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Way back before the internet, I used to leave my office during tax season around 6pm and go home, eat, visit a bit with my wife and kids, then go back to the office and work until midnight or 1am or so. Different years, I had different themes. One year it might be listening to radio stations in the UK, another year listening to old time radio broadcasts from the 40s or 50s, and a couple of years I listened to Art Bell. What a hoot and a bunch of dufuses would call in about space stuff, or shadow people. Hard to believe there were that many people that ate up that stuff.
I was a kid in the 60s. it was not unusual for us kids to climb up on the roof of our ranch style home to star gaze.
In Houston.
What was so different back then? Little to no light pollution. Could see the stars and planets at times much more clearly with the naked eye. Jet airplanes with their lights flashing on approach were just not that common yet unless one lived right next to Hobby. Anything that was unfamiliar attracted attention.