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24 September 2004 @ 11:02 pm
Druggie Haze from the 1970's  
Stevil finds all kinds of great retroSTUFF in his old magazines. This time he found a few ads from a 1970's OUI magazine for drug paraphernalia that would be a pothead's dream. I seriously doubt you'd see ANYTHING like this in a men's magazine of today.



Papers in all kinds of assorted flavors, colors, and sizes.


Damn $179.50 was a lot of cash in the 70's. It must percolate your weed into some REALLY good shit.


When I was in Elementary School in the 1970's it was all about who had THE coolest Bong. I love the decorative Mask. I guess you could look a bit like Ultraman while smoking your weed.


In the 1970's it was all about woodgrain everything. I remember thinking the cool roach clips were the ones with a funky feather attached to the end.


The other popular drug of choice: Cocaine. The sickest thing in this whole grouping of products was pointed out by Stevil himself. It's a "Nose Cauterization to correct perforated nose septum" Yuck! If you're snorting that much Coke that it's burning a whole through your septum you've got a MAJOR problem.


Gotta love those stash cans & the note taker that is actually paper for joints. We Americans sure are a creative bunch.


I SOO want that Jimmy Carter music box that hands you a joint while playing, "Smoke gets in your Eyes" Even back then it's a steal at $19.95.
 
 
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[info]xelyn23 on September 25th, 2004 12:25 am (UTC)
wow.

yhummy pictures.
[info]eyeno on September 25th, 2004 12:45 am (UTC)
They are pretty huh? I personally am a bit more fond of booze. Stevil is good at tracking this kind of stuff down.

[info]xelyn23 on September 25th, 2004 07:27 am (UTC)
Hahah!

I think what I was trying to tell you last night was:

1) I shouldn't drink 2 buck Chuck Chardonnay from Trader Joe's and get on-line
2) I need your address so that I can send you Ms. Powter's book back (which will get it to ya soonest)

K. My head hurts. I should go back to bed.
[info]eyeno on September 25th, 2004 09:16 am (UTC)
1. Hope your head isn't hurting too bad
2. I gave you the book so there's no need to return it. Besides it sucks BIG donkey ass anyway.
3. "Stop the Insanity" isn't so bad. I think I mentioned that one before if you see it at a Thrift Store or a garage sale it's worth picking up.
4. One of these days you should head out to Turdlock on an early Tuesday and go with me to the Turdlock Flea Market. Every once in awhile they have an occasional cool item.
[info]skittlefiend13 on September 25th, 2004 07:20 am (UTC)
Wow.
That's just...
Wow.
[info]eyeno on September 25th, 2004 09:17 am (UTC)
I'm glad you like. It's strange what they sold in old mainstream men's magazines in the 1970's. I believe OUI is still around and now owned by Playboy.
[info]deluded_bliss on September 26th, 2004 12:57 pm (UTC)
This just makes me smile...rather widely.
Thanks!
[info]ijmreviews on September 29th, 2004 05:56 pm (UTC)
An excellent montage.

I was born in 1978, so 70's style tokin' is a bit before my time.

I would really love to buy an isomerizer, hopefully they've come down in price (if they are available at all).

The coke kits are classic too. Good stuff all around :)
[info]eyeno on September 29th, 2004 08:03 pm (UTC)
I think you might be able to pick up an isomerizer on Ebay & from what I can tell. No. They haven't come down in price.
(Anonymous) on September 29th, 2004 07:39 pm (UTC)
cauterization? photoshopped it seems to me....
very hard to believe that the very long recovery procedure of nose cauterization would be offered as an impressive tool

wild though, photoshopped or not.
[info]eyeno on September 29th, 2004 07:54 pm (UTC)
Re: cauterization? photoshopped it seems to me....
Nope...it's not photoshopped. It is a very weird device indeed. I was pretty creeped out by it when I saw it too.
(Anonymous) on September 29th, 2004 08:33 pm (UTC)
Re: cauterization? photoshopped it seems to me....
Uh -- are my irony detectors maybe not working? If so, my apologies, but it's a rubber nose, guys. :)
[info]frijole on September 29th, 2004 08:36 pm (UTC)
and here i am, part of the latest generation of tokers, and we have no place to buy even the simplest glassware anymore :'(

alas, I may have to stop by the pipe store on the way to campus and pick up just n average pipe for my needs, nothing so fancy as this equipment
(Anonymous) on September 29th, 2004 09:44 pm (UTC)
Wow!!
I remember (more or less) all this stuff. Still have my old acrylic ST3 bong in the attic somewhere......still have a rolling machine, still have my insta-loader. Man, I should start a museum!!!
[info]eyeno on September 29th, 2004 10:59 pm (UTC)
Re: Wow!!
Dude...you must have had it all. This stuff was immensely popular in the 70's. These days I have no idea what is THE cool thing to smoke stuff in.
(Anonymous) on September 30th, 2004 09:04 am (UTC)
Re: Wow!!
These days everybody smokes out of stylish hand-crafted blown glass, though joints never went out of style.
(Anonymous) on September 29th, 2004 11:45 pm (UTC)
Wow
Hmm, and the gubmint will have you believe that these things are evil, despite the fact that they've been around for ages.

Eh, I wasn't aware that you couldn't buy some of this stuff together -- we were buying stuff for making a *beer* bong, and the guy refused to sell all the components to us at the same time. Apparently some law.

Funny shit.

Man, am sure there're hell lot of laws against having so much of cool equipment, too. LOL, wonder how they got by.

~metlin -//- http://metlin.blogspot.com
[info]z3alious on September 30th, 2004 12:20 am (UTC)
Re: Wow
I love that mask/bong. I have never seen anything like that.
(Anonymous) on September 30th, 2004 02:22 am (UTC)
Are you smok'in?
The nose is just to let you know that if you do to much coke you may need to get cauterization from a doctor, and the mask is to freak out your bonged -out buddies, not to smoke with it. but cool spread of drug ingesting equipment. man, like wow!!, IS that the cops MAN???!!! Daves not here man..
[info]verbminx on September 30th, 2004 05:01 am (UTC)
surreal!
oh, my god. equally questionable is the fact that i remember playing with some of these things - especially several of the roach clips - as a kid. i remember the key and one of the guitars. my dad was/is a big pothead, but i don't recall him ever having bongs around - it was clips and papers all the way. they don't have any JOKER brand papers listed. i remember the 'rents using those and ez-wider. there is still much bitterness on my mom's part past that directly related to her failed marriage, because apparently my dad KEPT HER PIPE when they broke up. (she hasn't smoked in years, but it was apparently a very pretty one.) and you know this is from the later '70s without even having to look, because it mentions "that perfect sequel to star wars"....

i'm just shocked to realize that some of those mysterious little metal things that were around when i was a kid were roach clips. i mean, i've always been very aware of my dad's toking, but i thought the only roach clips he had were those surgical clamps or the smaller metal alligator clips (not in this ad set either). the guitar clip (the one most to the left, of the guitar shapes in the clip pic and therefore near the center bottom of the arrangement) splits lengthwise down the neck, and is fairly detailed. i remember i used to pinch paper and my fingertips in it. the key one i remember seeing is the silver one that is higher up in the pic, on the far right. my dad also had the little "misdemeanor scale" - bottom picture, upper right section, lower left area of the pic. there were also a lot of carved asian boxes with inlaid brass - i guess the same kind that are common as stash boxes from import stores today.

i got here via boingboing, btw.
and funny - growing up around all this casual-drug paraphernalia meant that when i was older, smoking pot or hash didn't seem in the least bit cool or rebellious or attractive, cos it was something boring for DADS to do. i guess in some environments - "you, dad! i learned it by watching YOU!" (haha!) - it might have the opposite effect, but for me it made casual drug use significantly less attractive than it was to friends who had very straitlaced, upper-middle-class professional parents.
[info]klingonlandlady on September 30th, 2004 08:10 pm (UTC)
Re: surreal!
That's why I always thought raising the drinking age was silly... I grew up Eurpoean-style, we had wine with dinner and cocktails on special occasions, since I was about 5. And later the "I'm 21 wow i can drink now" frenzy never got me- it was just a part of life.

Look at history, Prohibition didn't work...
(Anonymous) on September 30th, 2004 05:11 am (UTC)
Nostalgia
Wow, man. One of my first jobs out of high school was working in a head shop. These pix bring back the memories. I could so run through the various pros and cons on these products. Heh.

I miss my glass bong.
[info]sylphon on September 30th, 2004 08:04 am (UTC)
Those were great! Thanks for sharing these.
(I found you via http://boingboing.net/)
(Anonymous) on September 30th, 2004 09:42 am (UTC)
awesome
Good find man!

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[info]mlfoley on September 30th, 2004 10:47 am (UTC)
Beautiful. Thank you! (found via boing boing blog - posting it to my own LJ too)
(Anonymous) on September 30th, 2004 01:44 pm (UTC)
where did you get the pictures from of my dorm room
Hey, these are pictures from my dorm room.

The beauty of studying chemical engineering in the 70's was access to glassware, testing your stash and getting all the nasty impurities out of street drugs.

There was also a guard assigned to the chemistry building who could hand roll *perfect* cigarettes using only one hand. He was our hero. We were also pretty trashed after six hour organic chemistry labs...
[info]crazybandit on September 30th, 2004 02:47 pm (UTC)
hahahah
that's fucking awesome.
(Anonymous) on September 30th, 2004 03:54 pm (UTC)
One Hitter
Hah! I don't see a one-hitter there anywhere. Stealthy and economical. Nor do I see any nice SS "cigarette" cases for holding loose or rolled product. Or are my eyes just getting blurry?
(Anonymous) on December 31st, 2005 03:01 am (UTC)
Re: One Hitter
That is because one-hitters would have considered selfish! When you rolled one up, bigger was cooler.
Also the pot we had in those days wasn't as good as today. Ha Ha!!!! But that is the sad truth. 1/4 lb. cost $45 & a lid was $15
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