As a seven year old in '82 I fell in love with Tron. At the time, for special effect movies there was Star Wars, and one step down was Tron. We (my friend John and I) turned everything into the various set pieces, and duels/games of Tron (when we weren't playing Dr. Who... but let's not dwell on that too much). There are two colleges, a four square block of "modern" high rises (they were used in the Mary Tyler Moore show for the exterior shots of Rhoda's apartment), and a number of empty lots within five blocks of the house I grew up in; it was an urban playground of epic proportions. Needless to say we had many wonderfully rusting/dangerous places to recreate our favorite parts of Tron, or Star Wars (or, saints preserve us, Dr. Who). Thus the summer of '82 will always remind me of Tron, playing make-believe, and fighting over who got to be Bruce Boxleiter, and who was saddled with being Jeff Bridges... Unless it was the summer of '83...
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:01 am (UTC)There are two colleges, a four square block of "modern" high rises (they were used in the Mary Tyler Moore show for the exterior shots of Rhoda's apartment), and a number of empty lots within five blocks of the house I grew up in; it was an urban playground of epic proportions. Needless to say we had many wonderfully rusting/dangerous places to recreate our favorite parts of Tron, or Star Wars (or, saints preserve us, Dr. Who). Thus the summer of '82 will always remind me of Tron, playing make-believe, and fighting over who got to be Bruce Boxleiter, and who was saddled with being Jeff Bridges...
Unless it was the summer of '83...