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Share your stories of the places you and your friends hung out as teenagers. Places where adults wouldn't find you; you could drink; smoke weed; listen to music, feel invincible; and maybe even make-out with someone if you were lucky. Heavy nostalgia is allowed. The main one for me was a hill called Agony. Agony was part of a county park, a very lovely park with fields for soccer and softball and frizbee; and picnic areas, etc. Half of the park though was the hill. It was about a 1200' climb straight up. No traverses, just straight uphill. Our high school cross-country team had given it the name years ago, because the coaches would have them run up it a couple times every season. No one can run up Agony, you simply try and about a quarter of the way up you are soaked in sweat and doing your best to just trudge your way to the top. But Agony was the ultimate hang out place. The view from the top covered over twenty miles of the Silicon Valley; just all lit up at night. You could get up there with some beer and weed, and a stereo for tunes. On top of that hill you were invincible. No cops or rangers would even bother trying to get to you; not that they even cared. They sure as heck were not going to make the climb. The best part, and this took me and my friends a year to discover, was there was a hidden deer trail down the backside of the hill that circled out to the neighborhood right outside the park where we'd park our cars. Wonderful! An escape route! We actually used this the one time when some cops tried to come up. We were long gone 3/4 of the way back to our cars before they even made the top. They'd just hiked a steep hike with flashlights for at least 20+ minutes, and there was nobody around. lol. The night before graduating high school we went up there with sleeping bags and camping gear and stayed until the morning. We woke at dawn and it was an epiphany. 6AM looking out over the entire South Bay as the sun comes up; realizing that high school is over and its time to move on. Agony was a wonderful place. Internetjack fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Your mom’s house was pretty cool op
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Feb 7, 2024 19:26
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Usually anywhere with a firepit. A girl from church owed me $2 and when we were all at sonic she stuck the 2 dollars into the front of my underwear so that was pretty cool.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:28
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I was in my basement playing video games and posting on Something Awful dot com.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:32
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good lord we had the jackpot best friend since middle school, his parents divorced around sophomore year iirc. so by mid-junior year his dad is living further out in the burbs and his mom has a new partner and is never home. we started to take over the garage. by that summer before senior year we had a full man cave setup - couch, N64, a fuckin pizza maker we got from a bar. honestly it just turned into open house and we would just blaze right in the living room combine this with the fact that we had an open campus high school and we basically lunched like lawyers and often didn't make it back to school. great times. said friend had liver failure adjacent issues prior to 30
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Feb 7, 2024 20:31
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Woods porn.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:32
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mine was GBS
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Feb 7, 2024 20:33
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Nah, op. Nah.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:39
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the room in my mom's basement was our hangout spot. my mom let us smoke weed and drink and whatever down there because it was preferable to us going out and getting into poo poo downtown. i had a few arcade cabinets set up in there (still have them in storage, pending finding a bigger place to live where i can set them up again) so it was pretty much late teenage nerd stoner stay up all night heaven
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Feb 7, 2024 20:43
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Worf posted:mine was GBS Oof
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Feb 7, 2024 20:46
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it was really fun to hang out with you
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Feb 7, 2024 20:52
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There was this pool place that opened up in town that didn't serve alcohol that became a really popular spot for us You could not go 30 minutes without hearing "Rooster" on the jukebox and that was a good thing as far as I was concerned They gave discounts for good grades
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Feb 7, 2024 20:58
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smoking weed at the park was cool
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Feb 7, 2024 21:03
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well there was this place called 'fyad'
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Feb 7, 2024 21:25
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This is gonna start snooty and end pathetic.  I had four friends, two of which were sisters and the daughters of the Canadian ambassador. They had this cool house next door to the Canadian Club. There was a little door on the wall between them that we could slip through to grab pizza from the club or go swimming in its pool. I fondly remember skipping prom to eat pizza and watch Trigun because we were all unpopular weeby girls.
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20 Blunts posted:open campus high school Good lord this was a blessing in high school. We'd hardly ever go for fast food, but just to one of our houses because all of us had working parents, so no one was home. We'd raid the fridge hardcore. Parents would complain that half the food was gone, because 4-5 teenagers just mowed through everything; but when we pointed out that each house only got hit once a week that it was the same as one of us eating at home 5 days a week. Parents were all, "huh, good point".
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Feb 7, 2024 21:45
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well we would meet up in the village square and wait for some ozzy to boot us some kokanees then head to ross rebagliati park which was fitzsimons park at the time and skull some beers and smoke some weed down by the river life was good
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Feb 7, 2024 21:46
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We had a spot out in the woods in Colorado. One of those reasonably remote spots that is still reasonably close to town. We found a dense thicket against the base of a tall cliff (About 50 feet high, as I recall). By clearing out the part against the cliff, we had a space that you couldn't see from outside. You had to push through the dense growth to get to it, but once there, you were invisible. Someone brought a shovel and began digging into the cliff face to make a cave. It became a tradition to bring digging tools along with your beers, and to add to the cave. Eventually, it was about 20 feet deep, and large enough to stand up in. We finally stopped digging because the boulders were becoming too large to shift easily. You could build a fire in the cave without worrying about burning down the forest, but it would get really smoky if you did, so most people just brought flashlights. We stopped using it when some crazed homeless dude found it and moved in. Genesplicer fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Feb 7, 2024 21:50
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God drat I miss the old style coin operated arcades.
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Feb 7, 2024 21:53
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The sewers, like a rat.
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Feb 7, 2024 21:54
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Genesplicer posted:dense thicket dont doxx me
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Your mom’s house was pretty cool op drat that was quick
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Feb 7, 2024 22:32
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municipal lot number 1. we called it news and tobacco after the shop that would sell cigarettes to underage boys like us
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Feb 7, 2024 22:33
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We'd just meet at the graveyard in the town centre and roam drinking vodka/Fanta and being "goth".
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Feb 7, 2024 22:52
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I was just google streetviewing a lot of my childhood homes and schools My birthday's coming up, so I guess I'm just getting weird
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Feb 7, 2024 23:03
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my old hs bud lived in an old trailer under the photosphere on the sun. his parents had a trailer and he had his own so we had our own little kingdom to freak poo poo up. my first real friend group hung out there a lot and that was the first place i ever smoked weed and drank beer. good times.
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Feb 7, 2024 23:27
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We would hang out in a clearing in the middle of a local cornfield Sometimes the tiny 2 door we used would get stuck and we would have to lift it and move it out of the mud to get back to the road
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Feb 7, 2024 23:48
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Gossips, 69 Dean st, home of Gaz's rockin blues, but more importantly, Hard Club 92, and some other goth/industrial nights.
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i went to college in pittsburgh right next to one of the main city parks, schenley park, and me and my friends used to hang out and smoke weed at a place called "the ledge" which was a small sheltered area you could find basically by going over the edge of a ravine behind some picnic tables. it was a known spot to other stoners in the area too. the park was technically closed at night and the cops would drive through and sweep the woods with a searchlight every couple hours but the ledge was below where the light would reach and they were too lazy to get out of their cars and actually look around so it was a great safe spot when i was in high school i mostly hung out at a cafe in mountain view ca called bay city. it was right next to a tower records. there were a lot of goths and punks that hung out there and there was live music on the weekends. then sometime in the late 90's new owners bought the place, created a new dress code and fired anyone with piercings or dyed hair, installed a bunch of tv's, and promptly went out of business. now its a jersey mikes. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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- Gnome's landing: Little foresty area not too far from a trail that had a giant gnome statue that was cut coronally. His back side remained and he was posted up against a tree. His bum was our primary ashing spot. It was too close to the trail for my comfort. - Bird spotting spot with an outdoor cushioned swing up in the mountains. That was prime real estate. The guy who set up to watch birds didn't really like us though. - Friends tiny room in garage: smoked a lot of weed in there while listening to Wilco or in high school. My friend worked as janitor at the school to fund the weed, and he would steal the industrial strength spray for the bathrooms. We thought it worked to cover the smell, but I think his single mom just had bigger problems. We tried growing a plant, but it died. Which is probably for the best, because there was no way in hell his mom wouldn't have noticed. We placed the leaves on burgers; burgers were bomb.
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We mostly hung out in my friend's basement playing smash brothers on the 64 and petting his super cool cat. My hangout at school was the band room cause I was a high tier band nerd. As an earlier teen in middle school we had a big hill at my friend's house and there was a graveyard on it and we would run around in it because we were edgy.
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My friends and I tried to make it a point every Friday night to go see whatever new movie was playing at the swanky Century theater. If you lived in the Western US in the ‘90s, this would be nostalgic as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQxMMemIs6M We’d also visit a pool hall called Clicks Billiards and hang out there until closing and then go eat at Waffle House post midnight before calling it a night. Otherwise, the mall was also an option.
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Feb 8, 2024 02:31
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At one of the various sand pits, or down by the river.
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Feb 8, 2024 02:33
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The sunken birch forest. The secret Valley. It was just a couple of acres on the edge of the school property; a useless sloping corner bordering some industrial properties. It seemed like the school administrators had forgotten about it or given up on using it. A magical place. A few old oak trees but mostly it was a little birch forest. Unruly and wild, rustling dead leaves underfoot. Lots of hidey places. Squirrels and acorns. You could sneak a smoke. You could sneak out a hole in the fence to a muddy path that led up to a bakery on the main street where you could buy pastries.Above was the soccer pitches and PE exercise grounds, the realm of the cool kids, normies and jocks. It was a safe space during recess. I met most of my nerd friends in the Valley. I liked that it was full of bird song. You could take a nap or eat your lunch down there, read books Nobody would bother you but you could faintly hear the bell signaling end of recess. After summer break one year I found they had leveled the valley so it was gone. All the trees razed. That corner of the property now flush with the soccer pitches, and they had put a couple of ball courts there. Also the fence was mended. Progress I guess.
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Feb 8, 2024 07:19
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Whole lotta basements.
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Feb 8, 2024 07:41
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Poohs Packin posted:Whole lotta basements. Same, but supes darker
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Feb 8, 2024 08:07
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Lived right near the woods, so plenty of my teenage years were spent hanging out there, usually big groups of 20-30, boys and girls all having casual sex, smoking weed, and drinking. As soon as any of us were able to get served in pubs that group number dwindled fast.
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We used to hang out on the corner next to the record store in royal oak (used to be a 'hip and cool' city just outside detroit, now its douchey gentrified bullshit), listening to music and being all around degenerate 16 year olds. I'm sure the cops would get called on you within 5 minutes these days.
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Feb 8, 2024 08:34
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Stileproject.com mainly
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We hung out on a roof of a public Mikve (Jewish ritual bathhouse thing). It was a one floor building and we could generally get up there with just someone giving us a leg up. We dragged a bunch of old couches and tables we found out there. We didn't do much up there other than shoot the poo poo (and my friends smoked hookah) but it was nice. Wonder what the eventual AC technician or whoever went up there thought of it.
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