# Ok memorial weekend 1977 your at the movies which one would or did you see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395 "2020-05-24T21:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395/61 "2020-06-02T22:33:33Z")
I didn’t see either Memorial Day Weekend. I saw Star Wars opening day in the suburbs, which was July 6th. I had been pumped to see it ever since I read the cover article in Scholastic’s My Weekly Reader in school. I eventually saw Smokey and the Bandit when it was on network TV, but it wasn’t on my radar that summer. My biggest confusion as a California native… “why would anybody go to such ridiculous lengths for Coors? That’s piss-water.” (according to all the older kids and parents in the neighborhood - I was only about 12 or 13 and wasn’t much of a beer drinker yet) I wasn’t aware that at that time it was hard to come by on the East Coast and was regarded as a boutique beer. In California we considered it a mass market beer available anywhere along with Bud and Miller. The high school joke was it was “making love in a canoe - in other words, fucking close to water” ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395/62 "2020-06-02T22:38:19Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I can’t remember what I did _last_ weekend. Yeah, that’s a stretch. I know I saw Star Wars, but no idea if it was early or late in the release. I don’t usually make an effort to go to “opening day.” So, who knows. That was long time ago. I never saw Smokey and the Bandit, so that’s easy. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395/63 "2020-06-02T22:38:52Z")
I remember I was 3 years old and going to see Smokey and the Bandit with my parents at the local drive-in in Virginia Beach. I was put in my pajamas, was asleep in the back of the station wagon most of the time, but I remember some scenes from back then 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395/64 "2020-06-02T22:44:40Z")
And I also remember seeing 20th Century Fox’s big 1977 sci-fi entry. No, not Star Wars - Damnation Alley. My memories of that one are a bit hazy. Something about Banachek fighting giant cockroaches in a big-ass RV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395.md?page=3)