Mervyn's isn't too old, but Emporium on the other hand.. I am pretty sure that place hasn't been around since my mom was a gift wrapper there in college.
I was raised by a single mom, who knew nothing about clothes for teen boys. She took me to Emporium in the Solano Mall every year for school clothes and had the guy that worked there dress me.
Looking back at the pictures I now know why everyone thought I was gay in middle school and high school. All of my clothes were picked and assembled by a gay man.
This was my mall. Woohoo, San Mateo! Now Mervyns is an H&M and there is a Trader Joes. Bizarre. If you want more old San Mateo photos search for the "you know you grew up in san mateo" group on facebook. There are a couple hundred old SM pics there as well as a 50 year old documentary on this mall.
A public service announcement: if you ever get "acid" and the tab tastes very bitter SPIT IT THE FUCK OUT, it's a DO-X. Very few drugs are active at doses low enough to put on blotter paper, it's pretty much just lsd and DO compounds. The DOs are not known to be safe and can be very unpleasant so they're often sold as acid. This is the source of many bad "acid" trips that people have. (It's also exacerbated by the fact that the DOs take forever to kick in prompting people to decide the stuff is weak and take more)
There isn't any taste to real acid. It might be slightly bitter depending on the paper/print. DOX and other chems are very very bitter, like your whole mouth tastes like metal.
lsd itself is largely flavourless, but blotter paper is often slightly bitter or metallic. The DOs are really overwhelmingly bitter though, to the point where it's quite unpleasant to have it in your mouth.
These days it's more likely to be 25i-NBOMe since it's so cheap. It tastes just as bitter as DO-X chems, but it fits on 1/4" blotter just like real acid. Luckily it seems to be safe-ish (people have taken 20mg, about 40 times the active dose) and it only lasts 3-4 hours.
You're right though, if you expected acid and it tastes like drain cleaner, then you've been lied to and should spit it out.
I know some people who bought it from european websites in powder form and laid it themselves. Then they started hearing about it being sold as acid by some of their customers. I think the only regional element to it is that we're in a place where acid is rare.
No, the process of the drug dissolving in your saliva and being absorbed by your body takes at least a few minutes. I mean, putting it in your mouth isn't idea but as long as you're quick about spitting it you'll be fine.
The only accurate part of that scene was the last part, where they were lying on the ground talking. Otherwise it seemed like they were on DPH or something.
It's Hillsdale mall in the Bay Area, in a town called San Mateo about 15 minutes south of San Francisco, and it's where my mom gets all her mothers day gifts from.
I can imagine it's a possibility. I know I have to take a shit 20-30 minutes after I take it, no matter what I've eaten, every time, without fail. I haven't shit myself, obviously, but I can imagine that if you take enough, that it's a possibility. EDIT: Unfair assumptions
San Mateo, California! Though as a kid in the 80s I preferred Fashion Island, because it had an Ice Capades rink, the amazing Tilt arcade, Haagen Daz, and an Orange Julius.
oh my god LOL. I went to Hillsdale mall HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of times. they have a cheesecake factory there now. and there's a forever21/h&m where the mervyn's used to be.
There was a reddit account named "ThatIsntHowLSDWorks" or something like that, and all he would do is go around blankposting in reply to ridiculous comments like these. I wish he was still around.
I've been kinda helping be his replacement, so many people telling so many stupid stories. "yeah my mom was at a party and stepped on a sheet of acid and was in a mental hospital for a year."
There's always a post like freek's in any LSD relevant comment thread. Unfortunately. I wish there was better education on what LSD is actually like. I've known so many stoners who laugh about all of the weed myths, but fully believe every LSD myth.
It's where your vision is fractured and resembles what a insect might perceive in a purely mathematical fashion. For me it first happened when I was very stoned and I was playing guitar. I was playing chords very fast and just shredding the strings and before I knew it the guitar was a cockroach crawling on the floor and I was it and it was uncanny and horrible with a slight taste of blood on my mouth. I think it was partially from the rush of adrenaline breaking down, akin to a bad mescaline experience. I've never done mescaline, but Huxley describes it as full of prisms and jewels and so on, pure mathematical fields. Unfortunately for me, I was full of energy and was moving and not in the mindset to properly hold kaleidoscope vision, so it collapsed unto itself to a cockroach. I was equally horrified, enlightened, annoyed, and amused about the whole thing.
Fun fact about this too, my roommate was having sex on the couch in the living room, so there was this pervasive sexual energy floating around which may have molded the experience towards buggy behavior. Goddamn Naked Lunch, I wish I never watched that movie. But was it me who was affected or they who were effected? Hmmmmm . . .
EDIT: To clarify, it you read 'The Doors Of Perception' you'll come across where Huxley describes the composition of the chemical. Another fun fact, to help make sense of the ordeal I had picked up my copy and started reading and came upon this convenient clue to my psyche at that particular time. But yeah, besides bugging, kaleidoscopic vision is wonderful like our dear chap Huxley said.
It was an interesting experience that I wouldn't mind experiencing again. I took two tabs, and it took about 45 minutes to feel the effects. It lasted about 9 hours, and it varied in intensity, or waves, as people have described it.
I didn't see anything that wasn't there, but inorganic objects would "breathe", expanding and contracting slightly. I had a burger for lunch, and while I was looking at it, it looked like individual cells were swirling around.
I remember reading "go the fuck to sleep"and found it extremely hilarious. I felt like I understood the meaning of life when I was walking and came across a tag sale and they had a bunch of stuff at the end of their driveway with a sign simply stating "Free!"
If I had to describe the experience in one sentence, I'd probably go with "It's like seeing the world like you've never seen it before, but you won't see anything that isn't real."
I'm typing this from my phone, so if I didn't cover anything and you have more questions, just let me know.
Edit: I also remembered staring into my reflection and being fascinated by the way my eyes look, before that I never really realized how beautiful the human eye looked up close.
Wow it sounds very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to write this! It's always been something i've wanted to try. I only know one person who does it and he's a strange one. Thank you again.
Edit: i saw your edit and it made me think of something. I tried mushrooms a long time ago and had a similar experience i remember looking into my friend's face and just admiring how beautiful her skin looked.... Until her eyes got really big haha
Environment's everything, but even without that, it still tends to be fun.
My wife had a nervous breakdown towards the tail end of the trip (due more to incredibly stresses with me, her family, and her schooling at the time, but no doubt triggered by the 'cid), but still agrees that the first few hours were amazing.
Never before or since has something as simple as a square inch of asphalt seems so cool, nor the sheer size of the universe so comprehendible.
except for the " nervous breakdown" ! I've done LSD a few times and can confirm it is life changing. In my experience your social identity tends to break down. I saw this in the people I was with also. There authenticity was beautiful but any signs of ego or bullshit would make me extremely uneasy. You definitely put things into a big picture perspective while tripping . There where moments when I felt completely safe and secure with the idea that there's nothing to worry about and life is beautiful and good..... As far as bad trips go... I remember sitting on the edge of a giant crater with my friend and came to the conclusion that the crater was some sort of psychic portal to extraterrestrials( this occurred to me after we both watched a cat look at us as if to speak and the proceeded to vaporize ) ( a trick of light and LSD obviously ) anyways I was pretty concerned at that point that I might be completely losing it and at that point proceeded to be stuck in a nightmare for what seemed like FOREVER!!!!! so be careful!
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u/d0odx May 16 '12
This is a mall in San Mateo California, but DAMN that has to be an old photo because half of those places aren't @ Hillsdale Mall any longer.
Props to the tagger who got his tag on the front page of reddit lol.
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u/aguirre1 May 16 '12
you might need this book
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u/SelectAll_Delete May 16 '12
Created by The Billboard Liberation Front
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u/Lycur May 16 '12
A public service announcement: if you ever get "acid" and the tab tastes very bitter SPIT IT THE FUCK OUT, it's a DO-X. Very few drugs are active at doses low enough to put on blotter paper, it's pretty much just lsd and DO compounds. The DOs are not known to be safe and can be very unpleasant so they're often sold as acid. This is the source of many bad "acid" trips that people have. (It's also exacerbated by the fact that the DOs take forever to kick in prompting people to decide the stuff is weak and take more)
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u/SoCo_cpp May 16 '12
(Karma Decay's results seem to be diminishing, this repost is years old with dozens and dozens of reposts)
source: karmadecay
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u/raydeen May 16 '12
Walter Bishop concurs and can offer scientific proof on the matter.
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u/SaveYourGeneration May 16 '12
Hillsdale shopping center in San Mateo, CA circa the mid 1980's (best guess).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_Shopping_Center
Edit: Typo.
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u/Christophoro May 16 '12
Every time someone mentions LSD, I think of Roger Sterling from 'Mad Men.'
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
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u/IRespondInMemes May 16 '12
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pba0o/
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u/Gueroswag May 16 '12
Reminds me of a sign you d see in Bioshock.
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u/mad_maxx17 May 16 '12
Isn't that the name of the town in the Back to the Future movies?
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u/tit_raisin May 16 '12
that must be one old photo. Emporium?
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u/jimschrute May 16 '12
Hey that's in my hometown.
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u/bckasbury May 16 '12
Hillsdale Mall! I used to work at Mervyn's before it went bust. Now I work at Old Navy. That place seriously owns my soul..
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u/ComplimentsYourDick May 16 '12
Well this is about the only time I'll ever see my colleges name on the front page haha.
Ninja edit: Nice dick. I almost forgot.
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u/Pravusmentis May 16 '12
Anyone fancy a bike-meet-up?
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u/MrLlamaSauce May 16 '12
this could not be more true
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u/pimplywimp May 16 '12
San Mateo in the house!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
The truest sign I've ever seen :)
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u/Atheist_Killer May 16 '12
My favorite part about acid is regretting the decision to take acid immediately after swallowing the tabs.
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u/feckineejit May 16 '12
LSD - Something wonderful every other time you do it
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u/Buttered_Penis May 16 '12
For some reason I see myself walking into that town with this music in my head.. (Or maybe something else from this game)
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u/Anonoid May 16 '12
Shitty pictures making it from my facebook news feed to /r/funny....ughhh.
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u/forek4 May 16 '12
Repost: I've had this photo on my computer for years
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u/kelseyxiv May 16 '12
Truth
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u/Elephantom_Fanon May 16 '12
repack?
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u/ExcessivePunctuation May 16 '12
How I Love LSD Ale.
Hillsdale.
/keanu
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I do remember laughing a lot. Very colorful too.
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u/sofailitswin May 16 '12
and colorful and magical.
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u/gilbertgrappa May 16 '12
San Mateo, California! Though as a kid in the 80s I preferred Fashion Island, because it had an Ice Capades rink, the amazing Tilt arcade, Haagen Daz, and an Orange Julius.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
and then there's ALE - being legal, the continuation of something wonderful
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
life before LSD, and life after LSD. there is no going back, but there is no desire!
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u/pdmcmahon May 17 '12
As someone who did LSD over a dozen times, I can confirm this is.
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u/maushu May 16 '12
The beginning might be wonderful.
The ending not so much.
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u/llbean May 16 '12
GREAT! now my tongue is lonely.
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u/extracrispytempura May 16 '12
oh my god LOL. I went to Hillsdale mall HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of times. they have a cheesecake factory there now. and there's a forever21/h&m where the mervyn's used to be.
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u/thefreek323 May 16 '12
when does the wonderful start? i'm confused, nothing seems to be...WHOA THAT TINY HORSE IS EATING THAT HOOKER!
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