Here’s a chain game that ought to be fun. One of us says a year that can be expected to be within the lifetime of at least some fellow dopers. The next respondent to the thread should say what memories the mention of that year brings to his or her mind. Not historical information…personal memories. In other words, if someone enters 1969, the next poster should not mention the moon landing or Woodstock unless he or she is describing having watched it or participated in it or has some personal connection to it.
After sharing, enter another year.
I’ll kick it off with 1996. Cross-country trip in January. Got out of New York just before the big blizzard hit, but it caught up to us in Ohio. Saw the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Carlsbad Caverns, Los Angeles (best ribs I ever tasted there), Las Vegas, Space Centers Houston and Huntsville, the Cabbage Patch Babyland Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia. Saw Churchill Downs under a foot of snow, saw Elvis’s grave on his birthday. Car broke down in Arizona, forcing us to spend a week in Tacna, that great metropolis 40 miles out of Yuma. We had to hop a commuter fight to Phoenix to spend Shabbos amongst other Jews. In April, my wife and I watched the Royals play the Yankees in the snow. The highlight of the year came in May, the birth of our first child (a boy). In July, I entered the full-time workforce.
Over to you guys…1980.