Hello again, Fellow Star Wars Geeks,
Today I want to share my first experience of seeing "The Empire Strikes Back".
Back in 1980 "The Empire Strikes Back" was released in theatres across the US, I was 10 years old at the time. Already knowing this movie was coming, even though we didn't have the Internet like today to get up to date news on movies and other things like today. If we got any news on this movie it was from News programs and newspaper, thats it. We had to wait and see the movie with very little going into a movie, which is the way it should be.
Anyway back in 1980, a local radio station here in Memphis, TN called FM 100 (which is still around today) was doing a promotion for "The Empire Strikes Back", in which you could win tickets to a "Special Screening" of the movie. This was a strange way of doing this. I always remember when you would just call a radio station and if you were the right caller you got tickets. This time we had to mail in our information to the radio station and they would then pick a number of people who would win the tickets.
Well my family won tickets and not just my parents and sister, but my cousins, aunts and uncles as well. We had about 12 family members going to this "Special screening". The movie of course was AWESOME and still my favorite of all the Star Wars films, but I got to rag on to my friends in school who of course had to wait until the release date to see it. It was AWESOME getting to see it before anyone else could.
To top it off when "The Empire Strikes Back" special edition was released in 1997, I was able to get tickets to a "special screening" of it also to put the finishing touches on a cool story to me of course.
Well that is all for this post,
Have a blessed day!!
and....May the Force Be With You...Always!!!
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