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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
Times Square in the 80s ….. ah… many wonderful memories. Midnight shows. Booze bottles rolling down the aisle. Everyone smoking something. Crazy people screaming at the screen. Many great memories. Still waiting for the guy to return with the switchblade me and my buddy gave him $60 to secure in 1982.
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I think it may actually have been the same year. My situation was a bit scarier. I was there with a bunch of my friends. Made a deal with a guy for $20 for the switchblade. I thought I was smart as I refused to give him the $$ till he had the knife in hand. He left for a couple of minutes, came back with a hand inside his jacket - said "let's take a walk, there are cops all over the place " I (stupidly) followed him into a quiet parking lot a block or so away. He took a brown paper bag out of his jacket, put it in mine, asked me to "feel" the knife - which I did (I thought) and gave him the $20. He said not to take it out till I was far away from there. - I waited with anxious anticipation till we were on a Port Authority bus on the way back to a friend's house in Jersey - Then I took it out .............a Snickers bar!!!!! Great learning opportunity that could have ended MUCH worse!!