The Shark Remembers 1977; A Summer We’d Rather Forget

As The Shark's '20 Years In 20 Days' keeps rolling, three events in the summer of 1977 make me seriously reconsider the notion of 'The Good Ole Days'.

It must have seemed like the world was literally ending in New York City during the famous black out that July. It only would take an apocalyptic scenario like this to dim the spotlight on another historic set of tragedies that would soon come to an end for The Big Apple within a few short weeks.

David Berkowitz' final murder occurred on July 31st of 1977. He was captured on 08/10/77. His killing spree spanned over one year and two days in which he took the lives of six people and injured seven others. The media sensationalism of this horror would be replaced with the death of an icon just a few days later.

I was only three years old when 'The King' left the building for the final time and I'm pretty sure that was the first time I began to understand the concept of someone dying.

I realize this post is quite a downer. We should be revving our engines for a beautiful weekend! But the darkness (both literal and figurative) contained in one month's time back in 1977 helps to serve as a reminder that, to quote Billy Joel, "The good ole days weren't always good and the futures not as bad as it seems".