If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby LibraryLady » Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:21 pm

Kiamichi wrote:My recollection is that I didn't see it live because I was working on the night shift at a summer job at the hub cap factory, so I don't think it was a Sunday.


I did a net search on what day of the week in 1969 and the response was Sunday.
Maybe you were getting some overtime.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby Red Oak » Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:50 pm

As I recall it took forever before they stepped out of the LEM after they landed around 10:30 or 11:00 PM Texas time as I remember.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby LibraryLady » Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:05 pm

Kiamichi wrote:My recollection is that I didn't see it live because I was working on the night shift at a summer job at the hub cap factory, so I don't think it was a Sunday.


The internet calendar says it was a Sunday.
Perhaps you were getting some overtime.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby Cowman52 » Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:17 pm

A Sunday afternoon, watching Walter Cronkite, wondering if they could crank it back up to come home.

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby Allen » Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:33 pm

Most likely eating or pooping, was only 19 days old.

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby GRANDPA » Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:16 am

I was 15. Watching it on our color TV. I was a bit disappointed that it was black & white. I believe Jules Bergman was the main reporter. I remember going outside to look at the moon & thinking it would never be same. I figured we'd have a colony there & be on Mars by 2000. I guess not.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby Sloanmiester » Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:00 am

I was on staff at El Rancho Cima buy scout camp. My wife and I had the only TV in camp. We set up the TV in the chow hall and that night, we plus 300_ scouts watched the whole thing. Bever before or since have I seen that many scouts be so quiet.

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby GFB » Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:47 am

All I remember is..you couldn't see anything and could barely hear anything.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby Bob Of Burleson » Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:04 am

Restored version of spacewalk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXrNMpcoCI

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby truep » Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:30 am

At the Konni Hut apartments in Inglewood, CA. watching on a 21' B/W set with a bunch of friends and some Coors!

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby Red Oak » Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:00 am

I remember I had a Fever Blister the size of a grape !

I haven't had one in decades thank God.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby GFB » Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:27 am

GFB wrote:All I remember is..you couldn't see anything and could barely hear anything.



No..they had their chance.
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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby BigTex » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:39 pm

I was going to summer school at North Texas State (making up for a ridiculously difficult French class at UT). My recollection is that they cancelled classes on Monday because everybody was up late Sunday night.

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby BillB » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:48 pm

I was stationed right outside of Tokyo, where it happened about Noon or so on Monday.
I went bar hopping that night and all my drinks were comped, either by the bar or customers. The Japanese thought it was a really big deal.
They were a lot more excited about it than I was.

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby jellowrestling » Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:03 pm

bodine wrote:The whole family was watching on our 19 inch black and white TV, in the our den, in Munday, TX....

We were doing the same in our den in University Park. I'm sure our relatives in Munday, the Offutts, were doing the same. :)

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Re: If you were born, where were you 45 years ago Sunday?

Postby geeiabil » Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:39 pm

BillB wrote:I was stationed right outside of Tokyo, where it happened about Noon or so on Monday.
I went bar hopping that night and all my drinks were comped, either by the bar or customers. The Japanese thought it was a really big deal.
They were a lot more excited about it than I was.


I was in a similar situation in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was on leave checking out northern Germany and Denmark, not even really that aware of the situation. Whenever anyone there found out I was an American it was drinks and questions about how proud I was to be an American. There was some sense of that but they were far more impressed than I was at the time. I was far more interested in just trying to mingle with the local populace at least the feminine gender portion of it.
Sadly/happily that didn't happen until the next day when I met a couple of American women at the "Little Mermaid" sculpture and spent the day touring breweries in the city. :)
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