The Heroin from "The French Connection" was Stolen by the Police and Sold on the Streets of New York City... Classic War on Drugs FAIL... The Movie Failed to Tell the Entire Story...

 December 1972 — The police department discloses that around 200 pounds (91 kg) of heroin, much of it seized in the French Connection busts a decade earlier, has been stolen from evidence lockers over a period of several months and replaced with cornstarch by someone who signed in under false names and nonexistent badge numbers. Several detectives were suspected of complicity in the thefts; in 2009 Brooklyn mobster Anthony Casso, serving 455 years in federal prison, intimated that he knew who had stolen the drugs.[34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/nyregion/22french.html

The well-organized gang was responsible for distributing close to a million dollars worth of heroin up and down the East Coast of the United States during the early 1970s, which in turn led to a major New York Police Department (NYPD) corruption scheme. The scope and depth of this scheme are still not known, but officials suspect it involved corrupt NYPD officers who allowed Papa, Alessi, and Loria access to the NYPD property/evidence storage room, where hundreds of kilograms of heroin lay seized from the now-infamous French Connection bust, and from which the men would help themselves and replace missing heroin with flour and cornstarch to avoid detection.[11][12]

The substitution was discovered only when officers noticed insects eating all the bags of "heroin". By that point an estimated street value of approximately $70 million worth of heroin had already been taken. The racket was brought to light and arrests were made. Certain plotters received jail sentences, including Papa, who was later murdered in federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/06/books/papa-s-game-by-gregory-wallance-309-pp-new-york-rawson-wade-publishers-1-4.95.html

I Do Not Remember the 1973 Oil Crisis... I didn't own a car... On TV History Shows They Report That There was a Major Problem in the USA with Long Lines at Gas Stations.

You could only buy gas on odd dates or even dates depending on the last digit of your license plate... I rode my Bicycle in Chico, California at the College... I Totally Missed this Event.

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and then there were 106 comments

on my Facebook Group about 

Growing Up in Los Gatos...

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The Conclusion was The "Oil Crisis" Was Fake. 

Designed to Increase Prices and Profits.

Many People Spoke With Insider Knowledge.

Like, Their Dad Owned a Gas Station... 

Classic Example of #Runaway Corporate Greed.

#RememberFrance1789

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I remember it well -- I'm a tad older than you, Gregory Laan! I recall one occasion specifically; the gas station across from my workplace allowed us to park our car in the line, which was visible out the window of my office, and retrieve it once fueled up. On one particular occasion, I was informed the "line ended at the car just ahead of me." Ouch! Locking gas caps became popular during the "gas shortage."

In 1973 I was the most junior person in the small electronics company I worked at (Apple), so was sent to sit in line to fill the gas tanks for more senior people. ...paid the same, I suppose.

The trick was to have two cars in the household. One with even, one with odd! I’m not sure what the answer was for all letter vanity plates.

My folks had gas stations...I used to sew the red, yellow and green flags to hang our front. Red was no gas, yellow I think was emergency only and green was open for the odd or even plate for the day. Lines were outrageous.

We had a truck with commercial license plates so we could go on any day! Then we would go home and siphon gas to the other cars.

Gregory Laan: I DO Remember the 1979 Gas Crisis... I was Living in Maryland and the GIANT BOATS that deliver gasoline were just parked in the Chesapeake Bay... waiting for no reason to unload in Baltimore... a Totally Contrived Crisis... there was plenty of gas, they just were not unloading it...

 I was working at Lark Avenue carwash and you could get gas either day if you bought a carwash. Record breaking days.

My friend and I were in San Francisco for an AMD Christmas party, and I realized I was low on gas, my plate was wrong number, so we ran out of gas on 101 somewhere past Eastside San Jose, we were hitchhiking in our disco dresses at like 3:30am and got picked up by CHP who took us to next exit and dropped us at Jack in the box. We hitched a ride from there

They implemented odd and even license plates to get gas. I had to get up at O dark thirty and take my parent's cars and wait in those damn lines. It was all a sham to enrich oil executives. Never was a shortage. I remarked that they let the oil companies get away with it, everything goes up. For example a box of cereal was .50 cents. Now the same box is about five dollars.

My Dad's Chevron was on the odd-even system. He always maintained that there was never really a gas shortage. He was never low on gas and continued to receive regular deliveries. The rationing was mandated by Chevron/Standard Oil corporate.

I was in the student council at LGHS for a couple of years. Then in my Senior Year I ran for class president.

 I remember that the candidates gave a speech in the auditorium to all the students in the Senior Class... I spoke about protesting against the Vietnam War. The other candidate, Jim Lang, said... "This year, let's just have fun!" and the audience cheered loudly. at that point I knew I had lost. My friend, Rich Field, also ran for Student Body President and he lost also. We were in a crowd of people that always was in the student council and suddenly we were out... It seemed like a big deal at the time... however, I don't actually remember what the student council actually did, if we did anything at all...

Read more of my Autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

In 1972 We went to see The Rolling Stones at San Francisco's Winterland... TWICE in one day!

First, I was unable to buy tickets at the brand new "Ticketron" service at Macy's Department store. The computer system was incredibly slow and a huge pile of us teenagers just lay down on the beds in the store for hours, then we were told: All sold out! So I bought two tickets from a scalper I met thru a newspaper ad in the Times Observer.

Then, on the day of the show I drove my Girlfriend Liz and two of her friends... We went to the afternoon concert. I was really bored during the Stevie Wonder performance because I was anxious to see the STONES! It was a truly exciting show. Similar to the record "Get Your YA YAs Out".

Then we went out to dinner at Fisherman's Wharf. Then we went BACK to Winterland and Debbie started crying loudly and told the policeman: "The Black Boys Stole our Tickets!" Amazingly, the policeman believed her and we were all waved into the concert! Another exciting show... and then we went home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_American_Tour_1972

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterland_Ballroom

I was fortunate to see many rock concerts at Winterland and The Fillmore West.

The Youngbloods, Chicago Transit Authority, Lee Michaels, Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Traffic, The Allman Brothers,  David Bowie (on Halloween Night), Peter Frampton, Foghat, J Geils Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Sons of Champlin...

Other Great Shows were: Led Zeppelin/Lee Michaels/The Tubes at Kesar Stadium, SNACK at Kesar, George Harrison/Ravi Shankar/Billy Preston in Oakland, Tower of Power at The Chateau Liberte in Los Gatos, Ike and Tina Turner Review at San Jose Civic, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets at San Jose Civic, The Moody Blues in Oakland, Gordon Lightfoot in a Casino in Oroville, James Taylor in Columbia Maryland, Black Sabbath, Styx, Michael Jackson ZZ Top at the Capitol Center in Landover Maryland, Crosby Stills and Nash with the Grateful Dead in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Loggins and Messina in the Football Field in Chico, Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Boys Gym in Chico, Paul McCartney at RFK Stadium...

and many Concerts in the Park on Friday Nights in Chico... Especially Jeff Pershing... and Concerts in the Park in Arcata... Absynth Quintet, Humboldt Calypso Band, Blue Rhythm Revue, Whoever Bill the Librarian is Drumming For, Darryl Cherney and the Chernobyls, Fickle Hillbillies, Calamity Jane... and the Humboldt Folklife Festival in Blue Lake, California...