Who was the first big yuppie coke head circa 72-73?

[billbuckhead]

[DenverDem]

1. I was still a hippie.

I don't think yuppie cokeheads started up until disco, two or three years later.

[billbuckhead]

2. What well known person might have been an early adopter?

Who was the first to bring it into the board room? i really want to know?

[Carni]

3. Blizzard of the 80's?

Delorean had a good run LOL

[zeemike]

4. I think Denver is right

Coke didn't reach the yuppie crowd until late 70s.
I know I didn't snort a line with lawyers until then.

[librechik]

8. maybe you mean Milkin

didn't he have a problem that way? He's the model for Gordon Gecko, I heard.

But your question will never be answered in a single name. At a certain point coke was everywhere "in the boardroom" and I don't know when it stopped, if it ever did.

[DemoTex]

5. Bu$h. In Houston.

There is no doubt in my military mind as to what Bu$h was snorting in the early 70s. The record is lost. Fill in the Bu$h record with your best guess. Go wild. There is no record to defend against a charge of libel. The record is obliterated. Gone!

I heard Bu$h and Bath got caught in a three-some in a flat near Hobby Airport. Bu$h was doing Bath and the whore got pissed off and the colonel found out. The whore and Bath managed to keep Bu$h's felonious tendencies under the table. The Texas Guard intervened. Bu$h was released from active duty "for the good of the Guard."

If that is not true, release the Bu$h military records. Clue us in, please!

[Carni]

6. Truthfully

Heroin was WAYYYYY more popular in 1972 than cocaine...I think bush probably wasn't a coke head until daddy was Pres

[jpgray]

9. Hell, US Grant did cocaine in the nineteenth century

It was big in the music scene during the fifties, and was popular among rich brats like Bush in the seventies, and finally came to real prominence in the eighties, if I remember. :)

[librechik]

7. yeah, that might be a little 2 early for the Coke Craze

and definitely too early for yuppies--

That Steve guy who owned Studio 54 is a bad example, and Jon Peters of Hollywood is another--I guess he never got over it.

Yeah, there was a big split after Altamont among the hipsters over Which Drug Ruled. Heroin was still around, but "over," and in 1973 there were 2 movements. First there were the Stoneground Hippies, who were "Naturally" into marijuana, and were even into growing it. The Hippies were into Acid, too, but let's face it, nobody could do it every single day, though many tried. Pot was nicer, even healthy, and well, Stoneground.

Then there were the proto-Yuppies who looked exactly like Hippies in 1973, but weren't able to hack the dropout life, didn't much like to grow things, and preferred living in cities or at least in houses with plumbing. Those people didn't much like pot, and instead started trimming their hair and getting jobs to support their growing and expensive fashionable Coke habits. See, incredibly, in 1973-4 nobody quite realized that coke was a highly addictive substance. "Traffic" is a good movie on this era but better is "Blow," the one with Johnny Depp.

Coke was introduced to hippies by the Hells Angels, in approximately 1970 ( Hendrix was a cokester) and the hippies reciprocated by turning the Angels on to LSD. LSD had little effect on the Angels because they insisted on doing it at the same time as all other drugs including Camels and Jack Daniels. Yuppie Cokeheads are like that too, in my experience, and usually do all three, coke, drinking, and cigarettes)

So, you should probably be looking into late 70s or even later to find the first real Yuppie cokehead asshole.In my mind they are more closely associated with the Reagan era than the 70's. Although coke use was common by the mid 70s, there just weren't quite so many assholes. (the stinkiest year for cokehead assholes was probably 1982, the year Belushi died doing "speedballs" a mix of coke and heroin--he also smoked and drank)

The era begins with Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) But that was still proto-Yuppie. And very little coke if any as I recall.
Tony had contempt for his friends' drunkenness, but I bet he did coke at every opportunity. (LOL) In those days people offered, and nobody really knew it was terrible for you yet, so few turned it down. But if you were Stoneground, the chemical thrills of coke just didn't "do it." If you weren't, then off to Yuppie Cokehead Assholedom you went, right along with Al Pacino's character in Scarface.(1983)

The ultimate yuppie cokehead asshole is probably Gordon Gecko, the main character in the movie "Wall Street" which was made in 1987. Watch Gordon: coke, fine liquor, and tobacco. Dead giveaway.

Hey, you know what? Shrub is a Yuppie Cokehead Asshole! A ROYAL Yuppie cokehead asshole! Same era molded him and everything! Typical Bio!
Look no further!

Heh. Got on a little drug rant there! sorry...I'm a bit of an expert...(Not really, Agent Mike!)

So you can trust me kids!

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