Anyone here puke when the hear the "Macarena"!

Man I was so sick of hearing and seeing people do that! AAAhhgggg

PS...Fat people should not try to do the Hula Hoop either! Here is a clue....if you put it over your head and it fails to fall to the ground while not moving you are to fat for it!

sssshhhhh! Don't give Movin 1075 any ideas, now they will probably be playing it by monday. The love to play the CRAP that was never good in the first place.
Can I just say that the Macarena was one the most god-awful songs to grace the airwaves and anyone who requests that song deserves to be shot!

DT- This is Pandora's Box!

Pink automotive accessories. All of them.
Pistol grip combs.
Adults with pogs, sportscards or beanie babies.
Touchlamp firestarters. Dirty catbox? No house to come home to.
Fish dying inside a shoe.
Any dance craze that the average white person can do.
The "Mall Claw."
Shaving emblems, brand names or nonsense in your hair.
Crusty florescent plastic sandal-like things.
Tube tops.
Hats that say "No Money No Honey," "Beer, Butt and Bait" and the dirty sweat soaked charmer, "These Colors Don't Run" that you can barely read.

Still on the no fly list:
Fellers: Parachute pants, windbreakers with epaulets and Hawaiian shirts with no buttons.
Ladies: Skorts, harem pants and spandex.
Both: Any article of clothing that takes a friend to put on. Period.

Boy bands of the late 90's like 98 Degrees, N Sync, Backstreet boys, HANSON.
THAT SHIT WAS AWFUL!! Even women who were into those bands now look back and laugh at those bands. My cousin burned all of her Nsync and Backstreet Boys CD's, Good for her!
I just can't believe how bad the music of the late 90's SUCKED!!!

You forgot the beginning and middle of the 90s too Beano. Truly horrific!

I even thought back when I graduated from high school in 1991 that the music scene was going into the cesspool in a hurry.

Who are you kidding!

92 - 93 were great years for the Alternative Genre.

True that, true that, it was rather short-lived though.

I STILL don't see the mystique behind Nirvana. IMHO, one of the most overrated bands of all-time.

Not everything in the 90s sucked. I present, as evidence, Exhbit A:

"With the release of their 1990 debut LP, No Depression, the Belleville, IL, trio Uncle Tupelo launched more than simply their own career -- by fusing the simplicity and honesty of country music with the bracing fury of punk, they kick-started a revolution which reverberated throughout the American underground. Thanks to a successful online site and subsequent fanzine which adopted the album's name, the tag "No Depression" became a catch-all for the like-minded artists who, along with Tupelo, signalled alternative rock's return to its country roots -- at much the same time, ironically enough, that Nashville was itself embracing the slick gloss associated with mainstream rock and pop.

Uncle Tupelo was led by singers/songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, lifelong friends born in the same Belleville hospital in 1967. During high school, the pair formed a punk cover band called the Primitives along with drummer Mike Heidorn and Farrar's older brother Wade. After Wade enlisted in the Army, the Primitives broke up, but in 1987, the remaining trio reunited, changed their name to Uncle Tupelo, and began incorporating elements of country into their music as well as writing original material. Touring constantly throughout the Midwest, the bandmembers eventually quit school as their music became more and more successful, and in 1989 they signed a contract with the small independent label Rockville.

Taking its name from the A.P. Carter gospel song covered therein, No Depression reflected the band's disparate influences, ranging from everyone from Hank Williams to bluesman Leadbelly through to the famed post-punk trio Hüsker Dü. The most rock-centric of Uncle Tupelo's releases, its songs were meditations on small-town, small-time life, candid snapshots of days spent working thankless jobs and nights spent in an alcoholic fog. After the release of "I Got Drunk," a brilliant single backed with a cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Sin City," 1991's Still Feel Gone struck a finer balance between their rock and country aims. While Farrar's contributions -- sung in his reedy, Neil Young-like voice -- were often informed by a rootsy, scorched-earth mentality, Tweedy's, with their grittier vocals, delved deeper into the trio's punk origins, as typified by the song "D. Boon," a tribute to the late frontman of the legendary Minutemen.

A year later, Uncle Tupelo released March 16-20, 1992, an acoustic record which saw the group plunging fully into country and folk. Recorded live in the studio with producer Peter Buck (of the band R.E.M.), the album drew heavily on painstakingly authentic covers of standards like "Moonshiner" and "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" along with a fitting rendition of the Louvin Brothers' "The Great Atomic Power" and Farrar's and Tweedy's originals, which maintained the record's spare, haunting ambience. Shortly after its release, Heidorn left the group to devote time to his family and was replaced by drummer Ken Coomer, formerly of the group Clockhammer. Multi-instrumentalists Max Johnston and John Stirratt also signed on as part-time members.

In 1992, Uncle Tupelo signed to major label Sire/Reprise and in 1993 issued the LP Anodyne. Widely regarded as the group's definitive statement, it was a true country-rock hybrid which accented the power of both musical forms; the album even featured a cover of the song "Give Back the Key to My Heart" sung with its writer, roots rock pioneer Doug Sahm. After a tour in support of the album, however, the long-standing relationship between Farrar and Tweedy dissolved in bitter acrimony, and Uncle Tupelo disbanded; shortly thereafter, Tweedy recruited Coomer, Johnston, and Stirratt to form the band Wilco, while Farrar reunited with Heidorn in Son Volt."

~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Okay, now back to things that suck.

If you read my post I said the LATE 90's sucked! 97- now is some of the most wretchid donkey CRAP! I Loved the grunge scene like Soundgarden, Stone Temple pilots,CandleBox, Pearl Jam , Nirvana ect. that to me was ann AWESOME time for rock. You had a plethera of great bands coming out and getting played on the radio. But once all of that stuff died the CRAP took over and hasn't been the same ever since. Rock music today is boring Stale and not good! When is the next big rock scene going to make its mark????? We are long over due for ROCK to make a comeback!!

Here's some more fads:

I Found It bumper stickers
I Lost It bumper stickers
Rubik's Cube
Lawn Darts
Frankie Says tee-shirts
Big Mouth Billy Bass

Justin, I see what you are saying and I wasn't dogging anybody on purpose. I'll admit that I am not a big fan of the whole decade -- in the mainstream at least. Rock, heck most music, slowly got boring when the major labels abandoned analog audio tape for most projects. Coincidence? I think not. Skim eBay for the worst of the earlier digital tape units. Once worth more than a good sailboat, they can now be had for pennies on the dollar. They sent our ears to hell.

Now, Protools has enabled (I am being very generous here) "less than marginal" talents to create cheap product that the big labels adore remixing, mastering and pumping out like McNuggets. "Louie Louie" would be a ghost of the original if it were digitized, sequenced and edited painstaking one waveform at a time. Digital taking the soul out of music instead of being used for a quality recording of superior clarity is a fad that I hope someday "fades away." :0)

Lawn Darts were fun!

Especially Jarts. Dangerous as all get out, wouldn't want to get hit in the head (or anywhere else) with one, but used correctly, they were fun!

The only reason lawn darts went away was that the "Slow Children" (still cracks me up when I see those street signs) threw them straight up and then were came down on their heads!
That was fun though....toss them up and run for cover. We still have a set of the originals mind you....not the phony ones with the sliders....the all plastic wings with the metal dart tip! None of ours ever got bloody though!

The personal conversation and relationship fad has finally faded away after thousands of years, replaced by e-mail, text messaging and online porn.

I'm glad that personal intimacy crap finally faded away, as all fads eventually must. . .

Standard English syntax and spelling are two fads that, "thankfully" have faded away thanks to the Internet and text messaging.

i think this is great b-cuz i can save so much time by typing out in stream of consciousness drivel like why waste time reaching for the shift key and hitting the period at the end of each sentence? i dont give a damn if you cant understand me because this is just the way that i express myself this is a peoples digital revolution after all and hah to think that only 10 years ago only emo kids used to write like this now thats progress!

Woot!

Parachute Pants! Nuff Said!

Andrew is on fire today!

I'll submit this one: "Baby On Board" signs in cars. Those were ridiculous! Like I would normally hit your car, but whoa! That sign means I'll be more careful!

Anyone here still own a Member's Jacket?

That would be "Member's Only".

(Did anyone ever wear one on their member? Did they make little teeny tiny sizes?)

LMAO! Mebbe just a sleeve and then you could loop the epaulet through your belt. Like a preppie Aloysius Snuffleupagus.

Newt-style politics is history.

Rove-style politics is just about dead too. (1 year and 318 days.)

Warner, they STILL sell those signs! I couldn't believe it when I saw them a few months ago at Babies R Us...it's like a car alarm going off in a parking lot, no one pays it one iota of attention.

Those signs will end up like the smiley face. Seriously marginalized from over use, but recognizable for the same reason. That recognition is worth a buck or two, which will keep the things on some shelves for all time.

The Bush Presidency. Is it 1/20/09 yet?

Sign, Sign
Everywhere a sign...............

;o)

Everywhere a sign.

This brings back a childhood memory. I remember everything about the day, smells, colors, people, time of day, etc...

I was in second grade, right near the end of the year. We were checking in books, having the little party, talking, etc...

I sat in my desk, looking around with the new found awareness that I could no longer look at a word without reading it! It was like some sort of attack and I felt changed some how and it was not all good.

Before that, reading was an optional thing. I could look at words and see them as shapes! Trace the lines of the letters, appreciate their color, thickness, etc...

Of course, I still see the shapes, but my mind is invaded with the actual meaning now! Back then, it seemed excessive. Why have so many words on things! Made the world a lot more noisy than it should be.

What made the whole thing worse was the bigger words! They took effort that I really could not avoid without an equal amount of effort! Annoying to say the least, for a second grader, looking forward to the next episode of "Speed Racer".

Ok as a child of mostly the 90's and a little bit of 80's, I feel I have to stand up for a few things:

The thought that 90's music was bad....Sure, some of it sucked. But we also saw a resurgence of swing, reggae....hip hop was growing exponentially and latin rhythms started invading the sound of music....

And....like it or hate it, the Macarena was a cultural phenomenon. Ask almost anyone in their 20's and they can tell you how to do the dance. The freakiest thing is I was in middle school when this was popular and you haven't seen anything until you see 500 7th graders doing that dance from memory....it was quite the sight.

The Macarena;

I watched 3 fairly drunk-on-Tequila ladies doing it in the backyard, and frankly, I enjoyed it!

I don't go around badmouthing the Macarena for two reasons:

1) Somebody made up a funny parody about the chupacbra that is sung to the tune of the Los Del Rio version of the Macarena.

2) The Macarena song and dance evolved into what most Americans are familiar with. In the summer of 1995, I was living in Austin, and I remember hearing an all Spanish Macarena song (most likely on KSAH 720 AM) with concertinas instead of synthesized dance beats. There is some history behind this song.

The 1990's music was decent from 1990-1997.
1997-2000 was some of the most god-awful music ever recorded!
I looked at my cousins year book from 1998, and it has the top songs of that year wich included
Hanson,
Backstreet Boys,
98 Degrees
Celine Dion
Ricky martin- Talk about CRAP!!! Again, the 90;s were good until 1997 came and then the music took a nose dive!

See...I think about 97....

and I think about The Cherry Poppin' Daddies....

and Brian Setzer's Orchestra....

and Less Than Jake

Reel Big Fish..

I was a band geek...so those sounds were awesome to me.

Speaking of things that have gone from limelight to total obscurity, does anybody remember Jennifer Ringley and her website, JennyCam? Believe it or not, her live camera website was up for a total of seven years, from the spring of 1996 through December of 2003. However, it seems that her popularity hit a sharp peak in 1999-2001. At that time, she released a CD (she was an amateur musician), she starred in a streaming video series, and she was interviewed by various radio and television shows, as well as a magazine about pet ferrets.

People were mostly shocked or intrigued (perhaps in a prurient sense) that her website was intended to turn all visitors into instant peeping-Toms. However, I don't think anybody celebrated her for her technical abilities: the site was hosted from computers in her apartment, and all of the site design, coding, and maintenance was done by her.

Jennycam was the probably first notable pioneer in many waves of self-exploitation including the infamous Suicide Girls. Ana Voog of the band, The Blue Up? did much the same thing and still didn't sell enough discs for Sony. Someday, we can hope, that dignity and artistic merit sells again.

I think morbid curiosity will be a potent competetor no matter what.

funeral home cam?

Worse....Coffin Cam

Now you really can check in on them from time to time and see how they are decomposing!

I think I want to be char-broiled and my ashes spread to the wind!

Hey, I would check out the coffin cam!

Heck, why not offer time-lapse video on a premium subscription basis? Get morbid mail updates every few months, or a lifecycle subscription for one lump sum?

(Yep, it's morbid, but it would absolutely make somebody some money.)

After catching part of the Clark Howard Show this morning, one fad that I wish would go away is bottled water! Clark stated the following regarding why bottled water is not so great:
1) Commercial bottled water usually is tap water from the city where the bottling plant is located.
2) Children who drink some brands of bottled water get a lot of cavities because those brands don't contain fluoride.
3) Energy is wasted shipping bottled water from bottlers to stores.
4) Used bottles unnecessarily clutter landfills or become litter.
5) People waste money buying water that is not healthier to drink than what comes out of the water faucet.

Interesting take.

The O recently stated that it works out to 36 (If I recall correctly) non-refundable water bottles (i.e. potential trash) per person in Oregon. Wow.

Per year?

34 bottles, per year, not including the bottles that are recycled, this is the number going to the landfill.


"So thousands of tons more plastic head to landfills every year instead of being recycled. The state Department of Environmental Quality estimates that Oregonians in 2005 sent more than 125 million recyclable plastic water bottles to the dump -- roughly 34 bottles for every man, woman and child in the state."

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1170908746108670.x ml&coll=7&thispage=1

Copernicus--

If you would have asked me about ten years ago I could have told you how to Macarena! (One thing that I am actually glad I have forgotten.......)

Re: Bottled Water~

"1) Commercial bottled water usually is tap water from the city where the bottling plant is located....
3) Energy is wasted shipping bottled water from bottlers to stores......
5) People waste money buying water that is not healthier to drink than what comes out of the water faucet."

I can't quite figure the craze out myself, actually. I have a water filter on my faucet and a 1-litre Dr. Pepper bottle on my water-bottle cage on the bike (and countless others in the truck......) WHY do I want to spend $1.50 a pop for water at the store when I can get the same thing, maybe better, at my kitchen sink? In an unlimited supply to boot???

This is why I quit buying bottled water several years ago--turns out it's little more than filtered and chemically-treated tap water marked way up in price, and being marketed as somehow having come from some mountain spring in Timbuktoo. (Can we say "deception"?) I figured I could bottle my own water and at least I know where it's coming from............

I have a well water system and athough it is not floridated it is 3000% better tasting than bottled water. Why would I want to by bottled water labeled "Glacier" that comes from a Texas water tap? I have floride supplement rinse for my tooth so got the cavity thing covered.

I live on a slight slope on a hillside with nobody uphill from me and the well is 120' deep....I think it is better filtered than any so called purified bottled water!

Darktemper, I’m with you about well water. I wish we had a well so I wouldn't have to deal with the fluoride. I wonder if I could drill one and just not tell the county. I suppose when my water usage fell to 0 they might be suspicious!

When I still lived in St. Louis, my dad bought a "weekend" farm about 30 miles outside of Hannibal, MO. He had a well drilled and they went through 2 aquifers. The first one at about 160' had dark colored water and it smelled like sulfur. In fact, the tailings from trilling it stunk so bad they had to be buried!

They hit a 2nd aquifer at 635' and it was the best water I've ever tasted! It was cold and so clear!

I remember reading an article in the late 70's in Prevention Magazine about the dangers of fluoride and how toxic it is. The guys that put fluoride into the reservoirs and water systems have to wear Haz-mat suits.

Fluoride is a poison. Ever read the back of a toothpaste tube? It says to call the poison control center if you swallow more than a minimal amount. Fluoride is the primary if not the only ingredient in most rat poisons!

It's all but impossible to find fluoride free toothpaste. And if I do find one at Wild Oats or some other store its $4+ a tube and tastes awful.

I did a Google search and came up with the following links about the dangers of fluoride for anybody that is interested.

http://www.naturalrearing.com/J_In_Learning/Diet/Water/FLUORIDE.htm

http://www.newdaynews.com/health/index.cgi/noframes/read/903

http://www.ghchealth.com/where-the-yellow-went.html

http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/shamesfluoride.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Northstarzone/FLUORIDE.html

I chomped down little pink flouride pills with every bowl of breakfast cereal when I was a kid, and drank from the well water at my folk's place in Gresham. They didn't get city water until the early '70s. They were supposed to decomission the well, but they didn't and use it for irrigation (they water through the driest of summers). But the water is still the best tasting I know, and chock full of minereals (the water would turn brownish during the spring runoff,when we would take baths in water that looked dirty before we got in it.)

But to this day I have only had to have one impacted wisdom tooth removed, and am cavity free. The dentists gather around and marvel at my xrays when I go in for my checkups. I credit the flouride pills and hard water for my titanium teeth.

There's a spring just past the Bear Creek Campground on Mt Hood. (take the Maupin turnoff from 26 and go about 5 miles or so). I try to make the stop when I travel through there and fill up my water bottles. They've plumbed a water line into the spring and there is a constantly-running hose of fresh spring water. I've heard some of the bottlers in the area go there to fill their tankers, then bottle it up and sell it.

"I think it is better filtered than any so called purified bottled water!"

probably not. there's a bit of iron in the wells around these parts.

ps: water bottlers have to meet a host of public health standards [read" expensive upfront cash outlay on purfication equipment] before they can sell it.

Cans of Chun King.

I take the anti-fluoride positions with a grain of salt. Assuming that fluoride is just a toxic substance that offers no benefit to dental health, then why is fluoride administered by dentists, why is it added to toothpastes, why is it produced as supplements, and why do municipalities add it to their drinking water? It just seems very unlikely that professionals in all of these industries could be fooled into accepting a "snake oil" treatment.

There was one fad that seemed to have disappeared but I see is now making a comeback: Afro's! Young kids are once again sporting the monstrous fro's from the seventies. At least it gives birds a great place to make a nest but it sucks when you keep stuck behind one in a movie theatre!

I think ithe fluoride is actually both and that happens to come in handy, if well managed.

10 million people dead but not one with a cavity! No thanks I'll stick with the well water. Sure bottled water suppliers have to meet strict regulations on quality but can you be certain that some disgruntled Dick or Jane has not pissed in the water and nobody caught it or worse they did and said it will cost to much to fix and nobody will notice anyway! I'm sure its fine cause if you ever drink stream water bears piss in that to! Twice drank water!

Have 10 million people known to have died from this stuff?

No...I was just making a point in response to Bill's post!

"Fluoride is a poison. Ever read the back of a toothpaste tube? It says to call the poison control center if you swallow more than a minimal amount. Fluoride is the primary if not the only ingredient in most rat poisons!"

It prevents cavities and is a poison to boot in concentration!

Maybe we could floridate the taliban water supply for them....oooops put in a little to much....dang it!

Heck, even water itself is poisonous if consumed in sufficient quantities (see "Sacramento station 'drinking contest' goes bad" thread on the Radio side). Remember how saccahrine was cancer-causing until they found that the rats were given 1000 times the amount consumed by the average individual?

I'm not saying that flouridation concerns are unwarranted. I just need to see more details about the dangers before I can make any rational decision about it.

I'll still stick with the well. Anytime I think of city water I envision some Red Neck standing on the edge of Bull Run taking a leak in it! Sure my cows do that in the pasture right over my well but there is 125' of earth to filter that out long before anything gets into the aquifer. When traveling I will always buy bottled water over drinking out of the tap whenever possible. I have found certain cities tap water to be horrid and not only taste bad but actually smells bad as well. If the water looks cloudy.....I will not drink it at all even without bottled water. I'll just brush my teeth and rinse with Pepsi!

It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping.

It's two, two mints in one!

"I have found certain cities tap water to be horrid and not only taste bad but actually smells bad as well."

Sounds like you've been to Phoenix. Grossest tap water I have ever seen. Brown with black crap floating in it, and it STINKS. How does anyone feel clean showering in that crap?

Phoenix, LA, Dallas...all the same...water tastes like cow dung! What's funny is that when you get a glass of ice water it never really seems to get cold in places with crappy water. It's like the molecular structure of the water there is different not allowing it to cool...either that or just the complete lack of any minerals in it as well....of both.

temper, its kinda hard to piss in a pressurized water purification system, but if the thought of someone trying to do so terrifies you, then well water it is!

ps: wilsonville's willamette river water is quite tasty . . . drink a sample at the Arby's or McDonald's there and see for yourself!

I thought it was a reservoir. They always refer to it as the Bull Run Reservoir. It is enclosed then and free from outside influences?

Black dudes with the Afro's and the Comb stuck in the hair. "Excuse me sir but you forgot to take the comb out of your hair.
Any Black people on Pdx radio that know what the comb in the hair is supposed to mean???
I was going to stop and ask a guy the other day who was sporting the comb in the hair, but than I thought nah, I really don't feel like getting my ass kicked today.

I believe you store it there cause it's cool and you need it to fluff it up!

Darktemper--

My Aunt is on a well system, living way-out past 192nd in a 40+ year old house. That portion of Vancouver was unincorporated County land at that time, carrying a Camas address (still is!) and back in the 1960s, was considered a rural area where a connection to city water wasn't practical or feasible.

Although, when I go to her place (which has been a lot lately since my Uncle died last summer) for years I have always found myself drinking way more water there than I do at home/apartment connected to city water!!

And re: the "Afro"~

I don't do this myself.......I have my hair long in the front and back (mostly longer in the front) but nothing really like an afro. Think of it as sort-of a "Beatle influenced Emo" style............ ;o)

Having lived in various geographic areas of this country, yes there are big differences in water taste. Generally, the south is the worst, the northwest and parts of the northeast the best. Hard to believe, but New York City water tastes pretty good!

A fad I wish would go away, but is unfortunately just starting...water with vitamins. I buy a cheap multi-vitamin and swallow with tap water and save atleast fifty bucks a month.

Don't know if it was intentional, but the title of this thread is quite creative..."Fads that have Fadded away". Either a nice play on words, or lack of spell-check!

If this was 1997 and we were in Washington DC, I would offer the advice right away "DO NOT DRINK THE WATER."

We (My folks and me) were on vacation mid-late September 1997, and one of our stops (for a week at that) was in Washington. Never before had I drank water as, well, dirty tasting than the H2O found in various restaurants and places, including our hotel room. (And NO, it WASN'T because of the Bill and Monica incident....this was a couple years before that all happened anyways!!)

Probably one of the very few times I have actually been thankful there had been bottled water...........don't know if it's improved since that time or what, I haven't been in that area since then. (And in light of recent political developments--no comments please, Herb--I don't think I want to go back again any time soon.)

Did miss that good NW water!

(Incidentally, a number of years back I was living in Victoria for a spell. I will say that Victoria water actually does taste better than that here in the Coove.....)

Redford....

Did the title on purpose....you the only one who caught it!

I don't think people realize how lucky we truly have it here. The weather isn't generally severe, the summers can't be beat, the water is actually not just drinkable right out of the tap, but GOOD ... so few parts of the country it's simply not the case.

Shhh...so many don't want the secret out. For me, I say let it out and bring in those who share the NW sensibility. Population growth is not necessarilly a bad thing, and tends to improve the economy, but when you come here, try to fit in and not import other geographic characteristics that just don't fit here. Diversification is OK, up to a point! And if you don't like grey, cloudy days with rain from October through April, either don't move here, or don't complain about it. It's what makes most Northwesterners thrive!

I've only lived in the NW for about 12 years. My take is that when it's raining and cloudy, it's nice and when the sun shines it's beautiful!

I've lived in several places; Rochester, NY, St. Louis, MO, Tampa FL, Chicago, IL and Vancouver.

As my wife said after we had been living here for about 2 months; “I like it here and if your company asks you to move again, you're going by your self!"

She also made the comment (she grew up in Green Bay, WI) about the winters; "At least you don't have to shovel the rain!"

I’m here to stay!

Right on Bill! This is really the best place to live. An hour West and you got the ocean, 40 minutes to Hood and winter activities, and lakes all over the place for summer watersports with campgrounds up the ying yang! The best of all and all within a short drive.....who could want more! And the water tastes great to boot...BONUS!

I have been here all my life and have no desire to live anywhere else. You have not been from here long enough but my favorite place as a kid was only about 1:20 from Portland
http://www.zonaviaggi.it/galleria/albums/black_and_white/normal_Mount%20Saint%20 Helens%20and%20Spirit%20Lake,%20Washington.jpg
Until the fateful day where it all went away in a cloud of ash!

SWITCHBLADE COMBS

Sport one of those in public these days and your likely to get shot!

Darktemper, I wish I had been here when it blew! I was living in St. Louis at the time and do remember watching it on TV.

Up around Mt. St. Helens is one of my favorite places to go. I went up there often with the Land Cruiser, before the tranny died, and will again after I finish the rebuild!

It is one of the most awesome things to be cruising down an old logging road and pop out into a clearing and see the Mountain up close!

I travel a fair amount for work and many times coming home on a plane on Fridays, someone will ask me "I have the weekend free, what should I do in Portland"? With out fail, tell them to go up to the Johnson Ridge Observatory and to stop at all the other centers along the way.

I camped at Spirit Lake more times than I can remember. It was the most pristine lake you could have ever visited. The campground was well managed and clean. In retrospect it may be a good thing that it was destroyed along with 1/3 of the mountain. I enjoy the memories of how nice that place was and would have hated to see it today with the way some people treat things and the diminished parks staff to keep it up. Sometimes people can really screw up something good! And yes Harry Truman was a complete crank the first time you met him. But after several visits he grew on you! He had one of the old 10 foot tall glass gas fillers. There was a handle and you had to pump the gas up into a glass tank by hand which had a gallon marker and that is how you paid. Then gravity took its course and it poured out of the nozzle into your tank. Don’t put too much into the glass tank because you pay for it regardless!