Pics of old rondys and doens.

[TANSTAAFL]

Tipis recent post of pics from old rondys prompted me do something similar. These are from from late 70's & early 80's.
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[50cal.cliff]

Absolutely great pics. Thanks for sharing!
:bow: Makes you wish you were there!

 

[rabjr]

Looks like lots of fun times and good memorys there Tan. :thumbsup:

 

[hawkeye1755]

Wow, fantastic pics. :bow:
That looks like a real ' Wild Bunch' :grin: .
When i look at your pics and i look at pics from today's events, it seems to me that you had a lot of more fun in the good old times. :bow:
Perhaps you smoke a little bit more than Kinni-Kinnick :hmm: :rotf:
Tan, that was another time.
:thumbsup:

 

[Bearbait2]

Thank you for sharing.
Best Wishes

 

[Holley]

WOW!!! nice looking pictures. I will show you mine if you show yours..... :blah:

Glad to see them. Does bring back that good old rendezvoux times and fun. And didn't we have fun. :thumbsup: Tame by todays standards.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Things were more open and less structured in the early days. (read as a bit wilder)

At the NAPR rondy in Kalispell MT, two quarreling factions over a rock ( ?) agitated about half the encampment into engaging in a brief fisticuffs free for all.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Glad to see them. Does bring back that good old rendezvoux times and fun. And didn't we have fun. Tame by todays standards.

Ditto. We attended the Bill Williams Rondy this year and it was so tepid for this child I was almost bored to tears. Won't be repeating such in the future.

 

[hawkeye1755]

At the NAPR rondy in Kalispell MT, two quarreling factions over a rock ( ?) agitated about half the encampment into engaging in a brief fisticuffs free for all.

Is it possible that you have some pics from that happening? :hmm:
Or were you in the middle on the rock. :haha:
Sounds a little more authentical then the events today.
:hatsoff:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Is it possible that you have some pics from that happening?

Afraid not, was rather occupied at the time. :grin:

A club had split and they had a sacred rock, one side accused the other of pilfering it, kidnapping and chaining the accused individual to a tree. The other side needed help to free him, some did, and some didn't, turning it into a Katy bar the door Donnybrook.

 

[Gemoke]

WISH I could have been there
Thanks for sharing some of your memories.

 

[Padraic]

Now that's what a rendezvous should look like! Great pics. :hatsoff:

 

Darn! Now you have gone and made me homesick for the Rockies. Good memories.

 

[Holley]

Oh! the old days of Redezvoux.. :shocked2: ...I have been accused of being to wild for this site...but this is the way the events were...they were not the KOA events of today. Yes! we had some wild parties, great events for all to see , and areas for families and children. But parents took responsibility a bit more on what the kids could be seen or not.

The stories that will die with us old grey beards or in my case...grey hair. Too bad these event histories will go with us. This is what ledgends were made of.

I go to events now and am also bit bored with what is happening. Not that I was a partier or drank, I just had a good time entertaining the troops. Thank GAWD for Bob Hope. :thumbsup: Ooooops, wrong event. But similar with some of the antics we did to liven the camp up. :shake:
Case in point, when the tornados hit the first Southeastern and my camp was destoyed. Took the broken tipi poles and started the first Highland Games which became a big part of the Alafia Rendezvous. The Kabor toss was great fun at full moon midnight and I was not the one tossing. Later, we started doing games from the destruction of my tipi. Oh!...did get more poles from wonderful neighbors to put my tipi back up and camped for the whole week..or most of it. That is another part of the Rendezvouz...great neighbors when things go wrong.

 

[sniper68]

Super!!!(as good a word as any)Don't know if it makes any sense, but I can feel them pictures. :grin:
sniper

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Great pics, Tan. Thanks for letting us look. GW

 

[rabbit03]

Thanks for sharing Amigo, wish I could have known yall back then so I could have went too.

The buffalo that wondered off of his reservation looked quite content and at home did he not? :thumbsup:

Thanks again

rabbit03 (buffalo being my totem animal)

 

[TANSTAAFL]

The buffalo that wondered off of his reservation looked quite content and at home did he not?

Content is good, if blowing snot look out. Quite common for them to drift down the North Fork out of the park, can make driving around Pahaska Tepee & down toward Wapiti interesting at times.

 

[hawkeye1755]

Afraid not, was rather occupied at the time. :grin:

Aha, were you a "hotspur" when you were younger? :hmm:

Is it today another kind of people who goes to the events or was it only another TIME
:hatsoff:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Methinks it is like so many events and happenings, they come onto the stage in thundering boots, and then slip away in silken slippers.

The more things mature (?) and become organized, the more rules, regulations, do's and don'ts come into play. The rondy's were started by a group of people with one mindset as to things, they were in turn supplemented, then edged out by others coming in with another vision as to how things should be.

In short, it went from Taos lightning and stick meat, to Perrier bottled water and milch toast

All I know for me, is it was one hell of a lot of more fun back then compared to the ones I have attended recently. As in the song by Hank Williams Junior, "All my rowdy friends have settled down and it seems to be more in the laid back songs.
Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud.."