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I Grew Up by the 'Jaws' Location. Never Saw a Shark, But Now...Wow!

'Shark, Shark, Shark! Get People Out of the Water!'

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Peter Swanson
Jun 23, 2025
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The 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws is being widely commemorated because of the film’s cinematic, cultural and social influence. It is being marked by television specials and multiple events around where the movie was filmed, which is also where the fictional events were to have happened.

I was 20 when “Jaws” came to the Buzzards Bay Theater in 1975…

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