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It jumped out at me...

The birth years of draft eligible players ranges from 1996-1999. There may be a few outside that range for various reasons, but that’s mostly the range.


Let’s use 1999, since that’s a nice marker around here...

NFL Draftee
1999 - Birth. Rams win SuperBowl. Clinton impeachment
2004 - Kindergarten. Meet the Fockers, Harry Potter era. Indian Ocean tsunami
2013 - Starts High School. Ray Rice incident. Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men, Captain America
2015 - Learns to Drives a Car. Adele “Hello” is popular, Seattle’s goal line fail vs NE

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Born in 1991. I still feel old; I'm the eldest of four.
 
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Born in 1972
I know what this is

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My wife worked at one (back in 1979 before we were married) and some crazy man called her and told her he was nearby and had a gun pointed at her and if she didn't start cutting off her hair (she had really long blonde hair) he was going to shoot her! She just called the cops and went home.
 
Born in '69

I worked at View attachment 34319 in Tempe,AZ. Remember that awesome place that was taking over the world until the internet, Napster and big box retailers came along and made them irrelevant?
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I remember when the new "make your own" cassette tape booths came to Tower of Records & Books in my part of Sacramento. I was in one when Dwight Clark made "The Catch" and everyone went wild. I, of course, left home to waste time instead of watching my two hated teams play a playoff game, and I still didn't escape it!
 
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I remember when the new "make your own" cassette tape booths came to Tower of Records & Books in my part of Sacramento. I was in one when Dwight Clark made "The Catch" and everyone went wild. I, of course, left home to waste time instead of watching my two hated teams play a playoff game, and I still didn't escape it!
Those listening booths were a revelation at the time.
 
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It jumped out at me...

The birth years of draft eligible players ranges from 1996-1999. There may be a few outside that range for various reasons, but that’s mostly the range.


Let’s use 1999, since that’s a nice marker around here...

NFL Draftee
1999 - Birth. Rams win SuperBowl. Clinton impeachment, 503 and Becky celebrate their 12th anniversary
2004 - Kindergarten. Meet the Fockers, Harry Potter era. Indian Ocean tsunami
2013 - Starts High School. Ray Rice incident. Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men, Captain America
2015 - Learns to Drives a Car. Adele “Hello” is popular, Seattle’s goal line fail vs NE

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Born in '62 and we were still doing that
 
Its only fair to add that Tower Records badly mismanaged itself when expanding in the late 90's, but that markets fate was sealed and doomed to death no matter what.
 
Born in '69

I worked at View attachment 34319 in Tempe,AZ. Remember that awesome place that was taking over the world until the internet, Napster and big box retailers came along and made them irrelevant?
[sad face]

Vinyl records & Tube amplifiers, those were the days you really felt the music ...
 
Vinyl records & Tube amplifiers, those were the days you really felt the music ...
True, not to mention the lost craft of the artwork on an album cover, back cover, sleeve etc.

I still have my Dad's vinyl purchase of Dark Side of the Moon, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Gary Wrights Dream Weaver album.
 
True, not to mention the lost craft of the artwork on an album cover, back cover, sleeve etc.

I still have my Dad's vinyl purchase of Dark Side of the Moon, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Gary Wrights Dream Weaver album.

I still have a few crates of my old vinyl in storage, about 250 albums.
I once took a job pressing vinyl records somewhere on Santa Monica Blvd. in the early 70's when I was 20 or 21, only lasted a couple weeks because the 'tar' literally burnt the skin off my hand, and they wouldn't allow gloves for fear of scratches. The two old guys that worked next to me had hand callouses that must have been 1/2 an inch thick.
I can't remember the year, but sometime during the 70's they started stamping color art right into the vinyl and I purchased one with Linda Ronstadt, I never played it and keep it as an art 'treasure' that I won't part with.