Star Wars opened on 37 screens on May 25th, 1977.
That weekend it grossed $1.5 million, and overall grossed $780 million. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning six (in technical categories); and winner of a Special Achievement award. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen... much to my Schwinn's chagrin.
I was nearly 11-years old, and 'till that May nothing mattered more to me than my bike. It was red. A three-speed. Hi-rise handlebars... oh yeah.
By that June though... things had changed. Once that bike and I were inseperable, but as the summer dwindled the bike spent more and more time parked outside of the Fox Theater, while I sat inside chewing Big Red gum and practicing Jedi mind tricks.
28 years.
Whodathunk?
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