[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by ngcles

I can remember the first time I watched Pompeii .....

True??

Actually so can I. It was a few years before that when I was 16 (drat, I'm older than you) and it was on at the now-defunct Vista Theatre in Woonona. The owner obviously knew his audience and had, as the feature before the main movie, the 1930's 'comedy' classic 'Reefer Madness' (cries of 'where do you get it?' from the audience). A movie like Live at Pompeii was, of course, completely new to us (hey - Tommy wasn't even out then) and we were muchly impressed.

I had told my parents that we would catch the bus home afterwards but the buses didn't run at that time of night (despite the promises of the timetable), basically because there would be no one on them. So we walked the 4-5km home. I remember us walking 6 abreast along the highway, simply because we could! We were loud and talked a lot of rubbish but we harmed no one and felt as though we were in no danger. It's a different world now.