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I went to college in 2010, and it's unreal to hear about beer vending machines.

by grp000 5y ago

TylerE 5y ago
I'm a bit older than you - maybe a decade. I can't beleive beer vending, either, but I do remember cigarette machines.
- ghaff 5y ago
  I graduated in Massachusetts in 1979. I've never seen a beer vending machine. But even after age 21 drinking came in in the state, most of the bars where I went to school were perfectly fine with a college ID with no age on it. (And my drivers license at the time was an unlaminated piece of index stock with no photo.)
- dhosek 5y ago
  The beer vending was semi-underground. The machines were kept in semi-private locations (dorm lounge or a store-room that only students had access to), administration looked the other way and if service was needed from the vending machine company, the beer would be removed and replaced with soda for the duration of the service visit (and the labels on the buttons changed to more innocent choices). On-campus underage drinking was widely tolerated. My cohort was probably the last to have such freedom. There were a number of serious alcohol poisoning incidents and the lax approach to on-campus alcohol came to an end in the course of the 90s.
- bdavis__ 5y ago
  1983. USAF dorms had beer vending machines. Cans, 50 cents. Also in that time period, at "locally owned" establishments, a DD-2 (your ID card), was all it took to buy a drink. Even if you were 18.
watertom 5y ago
Graduated in 85. Drinking age was 21 in my state. First two years, any student could sign out the dorm lounge and with $40 and the school would provide 1/2 keg of beer, $80 would get you (2) 1/2 kegs, $120 etc. Spring weekend, not break, First two years $5 wrist band let you drink Friday, Saturday and Sunday, regardless of age. The school provided the beer, and a constant run of bands on 3 alternating stages. The end of my 2nd year, there was a really bad drunk driving accident with 3 underage students killed, the school stopped sponsoring alcohol at events. They also started enforcing drinking age laws.

I went to college in 2010, and it's unreal to hear about beer vending machines.

by grp000 5y ago

I went to college in 2010, and it's unreal to hear about beer vending machines.

TylerE 5y ago

I'm a bit older than you - maybe a decade. I can't beleive beer vending, either, but I do remember cigarette machines.

ghaff 5y ago
I graduated in Massachusetts in 1979. I've never seen a beer vending machine. But even after age 21 drinking came in in the state, most of the bars where I went to school were perfectly fine with a college ID with no age on it. (And my drivers license at the time was an unlaminated piece of index stock with no photo.)
dhosek 5y ago
The beer vending was semi-underground. The machines were kept in semi-private locations (dorm lounge or a store-room that only students had access to), administration looked the other way and if service was needed from the vending machine company, the beer would be removed and replaced with soda for the duration of the service visit (and the labels on the buttons changed to more innocent choices). On-campus underage drinking was widely tolerated. My cohort was probably the last to have such freedom. There were a number of serious alcohol poisoning incidents and the lax approach to on-campus alcohol came to an end in the course of the 90s.
bdavis__ 5y ago
1983. USAF dorms had beer vending machines. Cans, 50 cents. Also in that time period, at "locally owned" establishments, a DD-2 (your ID card), was all it took to buy a drink. Even if you were 18.

watertom 5y ago

Graduated in 85. Drinking age was 21 in my state. First two years, any student could sign out the dorm lounge and with $40 and the school would provide 1/2 keg of beer, $80 would get you (2) 1/2 kegs, $120 etc. Spring weekend, not break, First two years $5 wrist band let you drink Friday, Saturday and Sunday, regardless of age. The school provided the beer, and a constant run of bands on 3 alternating stages. The end of my 2nd year, there was a really bad drunk driving accident with 3 underage students killed, the school stopped sponsoring alcohol at events. They also started enforcing drinking age laws.