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Was anybody around to remember the Skylab mania that seized the country in the summer of 1979? That was when the Skylab fell to earth and most of the earth was in a panic - but being the 1970s, we panicked in a good-natured fun kind of way.

The night that the debris fell to earth, we had Skylab "parties" which offered up an excuse to get completely wasted on margaritas and pina coladas by the pool. I was only 17 years old then but being that it might be my last night on earth, my parents allowed me to partake - and I did!

People were walking around with special Skylab T-shirts that had a target on the back of them. Disco was big back then so we were listening to "Ring My Bell", "Bad Girls" and "We Are Family" at full volume. It was crazy! The Knack was just starting to get popular with "My Sharona" but it was only just cracking the charts when Skylab fell so disco was still at peak fever.

Ironically, the photo below of the Holiday Inn Restaurant (remember them?) Skylab party featured a Volkswagon - which is the size of the satellite about to strike us shortly.

I’m glad the Disco craze went the way of Skylab.

I do remember! A piece of Skylab almost hit a sailboat in the pacific. If I was the owner I wouldn’t play poker.