Summer of ‘86 at Six Flags

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Signal_Contract_3592@reddit

No metal detectors, security checks, no shootings.

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lumberjackname@reddit

I see you too have been to Six Flags Magic Mountain. It was already getting rough when I lady visited in 1993.

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AbjectHyena1465@reddit

Was it a REAL concert if there was no mosh pit at VH though?

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Minzplaying@reddit

Just some major cup fights! Went to more than a few and to this day still have issues from heat exhaustion. Loved my Dallas days back then!

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Flashy-Head-2298@reddit

June 1986 day after prom, we went to Six Flags in LA on acid and blow. The 80s were wild

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

Colors were so awful back in the 80s. All the film sucked.

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inspector_ninety_9@reddit (OP)

I love it and don’t like modern photos.

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

All the 80s pics are brown. When I scanned all my old pics, I had to enhance the shit out of them just to make them look good. What the hell were we thinking? Kodak had us all thinking we were getting state-of-the-art, bright colors, and instead everything looks like it's sprayed with a coat of brown.

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Heretogetthingsdone@reddit

SFOT 1986 was my third and last year working there. A few hundred kids, with paychecks, and cars, getting off at 11:00 PM Saturday night......

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KISSALIVE1975@reddit

SFOT???

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SunMyungMoonMoon@reddit

I had that exact same shirt. That Texxas Jam was my first rock concert. I got there late so I only saw Dio and Van Halen, but it was freaking awesome and I was hooked.

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birdynumnum69@reddit

Even for the 80s, you guys were a bit much. 🤣

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Healthy-Theme8261@reddit

The guy on our left was the weed dealer

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Healthy-Theme8261@reddit

I mean our right maybe I should lay off weed

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Weak_Lettuce_9053@reddit

I knew who you meant when you said it.

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birdynumnum69@reddit

Guy on the right definitely got some vagina. No doubt.

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Ottomatica@reddit

r/blunderyears

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Ckc1972@reddit

"We wear short shorts..."

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cartooncande@reddit

Who wears short shorts?

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woohan-kung-flu2@reddit

Swagger.

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MrTacocaT12345@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/dw2p5hf7uosg1.jpeg?width=665&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94ea27f4028f16deaabefe4a71330ee04d1ea128

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Flashy-Safe8254@reddit

Dude with the tube Socks about 6 years past its expiration

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NaturalSpecialist5@reddit

Totally looks like my brother did back then on the far left. Except he looked better lol

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andyraylan@reddit

Amazing. I just finished watching the presidential address. I needed this, thank you.

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Natasha5145@reddit

Bless your heart. I couldn’t put myself through it . Watched old West Wing episodes instead.

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Saint909@reddit

Artemis launch over here. 🚀

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Natasha5145@reddit

H has that covered 🙂

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zackks@reddit

Did the two on the left at least get any scraps from my man on the right, Poon-Slayer 9000?

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SciFiJim@reddit

Memorial Day 1986. My wife and I had our first date at Six Flags.

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wyohman@reddit

Even better. Van Halen at Texas Jam!

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

Texxas

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wyohman@reddit

It must be the Mandela effect. I grew up in the DFW area, I went to the Texxas Jam but I have no memory of there being two Xs

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Lightningstruckagain@reddit

Q102 is very dissapointed

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wyohman@reddit

But KZEW and Zoo World were ok with it!

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Lightningstruckagain@reddit

The Zoo was 98.something, right? The 97.1 The Eagle and Kzep kicked ass, too. Don’t think any are still Rockin

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wyohman@reddit

Zoo was 98.7. I vaguely remember KZEP. I joined the Air Force and left the DFW area in 1984. Ironically my daughter lives in Saginaw just a couple miles from where I was born at Carswell AFB.

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

I know what you mean. I grew up there but never had the privilege of going to the concerts. For the longest time I remembered as Texas Jamm, putting the double letters in the wrong place.

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wyohman@reddit

Very funny!

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plasteroid@reddit

Am I in this picture??

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inspector_ninety_9@reddit (OP)

Are you!?!

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Flat-Ad6208@reddit

Same....Zoinks

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ComfortableBedroom76@reddit

Hey, I was there too

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TankApprehensive3053@reddit

I spent many summer days at Six Flags. Short OP shorts were the trend at the time. I think I had three different colors at one point.

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GrilledCheeseTn@reddit

![gif](giphy|GP8mUjmrAMY9zEaZV6)

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Jogger_Dodger@reddit

Killin' the 1980's, fellas!!

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NC_RockFan@reddit

Tall socks and one nut shorts.....those were the days.

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Lightningstruckagain@reddit

Great memory!The 88 Texas Jam w Van Hales was better, IMO. Scorps, Dokken, Metallica, and Kingdom Come also on the bill. Did y’all ride the Judge Roy Screams a million times?

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LinuxNoob@reddit

Did you ride “the edge”?

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Not_High_Maintenance@reddit

Looks like freshman year alright! 👍🏼

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chillen67@reddit

Tube socks lmao. What were we thinking?

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damion789@reddit

What about the short shorts?

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Express_Area_8359@reddit

They liked short shorts!

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chillen67@reddit

I run so short shorts aren’t as big of a WTF, but you, I get you.

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MediumAd3331@reddit

Six Flags was for boys. We tried to die like men at Action Park

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Practically_Hip@reddit

In 1986 I also looked like anybody could have kicked my ass. Congrats to you for surviving.

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AnastasiaNo70@reddit

I had a season pass to Six Flags that summer (the one in Arlington). I probably saw y’all at some point. This is what Iooked like in about 85. https://preview.redd.it/p9htgsh8mosg1.png?width=786&format=png&auto=webp&s=c36500786819ba644f91a1d8d31e2c30e6eae4df

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Nick_Fotiu_Is_God@reddit

This actually gives me 1982 vibes.

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inspector_ninety_9@reddit (OP)

We were from the country and spending the day in the big city. The style for country folk was always a little behind. But that VH shirt was on point with the times!

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Nick_Fotiu_Is_God@reddit

Nice. I looked like all of you combined back in those days - especially the lad on the right.

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endosurgery@reddit

5150 baby!

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inspector_ninety_9@reddit (OP)

Always and forever!

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endosurgery@reddit

That was a great show that summer

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bblhead@reddit

The Texas Jam was fucking awesome!

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narosis@reddit

In the parts of NJ I grew up in we called it "GA or Great Adventure", it was always the out of state relatives that called it Six Flags...

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Normal_Cockroach_697@reddit

I think only locals called it GA. You must be pretty local?

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6SpeedsGood@reddit

Great Adventure was amazing. But being from Jersey, I sure hope you got to Action Park too!

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Disastrous-Style-461@reddit

Astroworld. I’d give anything to go to Astroworld this Saturday!!

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Buttchugger-2020@reddit

My god does this photo speak to me. I turned 14 the summer of 86. Graduated 8th grade.

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CelticGardenGirl@reddit

These guys didn’t skip leg day. 🦵

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Bosswashington@reddit

Which six flags?

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inspector_ninety_9@reddit (OP)

Arlington, TX

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ScottRiqui@reddit

I was working there that summer! I was in the Games department, at the "three balls for a dollar" type games back by the carousel. Later that summer, I met my wife at a Starship concert at the park. Can't believe that it will have been 40 years in August!

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bm1949@reddit

No kidding. Gurnee, IL, checking in.

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fyodor_mikhailovich@reddit

the one in arlington near Dallas was the original one and was only called Six Flags.

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vmflair@reddit

Omg these look like photos from my HS yearbook in ‘82. Did any of you wear terry cloth shirts and OP shorts? I remember going to the arcade at the Jersey shore, smoking cigarettes and playing pool with my little brother. We thought we were the shit lol.

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AbjectHyena1465@reddit

OP t-shirts… those were the summer time staple!

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greek-lit@reddit

cool dudes

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Fuzzteam7@reddit

A season pass was pure gold 😁

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jakexcited45@reddit

Those boys are on the prowl.

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AbjectHyena1465@reddit

And probaly the ride seats were way too big on them. Today? No way they’re fitting in them now!

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Mers2000@reddit

I sooo remember that look!!! Such fun we had back them!

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coci222@reddit

Which Six Flags?

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

Arlington, Texas I believe.

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CartoonistAvailable4@reddit

I am also wondering this since I grew up right near one!

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justjules_lp@reddit

I was wondering which one too.

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misterpickles69@reddit

![gif](giphy|3o7abwwXjpaWDBRu9i|downsized)

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Flaky-Debate-833@reddit

Tremendous. I hoped you dudes left some women for the rest of the guys at the park that day.

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Jimchee71@reddit

Are you about 54 now? That was a great summer; I was at a Six Flags as well, Mike and the Mechanics on stage in Jackson, NJ location, outside Philly

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Dillenger69@reddit

Six Flags near where I grew up was just called [Great America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_Great_America) back then. I had lots of good times there

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xeno_dorph@reddit

Marriott’s!

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harbengerprime@reddit

86? Shit I might have seen you there

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Impressive_Crazy_223@reddit

I saw all y'all there. Definitely.

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applyheat@reddit

I was at Six Flags over Georgia that summer.

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

Oh wow! I haven’t seen or heard reference to the Texxas Jam in a looong time! Those people look kinda familiar to me… Maybe we went to the same school…

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wyohman@reddit

One X

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LagerthaFreya@reddit

Rocking the knee socks!

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vitoforever99@reddit

All the shoes are like 😝😝😝

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AbsolutesDealer@reddit

Six Flags Great Adventure was the shiiiiiiiit.

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cmore_1967@reddit

Was it Arlington, Texas?

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AbsolutesDealer@reddit

That’s Six Flags Over Texas. Great Adventure is in NJ.

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21stCenturyJanes@reddit

I was gonna say - wasn’t it called Great Adventure back then?

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AbsolutesDealer@reddit

I think Six Flags had different names for each of their locations. Great Adventure was the NJ location. The Great American Scream Machine… so good.

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Virtual_Mechanic2936@reddit

Texxas jam! 😁

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Eastnasty@reddit

Good year, boys. Good year. ❤️

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MineAllMineNow@reddit

It may have been '86, but those socks say 1978 to me .... https://preview.redd.it/a0udqpu7hosg1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=0010edba52c7bf5e677e5cabc36abe704725ed80

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House_Junkie@reddit

Am I the only one who thought this guys leg looked obscenely long before realizing it was the kids arm? https://preview.redd.it/qp343ty6hosg1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbd09fdc0ad4a862a0ad96c1d92feaf73c9fea7f

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TallEnoughJones@reddit

That's equivalent to 47 flags in 2026 flags.

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heldaway@reddit

![gif](giphy|AQbqF8cms75oBUF1Z3|downsized)

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Affectionate-Cow3737@reddit

You look bitchin

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Julian_Thorne@reddit

3 different takes on socks

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donut-is-appalled@reddit

Those tube socks! Those shorty shorts!

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samizdat5@reddit

Vital that the stripes on the socks match the shorts.

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donut-is-appalled@reddit

That’s just science

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Alternative_Gur8306@reddit

Sorry,those aren’t clothes from the late 80s

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No_Rain_1543@reddit

1986 is "mid" 80s

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inspector_ninety_9@reddit (OP)

Actually they are. VH rocked the Texxas Jam summer of 86 on the 5150 tour, hence the t-shirt.

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northshorehermit@reddit

Oh yeah, they are

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DawnInDesMoines@reddit

The guy on the right is giving me Squints from the Sandlot

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No_Rain_1543@reddit

![gif](giphy|F3NLGwbgAUj6) Yes

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og_speedfreeq@reddit

Haha i might be one of those people in the background! Good times at six flags!

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Minzplaying@reddit

Me too! We always had season passes back then.

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MargnWalkr@reddit

Toob socks

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WIlf_Brim@reddit

Did anybody NOT have a pair like that at some point?

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umeboshiplumpaste@reddit

I hope one of you has a comb in your back pocket. Are those Pony high-tops?

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Shorty-71@reddit

I’m guessing Jaclar. That brand only existed for a few years in the late 80’s.

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DrKeepitreal@reddit

Your friends still alive?

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earinsound@reddit

OP cord shorts, fake varnets, NO socks, checkered Vans would’ve been me if it was 1983.

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Shorty-71@reddit

Haven’t thought about Vuarnet (sunglasses) since 86. Thanks for that.

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Proof_Dragonfruit795@reddit

I loved Six Flags, what a treat finding out you were headed there. Not anymore, it attracts a rough crowd now.

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Diligent_Actuator950@reddit

dont forget short shorts.

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Skatchbro@reddit

For those of us unfamiliar with Texxas Jam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texxas_Jam#:~:text=Texxas%20Jam%20was%20the%20informal,the%20campus%20of%20Rice%20University.

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Tough_Arm_2454@reddit

What's it say on the shirt on the dude in the middle?

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Mistervimes65@reddit

texxas jam. It’s a Van Halen shirt https://preview.redd.it/k7gvelumbosg1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cbd3395a298ba8b13d74de7b35b5fe9ca3d633d

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