Today the ice and freezing rain were so bad that I couldn't make it to school at all! I don't really believe this will affect my grades or anything, though. The weather got a little better for a while this afternoon but then worsened again toward evening. I just spent the day reading comic books in bed.NOTES: As I write this in 2012, we're getting our first minor snowfall of the season. In 1974, though, I remember that this had been a massive ice storm with wind and freezing rain. Not the same at all. I doubt either of my parents went to work even though I didn't mention that in the journal.
What you have to realize is that I lived only a couple of blocks away from the school. In those days they never, ever called off classes in my city school district due to weather (as opposed to these days when a couple of snowflakes can prompt call-offs). So we were expected to be there come monsoon or blizzard...and I usually was...but in the ice that year, I couldn't even get off my block!
I was already a major comic book collector so I immensely enjoyed the day I'm sure!
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Growing up in the Berkshires we got a lot of snow. But it would take a blizzard for them to close the schools. I loved a day that I could just stay in my room with my comics.
One of my best snow day memories was circa 1981 when school was closed, but mail was still delivered and what should I find in the mailbox, but my latest copy of Marvel Tales (the Amazing Spider-man reprint). To my delight, I discovered the series had started over and I was holding a reprint of Amazing Fantasy #15. I had the collected paperbacks of Amazing reprints Fawcett had published in the late 70's, but those didn't reprint most of the covers and didn't go beyond issue #18. I know the reprints aren't worth much, but I still regret selling that run at a garage sale years later for $20.
More 70's binge-a-thon:
Last Wednesday night, I watched 3 Thursday night shows that aired on this date:
The Waltons (surprisingly enjoying this show!) "The Awakening" This has Mary-Ellen's first kiss. Underlying creepiness aside (and I did google the age at that time of both performers) a sweet poignant episode.
Kung Fu (depends on mood with this show. watched cuz was getting same caliber guest-stars as the cop shows, but western are tough for me...) "The Gunman" was a nice story though of love, very sad.
The Streets of San Francisco (this show never failed so far!) "Commitment" is that rare episode of a character who was the good guy in a previous episode became the bad guy in this one. Great job!
(**I won't bring future episodes of these shows unless you mention the show or something of it...)
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