How Did You Start Going to the Water?

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09-20-2013, 09:57 AM
niceguyeddie

My grandparents bought a place at the river a few years before I was born. They had been going for years before that and would camp on the Indian Beaches. So I started going as a baby. I remember back when we would launch the boats and skis off the beach. I think people that did that and still do are crazy! lol

When I turned old enough to drive they would start letting me use the house with friends. I few of us had stand ups so we'd just hang on a beach all day and I always day dreamed about owning a boat. I bought my 1st boat when I was 19 and kinda carried on the tradition. I wish my cousins/ siblings would have also carried out the river tradition, but I was the only one of all the "kids" to have an interest. I knew since I was a kid that I wanted my own hot rod jet boat.
09-20-2013, 10:03 AM
ChumpChange

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Originally Posted by Wendi

We need to start a thread tell us your "CRAZIEST" Crazy Horse story. This thread would be epic!!! LOL Alcohol, Jail, oh nevermind.

Mine would involve all of those. Burned security guards golf cart, porta potties in bonfire....EPIC!!!!!
09-20-2013, 10:04 AM
Stainless

Remember these?
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09-20-2013, 10:17 AM
ChumpChange

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Originally Posted by Carbon

Remember these?

Should this go to the Cooler thread? :D
09-20-2013, 10:18 AM
Stainless

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Originally Posted by Wendi

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

Lmfao, I'm with you, I would stay home bf I suffered that ever again. ;)

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09-20-2013, 10:26 AM
HB Vic

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Remember these?

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We started going back when these were the hot ticket :D Attachment 19085
09-20-2013, 10:28 AM
ChumpChange

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Originally Posted by Wendi

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

Tent camping was perfect for a buch of drunk college students. If we had a hotel, it would've been too easy to just sleep the entire day away from the previous night's hangover. Nobody wants to sleep in a 100 degree tent in the morning. It forced us to start the party bright and early every morning!!!!!
09-20-2013, 10:38 AM
78Southwind

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Originally Posted by Wendi

2nd Generation for me.
Then we would go without the parents to Crazy horse and that's where the WMC and Wendi show started....

So what year are you talking here? I was at Crazy Horse pretty much every spring break and big weekend from 85 thru 87 (I graduated HS in 87). My buddy had a Lifted Grey Toyota truck on 40's with a couple thousand watt stereo system in it. We would go to North Beach (I think that's what they called it) before it was developed and start the party. It was absolutely insane (girls dancing & flashing in truck beds, Palm trees set on fire, hand guns firing in the air and just about everyone was under age). I have so many stories I could tell. It got so bad that Crazy Horse started charging to just to come into the campground and party. The local Havasu girls would come down to party and they wouldn't bring anything to drink...just cups. When we weren't staying at Crazy Horse another friend of mine had a place at the Isle condos so we would just sneak in from there. I am sure our paths crossed back then.
09-20-2013, 11:15 AM
Stainless

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Originally Posted by Mateo

Should this go to the Cooler thread? :D

Hey, those were the cool cooler then, you just had to buy ice twice a day. :D

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09-20-2013, 11:24 AM
78Southwind

Third Generation here…my Grandmother owned a boat and kept it in a slip in Long Beach. However, my parents were really the one’s that got me going to the river since they had the lake/river boats. My parents started going to Parking in their late teens and they started moving up river to BHC/Laughlin (to get away from the craziness at Parker) when they started their family.

I am sure I was on the water at an earlier age but the first memory that I have of the river is when I was four years old at Riverside Casino in Laughlin. A friend of my fathers had won some money on the TV game show Match Game. My father had his pilot license back then so this friend offered to pay for all of the plane fuel and the hotel room if my Dad flies him to Laughlin to gamble away his winnings.

My Dad and I had a great time just hanging out and fishing. However, I remember the horrible gnats. I think that’s the day they came up with the saying Visit Laughlin and Bullhead City - 10 Billion Gnats Can't Be Wrong.

My parents bought a motor home shortly after this trip and pretty much took me everywhere with them (Powell, Mead, Mohave, Laughlin, Havasu, Shasta, Tahoe, ectra…and when I was in sixth grade they bought a mobile home in Bullhead City AZ. I have a lot of good river memories and continue to create them with Lisa (MMA).
09-20-2013, 12:36 PM
Wendi

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Originally Posted by 78Southwind

So what year are you talking here? I was at Crazy Horse pretty much every spring break and big weekend from 85 thru 87 (I graduated HS in 87). My buddy had a Lifted Grey Toyota truck on 40's with a couple thousand watt stereo system in it. We would go to North Beach (I think that's what they called it) before it was developed and start the party. It was absolutely insane (girls dancing & flashing in truck beds, Palm trees set on fire, hand guns firing in the air and just about everyone was under age). I have so many stories I could tell. It got so bad that Crazy Horse started charging to just to come into the campground and party. The local Havasu girls would come down to party and they wouldn't bring anything to drink...just cups. When we weren't staying at Crazy Horse another friend of mine had a place at the Isle condos so we would just sneak in from there. I am sure our paths crossed back then.

Graduated in 87 too! We had to have partied together there I'm sure!! Funtimes. I was going to upload some pics but WMC backed them up on this thing I have no idea how to get them off. Oh well.
09-20-2013, 12:36 PM
Sharp shooter

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Hey, those were the cool cooler then, you just had to buy ice twice a day. :D

I still use this one and it works waay better than any of the newer coolers I have.

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09-20-2013, 12:44 PM
Sharp shooter

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What a great tribute video!

Thanks!
09-20-2013, 01:13 PM
Bobby V

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Originally Posted by Carbon

There seems to be one common thread here, Crazy Horse, lol.

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My first trip was to Crazy Horse also in 79'. Went to Parker a few times. But Memorial day 1982 we were staying at Bransons Landing and ole Jeanie Branson kicked us out because we didn't have written permisision to stay in our freinds trailer. So off we went to Havasu and we ended up camping in the channel where the golf course is now. So Havasu was our place to be. 4 years later bought a house in Havasu and have been going back and forth ever since.
09-20-2013, 01:33 PM
Jet-Daytona

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Originally Posted by Bobby V

So Havasu was our place to be. 4 years later bought a house in Havasu and have been going back and forth ever since.

So what year was that? lol.
09-20-2013, 01:40 PM
Bobby V

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Originally Posted by Jet-Daytona

So what year was that? lol.

Bought a lot and had the house was finished in 1987.
09-20-2013, 01:48 PM
DC-88

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Originally Posted by Mateo

Mine would involve all of those. Burned security guards golf cart, porta potties in bonfire....EPIC!!!!!

Totally, I remember the palm trees on fire at CH. Not good but definiteley OC. I graduated in 87 and hit the Palm Springs deal the year before too....
09-20-2013, 01:55 PM
ChumpChange

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Originally Posted by Bobby V

Bought a lot and had the house was finished in 1987.

Finished/Built. What's the difference!
09-20-2013, 01:56 PM
ChumpChange

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Originally Posted by DC-88

Totally, I remember the palm trees on fire at CH. Not good but definiteley OC. I graduated in 87 and hit the Palm Springs deal the year before too....

There's a reason it's called Crazy Horse!
09-20-2013, 01:59 PM
78Southwind

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Graduated in 87 too! We had to have partied together there I'm sure!! Funtimes. I was going to upload some pics but WMC backed them up on this thing I have no idea how to get them off. Oh well.

You better get William to throw up some of pictures of Old School Crazy Horse. I only have a couple pictures from those days. Here's a couple at my buddy's condo a friend of mine took.

This is the start of the party at the condo. Shorty after this picture we went over to Crazy Horse to party. I am the goofy one with the Cig in my mouth (what a dumb ass I thought I was so cool).

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This picture is of my buddies passed out.

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This pictures is of the morning after. You might think to yourself where's 78Southwind? Well let's just say he didn't make it back to the condo that night and on his way home from someones house in the morning he was still drunk. He didn't want to wake anyone up by ringing the phone to have someone open the gate so he tried to find what he thought was a better idea. This better idea was to make his own entrance through the next door property. Well that didn't work very well and Havasu's finest gave me the break of my life.

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