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Post #1073403

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Tallguy
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Trying to find where I saw Star Wars
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Date created
5-May-2017, 11:00 AM

Well, good news and bad news. I’m pretty sure I found out where I saw it. All four times. Once at one cinema, three times at another. Neither is still standing.

Farmington, CT — The Movies at Westfarms Triplex
Newington, CT — Newington Triplex

This is the bad or at least weird news:

According to this: http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/force-to-be-reckoned-with/Page-3 Star Wars did not open where I saw SW until JULY 13TH! My memory datapoint is that we saw SW the second time for my brother’s birthday which in July 15th. I also know that I conned my parents into buying “him” the soundtrack LP for a present (screwing up both my brother and my lives for decades!).

So this means that 1) we saw it pretty close to opening day and 2) saw it AGAIN in fairly short order! The reason this has me scratching my head was that we just didn’t see movies that often, let alone TWICE. Let alone twice in a week or two! (We saw it four times in '77/'78.) We must have been REALLY excited about Star Wars.

But then, of course we were.