Black Light
Richard Johnson
I'd like to decorate my room with black lights and glow in the dark
stuff, so I need some guidance on this. Anybody got any good ideas
on decorating or any web sites with information? I'm also thinking of
painting my bedroom purple.
kevxu
grape and then it brought back this memory...
Anyone remember "Joy Gel" (it may have been "jel" or "jell?")
It was a scented lubricant for sex. Someone gave me a
little jar of the grape scent. (Read stench for scent.)
Well, a little bit of friction and this stuff was like the
eggplant that ate Philadelphia -- unstoppable. You could not
only smell it throughout the entire apartment, all four rooms,
but out in the public hall as well. If Saddam Hussein had had
this goo the Gulf War would have been a rout!
The stench was incredible and spread everywhere, like a
poison gas.
Jack
buck
Yes, you have to have lots of black light posters on the walls, ceiling. I
had some on my walls and my favorite was "Garden of Eden" poster with Adam
and Eve in the garden with the sun rays splashing down on them...it was
awesome. Some other decorating accessories in the room are lava lamps and
colorful fiber optic looking lamps that light up and rotate....don't have
any idea what they cost but imagine it's a hefty amount nowadays. And,
don't forget to include some bean bag chairs and home-made table made out
of industrial size cable wire spool. We use to hang street and road signs
up too in my room. Yeah, those were the days.......Amy
b3h...@aol.com
JawaT...@worldnet.att.net (Richard Johnson) wrote:
>I'd like to decorate my room with black lights and glow in the dark
>stuff, so I need some guidance on this. Anybody got any good ideas
>on decorating or any web sites with information? I'm also thinking of
>painting my bedroom purple.
wow does that bring back some memories....
In my junior year (1974) of H.S. I painted my bedroom walls and ceiling
black.
I then painted stars (the constellations) on the walls with silverflake
nail polish.
on the ceiling I glued random lengths of that cheesy mylar christmas
tinsel made for draping on the C. tree.
I replaced all the light bulbs with black lights.... and the effect was
incredible.
Listening to Pink Floyd's - Dark Side of the Moon, in that room almost a
religious experience...
Those were the days.............
jim
Kevin Thompson
and it was great watching Pink Floyd Animals in a not so sober mood.
Steve Ellis
In article <32a06021...@netnews.worldnet.att.net> JawaT...@worldnet.att.net (Richard Johnson) writes:
>I'd like to decorate my room with black lights and glow in the dark
>stuff, so I need some guidance on this. Anybody got any good ideas
>on decorating or any web sites with information? I'm also thinking of
>painting my bedroom purple.
There was an ice cream place in Austin back in the 70's called "Nothing
Strikes Back". The walls and ceiling were painted black and spattered with
flourescent paint, and the only illumination was black lights. Oh yeah, they
also had like this 5000 watt sound system running at full blast. I'm pretty
sure the ice cream was good, but hey, who can remember?
Steve
Richard Johnson
> But you forgot one feature! What about the color organ!! I built one
>and it was great watching Pink Floyd Animals in a not so sober mood.
Do you mean those things with different colored lights that blinked
with the music?
Garrison Hack
: Anyone remember "Joy Gel" (it may have been "jel" or "jell?")
: It was a scented lubricant for sex. Someone gave me a
: little jar of the grape scent. (Read stench for scent.)
I remember something similar that was called MOTION LOTION. The
instructions were something like: "Blow on it, it gets warm. Rub it, it
gets hot!"
Ah the days of saccharine love!
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In article <lsd.488....@neosoft.com>, l...@neosoft.com says...
>There was an ice cream place in Austin back in the 70's called "Nothing
>Strikes Back". The walls and ceiling were painted black and spattered with
>flourescent paint, and the only illumination was black lights. Oh yeah, they
>also had like this 5000 watt sound system running at full blast. I'm pretty
>sure the ice cream was good, but hey, who can remember?
>
>Steve
>
>
Nothing Strikes Back...what an experience. "Allow 30 seconds for
decompression", if you survive the flight upstairs. Do you remember the 13th
Floor Elevators and Uncle Van's Pancake House. The "Drags" not the same
anymore.
Barron
McCallum '72
PauSto
You meen the "Boons Farm" days? We got ridd of the frame of the bed
and just put the box spring and mattress on the floor ("Hollywood
style"). That way when we would pass-out from laughing, we wouldn't have
far to fall :)
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buck
Haahha, LOL!! Yeah, guess that was it...although I don't remember too
much...(just kiddin') Actually, I couldn't stand boonesfarm
stuff..."Strawberry, Peach, Apple...yuck! I remember sometimes we would go
in town and see "wino's" with a bottle of MD 20/20 or Thunderbird...Oh,
Gag!!
Amy
Steve Ellis
>Barron
>McCallum '72
What about "Every Night Is New Year's Eve"? The first "real" restaurant I
went to that never checked ID's. Wonder why they didn't last long...
Steve
Edina
You guys ought to see the Drag now. It's got such places as Sound
Exchange (a second-hand vinyl/cassette/CD store), Toy Joy (nostalgiac and
Sanrio imports), the University Baptist Church (that'll never change)
countless 24-hour coffee shops, the Co-Op, the SUNGLASS HUT *gag*, the GAP
*gag*, Tower Records (the only one in Texas), URBAN OUTFITTERS (talk about
selling out) a ritzy gift shop called the Cadeau (only there will you pay
$40 dollars for a plastic picture frame with papier mache stars stuck on
it) and crappy bagel places. It sucks now! The only restaurants there are
shitty fast food dumps. The Night Hawk has been gone for a long ass time.
The Drag has gone down the way of overt sorority girl consumerism; it's
sad.
Stacey Anne Moberly
University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Steve Ellis
Stacey, you make me weep. At least tell me Bert's is still up the alley...
Hobbs
Edina wrote:
>
> You guys ought to see the Drag now. It's got such places as Sound
> Exchange (a second-hand vinyl/cassette/CD store), Toy Joy (nostalgiac and
> Sanrio imports), the University Baptist Church (that'll never change)
> countless 24-hour coffee shops, the Co-Op, the SUNGLASS HUT *gag*, the GAP
> *gag*, Tower Records (the only one in Texas), URBAN OUTFITTERS (talk about
> selling out) a ritzy gift shop called the Cadeau (only there will you pay
> $40 dollars for a plastic picture frame with papier mache stars stuck on
> it) and crappy bagel places. It sucks now! The only restaurants there are
> shitty fast food dumps. The Night Hawk has been gone for a long ass time.
> The Drag has gone down the way of overt sorority girl consumerism; it's
> sad.
>
That's sort of what happened with Isla Vista (near UC Santa Barbara),
although not quite as bad . ..
jung...@i-link.net
l...@neosoft.com (Steve Ellis) wrote:
> At least tell me Bert's is still up the alley...
Don't know about "Bert's".
Sunshine Records is gone, along with Fun House Arcade & the Orange
Arcade (remember the painted scheme of the walls, flourescent
paintings straight off the artwork from the pinball machines inside.
Yea, that Nothing Strike Back ice cream was killer.
There is an article in Saturday's Austin paper that the "wall" on the
campus adjacent to the Drag is going to be torn down in the name of
landscaping. That's funny. A friend of mine who attended UT in the
early 70's used to tell us (rumor) the wall was put there to afford
protection for police officers should there be a student protest (more
like another Charles Whitman). Whatever, yes, the changing face of the
Drag is a bummer.
JT
Edina
There is a Bert's of some sort somewhere around; what do they sell? I've
seen a place around here called Bert's but I don't know what it is or if
it's still here.
Edina
I go to U.T. and I never heard anything about that wall being torn down;
are you kidding? Man, the memories I have of being a freshman walking
down the campus side of Guadalupe on top of that wall....that wall rules!
they better not tear it down or there WILL be protests!
Steve Ellis
Bert's was/is a bar-b-q joint just up 19th (oops, MLK) from the Drag, on a
little dead-end street (hence the name Bert's up the alley). It was the
first place I ate after hitchhiking up to Austin from SA for the first time.
Steve Ellis
I remember the story that the reason there were so many walls around campus
was because the University got so much money from the PUF that there was
always surplus that had to be spent by the end of the year, so they spent it
on walls.
Steve
Edina
I don't think that's there anymore; but I could be wrong.
bgbohl
In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.961210...@piglet.cc.utexas.edu>,
ch...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu says...
>
>I don't think that's there anymore; but I could be wrong.
>
Is the Inner Sanctum still around. Does anyone remember when "Mother Earth"
was down on Lamar Blvd. close to Strait Music?
Barron
Edina
Inner Sanctum is still around; it's in Bluebonnet Plaza on 24th wedged
between San Antonio and Nueces. As for Bert's, I spotted it on MLK (19th
street) between Rio Grande and Nueces; relax, it's still there. As for
Mother Earth, I've never heard of it.
Thomas C. Clancy
that's pretty far back in time.