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Visiting nightclubs when you're 5

Started by bandit957, September 04, 2020, 09:15:18 AM

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bandit957

Anyone else here ever go to a nightclub when you were a little kid?

I remember one evening when I was about 5 (this would have been circa 1978), my parents went to some nightclub or something. For some reason, they took me with them. This place served snacks or meals, but I'm pretty sure it was a nightclub, not a restaurant. This was unusual, because my folks were actually rather stodgy and conservative by 1970s standards. They weren't the crazy 1970s type. Also, I'm surprised a nightclub would even allow little kids.

The main thing I remember about this club is a person in a mummy outfit performing "Stairway To Heaven." I had heard the song many times before, because it was on the radio all the time around here back then.
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kphoger

Quote from: bandit957 on September 04, 2020, 09:15:18 AM
I'm surprised a nightclub would even allow little kids.

People are really uptight about kids these days.
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jp the roadgeek

Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 10:55:07 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on September 04, 2020, 09:15:18 AM
I'm surprised a nightclub would even allow little kids.

People are really uptight about kids these days.

Times have changed and people are sue happy.  When I was 9 or 10 (1985ish), I was sent into a store to buy scratch off lottery tickets and bought them no problem.  The owner of a local liquor store (long since gone and the owner deceased) even used to let me stand behind the counter and run the lottery machine when I was like 8.   Now with surveillance cameras watching your every move, forget it.  I used to sit at the bar at a local social club with by grandparents when I was 6 or 7.  Even when I was 16 or 17 and my mom would go out to dinner, we would sit at the bar to avoid the dining room with the young kids (and so that I could keep my eye on any sports game that was on).  Now with helicopter parents, Big Brother, and a nanny state mentality, forget it. 
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corco

Never went to nightclubs but did go to some dedicated bars, usually on vacation. I was evidently good at sitting quietly and entertaining myself with whatever. At least back in the day nobody really cared if you went into a bar with a kid as long as the kid wasn't old enough that he/she could conceivably be drinking.

kphoger

During my grandparents' time (south side Chicago), they used to send the kids down to buy the beer and bring it back in a bucket for family get-togethers.

In the late 1980s in Will County (IL), when I was probably seven or eight years old, I once rented one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies on VHS from the neighborhood video store.  Didn't think anything of it at the time.

When I was a kid in rural Kansas during the 1990s (4th grade through high school), my friends and I used to go the movie every weekend, no matter what the movie was.  If it was rated 'R', occasionally we would use their phone to call our parents, who gave the movie theater permission to let us in.  Usually, though, they didn't even bother having us call.
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bandit957

When I was about 8, the fire station had bingo fundraisers that gave away prizes. I think you had to be 18 to play, but my mom let me play anyway. But I don't think I ever won a prize. I don't think the prizes were even things I wanted.

Come to think of it, that might have been before Kentucky technically legalized charitable bingo. I know bingo fundraisers were common before becoming legal.

My favorite thing about these bingo events was that the fire station had a big street map of Highland Heights that showed all the paper streets. Real streets were filled in with red, but paper streets were not filled in.

My elementary school had a summer festival that had some sort of sweepstakes with pull-tab cards. I think only adults were supposed to play, but kids played.
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kphoger

Quote from: bandit957 on September 04, 2020, 11:28:15 AM
When I was about 8, the fire station had bingo fundraisers that gave away prizes. I think you had to be 18 to play, but my mom let me play anyway. But I don't think I ever won a prize. I don't think the prizes were even things I wanted.

Come to think of it, that might have been before Kentucky technically legalized charitable bingo. I know bingo fundraisers were common before becoming legal.

My favorite thing about these bingo events was that the fire station had a big street map of Highland Heights that showed all the paper streets. Real streets were filled in with red, but paper streets were not filled in.

My elementary school had a summer festival that had some sort of sweepstakes with pull-tab cards. I think only adults were supposed to play, but kids played.

When the Bears won the Super Bowl in 1986, I remember my family hosting a Super Bowl party at our house.  I was four years old.  Everyone placed bets on the point spread, and I ended up winning.

My dad didn't let me get the winnings.   :D
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jp the roadgeek

Quote from: Takumi on September 04, 2020, 09:11:27 PM
I went to a Korn concert when I was 14. My first exposure to boobs. And weed.

14?!?  I'd already seen the Grateful Dead 4 times by my 14th birthday.
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DandyDan

I don't think I was ever in a nightclub, but I remember going to my dad's Saturday night bowling league when I was 5 or 6. That was not a proper setting to be in then. I don't know how you can bowl in competition while drunk, granted that this was not the PBA Tour with Chris Schenkel.
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kkt

Exact rules vary from state to state and town to town.  And a lot of drinking establishments that are theoretically 21 or over only will let in little kids who have a parent with them, even if they wouldn't let in a parent with a teen who might try to sneak a drink when no one is looking.

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Takumi

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on September 04, 2020, 10:14:57 PM
Quote from: Takumi on September 04, 2020, 09:11:27 PM
I went to a Korn concert when I was 14. My first exposure to boobs. And weed.

14?!?  I’d already seen the Grateful Dead 4 times by my 14th birthday.
I mean, I’m also someone who lost his virginity at 32, so that’s about right for me. (Granted, I’m probably still probably in the top third of the class for this forum by virtue of having sex at all.)
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

Hot Rod Hootenanny

Quote from: bandit957 on September 04, 2020, 09:15:18 AM
Anyone else here ever go to a nightclub when you were a little kid?

I remember one evening when I was about 5 (this would have been circa 1978), my parents went to some nightclub or something. For some reason, they took me with them. This place served snacks or meals, but I'm pretty sure it was a nightclub, not a restaurant. This was unusual, because my folks were actually rather stodgy and conservative by 1970s standards. They weren't the crazy 1970s type. Also, I'm surprised a nightclub would even allow little kids.

The main thing I remember about this club is a person in a mummy outfit performing "Stairway To Heaven." I had heard the song many times before, because it was on the radio all the time around here back then.

If your parents were allowed to bring you in (at age 5) with them, it was NOT a nightclub.*
* - Newport, Ky, and just about everywhere in Louisiana, in the 1970s, had different rules than 85% of the rest of the country.
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SectorZ

Quote from: Takumi on September 05, 2020, 09:48:27 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on September 04, 2020, 10:14:57 PM
Quote from: Takumi on September 04, 2020, 09:11:27 PM
I went to a Korn concert when I was 14. My first exposure to boobs. And weed.

14?!?  I'd already seen the Grateful Dead 4 times by my 14th birthday.
I mean, I'm also someone who lost his virginity at 32, so that's about right for me. (Granted, I'm probably still probably in the top third of the class for this forum by virtue of having sex at all.)

:-D

Takumi

Quote from: SectorZ on September 06, 2020, 08:01:46 AM
Quote from: Takumi on September 05, 2020, 09:48:27 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on September 04, 2020, 10:14:57 PM
Quote from: Takumi on September 04, 2020, 09:11:27 PM
I went to a Korn concert when I was 14. My first exposure to boobs. And weed.

14?!?  I'd already seen the Grateful Dead 4 times by my 14th birthday.
I mean, I'm also someone who lost his virginity at 32, so that's about right for me. (Granted, I'm probably still probably in the top third of the class for this forum by virtue of having sex at all.)

:-D
I may have been a bit drunk when I said that.
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

plain

I remember my pops taking me into several bars when I was little (he was a pretty heavy drinker). My mother took me into a club once, I think I was like 7 or 8.

I was easily able to buy cigarettes for my mom all the way until 11 years old.
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kphoger

Quote from: kkt on September 05, 2020, 07:37:15 PM
And a lot of drinking establishments that are theoretically 21 or over only will let in little kids who have a parent with them, even if they wouldn't let in a parent with a teen who might try to sneak a drink when no one is looking.

Yep.  I've never been turned away while buying alcohol from a store when I had my kids with me, nor was my dad ever turned away when I was with him–but I have been turned away while buying alcohol with a 19-year-old co-worker along at the store with me.  I had to drive to another store and leave him in the car.
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GaryV

Quote from: kphoger on September 09, 2020, 02:29:10 PM
Quote from: kkt on September 05, 2020, 07:37:15 PM
And a lot of drinking establishments that are theoretically 21 or over only will let in little kids who have a parent with them, even if they wouldn't let in a parent with a teen who might try to sneak a drink when no one is looking.

Yep.  I've never been turned away while buying alcohol from a store when I had my kids with me, nor was my dad ever turned away when I was with him–but I have been turned away while buying alcohol with a 19-year-old co-worker along at the store with me.  I had to drive to another store and leave him in the car.

A few years ago in the next checkout lane, a father and his son were unloading the shopping cart.  The kid happened to unload a carton of beer.  The clerk said they couldn't purchase it, presumably because if the minor touched it it meant the minor was buying it.

webny99

Quote from: kphoger on September 09, 2020, 02:29:10 PM
Quote from: kkt on September 05, 2020, 07:37:15 PM
And a lot of drinking establishments that are theoretically 21 or over only will let in little kids who have a parent with them, even if they wouldn't let in a parent with a teen who might try to sneak a drink when no one is looking.

Yep.  I've never been turned away while buying alcohol from a store when I had my kids with me, nor was my dad ever turned away when I was with him–but I have been turned away while buying alcohol with a 19-year-old co-worker along at the store with me.  I had to drive to another store and leave him in the car.

My dad bought alcohol with me along when I was much older than a little kid. Either we looked respectable enough that the cashier let it go, or he/she thought I was over 21. Could have been either one, honestly.

triplemultiplex

Meanwhile it's not uncommon at all to see someone's kid(s) tagging along to happy hour in rural Wisconsin.  The very idea that a minor couldn't even sit at the bar or in the bar area of a restaurant was completely foreign to me until I was like 20.  You get a soda from the bar and then entertain yourselves with the pool table or the video poker machines while ma and pa have a couple beers with their friends.
And this ain't from some distant past; like last year I've seen it.
It's no big deal.  No one's giving booze to kids.  No one's assuming someone's gonna give booze to the kids.  It's almost as if they expect parents/guardians to make good decisions on their own without threat of the law.  :wow:
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Scott5114

The thought of a kid "entertaining themselves with the video poker machines" is making the old casino floor attendant part of me seize up.

Though I imagine it did wonders for the machine's payout percentage. No way you're getting close to the theoretical 99.54% on Jacks or Better when a seven-year-old is playing...
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triplemultiplex

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Quote from: Scott5114 on September 10, 2020, 05:51:28 PM
The thought of a kid "entertaining themselves with the video poker machines" is making the old casino floor attendant part of me seize up.

Though I imagine it did wonders for the machine's payout percentage. No way you're getting close to the theoretical 99.54% on Jacks or Better when a seven-year-old is playing...

Well the machines still do things when you push the buttons even if you didn't put any money in. ;) :-D

And these are "for entertainment purposes only".
Which means the bartender slides you your winnings. :P
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SEWIGuy

Quote from: triplemultiplex on September 10, 2020, 05:11:00 PM
Meanwhile it's not uncommon at all to see someone's kid(s) tagging along to happy hour in rural Wisconsin.  The very idea that a minor couldn't even sit at the bar or in the bar area of a restaurant was completely foreign to me until I was like 20.  You get a soda from the bar and then entertain yourselves with the pool table or the video poker machines while ma and pa have a couple beers with their friends.
And this ain't from some distant past; like last year I've seen it.
It's no big deal.  No one's giving booze to kids.  No one's assuming someone's gonna give booze to the kids.  It's almost as if they expect parents/guardians to make good decisions on their own without threat of the law.  :wow:


That wasn't limited to rural Wisconsin.  My wife grew up in Milwaukee and hung out with her dad at the local tap regularly.

Scott5114

Quote from: triplemultiplex on September 11, 2020, 09:39:04 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 10, 2020, 05:51:28 PM
The thought of a kid "entertaining themselves with the video poker machines" is making the old casino floor attendant part of me seize up.

Though I imagine it did wonders for the machine's payout percentage. No way you're getting close to the theoretical 99.54% on Jacks or Better when a seven-year-old is playing...

Well the machines still do things when you push the buttons even if you didn't put any money in. ;) :-D

And these are "for entertainment purposes only".
Which means the bartender slides you your winnings. :P

I'm guessing we're not talking about the industry-standard IGT Game Kings, then. Usually pressing buttons on those only drops you out of the attract mode.
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