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Invasion of The Long Hairs – Summer of 78 G rease, Saturday Night Fever, Animal House, and Dear Hunter, were among the notable movies in the theaters in 1978. Devo's “Are We Not Men”, The Police's “Outlandos d'Amor”, and of course the Bee Gee's “Saturday Night Fever” were among the notable albums. It was the year of the first cell phone, the Jim Jones led mass suicide in Guyana, and the start of what would become the video game craze with the release of Space Invaders. A nimal House was filmed in Eugene and the surrounding area the previous fall. The famous food fight scene was done in the U of O student union. I happened to be sitting in the union when they started setting up to film that scene. The actors entered and there was a big crowd wanting to get into position to watch. I saw big trays of what looked like hamburgers being moved into the room. That was when I decided to leave. I'm not big on crowds and had not really paid much

Joe, My Childhood Bestie Me & Joe - must have been taken our senior year.... I n 1957 I was deemed worthy of entering the 3 rd Grade. The just completed West Hills Grade School opened for business less than a mile from my house. My new teacher was a man, Mr Zaccaria. He was my first male teacher. But the more significantly that was the year when I met Joe. Joe was very friendly and always open to doing things. He would talk freely and openly about most anything. He had a certain street sense about him that you typically did not find in white suburbia. I had never met anyone like him. He was a hard guy not to like. He was Italian and his father was a builder with a reputation for building quality homes. He had built some of the homes in the neighborhood next to ours. Joe's father was a self-made man. He didn't have much formal education and came across as rather gruff but he was no dummy. Joe lived up the hill on the edge of Rollingwood in a house