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Beach Boys 8/12/90 Winstonsthings.com

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The Beach Boys, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee, WI- August 12, 1990

by Randolph Owens

Less than two weeks later in the same summer we’re in Milwaukee again at the Wisonsin State Fair. Eating cream puffs, watching pig races and even better than the Monkees, this time, we’re catching legends among legends, the freakin Beach Boys!

Anyone who doesn’t think the Beach Boys are amazing, or thinks they’re not very cool, or that their just an old band who was alright…

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Phillies-Cardinals 7/31/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Philadelphia Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia, PA- July 31, 1990

by Randolph Owens

Back to Philadelphia on the same trip! This game was chock full of childhood heroes.

I hated the Cardinals, but who didn’t love Ozzie Smith!? And he went 2 for 4 that day. Vince Coleman, the base stealing fiend and amateur explosives afficianado. I met him years later a number of times. He used to play a lot of golf at a course I worked at. Regretfully I never worked up the…

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Hershey Park 7/30/90 Winstonsthings.com

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HersheyPark, Hershey, PA- July 30, 1990

by Randolph Owens

Man, my parents did some really cool stuff for us when we were kids. We went to an amusement park just about every summer that I can remember from the time I was about 8 years old until I graduated high school. This one must’ve been a task too.

Hershey Park is just outside of Harrisburg, which is not at all close to Philadelphia which is not at all close to Washington DC. Those…

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Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.- July 27, 1990

by Randolph Owens

This should have been amazing. My brother and I were in love with dinosaurs like every other boy in recent American history. And we were going to see dinosaurs in motion, at the Smithsonian, walking around just like they did when they roamed the earth!

What we ended up seeing was more like the rehearsals for an episode of Land of the Lost. Nothing about it seemed real. We were…

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Dinamation 7/27/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Die Hard 2 7/4/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Die Hard 2, Scottsdale, AZ- July 4, 1990

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Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA- July 25, 1990

by Randolph Owens

Family trip to the east coast. D.C. and the surrounding areas were a big part of it. Washington’s house. No memories specific to the experience, but it brought back what is almost always the first thing that I think of when I hear George Washington or Mount Vernon. Not the cherry tree, or the crossing of the Potomac, or first President etc, etc, etc, but rather, a great moment…

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Mount Vernon 7/25/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Robocop 2 7/6/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Days of Thunder 7/1/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Days of Thunder, Scottsdale, AZ- July 1, 1990

by Randolph Owens

This is the kind of movie that Tom Cruise is way better at than anyone else. Without Tom Cruise, there’s a whole segment of movies that wouldn’t exist, or at least that whole segment of movies would be far worse off than it is.

Without naming names to disparage hard working guys just doing their best, there have been dozens of attempts to take the title of World Champion Movie…

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Dick Tracy 6/17/90 Winstonsthings.com

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Dick Tracy, Scottsdale, AZ- June 17, 1990

by Randolph Owens

I can’t explain it today, but I was monumentally excited to see this movie when it was released. It seemed cool and exotic and Madonna was in it. That was what mattered to me. I hadn’t fully grasped just how cool it was that Warren Beatty and Al Pacino were doing a comic strip movie together (or how uncool it was?)

I remember it being revolutionary at the time, kinda like Sin…

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