Yup. Drinking age was 18 when I was growing up. And most of the packies (Boston slang for alcohol stores) would sell to you if you were at least 16. Them was loose times.
Played a bar gig once at 16 where our pay was free booze.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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