Ah we would go to parties ah so people’s parents would go away for the weekend and then they’d throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they’re called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it’s a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there.

Ah we would go to parties ah so people's parents would go away for the weekend and then they'd throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they're called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it's a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there. Ah we would go rockin'-bowing, where they have it in Peterborough they turn down all the lights, and there was a disco ball ...

Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.

Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.

Speaker: Ah we would- I think more have house party. Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle.

So, I-don't-know. There were a lot- I know there was a lot of- there were a lot of pit parties and there were a lot um bonfires and camp-outs and-stuff that- with strict parents, you can't go out drinking.

Yeah, this is beach-volleyball, too. Ah and a- and a fire-pit. And ah we'd hang out there a lot. ... So, I-don't-know. There were a lot- I know there was a lot of- there were a lot of pit parties and there were a lot um bonfires and camp-outs and-stuff that- with strict parents, you can't go out drinking.

Speaker: And ah, you-know we made our own fun. ... We- we always had something to do, we had- you-know, when we got our license and-that, we'd go to the pit, the gravel pits. Interviewer: You had pit parties? Speaker: Yeah pit parties. ... And ah, you-know we'd be drinking under-age of-course, but who cares?

Interviewer: Yeah. Is that where you- your favourite place to party would be though, when you were younger, would be out at the pits? Speaker: When I was in Elliot-Lake in ah, nineteen-seventy-nine, we started the pit party.

Speaker: Um we had pit parties at Twin-Lakes, we had big pit parties. Interviewer: They don't do that anymore. Speaker: No well- Interviewer: Cross-Lake. Speaker: People that own the pit- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Find out that there's ah, three-hundred drunk kids on their pit on Saturday night.

Interviewer: Is that where you- your favourite place to party would be though, when you were younger, would be out at the pits? Speaker: When I was in Elliot-Lake in ah, nineteen-seventy-nine, we started the pit party. ... In there, about twenty-five miles out of town at a big- huge big pit. And ah, when I came back from there I said, "Hey, guess what we were doing in Elliot-Lake?"

Interviewer: You would have parties at Pete's-Dam though? ... Speaker: A whole life time ago. ... Um we had pit parties at Twin-Lakes, we had big pit parties. Interviewer: They don't do that anymore. Speaker: No well- ... People that own the pit- ... Find out that there's ah, three-hundred drunk kids on their pit on Saturday night.