Posted on 07/12/2017 5:09:47 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A time Machine Flashback To 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLakMvb1US0
Hahahahahaha! What was that again, the area...dang, I can’t remember the name, I think it was the Via Roma or something like that?
My most vivid memory of Naples is when I was on Shore Patrol up around that area that was off limits, so we had to patrol it looking for sailors.
It was me and a 1st Class named Cook who had the nickname “Cookieman” (Who also happened to be my boss and probably 20 years my senior) got chased by an irate transvestite with a knife!
As we walked along, this transvestite comes at us, wearing some black plastic raincoat (guy looked a bit like Alice Cooper!) He is brandishing a knife, waving it in the air, yelling as he staggered towards us.
I just stood there with my mouth open, and as I looked at Cookieman, he just turned about and ran, so I turned and ran too. I have no idea what it was pissed off about, but it was screaming something at us in Italian. So we ran for a block or two laughing as we ran, then stopped to catch our breath.
While we were standing there, Cookieman had his hands on his knees (he was much older than I was) panting, and looked at me with a big grin and said “She looked like Grandma but talked like Grandpa...”
I laugh at that to this day...
LOL, that was a “bad trip, man”!
Out of high school a couple years, working full-time in insurance office. Engaged to be married, still living at home with my family. Bought my first NEW car, a 1977 Chevrolet Chevette with manual transmission, no AC, crank windows. But it was MINE and NEW. Weighed a few pounds less, no wrinkles, no grey hair, no creaky back issues. Fleetwood Mac concert at the park in the summer, passed a chance to see Harry Chapin, may he RIP.
Love it. Great picture you painted there...:)
Running a plant with salaried employees for 10 weeks during a strike. Back then unions were more powerful. Kept the customers supplied and the workers came back for what we had on the table before. Could have broken the union but the German top management was against it due to their “mitbestmmung” heritage.
I don’t know how it was for you, but that year going to nearly any port of call in Europe, it was all Bee Gees all the time.
They loved their disco over in Europe...
I cannot hear a Bee Gees song with going right back there...:)
Graduating, divorcing, setting up new digs in the city.
Went to my first film alone and it was Star Wars.
Alone again, naturally.
Welcoming my first son into the world. The guy who just welcomed his second son into the world a week ago.
Cheers.
Jim
In 1977, I was in the Rose Bowl watching the USC Trojans beat Michigan 14-7. Later that year, I watched the Trojans beat UCLA in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
They were also popular in Mexico. I saw Saturday Night Fever for the first time in a theater in San Luis Potosi in 1978.
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ML/NJ
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Bandar was not much of a liberty port. Most of the crew was back on board a couple of hours after liberty call. They ran movies 24 hours a day on the mess decks while we were in port. Only crew that got lucky was a coupe of my BTs.
A taxi driver clued them in on a govt. run cat house about 10 miles out of town. Both came down with the clap for their efforts.
If it was August, I was in Saratoga!
I assume that your horse, naturally won.
Not all of them.
But I am going to see a total eclipse of the sun this August too.
ML/NJ
It was a magical year because ‘Rush - A Farewell to Kings’ was released.
I really didn’t need to see Reggie Jackson again...
Hmmmm.... He played long before mandatory drug screening, right? (2006)
That was when I found out, and them, that Porsche wanted to call their new model 901 but Peugeot owned that model number. So they changed it to 911. Unfortunately, 1966 models went out with 901 serial numbers before the change.
BTW, I got insurance.
This is the very color of the 911 I had. Did not have fog lamps though.
“They had no opening act”
No, they didn’t...now that you mention it.
Dropped out of college, worked 3 jobs, bought my first car-1977 Buick Century Special for $4277, got married, conceived our first child, moved to the “big city” of Madistan, WI, learned a lot along the way.
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