a rep for unmarried pregnancies. You had some class friends in the towns you named. My HS drew from Hillsborough and Burlingame as well as Foster City. The sad thing is that even though my friends survived, they did not move to the conservative side, so we talk a lot less now. I dated a Hillsborough girl, she said on a teacher's salary, I could possibly take her out once a month, she had other friends who could party every other night, so I lost out.