The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 21, 1986, Image 23
Then there was Schlongo Bongo Billy. This guy was riding in circles around us on a 10-speed asking us if we wanted to buy some good herb. And it wasn’t parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme that he was J talking about. Interesting character. I We hit the car to look for Russ’s j house. | Russ is an MBA student at t.u. His | girlfriend, Sally, serves a real mean margarita, so be sure to stop off at his place right after the game, before I few you hit Sixth Street. Really, he won’t I mind. | We gorged on pizza and then Sally and a friend of hers, our designated party guides, transported us to the Sixth Street part of town. Sally’s one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen in my life. We were lucky to get to Sixth Street alive. But now we were where we really wanted to be — our element. The crowd on Sixth Street was pretty fair that night and there was a quite a festive atmosphere. The street reminds me a lot of Westwood in Los Angeles. There are the cruising cars and scooters, roving packs of males (and females to a lesser degree). And boiling out of almost every establishment are smiling people. Hey, they’ve got a topless joint on Sixth Street. We didn’t check that out — this trip anyway. And on that same general line of thinking, there’s a place called Forbidden Fruit that specializes in, well, let’s just say that they don’t sell y Hallmark cards and that impressionable young people shouldn’t see some of the stuff they have in there. It was entertaining in an adult sort of way. (We laughed at t the fur-lined handcuffs.) The clerks said that, believe it 'is;. - S' iff "f t 2t id >rs. [to e. 2ver is pod inds fast :per i of id :h a >nd i Sam Langley claims to be the original Sixth Street flower vendor. The thing in his hand is a stun gun. Langley calls it “50,000 volts of fraternity control. ” n Austin Austin Austin Austin Austin