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To: SamAdams76

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


44 posted on 11/10/2013 8:18:35 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
You had to be there. Disco was huge in my high school. Boys wore platform shoes to school and silk shirts unbuttoned to our navels with gold chains. The pants were made out of some sort of polyester and they really itched badly. Plus they were super tight which is how we were expected to dress back then. Not to mention our long, blow-dried hair, which made us all look like girls from the rear. As a result, nobody who went to high school during that era retained any photos from that time and we all tossed our high school yearbooks into the nearest landfill.

Anyway, another nugget from the Skylab re-entry - some newspaper on the West Coast offered a $10,000 prize for the first person to show up at their office with Spacelab debris. However, you had 72 hours from landfall to get it there.

So some 17-year-old kid from Australia ended up winning the prize (I think he was related to Olivia Newton-John) by hopping on a plane without a suitcase or a passport (you could do that in those days) and walked away with ten large.

48 posted on 11/10/2013 8:34:16 AM PST by SamAdams76
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