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So that's where this thread is! I thought I had posted it in The Water Cooler. Guess I'll wait until June 20th, and start a similar thread in The Water Cooler. Thanks for the reply; was thinking something was wrong with my posting of an old thread on the new boards. Thought it went to the old boards, which may be around, just don't know.

Thought I'd resurrect this thread on account that this movie is considered to be the first Summer Blockbuster. Jaws opened on June 20, 1975 across North America on 464 screens—409 in the United States, the remainder in Canada, with a $7 million weekend and recouped its production costs in two weeks. In just 78 days, it overtook The Godfather as the highest-grossing film at North American box offices, sailing past that picture's earnings of $86 million to become the first film to earn $100 million in US theatrical rentals. Its initial release ultimately brought in $123.1 million in rentals. Theatrical re-releases in 1976 and 1979 brought its total rentals to $133.4 million. What would our upcoming summer be without Jaws in the rotation?

Hard to believe Sears is on the ropes. They were an institution back in the day.

Sears…the Wish Book around Christmas. That's where toys came from, not Santa Claus. Everyone knew it, every household had its own copy. They're probably collectables, too.

Got this for Christmas when I was maybe around 7 or 8. I think it was the $6.95 version, so no loudspeaker and microphone… just the earphones and the basic model on the left. My father said he'd help me put it together, but that never happened. I finally got it together but it was so faint through the earphones that the sound was indiscernible. However, I had omitted the step where you would extend a wire out your window to something 50 feet away to act as an antenna, and I figured that was the reason why. There was a big tree around 25 feet from my bedroom window, so with my older brother's help and the use of a step ladder, we strung the antenna wire from my window over to the tree, about 10 feet up. The crystal radio wasn't too much louder, but I have to admit, it did work. Still, compared to common, portable, transistor radios of the day (early '60s), it paled in comparison. Finally, the wire to the tree rusted somewhere, broke, and hung down from the tree where it had been attached to a nail. The crystal radio was later thrown away and everything became long forgotten. Then, years later, while all of us kids were watching TV in the room below my bedroom, a daytime thunderstorm came through, and the TV room suddenly went completely electric blue for an instant, followed immediately by a crack of thunder so loud we all jumped and our dog came running through the room, tail between his legs, and hid behind a chair. WHAT WAS THAT?!! Lightning had hit very close by, we all knew that, but the TV still worked, so back to cartoons and whatever… Later, when mowing the lawn, I got to mowing around that tree, and noticed a big fresh scar on it, like bark had been cracked off, the white pulp showing. The scar went from the ground up, about 6 feet high, and abruptly stopped, and I reasoned that that was the lightning that had struck so close to our house. It had hit that tree, that's what made it so loud that day. But then I noticed that the antenna wire from my old crystal radio extended up beyond where the lightning scar ended. It had acted as a conduit to make the tree more prone to getting hit by lightning.

Alright! Comic book spines pic is now on the beta boards. Thanks!

Like the "beta boards," too. But in the beta, on the Home page, I lose the pic of all of the comic book spines across the width of the page, beneath the banners: Welcome to the CGC Chat Boards! Why not check out our new content? Also, view your latest notifications and messages.