<p>Thirty-five years ago today – can you believe it really, thirty-five years ago – Star Wars opened in theatres.</p>
<p>Were you there?</p>
<p>Yes, I clearly remember waiting in line to see it with my friends. I was a sci fi geek and loved it.</p>
<p>Oh yes. In the line with all of our friends. I celebrate May 4th too. It can’ be that long though. All my kids are fans too.</p>
<p>35?
I’ve known my H for 36 years at the end of the summer, so we went to the first three together.
I will always remember what I was doing 30 years ago today. 
At this time I was in the hospital having an amino,getting ready for my oldest to be born.
( ten weeks early)
I can still remember the feeling of stunned, sheer terror.
( by the time I had her at ten pm, I felt much better, reassured by the competency of the medical staff)</p>
<p>Star Wars, was a lot more relaxing.
We even saw it at the Cinerama theatre - which was fantastic!</p>
<p>Thanks for starting this thread, I checked the Cinerama & Star Wars isn’t playing, but TheAvengers is!</p>
<p>I remember reading about it in Time or Newsweek before it opened–this movie that nobody had ever heard of but they said was going to change moviemaking forever.</p>
<p>I had to be dragged to see it, as I hated sci-fi. The opening scene of the star cruiser going over your head blew me away.</p>
<p>I ended up seeing it in the movie theater 10 times, an all-time record for me.</p>
<p>ek, my son was also born on my 30th birthday! I went into labor the day before, but purposely did NOT push as hard as I should have, so that he would arrive the next day. He came at 12:10 am. He was my first but a couple of weeks early, so I was surprised. Best present ever. I was born in 1962 and he in 1992 - I have to think twice whenever I have to write one of our birthdates down, not to mix it up with the other.</p>
<p>^^ I do have to think which one was born on the 24th.
I didn’t plan it, but at least they have their own birthdays- what a nice present for you. :)</p>
<p>Yes, my boyfriend and I went during the day and we were just about the only adults in line - that went all the way around the building. I loved all three of them. The other three are dead to me.</p>
<p>The other three are dead to me.
I know what that feels like.
I took my youngest when she was nine, to see that which shall not be named.
I wanted to poke my eyes out with a stick.</p>
<p>Scroll Down to watch the YouTube clip.
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<p>I can remember trying to get out of the jam packed parking lot. Some people seemed surprised they couldn’t just fly their cars out of there! I also remember thinking we’d never seen anything like it.</p>
<p>We waited a week or so to see it, until the crowds died down. But it was still a big deal. </p>
<p>My husband and I were both graduate students, so our budget was very limited, and we did not ordinarily go to see newly released movies in a regular theater – we only went to the several-years-old dollar movies on campus. But for Star Wars, we were willing to pay.</p>
<p>We both loved it. </p>
<p>Incidentally, it has nothing to do with Star Wars, but my son was born on my 31st birthday. My kids felt cheated by this because it meant that our family got one less birthday cake per year than we were entitled to. (You can’t eat two cakes in one day, so we only bought one cake on the shared birthday). The eventual compromise was to get an extra birthday cake every year on a day that the kids wanted to celebrate – the last day of school.</p>
<p>I was a graduate student too. That is why we went during the day - matinee price.</p>
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<p>We were blown away by that scene months before the movie actually came out when we saw it in the trailers.</p>
<p>We lived in Orange County in those days, and when Star Wars came out the lines were endless. You had to buy your ticket and stand in line for hours for a show that was two or three showings later that day, since all the prior ones were sold old and their lines full.</p>
<p>I recall as we stood in line that there was some folk singer guy strumming his guitar and singing for a spare change to entertain the folks waiting in line. He had written an original song about Star Wars and was singing it over and over.</p>
<p>Then the whole thing happened all over again a few years later when The Empire Strikes Back came out. We put off seeing it for a while because the lines were so impossible again . In the meantime we went up to Davis to check out the university for grad school and were astonished to see that it was showing there with no lines! We immediately abandoned whatever else we had planned and went to see the movie instead. Our friends back in SoCal were envious when we told them we had seen it without having to wait through any lines.</p>
<p>Gee, when I saw the title of this thread, I was wondering how you knew that I retired exactly one year ago today!</p>
<p>The lines were kinda part of the fun. Did they have Camp-outs in those days?
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<p>We went to a premiere at the Cinerama earlier this year. I think we were 5th & 6th in line, but by the time we got in, there was already about forty or fifty people sitting in my seat!
I was a little irritated. But chocolate popcorn helped to take care of that. 
Still good seats although I had two nine year old boys behind me eating skittles. Jabbering away.
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<p>A very happy day!</p>
<p>The day it opened no, but certainly soon after. I went with my boyfriend and his very geeky math major roommate. I remember the roommate sighing “The graphics, the graphics…”</p>
<p>I also have very fond memories of seeing the reissued improved version when my youngest was five or six. He spent half the movie in my lap and then spent the next few years watching the three movies about once a week it seemed.</p>
<p>Earlier that year, while I was in grad school at UCLA, I went with my boyfriend to a pre release screening in Westwood of Fellini’s Casanova. The theater was full to capacity, for the sole reason that it was rumored that 20th Century Fox would show the first trailer to to much anticipated Star Wars project. They did. The audience, mostly industry types, went absolutely berzerk. I was sure to be standing in line on the release date for the very first show.</p>
<p>I didn’t get to go the first night, but went to a Sunday matinee with my parents. I was just a kid, but it rocked my world that summer. I played Star Wars every day for the rest of the year.
When DS was little I took him to the prequels and I cried with joy when the opening credits rolled. My DH still makes fun of me.</p>