south of the border
May. 29th, 2001 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearOne time, ages ago... I'd guess that the little bro was six and I was ten.(Circa 1979).. we were on vacation, and went to this horribly cheesy pseudo-Tijuana place in south Carolina called "South of the Border"... I haven't seen the billboards in ages, but there were zillions of 'em at the time... Stuff like "No Monkey Business, Joost Yankee Pankee" with a picture of a gorilla and a Mexican. south of the border, 20 miles! You could buy fireworks there, and take pictures with a bunch of weirdo cheap roadside attractions like a giant gorilla, or lion.... we ate at a restaurant with a giant cement chicken on the roof. I sort of remember it as being good, but not as tasty as KFC. :) Anyhow, the joint was crammed to the gills with cheap touristy trinkets like goofy sombreros, and fake curly mustaches..an arcade where my brother and I played space invaders. Yes. Space invaders, and I think it was new! . (can a place like this still exist in PC America?) I have to search...brb. Yes! here it is - http://www.pedroland.com/
674 miles from where I sit now.
Anyhow, since we were playing space invaders, mom and dad thought we were safe to leave alone for a while. (what were they thinking?) Being kids, and fairly smart, instead of spending the 2 bucks each on 8 games of space invaders we decided to get some souvenirs, instead. Derek, my brother wanted fireworks and I wanted some sort of cool piece of plastic tourist junk that filled the place...we figured we'd walk around, get a good look, and see what our collective 4 bucks would get us. (It occurs to me now that Dad probably would have gone so far as to cough up $5 for each of us, had we stayed where we were, and gone shopping with him after).
to be continued, just got another idea.
674 miles from where I sit now.
Anyhow, since we were playing space invaders, mom and dad thought we were safe to leave alone for a while. (what were they thinking?) Being kids, and fairly smart, instead of spending the 2 bucks each on 8 games of space invaders we decided to get some souvenirs, instead. Derek, my brother wanted fireworks and I wanted some sort of cool piece of plastic tourist junk that filled the place...we figured we'd walk around, get a good look, and see what our collective 4 bucks would get us. (It occurs to me now that Dad probably would have gone so far as to cough up $5 for each of us, had we stayed where we were, and gone shopping with him after).
to be continued, just got another idea.
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M-80s
Heck Scotto that's real Neat you was goin' on adventures with yer dang Family an all
So you gots to finish the Story when ya gets time cause now i'm all Curious!
*cough*
Re: M-80s
Date: 2001-05-30 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-05-30 03:01 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-05-30 03:02 pm (UTC)funny, I loved it as a kid!!
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Date: 2001-05-30 03:16 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-05-30 03:18 pm (UTC)oh, how neat!! I afored those too... and the ones where you pushed the platform, and they animal went limp...I had one of Pluto (mickey mouse's dog)