Sunday, December 20, 2015

A Little 1977 Star Wars Time Machine






  

Star Wars --May, 1977 --fans lining up outside the Coronet Theatre--Geary and Arguello --

Some 1977 minutiae: #1 songs: Undercover Angel; Night Fever; I Just Want to be your everything;

The Giants were awful; the A's were beginning to go south as a franchise...The Raiders won a Super Bowl in Pasadena...Bill's Place was the site of hamburger nirvana, so said Herb Caen...Elvis demise, August, 1977; NY City suffered a brutal borough-wide blackout; Son of Sam; SF: International Hotel; Robin Williams; Chief Charlie Gain; The Cow Palace; Board of Supervisors; Day on the Green; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Sony Betamax; and on and on...

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  1. AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 10:51 AM

    Gas was 60 cents a gallon....
    But shit was bout to go sideways real quick in 78.

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    1. Dr BillDecember 20, 2015 at 3:58 PM

      Hmph...yeah, well dog shit was free in '77 & it still is today.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 10:54 AM

    I believe that's the #26 jersey of John "The Count" Montefusco

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  3. AnonymousDecember 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM

    Miss the Old Waldorf!

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    1. AnonymooseDecember 20, 2015 at 10:55 PM

      I miss slam-dancing at the Fab Mab.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 21, 2015 at 3:37 AM

    I often tell the kids Star Wars first came out on Beta max... to keep it in context. I watched the first three in the series in fast forward on my VHS (I recorded from TBS). I'm one of the few not so interested in it...

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  5. Greg BDecember 21, 2015 at 10:00 AM

    Yes, "The King" died in 1977, but there was another tragedy in the music world that had a greater impact on my generation, the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 21, 2015 at 10:30 AM

    Yes, Star Wars and the Kinks in 77. Both returned in 15.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 22, 2015 at 4:53 PM

    $4.25 to see AC/DC? That was the price of a movie ticket.

    You did forget 1 notable #1 hit (it was #1 for 11 weeks, the longest #1 of the decade): "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone. (Perhaps the worst #1 of all-time).

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