What was everyone doing 30 years ago?
CatsEwe2
and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
would progress.
so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
AnneM in NC
Elaine
CatsEwe2 wrote in message <19990720112245...@ngol07.aol.com>...
>On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30
years -
>and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
>so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
>AnneM in NC
SpecEdMEH
was 14 years old and was a little disappointed that this was not happening on
my "golden" birthday ( I had turned 14 on the 14th of July)! But it was my
friend's birthday so that was still cool!
My dad was a big space buff, so he made sure we were all home to watch this big
event together. I wished that I could walk outside, look up at that beautiful
sphere, and see these explorers bounding around with such joy!
Mary H.
Boulder City, NV
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be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Goethe
Carrie & Dean (or maybe just 1 of us!)
to move from Miss. to GA and I thought it was going to be a great adventure!
(And it was!) I don't remember much about all the hoopla except I remember
one of the gas stations (I think it may have been Exxon) gave out these
paper models to make of the LEM. Funny what you remember!
Carrie Lee
CatsEwe2 wrote in message <19990720112245...@ngol07.aol.com>...
>On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30
years -
>and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
>college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
>conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
>budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our
one,
>old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was
being
>made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
>would progress.
>
CSweeting
tell my age anymore. (roflmao)
Cynthia--who denies the year of 30 even exists in this world
Teresa
>
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
> would progress.
>
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
I was on the floor in a crowded dormitory lounge at Catholic University.
The dorm was officially named Ryan Hall, but the previous week we has
"renamed" it Liquori Hall- Marty Liquori beat Jim Ryan (track, for those
unfamiliar) for the first time and Marty's sister also lived in our
dorm.
We were all living there for an intensive four week summer program in
journalism at CU. How exciting it was to be in Washington DC, learning
about journalism, while one of the clearly "biggest" stories of the
century was occuring.
Teresa/LadyDoc
Elaine
college at Florida Institute of Technology, a little way south of the cape.
I was working working in the Financial Aid office and we all went to the
window to watch the shuttle go up. Up, up, up it went and then there was
this strange little puff and there were 3 separate smoke trails, still going
up then falling. Having seen several launches we knew that this didn't look
right, but we were too far away to tell what was going on. Few minutes
later they announced that it had exploded. All classes were cancelled for
the rest of the day in mourning. FIT and the surrounding communities are
strongly involved in the space program and it was quite a blow. Housing
prices plummeted in the months to follow as the cape halted activities for a
couple years.
On a lighter note I used to really enjoy shuttle launches in general. At
that distance you could even feel them. A low, almost subsonic rumble. The
exhaust trails would take a while to dissipate and I remember laying in the
grass watching one as it loosend into a beatiful white spiral against a blue
sky.
>I do remember where I was when I learned that Challenger had exploded
>- - at work, and I thought it was a sick joke at first.
>
CASin43
as placid as his elder sister had been.
He now has 3 children of his own who get him up early so there is justice in
this world!!
Carol-Ann
Jco55Ly
college working on Cape Cod and living with my uncle's family. I remember
watching it with my first real boyfriend - just before he had to go off to
VietNam. It is really one of those bittersweet memories.......
Jane
Stitching keeps me sane!
Martina Weber
>On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
>and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
>college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
>conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
>budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
>old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
>made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
>would progress.
I was 11 years then - and we had summer holidays. My parents had been
together with me in the Tegernsee area in Bavaria - and I had gotten a
severe diarrohea - I still can remember that nasty urge to run fast to
reach the No. 0 - departement :-))
And I had gotten all three volumes of the "Mary Poppins" storybooks
for this summer holdiays
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just turned 10 and, never a night owl, was struggling to keep my eyes
open at that late hour!
Tama, Portland, Oregon
Jenn Tracy
I do remember Challenger.
I was in the ninth grade and had a hall pass for some reason or other and
some of the Home Ec students who had been watching the launch came running
out into the hall saying the shuttle had exploded. I thought it was a joke
too until the principal sent everyone home early.
Jenn Tracy
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Cyn <cyn@invalid> wrote in message
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> On 20 Jul 1999 15:22:45 GMT, cats...@aol.comnojunk (CatsEwe2) wrote:
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> >so I'm curious --- what was everyone
> >else doing?
>
> I was only 2 1/2 years old, so I was probably "helping" Mom take care
> of my little sister, who would have been about 8 months old. My
> parents have never said anything about seeing the moonwalk, but I'm
> quite sure Daddy would have been at work since he was always working 2
> or 3 jobs back then.
>
> I do remember where I was when I learned that Challenger had exploded
> - - at work, and I thought it was a sick joke at first.
>
> I'm reading Victor Koman's Kings of the High Frontier right now, which
> has made all this more immediate to me - it's a great hard SF book if
> you like that sort of thing.
>
> Cyn
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Gill Murray
in Florida. My late husband was in the Navy, working out of Cape Kennedy
with the Polaris submarine program. We watched most of the shots from 68-72
go up from our front yard. The moon landing came on around 11ish our time,
if I remember correctly. I got my two kids up out of bed to watch My son was
4, and my daughter 61/2. I felt they had to be part of this history. My
daughter says she just remembers it, and of course my son (now a 34year old
Navy Chief) has no recollection of it. It was totally awe inspiring,
especially since we had actually SEEN them go up. It is one thing I shall
never forget. Cocoa Beach and Cape Kennedy was a truly great place to live
during that era.
Gill Murray.
Originally from England, now living near Lakeland FL,
CatsEwe2 <cats...@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:19990720112245...@ngol07.aol.com...
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30
years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no
air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our
one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was
being
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our
lives
> would progress.
>
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too until the principal sent everyone home early.
<<
They sent you home early??? WE had to finish the day as normal!
Dennis & Karen Eichorst
>
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime.
Preparing to start second grade, I think. While I was fascinated by the
space program, on another level it was already 'old hat'. We had a
wonderful lapidary museum in my hometown and an actual moon rock was
displayed there. When my mom took DB and me to see it, we were
singularly unimpressed and hurried on to other exhibits. Mom was
dismayed, to say the least. When, as an adult, I visited Kennedy Space
Center, I was much more interested in the rack samples on display
there.
Karen E., Lenexa, KS, still training her fingers not to type "Rochester,
NY"....
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don't really remember being interested in the moon landing then (I am fascinated
now). All that mattered to me that summer was that I would be in a hospital for the
majority of it while my sister's got to go everywhere on our vacation in
Switzerland (my operation was the reason for the vacation).
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
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watch too much of it. (I was 3)
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Tricia
CatsEwe2 wrote:
>
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
> would progress.
>
Jill Spreenberg-Robinson
> Probably causing my mother no end of headaches. I was 4 years old.
Heheh - me too...I was 14 years old! ;-)
Seriously, I remember being sprawled out on the family room floor
watching with my whole family. My Dad is a big history nut and he knew
how important this would be to our personal histories/memories, so he
insisted we all watch - I'm glad he did! The memories of those grainy
images are as vivid as ever.
As for the Challenger; I was at work. A co-worker with a t.v. in his
office had been following the launch that morning and I, too, thought
he was kidding when he came to tell us the news. The entire staff
piled into his office and were glued to that tiny 4 inch screen for the
rest of the morning in disbelief...
Jill in IL
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my school had just gotten a big screen television. We were watching it live.
It was so horrendous that it was hard to believe that it could actually
really be happening.
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Jenn Tracy wrote in message <7n2jea$d...@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>...
>For the moon walk I wasn't even a vague idea in my birth parent's mind, but
>I do remember Challenger.
>
>I was in the ninth grade and had a hall pass for some reason or other and
>some of the Home Ec students who had been watching the launch came running
>out into the hall saying the shuttle had exploded. I thought it was a
joke
>too until the principal sent everyone home early.
>
>Jenn Tracy
>jtr...@cableone.net
>
>Cyn <cyn@invalid> wrote in message
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>> On 20 Jul 1999 15:22:45 GMT, cats...@aol.comnojunk (CatsEwe2) wrote:
>>
>> >so I'm curious --- what was everyone
>> >else doing?
>>
Trish Brown
>CASin43 wrote in message <19990720144016...@ng-ba1.aol.com>...
>>I was nursing my newly born son who had been born in June and he wasn't
>nearly
>>as placid as his elder sister had been.
>>He now has 3 children of his own who get him up early so there is justice
>in
>>this world!!
>>Carol-Ann
Carol-Ann! Be careful what you say! When the Ugly Sister was little
(and threw tantrums, screamed, kicked, bit, wet herself and was
generally what's known as 'a challenging child'), my saintly Mum would
say 'Francie, I hope you have about half a dozen kids. And I hope
they're all of them just like you!'
Well, Ugly only had three kids, but they are all 'just like her' and
she has gone prematurely grey.
(Snicker, snortle, snerk!) ;->
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Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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>I was a camp counsellor at Camp Copake in New York, on my summer vacation
>from the
>University of London. We all watched the moonwalk on a TV in the hall. Much
>more
>hype than if I had been in England!
>
>Angela in Canberra, Australia's beautiful capital city
>
>
>
>> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, ..... I think we knew history was
>being
>>
>> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
>> would progress.
>>
>> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
>> AnneM in NC
Oh Angela! I'm so jealous! I, too, was working as a camp counselor that
summer at the Camp Fire Girls' Camp Yakewi in Ashtabula County, Ohio, but
didn't get to see the moon landing.
We were all gathered in Blossom Lodge, having been told that a TV would be
brought in for everyone to watch history in the making. But it never
materialized. We just sang songs under the watchful gaze of Bullwinkle (In the
1960's, what else would you name a stuffed moose head mounted on the stone
fireplace?), and eventually retired for the night.
One of my favorite camp songs includes the line "We have slipped away from the
world of men." Nothing was so true that summer. We were basically on duty 24
hours a day and got a glimpse of the rest of the world every other weekend. We
also missed the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Nancy Sue,
Professional Project Starter,
and proud to be from Ohio,
the home of Neil Armstrong, John Glenn and the Wright Brothers
Bobbie V.
couple of months later I had to do a report on the moon walk for
freshman science. However several students went before me and the oral
reports began to sound alike. When it was my turn I told the teacher
that I decided not to repeat what everyone else had reported and gave
an impromptu report on the garments worn by the space team. Oh to be
blessed with a photogenic mind now. I must have known I would be a
professional seamstress as well.
During the Challenger explosion I had just come out of class at
college (I was one of the oldest and had children) when I started the
car and heard it over the radio. As Christi McAuliff was a local
teacher, I started back into the building and was the one that broke
the news to several of her former students. How we cried and look for
a lounge to get the true story. By the time I got home my husband had
been glued to the tv for an hour and was really in shock.
Bobbie V.
CatsEwe2 wrote:
>
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
McH1inVA
hoopla began again. I was 12. All I remember is my mother insisting that I
watch this "history in the making". By that time I'd had quite enough of
"history in the making", having gone through the Kennedys' and King's
assassinations. I don't remember watching it.
As to the Challenger. I'll admit this now, so many years after the fact: When
I heard that a teacher was going up on a shuttle, I had an immediate feeling of
dread. My thought was, "She's not coming back." However, I thought the
teacher was on the shuttle BEFORE Challenger (can't remember the name now). So
when my boss came in and told me (and I, like so many, ascertained he wasn't
telling a sick joke), my first thought was, "Oh. I was wrong. It wasn't the
one with teh teacher." Well, you can imagine how I felt when I found out
Christi was on that shuttle.
BTW, the "sick joke" reaction seems to be a common one. I can remember my
mother telling me that when her friend called to tell her Kennedy was shot,
that was her reaction as well.
Helen (impatiently awaiting HOCS W-S. Only three days to go!)
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Tennessee. We watched at my aunt and uncle's house then, very late at
night, walked back to my grandmother's house. I remember looking up
at the sky and seeing millions of stars and a great big shining moon,
and thinking how amazing it was that there were people up on that moon
at that very moment. One cousin was 3.5 years old at the time and
says he remembers the same thing.
And our grandfather swore that the weather was never the same after
those men walked on the moon.
Georgia
Well, I was 12 and my grandfather had just died. My parents were busy
planning the funeral, and in the midst of the planning, they clicked on the
T.V. to watch the liftoff. Being 12 and uninterested in the Space program, I
couldn't believe that they could callously watch that instead of grieving
for Grandpa.
I guess I didn't realize what an important moment in history it was....
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"leap" for mankind!! i was 11 yrs old at the time watching it on
a color tv and couldn't understand why it was coming in on black
and white!!!
where was everyone else?
diane
Tricia wrote:
>
> Wondering why my parents were so glued to the tv when they didn't like me to
> watch too much of it. (I was 3)
>
> Stitch Away,
> Tricia
>
> CatsEwe2 wrote:
> >
> > On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> > and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> > college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
> > conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> > budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
> > old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
> > made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
> > would progress.
> >
Kitty Felton
ranch house ($19,000) and had company over to watch the moon landing. I
was tired and it was late (11PM and after) and I remember it was
difficult to tell exactly what the astonauts were doing (that lousy
reception from the moon!). I remember there being a concern they might
sink in the moon dust . Did anyone ever see the movie "Capricorn One"
about a fake moon landing? Sometimes I still wonder....
Kitty in VA USA
Diane Harris
laying on my parents bed (a big deal) watching our first color tv
and wondering what was wrong with it since the pictures came in
black and white!!! I even got to stay up late that night.
During the challenger take off, i was standing in line at a diner
trying to pay for lunch and get back to the office in time. a tv
was right by the register and we saw the whole thing happen.
stood there while they played it over and watched in disbelief.
FYI---for those of you not born for the moon walk..this
miraculous achievement might not have happened if it were not for
the kennedy administration. NASA got a HUGE push and endorsement
from this president. IMHO,another one of those reasons why a lot
of us identify with the kennedy's so much.
diane
new jersey usa
DePalatis
cabin on Lake Erie in the summer. We kids had all been out swimming and
were called in to the "landlady's" living room to watch the moon landing. I
remember us dripping wet in that poor woman's house, but she didn't care.
(After staying there a few years, she and her husband were some of the
friends we enjoyed spending time with on vacation.) Has it REALLY been 30
yrs.?
Rita
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> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
I was 28. We had just been approved by the adoption agency for our first
child. She came "home" 14 months later.
I was sprawled out on the livingroom floor dying of the wretched East Coast
heat and humidity...but I refused to turn the fan on 'cause I wanted to hear
every single word. I was totally spellbound and enthralled. I never liked
history in school, but this was different. I was acutely aware of the place
in history that this even would take. 25 or more years later, I was just as
enthralled as I watched the Mars expedition on TV! A dear friend (who at
that time lived across the country) and I watched that event together on the
phone! What a trip!
People who don't know me very well may think that I'm on the cutting edge
of insanity, but that is their problem. My grandchildren love me anyway...
:)
Deena Wells
my mom and aunt taking photos of the television screen at the time--I think
that impressed me more than the actual event. I knew how important it was
because they were taking the photos.
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CatsEwe2 wrote in message <19990720112245...@ngol07.aol.com>...
>On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30
years -
>and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
>college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
>conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
>budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our
one,
>old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was
being
>made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
>would progress.
>
John & Liz Hampton
> CatsEwe2 wrote:
> >
> > On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> > and it almost seems like another lifetime.
> > so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I have no idea what I was doing. I was 14
(almost) and NOT into space at all. Covered wagons and pioneers were more my
style. The space memory I do have from those years is a Christmas memory of
everyone being worried about the astronauts going "behind the moon" and being out
of contact for a certain time. That was spooky - not that anyone expected
anything to happen, just because they were on the other side of the moon, but
because there was no contact, so if something had gone wrong, no one would ever
know what had happened. My memory of JFK's assassination is similar. I remember
being in the First Grade and being mad because the Three Stooges had been
pre-empted by "some dumb funeral thing".
I do have a vivid memory of the Challanger Explosion, though. I had watched
some of the preliminary "stuff" as I was getting ready for work & when it exploded
I was in the car on Hwy 280 on my way to work. When I got to work, they hadn't
heard what happened and I had the dubious honor of being the bearer of bad news.
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had just barely met and were talking on the phone as they watched the moon landing
on their respective tv's. I vaguely remember the Challenger disaster, but I don't
think I saw it at school. I remember coming home from school and my mom was
watching the news reports, but I didn't really understand why it was such a big
thing. I guess I was still young enough to believe that if I didn't personally
know someone, it didn't matter if bad things happened to them.
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(barely) we had gotten are car stuck the night before and bye the time it
was unstuck it was late so we stayed the night at a friends house... so in
the morning when I woke up mom had the t.v. on and there it was on the big
screen color t.v. (at home we had a 4 inch black and white)
Deborah Kelly
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Susannah Tiller
>
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
Thirty years ago my parents hadn't met, and I wasn't even thought of!
Regards,
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ian thomas
University of London. We all watched the moonwalk on a TV in the hall. Much more
hype than if I had been in England!
Angela in Canberra, Australia's beautiful capital city
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, ..... I think we knew history was being
>
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
> would progress.
>
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
Lynne Holder
all the tv news coverage and my Dad being really excited about it. I would
have been about 9 then.
When Challenger launched I was watching it in between peeling potatoes for
our dinner. I remember hearing the countdown and walking back into the
lounge (with wet potato and peeler in hand) and standing there watching the
launch and subsequent events. I remember feeling sick to the core. And one
of the children (DS about 4yrs old at the time) asking why were my eyes
leaking. Hadn't even realised! As both DD's were in school they had been
very interested in the flight and were upset when they got home to the news.
Very sorry the todays launch didn't come off on date. Never mind. Try again!
Lynne
Nancy
We just counted back...my DH would have just been conceived on or around
the day of the moonwalk! I hadn't even been thought of then.
I was in 9th grade when the Challenger launched, English class to be
exact, with Mrs. Cutler (?I think?). Anyway, turns out my teacher was
one of the finalists to go on the Challenger experiment. I guess she
knew Mrs. McAuliffe fairly well; she was telling us about her all the
time after the accident.
SHINE03548
the commons to watch the 1 TV on campus.
Mary
fran
on an old 12" B&W TV that actually got UHF channels. I remember
sitting on th efloor with my sisters, glued to the TV and wanting so
bad to be there (and not coincidently, away from my bossy older
sisters).
It was a topic for conversation the entire rest of the year.
On 20 Jul 1999 15:22:45 GMT, cats...@aol.comnojunk (CatsEwe2) wrote:
>On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
>and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
>college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
>conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
>budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
>old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
>made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
>would progress.
>
>so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
>AnneM in NC
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year I was busy getting engaged, protesting what every hippie protested,
wearing old Army clothes and ironing my hair but was never without the
false eyelashes, planned a wedding that never happened, began working in
retailing for a major department store buying girdles and bras...the
bras everyone burned back then...I was doing crewel embroidery like a
fiend back then and began needlepoint. Went directly to handpainted
needlepoint and spent every lunch hour at the shop next to where I
worked.
I made just under $120 a week at my first job and yes, it did go up in
time. I wore a polyester wig back then because everyone did or a wiglet
of French Curls...still wore false eyelashes too and very mini skirts
that barely covered my undies. I know that because I still own the dress
I eventually married in and no it does not fit but the length is shorter
than my present panty line so I was either very risque or something
really sagged big time...most likely the latter.
I drove a 63 Chevy Impala with no paint, just primer and a torn
convertible top. Paid $300 for the car which was $250 too much back
then. Well, the tires were good. rent in a new 1 bedroom apartment was
$100 a month
I watched the moon landing on TV as did most of the World. Time flies!
Sharon G...who is getting so old and was shocked when her teen age
neighbor drove his car with CD player with Iron Butterfly's IN a Godda
Da Vita blasting...the 26 minute version. Seems the kids today like our
music. I hated my parents music!
sha...@epix.net
> The dorm was officially named Ryan Hall, but the previous week we has
> "renamed" it Liquori Hall- Marty Liquori beat Jim Ryan (track, for those
> unfamiliar) for the first time and Marty's sister also lived in our
> dorm.
>
Our dorm was called Liquori hall too...but named that for other
reasons! The only "track" events in our dorm were to hide things (cats,
pets, booze, goldfish, coffee pots and other Pots, boyfriends, etc). It
was the last year, I believe before Penn State started their "trial" co
ed dorms. Times have changed.
Sharon G...who is a tea drinker today, still hides stuff but these days
from herself becasue I can never seem to find anything anymore!
Kaod26
>
>Seriously, I remember being sprawled out on the family room floor
>watching with my whole family.
I was 14 at the time, and my whole family watched it together in the family
room too!!
Even as a kid it gave me goosebumps.
>As for the Challenger; I was at work.
I was a stay-at-home mom then, but because I had been a teacher before the
kids, I was glued to the set. I remember watching the launch and thinking to
myself "something definitely is wrong." It seemed like an eternity before the
news commentators confirmed my worst fears.
For me it is one of those events that you will always remember where you were
and what you were doing...
Kathi
Neil Bly
Diane Harris wrote in message <3795231C...@erols.com>...
>I was allowed to stay up late and watch this this monumental
>"leap" for mankind!! i was 11 yrs old at the time watching it on
>a color tv and couldn't understand why it was coming in on black
>and white!!!
>
>where was everyone else?
>
>diane
>
Hi! I was 16. My family's TV had quit so we brought down a small B&W
portable that was my sister's and mine. We all sat glued to the TV and
watched every minute. I can still remember the thrill of thinking that
someone was actually walking on the MOON !!!
Sue Ann
Melissa C.
thoroughly enjoyed reading about your lives. Thanks for sharing your memories.
Melissa C.
Currently Stitching MLI's Earthdancer, TW's Noah's Ark, and a lot of other fun
stuff!
Currently Finishing: Nothing!
Chris Braun
the summer in Providence (I went to Brown) working in the computing
lab. My then boyfriend -- and now DH -- was a recent graduate and
worked full time in the computing lab, and I worked closely with him.
We watched the moon walk lying on the water bed in his bedroom -- in
an apartment in an old duplex in Wayland Square -- and were just
overcome by the wonder of it.
Chris
Chris Braun
with some colleagues. When we got to our destination we got on the
shuttle bus to the rental car lot, and the bus driver had the radio
on. He told us what had happened. The meeting we were heading to
that afternoon was awfully grim.
Chris
Gusianna
seedy house now that I think of it. Gathered to watch "the walk" in one
of the other "pads" in the building. Remember thinking wow could this
really be true or are we watching an episode of Star Trek. Still get
goose bumps when I see it, the walk that is :).
Gussy
P.S. Star Trek too come to think of it :).
Kay Coram
All of our family was in the living room watching the action very
intently. My mom, me and my sister were all science fiction fanatics,
and my father and brother thought that was the stupidest stuff ever to
have come down the pike.
My dad had kidded my mom all her life (they had known each other as
little kids) about liking science fiction, how "ridiculous" it is, how
"improbable", etc. etc.
Just a second or two after Neil Armstrong said, "Houston, the Eagle
has landed," my mom got a lifetime's worth of revenge on my father.
She looked over at him (with a martial look in her eye), and said,
ever so sweetly, "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" We all cracked up laughing, even
my dad. He just kept shaking his head saying, "Well I thought I'd
never see the day anything like THIS would happen!" We all still like
to tell the story and laugh... Kay in Dayton, OH
Mays
in a shop window. Four of us and a guitar were taking a drive through
Scandinavia in a brand new VW Beetle, on a budget of $2.00 per day
each....it was quite a trip!
-
Ruth Mays
Disorganization is merely the sign of a very healthy
individual trying to do more in a shorter period of time
than those lazy, obsessively tidy types who can think of
nothing better to do than straighten objects in drawers
and stuff like that which only feeds their own egos and makes
them think they are better than those of us who are truly gifted.
Carrie & Dean (or maybe just 1 of us!)
>As for the Challenger; I was at work. A co-worker with a t.v. in his
>office had been following the launch that morning and I, too, thought
>he was kidding when he came to tell us the news. The entire staff
>piled into his office and were glued to that tiny 4 inch screen for the
>rest of the morning in disbelief...
>
>Jill in IL
>----------------
>jrsp...@siu.edu
I was work when the Challenger went up. MY husband was at NAS Jacksonville
and helped coordinate some of the SAR flights. He was aboard the flight
that found the nosecone. Very upsetting time for all.
Carrie Lee
Joker
I was 3 weeks old, the apple of me mothers eye, after having the four boys I
could do no wrong *g*
Anne
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Isabel
30 years ago--not even a thought. Actually, I think my mother was
trying to get pregnant. I'll be 30 next year.
But the Challenger, I do remember. I went to ConcordHigh School
(Concord NH) where Christa McAuliffe was from. I remember that my
boyfriend and I were in the cafeteria watching. Nobody realized what
had happened so I went to French where a bunch of classmates told me
what had happened. I went back to the cafeteria in time for the
television cameras to get shots of everyone who had known Christa
McAuliffe to start screaming. They sent us home early and for months
after the school had police patrols to keep the media away.
Isabel
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SpecEdMEH wrote: "I remember lying on the living room floor watching
TV with my whole family. I was 14 years old and was a little disappointed
that this was not happening on my "golden" birthday ( I had turned 14 on
the 14th of July)! But it was my friend's birthday so that was still
cool! My dad was a big space buff, so he made sure we were all home
to watch this big event together. I wished that I could walk outside,
look up at that beautiful sphere, and see these explorers bounding around
with such joy! Mary H. Boulder City, NV"
Maureen
was in my sophomore year in HS. It was during Regents and mid-terms
week. At our school we were lucky, if we didn't have an exam we didn't
have to go in. I didn't have an exam, so in typical 16 year old fashion
I was "sleeping in". My sis, who I was about to strangle for waking me
up, had seen the tragedy happen and came running in to tell me. She
kept saying "I dreamed about a Y in the sky. I should have called
NASA." I had to console my poor sis, who had a prophetic dream and
thought she could have stopped the launch. Once I figured out all that
had happened, I sat glued to the tv for the rest of the day. I felt the
same way when Princess Di was killed and this week with the latest
Kennedy tragedy. "Why?"
Maureen
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being tired and wanting to go back to bed.
She, being this big history buff, kept saying, "This is history, keep
watching!". Probably the only time she encouraged me to watch tv.
Maureen
Red Meadow Fiber Arts
very first ever live television broadcast in Alaska. We had been used
to watching the 6:00 evening news at 11:00 PM, which was when the plane
could get there from Seattle with a tape, so this was a very big deal on
a lot of levels :))
Karen in Bigfork, Montana
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>Did anyone ever see the movie "Capricorn >One" about a fake moon landing?
>Sometimes I still wonder....
It's one of my favorite movies. My husband and I posed the question a few
times.
...And the truth is still out there.
Maureen
Karin Joye
parents watched it and I may have too. My grandfather was a member of
the team that came from Germany with Von Braun. So space was a BIG DEAL
in my family and still is (I followed his lead and am an engineer with
NASA).
I remember Challenger vividly. I was a freshman in college. I was on
my way back to my dorm after class and crossed the street behind two
other girls. One said to the other "oh did you hear that the shuttle
blew up" (like it was nothing). It hit me like a ton of bricks. I
think that I stopped midstep in the middle of the road, then I raced to
my dorm room and sat in front of our tiny bw TV in total shock and
watched the replay over and over, each time praying that it would make
it that time and that the crew was ok. I don't think I moved for
hours. My roommates thought I was insane. I still hold my breath
durning every launch until booster separation.
My father was working at Kennedy at the time. Mom watched the launch
from our front yard (as she did every launch). She saw it blow up and
ran back in the house and spent the day glued to the TV too.
Karin
sc...@cc.memphis.edu
so I'd be a grown up. Still waiting 30 years later.
Mike & June Huber
remember watching all of the early space flights--sometimes from the
front yard, sometimes from the school playground (fire drills were
always called for launches), sometimes walking down to the beach, and
twice fighting the crowds for a really close-up spot. Those were magical
times.
June in Houston
Gill Murray wrote:
>
> I was fortunate to be living in Base Housing near the beach by Patrick AFB
> in Florida. My late husband was in the Navy, working out of Cape Kennedy
> with the Polaris submarine program. We watched most of the shots from 68-72
> go up from our front yard. <snip>
> Cocoa Beach and Cape Kennedy was a truly great place to live
> during that era.
> Gill Murray.
Deborah Wise
imagine my mom and dad probably had me sitting in front of the tv and saying that
someday I can tell my kids that I watched the first man to walk on the moon. I
don't remember a thing. Deb Wise.
ELarson775
>the team that came from Germany with Von Braun.
I'm assuming that your grandfather came to Huntsville -- is he still here?
(I've been in Huntsville for almost 20 years now) How about you -- are you
still here? Just about everyone in this town works for NASA or the defense
industry.
-Elizabeth
QnofCoffee
Nancy wrote:
>We just counted back...my DH would have just been conceived on or around
>the day of the moonwalk!
Me, too!! <jumping up and down waving hand wildly in the air>
I just figured out that my birthday is about 9 months after the event. Perhaps
my parents *celebrated* the historic event?
Jodi
Orlando
EAM
>I followed his lead and am an engineer with
>NASA
And I followed my mother's (yes, my *mother*, who, as she says "told
Rosie where to put the #$%^&%#$@@ rivets") and am an engineer with
Raytheon, the maker of the Patriot missle. (And, specifically, of the
'brains' for the F-22, but there are a whole bunch of contracts coming in
in September, I'm told, so I should be okay even if they do kill that
program.)
I was 21 in 1969, just out of college and home for the summer before
starting graduate school. My extended family did a barbeque in the back
yard (southern California) that evening, and had the TV going constantly.
We were also science fiction fans, and one cousin of my mom's was a
professor of physics at Cal Tech.
I was working in aerospace by the time of the Challenger disaster, and
heard it from a co- worker. A group of us went to another co- worker's
home near the plant and spent the rest of the day glued to the
television. And the company, amazingly enough, allowed us to charge
overhead, not vacation or emergency leave, for the time we spent watching
the coverage.
None of us had worked on the particular flight, but several of us,
including me, had worked on various systems in the Shuttle, and had met
some of the astronauts. The unit of my program that was on Challenger
was the one we had all signed on the inside of the cover plate when we
delivered it to NASA. Greg Jarvis actually was a civilian, and worked
for our company, so some of us knew him, too. The company established a
scholarship as a memorial, which is awarded each year to an employee's
child who wants to go into engineering.
-- Elizabeth
Debra Ashcraft
best we could afford at the time.) I missed it, and could only watch the
'reruns' on the news the next day. Darn!
Debbie Ashcraft
Vancouver, WA
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Karin Joye
the Cape). I work at Marshall in the building where Boeing is building
the space station modules. My dad is a contractor and my husband was a
contractor (now a landscaper).
Daphne O. Klemme
and we listened.
With the Challenger I was between home and work. When I got in to work I
was told it had exploded. Someone dug out a small black and white tv and
we watched the replay. I then watched it on the news after I got home.
TTFN,
Daphne
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would have been 7. But like others I vividly remember the Challenger. We were
living in West Germany and I had just given birth two our 2nd daughter just 2
days prior. Heard about it all when we got home later that day. Now when dd
has her birthday I remember the Challenger as well. Hard to believe that it
has been 13 years since that now too. Boy does time fly when you are having
fun. Are we having fun yet?????
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was 22 then, and his father saved the newspaper announcing the landing in
their attic. When my MIL sold the house, my husband retrieved the newspaper
and it's stored in our closet now.
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CatsEwe2 <cats...@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:19990720112245...@ngol07.aol.com...
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30
years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no
air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our
one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was
being
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our
lives
> would progress.
>
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
Marianne T.
My then boyfriend and I were at Disneyland and watched the walk on the
huge TV screen in Tomorrowland!!!!!!
I was already 18, March b-day, but am still waiting to grow up.
You know what the saying, "I may grow old, but I'll never grow up!"
Marianne in WA state waiting for summer to come and stay awhile
sc...@cc.memphis.edu wrote in article
<1999Jul2...@admin3.memphis.edu>...
Xoria33
cats...@aol.comnojunk (CatsEwe2) writes:
>what was everyone else doing?
Probably enjoying myself, I was 4:-)
ELarson775
>the Cape). I work at Marshall in the building where Boeing is building
>the space station modules. My dad is a contractor and my husband was a
>contractor (now a landscaper).
I live in Madison and work as a threat & intelligence analyst for SAIC in
Cummings Research Park West -- my husband is a professor at UAH. It's nice to
meet you, neighbor!
Do you spend much time down at Patches & Stitches?
-Elizabeth
ELarson775
>Raytheon, the maker of the Patriot missle.
Hi Elizabeth --
Are you in Huntsville also? I believe that the Patriot project office is over
at Space & Missile Defense Command on Wynn Drive, which is our biggest
customer.
-Elizabeth
Jeanne
news:19990720162538...@ng-fw1.aol.com...
> >>so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?<<
>
> I was 5 years away from existing :>.
UM...So was I... :)
Jeanne
Rochester, NY
Robyn@Oz
watching the telly with my mum at the time, but it didn't mean much to
me....
The time of the shuttle disaster, I was in bed asleep, heavily pregnant
with my first child. My DH was having his breakfast, and came running in it
get me.... I just couldn't believe it... but had this kind of feeling
like"I knew that was going to happen"..... so sad
Robyn
Australia
Tbailsh
brother, watching TV and stitching. I was (almost) 13, and my grandparents
had a console TV, not the 11" we had!
Remember my brother coloring all the way through this historic moment (my
grandfather was informing us how historic it was), but looking up to see the
commercials. Don't think my family will ever let him live that down.
PS -- After being told that it is the anniversary of the moonwalk, Al Gore
called Michael Jackson to congratulate him!!!
Tess Ailshire
cats...@aol.comnojunk (CatsEwe2) writes:
> I think we knew history was being
>made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
>would progress.
>
Joe & Jan
My husband was a Grumman engineer on this LEM, so,
you can be sure we were watching!! His 15 minutes of fame - his
name is on the moon!!!
Jan :)
CatsEwe2 wrote:
>
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
> would progress.
>
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
Jco55Ly
>
Yeah and how about the one about never trusting anyone over 30 - and now we are
pushing 50!!!!!
Jane
Stitching keeps me sane!
Chris Braun
>And I followed my mother's (yes, my *mother*, who, as she says "told
>Rosie where to put the #$%^&%#$@@ rivets") and am an engineer with
>Raytheon, the maker of the Patriot missle. (And, specifically, of the
>'brains' for the F-22, but there are a whole bunch of contracts coming in
>in September, I'm told, so I should be okay even if they do kill that
>program.)
Are you with Raytheon on Tewksbury (if that's where Missile Systems is
now)? I worked on Patriot back in the early 70's -- actually, it was
still called SAM-D then -- at Missile Systems in Bedford. I was on
the support software team and led the development of the operating
system.
Chris
Bobbie V.
people though and not an engineer. His name is also on the moon. A
couple of years (1977) later DFIL wrapped all our Christmas gifts in
left over (damaged) gold mylar. We had a devil of a time unwrapping
those gifts. You could not tear it. LOL. They had placed layers and
layers of the stuff on the LEM to protect it from space dust damage.
Bobbie V.
EAM
elars...@aol.com writes:
>Hi Elizabeth --
>
>Are you in Huntsville also? I believe that the Patriot project office is over
>at Space & Missile Defense Command on Wynn Drive, which is our biggest
>customer.
>
>-Elizabeth
No, I'm with the part of Raytheon that used to be Hughes Aircraft, in
California. We do mostly radars for various Air Force planes (F-15,
F-18, B2), but I'm working on the avionics computer for the F-22. My
office is across the street from Los Angeles International Airport (aka
LAX), but I live about 80 miles east near San Bernardino, among real
orange groves... ('Course, I only found out I'm allergic to citrus
pollen *after* I moved. And, no, I don't drive all that way every day;
the company runs a commuter bus.)
I didn't get to go when the company sent folks from my program to
Huntsville a while back, or when my boss and his number two went to a
Shuttle launch. The only places they've ever sent me are White Sands,
New Mexico, in July (well over 100 degrees F - in the shade), and Eglin
AFB, Florida, in August (humidity approaching 100%, too). Thank goodness
they *have* to air condition the trailers the computers are in!!!!
-- Elizabeth
PS: We're getting as confusing as the Lynn(e)s, Ter(r)is, and Kat*s.
Until fairly recently, I was the only Elizabeth I knew who used the whole
name, not Liz, Beth, Betty, or some other shortened version. But half
the little girls in our youth theater programs seem to be Elizabeth these
days...
LOISSPARROW
years old) and friends - had a great view of the full moon that night
right out the window while we were watching them land, etc. Very
historic and thrilling. Very scary, too but so beautiful.
Lois
Greg Stromath
Greg Stromath
Lake Elmo MN
Lisa Richards
They televised this on large screen TVs in my HS cafeteria. I thought I'd
throw up every time they showed the explosion and you knew you had just
witnessed the deaths of those people live.
Lisa
Jill Spreenberg-Robinson wrote:As for the Challenger; I was at work. A
co-worker with a t.v. in his
> office had been following the launch that morning and I, too, thought
> he was kidding when he came to tell us the news. The entire staff
> piled into his office and were glued to that tiny 4 inch screen for the
> rest of the morning in disbelief...
>
> Jill in IL
> ----------------
> jrsp...@siu.edu
Lisa Richards
father's eye... ;-)
Lisa
Sherri L Wilcauskas
: On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
: so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
Gestating. :)
I was born 7 1/2 weeks after the moon landing.
I don't feel like reminiscing about Challenger, because this thread was
started about a positive memory, and I prefer to keep the focus on the
positive, even if it was a postive I was almost-but-not-quite around for.
:)
Blessings,
Sherri at UPenn
Stephanie Peters
all interested. In England it happened way beyond an 11 year old's bed
time, but I pestered and pestered for ages in advance to be allowed to watch
it. Even then I'd been nuts about space for years, and considered myself a
'child of the space age' as I was born around the time Sputnik went up. I
thought this would be the most significant step in the history of mankind,
and still hold that belief, although I expected rather more follow up by
now.
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Stef
Robinson <jrsp...@siu.edu> writes
>"Elaine" <laneyhS...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Probably causing my mother no end of headaches. I was 4 years old.
>
>Heheh - me too...I was 14 years old! ;-)
>
>Seriously, I remember being sprawled out on the family room floor
>watching with my whole family. My Dad is a big history nut and he knew
>how important this would be to our personal histories/memories, so he
>insisted we all watch - I'm glad he did! The memories of those grainy
>images are as vivid as ever.
>
I was 3 years old and my Mum made my sister and I sit down and watch it
as she knew it was history in the making. At the time we were really
cross because we wanted to go out to play but she persevered and I'm
glad she did. It is probably my earliest memory and I remember it very
clearly. I couldn't understand why Mum was crying though. I also
remember some of the predictions like that people would live on the
moon. Remember Space 1999
stef -Hounslow, England
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Carey0516
>
>: so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
Trying to get some sleep. We moved into our house the next day - and, of
course, did it with little or no sleep. A friend asked me how I remember the
exact date I moved and that is the reason.
Carey
Tresa Glover
of it. But I do remember when Challenger blew up well. I too had just had
my son just 2 weeks before and was taking him for his circumcision that
afternoo. Since I don't believe in omens, my son had the surgery. But I
don think of it whenever that time comes around.
--
Tresa Glover
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Kaz
anything to go by!
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Michael Hays
CatsEwe2 wrote:
>
> On the anniversary of the first moonwalk, I've been thinking back 30 years -
> and it almost seems like another lifetime. I was finishing my last year of
> college - had a new baby daughter - lived in a 8' wide mobile home w/no air
> conditioning - poor as a churchmouse, but didn't know it - and happy. Our
> budget allowed for $12 of groceries every week - and the insurance on our one,
> old car was our biggest - and only - expense. I think we knew history was being
> made as we watched the Walk; but we certainly had no ideas of how our lives
> would progress.
>
> so I'm curious --- what was everyone else doing?
> AnneM in NC
As the words "One small step for man, One giant
leap for mankind" were being uttered from the
surface of the moon, I was laying quietly in my
mother's lap drinking a bottle. As most one month
old children are wont to do. :-}
Sharon
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LOISSPARROW <keyp...@usga.org> wrote in article
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> Well , let's see I was 30 something and watched it with our son
Finally, someone else "mature"! I did some higher mathematics and realized
I was 38 at the time. I was working in aerospace business at the time, and
"we" built part of Apollo.
--
Ruth in Happy Camp
McGKar
>AnneM in NC
I was sitting around on a cloud, waiting to be born! I was born in August 21,
1969, and will be 30 (gulp).
Karen M x x x x x...../
"A stitch in time, is time well spent"