Vintage News Articles & Finds

[billycw]

"Light Up Time: A Cambodian soldier exhales after taking a heavy draw on his marijuana water pipe recently during a break in fighting along Route 30, south of Phnom Penh. The drug is popular with Cambodian troops, who usually smoke it during breaks." Photo is dated September 1, 1973

 

[billycw]

Group of Bangladeshi Hookah Makers Demonstrating Various Stages in the Manufacture of Hookahs from Coconut Shells. Eastern Bengal, India 1860

 

[billycw]

'A group of French hippie travelers smoke hash in their hotel room in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1971'

Love the drawing of the cannabis plant on the wall to the left

 

[Betterhaff]

^ ^ Looks like a scene from our house in college.

 

[billycw]

^ ^ Looks like a scene from our house in college.

Throw up a stolen security globe or disco ball on the ceiling and some black lights around the room and I'm right back in my youth. Think we've all been in that room at some point

 

[billycw]

1910 Obak tobacco baseball card for 'Fredric Weed', 2nd baseman for the Spokane Team (Pacific Coast League)


Keep your Ruth or Mays, give me a 1910 Fredric Weed...

 

[billycw]

The Maharaja of Orcha, Sir Pratrap Singh, with water-pipe bearer. India, 1890

 

[billycw]

"Men smoking a hookah pipe made from pumpkin", outside a hut in Qajar, Iran. pre1900



Tis the season! Classic

 

[Elmer Bud]

G `day BCW

Pumpkin ?
Looks like a gourd to me ?

Thanks for sharin

EB .

 

[geneva_sativa]

Heh heh,

some folks like my Korean friends refer to all squash as pumpkins

 

[billycw]

G `day BCW

Pumpkin ?
Looks like a gourd to me ?

Thanks for sharin

EB .

Almost added gourd to the original translation but those heirloom looking pumpkin/gourds in front of them threw me off. Gourd natures water pipe




Anuak man smoking gourd water-pipe, Jonglei, Southern Sudan 1952

 

[Betterhaff]

Gourd is probably correct. Their rind/skin dries hard and can be very durable. Vessels and containers are made from them, even instruments. Pumpkins tend to rot.

 

[billycw]

'Heckling Hemp'

Engraving by Robert Wisset, from the book 'A Treatise on Hemp' by J. Harding, 1808

 

[billycw]

Narcotics meeting with Chief of Police. "Council members (young Mexican Americans), planning fight on narcotics, to be launched at conference." Los Angeles, California - Aug. 26, 1951




They are literally looking at a framed 'Assassins of Youth' propaganda flyer...

L. to R.: Frank Sanchez, panel leader; Mrs. Douglas Jardine, member, board of directors, Pasadena Settlement Association; Clarence H. Morris, chief of police; and Roland Ayala, President of Mexican-American Council.

 

[billycw]

"'La Canebière' is the historic high street in the old quarter of Marseille, France. About a kilometer long, it runs from the Old Port of Marseille to the Réformés quarter. It has been called the Champs-Élysées of Marseille.

The name 'Canebière' ('Canabiera' in Provençal dialect) comes from the word Cannabis in Latin, as the area around the Old Port were originally hemp fields and Marseille was one of the world's largest trader of hemp baskets and ropes from the Middle Ages until the 1930s, when other fibers were used instead."

La Canebiere street in Marseille

Café Riche on La Canebiere street in Marseille

Grand Hotel on La Canebiere street in Marseille

 

[billycw]

"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."

-Francis Cabot Lowell

The Spinner by Vincent van Gogh, 1889

 

[Borderliner]

many cool pics

 

[billycw]

City Hall in Downtown Biddeford, Maine



The Biddeford Dozen

The beautiful state of Maine is known for many things, humor is not one of them... Should it be?

On the morning of April Fools 1982, Locals in the picturesque town of Biddeford Maine woke up to a peculiar sight... Placed around town in almost a taunting fashion were large ziplock bags full of cannabis.

Seemingly playing with the police, a large bag of marijuana was placed on the sidewalk right in front of the Police Station... Two more large bags at the Stations back doors and one just leaning against a parked police cruiser...

The more the town looked around the streets of downtown, the more bags of pot they found. 14 bags in all were found in the streets of Biddeford (11 bags) and in the sister city Saco(3 bags).

With no leads and no one confessing to the 'crime', the mystery of the Biddeford Dozen remains unsolved!

A police official summed up the unusual joke in the cities news release the same day,

"Who knows how many more bags were found but weren't turned in"

Newspaper article from the United International Press, April 1, 1982

Copping a Bag of Weed

"BIDDEFORD, Maine -- Investigators are trying to figure out who scattered plastic bags of marijuana around the police station and along downtown sidewalks.

'If it was an April Fool's joke, it was an awfully expensive one,' said Police Detective Guy Godbout.

Fourteen one-pound packets were recovered late Wednesday and early Thursday in Biddeford and the adjoining city of Saco. The 11 bags found in Biddeford were worth more than $7,000, Beaupre said.

'It was all over the place,' he said. 'We found one bag on the sidewalk in front of the station, two near the back door, and another we found in the parking lot adjacent to the building near a cruiser.'

Other bags were found on sidewalks in front of a bank, a community center and a post office.

'Who knows how many more bags were found but weren't turned in,' Beaupre said."


- Article from United Press International, April 1, 1982



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Mainstreet downtown Saco, Maine where some of the bags of marijuana were found in 1982

 

[Elmer Bud]

"Tex: Boy oh boy, you picked a bad time to fly, Billy. They're gueillas all over the place blowing planes and all. They hit four planes in four days. But I guess you young people don't read the news anymore. That, and with our people back home kicking up a shitstorm about the flow of heroin from Turkey...
Billy Hayes: I didn't have heroin. It was just a little hashish.
Tex: That doesn't matter. A drug's a drug.
Billy Hayes: It was only two kilos.
Tex: It doesn't matter if it was two kilos or 200 kilos. The Turks love catching foreigners. They want to show the rest of the world that they're fighting the drug trade.
Billy Hayes: By the way, who are you? What's your name?
Tex: That's not important.
Billy Hayes: Are you with the American couselet here in Istanbul?
Tex: Somethin' like that." Midnight Express

 

[billycw]

"Everybody runs as big drug bust goes down in the 500 block of Haight Street in San Francisco." November 4, 1977