I've been pretending the last couple of days to drive down to Tampa, Florida, for the big Buccaneers-Miami Dolphins exhibition game at 8 Eastern this Saturday, Aug. 21, night in 1976.
21 Aug 1976, Sat The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
21 Aug 1976, Sat The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
It's the first home game for the expansion "Bay Bucs," which is the term that some locals appear to be trying to get to catch on.
27 Aug 1976, Fri The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
21 Aug 1976, Sat The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.comThat pregame show should be excellent--"perhaps the finest high school band ever to exist in this country."
In my pretend, I spent Thursday night in Macon, Georgia, and then got into the Holiday Inn in downtown Tampa on Friday. I was thrilled to discover that the Ink Spots were performing for two more nights in the lounge!
19 Aug 1976, Thu The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
21 Aug 1976, Sat The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
It's the first home game for the expansion "Bay Bucs," which is the term that some locals appear to be trying to get to catch on.
27 Aug 1976, Fri The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
21 Aug 1976, Sat The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.comThat pregame show should be excellent--"perhaps the finest high school band ever to exist in this country."
In my pretend, I spent Thursday night in Macon, Georgia, and then got into the Holiday Inn in downtown Tampa on Friday. I was thrilled to discover that the Ink Spots were performing for two more nights in the lounge!
My word, we live in a glorious age.
I love the idea of 1976 road trips with Eric.
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ReplyDeleteThank you about the road trips. We're still lazing around the Tampa Holiday Inn this morning, but I think we're headed to Miami from here.
After that horrible Steelers exhibition with the College all-stars, we hung out in and around Chicago for a long time in my pretend. I should've spent more time seeing the Bears practice, but instead I got all caught up in stuff with the Football Digest editor and merchandising people. Then we went up to Minnesota for a Vikings preseason game.
Then I got totally messed up by misreading the schedule. I drove to Kansas City for an exhibition, but it turned out the Chiefs were out of town (and the Republicans were in town)! So we hightailed to Cleveland to see the Browns (and again the Vikings). And now we're in Tampa. In fact, I did the map on this post to show I was driving from Madisonville, but, actually in my pretend, we had been staying in Akron and stayed a night in Corbin before going to Macon and Tampa.
In 1976, I'd be stopping at a lot of Shoney's to have Slim Jim sandwiches. I'd also be stopping at the occasional Burger Chef. And I'd have stopped at whatever is the biggest mall in Atlanta.
ReplyDeleteThis is perfect. I'm for all of this, of course.
DeleteWe're headed to Atlanta tomorrow, by the way, not Miami. And here's our mall--they have a whole Milton Bradley store!
I had a Banquet beef pot pie just last week, and it was delicious!
ReplyDeleteHappy Labor Day 1976.
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ReplyDeleteBy the way, 1976 me has been in and around Tacoma, Washington, the last several days. On Saturday, Sept. 11, I spent a good bit of the midday at this mall.
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