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40. Sitting in front of our B&W tv
On the floor with my plastic model from the Science Club I belonged to from a Popular Mechanics magazine advertisement.
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  Moon landing-are you old enough to remember where you were? babylonsister  Jul-16-09 11:49 PM   #0 
   I was about 2 months old  proud patriotLead Moderator   Jul-16-09 11:51 PM   #1 
   So, what do you remember about it?  SDuderstadt   Jul-17-09 12:37 AM   #33 
   I WAS 20 AND GLUED TO TV  HowHasItComeToThis   Jul-17-09 01:53 AM   #71 
      You were??? Is it true that the Catholic Church was pissed off & condemned  KakistocracyHater   Jul-18-09 03:00 AM   #182 
   2 1/2 months old n/t  Confusious   Jul-17-09 12:12 PM   #154 
   I watched it in my living room in the early morning. I remember  roguevalley   Jul-17-09 05:44 PM   #164 
   I remember watching it with my parents and my siblings  merh   Jul-16-09 11:51 PM   #2 
   teenager, watching on a b & w TV. n/t  ginnyinWI   Jul-16-09 11:53 PM   #3 
   Ditto.  havocmom   Jul-17-09 09:12 AM   #130 
   Yes, among my first memories actually  nadinbrzezinski   Jul-16-09 11:53 PM   #4 
   At family vacation cabin. Walked outside, looked at the moon and thought OMG,they are there, right  uppityperson   Jul-16-09 11:53 PM   #5 
   That's what I did!  ChickMagic   Jul-17-09 11:44 AM   #151 
   I think it would be shocking to find someone who couldn't  Duer 157099   Jul-16-09 11:54 PM   #6 
   I can't imagine a kid being bored with the moon landing  Art_from_Ark   Jul-17-09 03:35 AM   #92 
   My dad was in the hospital in another town (ours too small to have the care he needed.)  blondeatlast   Jul-16-09 11:54 PM   #7 
   Very cool! Thanks. nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:11 AM   #20 
   I was - 20 years old.  armyowalgreens   Jul-16-09 11:55 PM   #8 
   Yep I remember  mth44sc   Jul-16-09 11:56 PM   #9 
   We were in Japan.  enlightenment   Jul-16-09 11:57 PM   #10 
   Wife and I were driving to the R.E. office to close the deal on our first house. nt  Speck Tater   Jul-16-09 11:58 PM   #11 
   Just married, in our first apt. in Miami, Kendall Dr. in Dade. Unreal.  MarjorieG   Jul-16-09 11:59 PM   #12 
   Yes I do.  RC   Jul-17-09 12:00 AM   #13 
   Whoa, must have been lots of excitement there. Nice. nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:12 AM   #22 
   I was eight, and I remember my parents letting us stay up till 11 to see it happen.  madinmaryland   Jul-17-09 12:03 AM   #14 
   7 months married, our first living-room,  HeresyLives   Jul-17-09 12:03 AM   #15 
   I was five years old and  Subdivisions   Jul-17-09 12:03 AM   #16 
   I was newly married, just short of my 21st birthday.  murielm99   Jul-17-09 12:03 AM   #17 
   I was working swing shift at the post office in North Hollywood, CA.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Jul-17-09 12:07 AM   #18 
   Matchbox cars and Cap'n Crunch.  Touchdown   Jul-17-09 12:10 AM   #19 
   Yep, I was 14 and laying on the living room  Still Sensible   Jul-17-09 12:12 AM   #21 
   I am in SV now.  PSzymeczek   Jul-17-09 01:23 AM   #61 
      How did you end up there? I graduated from  Still Sensible   Jul-17-09 10:35 PM   #170 
   My family had just moved to Indianapolis  friendly_iconoclast   Jul-17-09 12:13 AM   #23 
   I wasn't very far from you!  Contrary1   Jul-17-09 01:01 AM   #50 
   I was at boy scout camp and hating it.  abumbyanyothername   Jul-17-09 12:13 AM   #24 
   Nope.... About 7 months old.  Kansas Wyatt   Jul-17-09 12:14 AM   #25 
   I'm old enough to remember (47)...but I don't.  Iggo   Jul-17-09 12:15 AM   #26 
   we were on a summer vacation  shanti   Jul-17-09 12:15 AM   #27 
   Midway through my tour in Viet Nam. (Where else?)  TahitiNut   Jul-17-09 12:15 AM   #28 
   I'd been back in the "world" 3 years  jaysunb   Jul-17-09 12:31 AM   #31 
   Wow. Thank you for sharing this. Enjoy your reunion! nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 02:02 AM   #74 
   Hugs  nadinbrzezinski   Jul-17-09 12:38 AM   #34 
   Did you hear about it? nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:52 AM   #41 
   Oh, sure. We had lots of media access at Long Binh.  TahitiNut   Jul-17-09 02:57 AM   #84 
   On Leave at the Time  The River   Jul-17-09 01:05 AM   #55 
   Oh yes!  ThoughtCriminal   Jul-17-09 12:27 AM   #29 
   Wow! Kudos to your dad for his part in it.  Vidar   Jul-18-09 12:13 AM   #178 
   I'm old enough but don't remember where I was at the time.  devilgrrl   Jul-17-09 12:29 AM   #30 
   In a 700 s.f. house on a stump ranch at the end of the road.  stevedeshazer   Jul-17-09 12:36 AM   #32 
   Stinky Stevie! Good times. I bet you remember that entire day! nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:39 AM   #35 
      Ironically, to get rid of the smell I had to shower in lemon juice and Tang.  stevedeshazer   Jul-17-09 12:59 AM   #48 
         Ha-TANG! I so remember that!  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 01:02 AM   #51 
            Astronaut orange juice!  Raster   Jul-17-09 05:55 PM   #169 
            How about Space Food Sticks & Major Matt Mason astronaut toys--  Vidar   Jul-18-09 12:22 AM   #179 
   Yep.  asdjrocky   Jul-17-09 12:41 AM   #36 
   Not even a glimmer in my daddy's eye,  BlooInBloo   Jul-17-09 12:42 AM   #37 
   I was in the Army at Camp May  doc03   Jul-17-09 12:48 AM   #38 
   What fun! That sounds like a great memory. nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:54 AM   #43 
   I consumed mass quantities of beer and some weed  doc03   Jul-17-09 01:03 AM   #52 
   I was working at a fast food place...  Lagomorph   Jul-17-09 11:44 PM   #176 
   I lived in Turkey at the time...  cascadiance   Jul-17-09 12:51 AM   #39 
   Sitting in front of our B&W tv  TatonkaJames   Jul-17-09 12:52 AM   #40 
   Aww, that's sweet! nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:53 AM   #42 
   I was not born yet but I tend to think we haven't really had an event like that in my lifetime.  ContinentalOp   Jul-17-09 12:56 AM   #44 
   absolutely I would agree  Skittles   Jul-17-09 01:03 AM   #53 
   Nothing even close. We were still a relatively free nation. The Corporatocracy was still  Greyhound   Jul-17-09 03:13 AM   #87 
   Hell, I'm old enough to forget where I was.  Contrary1   Jul-17-09 12:58 AM   #45 
   With my proud father, an aerospace engineer. He designed the light path for 1st manned space flight  Liberty Belle   Jul-17-09 12:58 AM   #46 
   What a wonderful man he must have been!  satya   Jul-17-09 01:45 AM   #69 
   yes; I was 12 years old, an American schoolgirl in England  Skittles   Jul-17-09 12:58 AM   #47 
   No, but I'm sure I heard it in my mother's tummy ;)  AwakeAtLast   Jul-17-09 12:59 AM   #49 
   I was 16  PSzymeczek   Jul-17-09 01:04 AM   #54 
   At my grandparents house watching on a Philco TV  XOKCowboy   Jul-17-09 01:05 AM   #56 
   I was 4 years old  WCIL   Jul-17-09 01:08 AM   #57 
   I was 8.  lumberjack_jeff   Jul-17-09 01:12 AM   #58 
   Busy being a wild teenaged flower child  Patchuli   Jul-17-09 01:12 AM   #59 
   Started my dental practice that day.  Wakingupnow   Jul-17-09 01:13 AM   #60 
   Wow! And nice to see you checking in, Wakingupnow! nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 01:26 AM   #63 
   LOL, I would totally go to your mod 2001 themed dental office! -nt-  ContinentalOp   Jul-17-09 01:45 AM   #68 
   From another DMD...  PCIntern   Jul-17-09 11:01 AM   #145 
   Oh yes...  slipslidingaway   Jul-17-09 01:25 AM   #62 
   I'll never forget it.  Joe Fields   Jul-17-09 01:28 AM   #64 
   Very nice for you, Joe Fields. I knew, too, despite the rain. And I was  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 02:01 AM   #73 
   I was not quite a year old  Lilith Velkor   Jul-17-09 01:30 AM   #65 
   I have absolutely no memory of the moon shot, none  Brother Buzz   Jul-17-09 01:42 AM   #66 
   Then you're well named.  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 01:44 AM   #67 
   hahaha....I was sexually intercoursing for the first time  Gabi Hayes   Jul-17-09 01:49 AM   #70 
   one small step for man........  rampart   Jul-17-09 02:39 AM   #81 
   We went out and bought one a-them COLOR TEE VEEs in anticipation! nt  MADem   Jul-17-09 01:54 AM   #72 
   Of course, you had to wait until Apollo 14...  Silent3   Jul-17-09 02:04 AM   #76 
      We got the tee vee anyway. It sure made the newscasts more interesting!  MADem   Jul-17-09 02:08 AM   #78 
   IIRC I was pumping gas at a Shell station in Auburn WA.  sutz12   Jul-17-09 02:03 AM   #75 
   I was about 10. I remember sitting on the floor of my parents bedroom and we  MiniMe   Jul-17-09 02:07 AM   #77 
   yep! I was sitting at the end of a runway with my boyfriend who was leaving the next day for Vietnam  flyarm   Jul-17-09 02:24 AM   #79 
   Nice story, thanks for sharing, flyarm. nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 08:36 AM   #106 
   I wasn't born yet. I'm always late for the party.  Arctic Dave   Jul-17-09 02:26 AM   #80 
   Barely cognizant.  tuvor   Jul-17-09 02:42 AM   #82 
   I was 12 years old  GiveMeFreedom   Jul-17-09 02:47 AM   #83 
   Summer school sucks  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 08:56 AM   #118 
   It is one of my earliest memories.  Greyhound   Jul-17-09 03:01 AM   #85 
   I am, but I don't  hfojvt   Jul-17-09 03:05 AM   #86 
   It is one of my earliest memories.  snake in the grass   Jul-17-09 03:19 AM   #88 
   I was in the army, in a training company. They let us all stay up and watch it all.  old mark   Jul-17-09 03:23 AM   #89 
   I Was 20 years old and....  Oldtimeralso   Jul-17-09 03:24 AM   #90 
   I was in bed, sick with a summer flu. I didn't miss a thing.  RushIsRot   Jul-17-09 03:26 AM   #91 
   My family was traveling on vacation.  Jim Lane   Jul-17-09 04:08 AM   #93 
   I was a mother's help on LI the year after!  Shanti Mama   Jul-17-09 04:09 AM   #94 
   Ah, those were the days. Full time employment as a mom's helper at  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 09:12 AM   #129 
   Yes. nt  Obamanaut   Jul-17-09 04:52 AM   #95 
   I was in Belleville, IL with a co-worker  eridani   Jul-17-09 05:50 AM   #96 
   I Was In Israel  KharmaTrain   Jul-17-09 06:21 AM   #97 
   Please tell me you went to Woodstock, too.  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 08:32 AM   #105 
      Well...  KharmaTrain   Jul-17-09 08:54 AM   #115 
   Yes, I certainly do remember.  RebelOne   Jul-17-09 06:28 AM   #98 
   Watching it on TV and making a pretty hopeless attempt to take a photo (included) of it ..  Princess Turandot   Jul-17-09 06:35 AM   #99 
   Wow and good for you!  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 08:47 AM   #111 
   Six years old  WeDidIt   Jul-17-09 06:36 AM   #100 
   Standing on the beach watching it take off.  Atman   Jul-17-09 06:39 AM   #101 
   I was 12, and my mom was in the hospital after having  KatyaR   Jul-17-09 07:23 AM   #102 
   I was 10 and I got to stay up late !  RagAss   Jul-17-09 07:27 AM   #103 
   I was in sleepaway bible camp in rural Pennsylvania. They woke us up to see it.  HamdenRice   Jul-17-09 07:29 AM   #104 
   I was in a bar in Colorado Springs drinking a beer with a fellow Army buddy  ThomWV   Jul-17-09 08:38 AM   #107 
   I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch it on TV because it was past my bedtime.  YewNork   Jul-17-09 08:38 AM   #108 
   I had just turned 12 one month prior  IDemo   Jul-17-09 08:43 AM   #109 
   I was 9, and following every moment  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 08:44 AM   #110 
   6 years old, in my jammies, sitting on the couch  WolverineDG   Jul-17-09 08:48 AM   #112 
   Course the images from the moon were not in color  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 09:04 AM   #126 
      Yeah, that was the irony of the situation  WolverineDG   Jul-17-09 09:09 AM   #128 
         We had nothing but color by then  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 09:19 AM   #131 
            Yeah, I wouldn't have pegged my dad for being on the "cutting edge" of technology  WolverineDG   Jul-17-09 11:49 AM   #152 
   I was in the sixth grade and we watched it in class  lefthandedlefty   Jul-17-09 08:49 AM   #113 
   Same here  NorthCarolina   Jul-17-09 09:28 AM   #133 
   Welcome to DU!  Strong Atheist   Jul-17-09 01:12 PM   #159 
   I'm old enough to FORGET where I was.  ColbertWatcher   Jul-17-09 08:51 AM   #114 
   I think I remember...  Silent3   Jul-17-09 09:03 AM   #125 
   Glued to the tube with my parents, having trouble making out the hazy images  johnfunk   Jul-17-09 08:55 AM   #116 
   I'm old enough to remember Yuri Gagarin  lunatica   Jul-17-09 08:55 AM   #117 
   If you remember the dog, here is a movie to rent!  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 09:01 AM   #123 
   Thirteen years old, watching on our old Magnovox B&W as Uncle Walter talked us through it  NoPasaran   Jul-17-09 08:57 AM   #119 
   I was a kid, too young to realize the importance, but I recall my older brother being glued to TV  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-17-09 08:58 AM   #120 
   I sure do.  H2O Man   Jul-17-09 09:00 AM   #121 
   I was 14, I remember staying up all night  DearAbby   Jul-17-09 09:01 AM   #122 
   I was 15 and moderately interested. Hubby was 17 and took photos of the TV screen...  MgtPA   Jul-17-09 09:03 AM   #124 
   We were on our summer road trip visiting relatives in Chadron, NE  sweetpotato   Jul-17-09 09:06 AM   #127 
   Michael Collins- he was the pilot of the Columbia  Bluenorthwest   Jul-17-09 09:25 AM   #132 
   Collins' was the hardest job  comrade snarky   Jul-17-09 01:05 PM   #158 
   I was living in a neighborhood right next to the studio where they filmed the "landing"  Bucky   Jul-17-09 09:32 AM   #134 
   Hahaha! You need to write a book.  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 10:44 AM   #143 
   I was not yet 3 years old  Mad_Dem_X   Jul-17-09 09:38 AM   #135 
   In a 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass station wagon, westbound on I-8 in Imperial County, CA  slackmaster   Jul-17-09 09:43 AM   #136 
   I was 4 1/2 years old living in base housing at the old McCoy AFB, Orlando.  cureautismnow   Jul-17-09 10:13 AM   #137 
   I was 9.  LWolf   Jul-17-09 10:27 AM   #138 
   At NASA in Houston, in the control center  DavidDvorkin   Jul-17-09 10:28 AM   #139 
   WOW!! How wonderful for you!!!!!!! and exciting !!! thanks for the story!! eom  flyarm   Jul-17-09 11:09 AM   #146 
   Wow, how cool was that?! That must be a cherished memory. nt  babylonsister   Jul-17-09 12:57 PM   #157 
   DavidDvorkin, my dad worked for NASA, also.  Blue_In_AK   Jul-18-09 03:05 AM   #184 
   That overlaps my time there  DavidDvorkin   Jul-18-09 12:30 PM   #191 
   I just posted a more detailed version on my blog  DavidDvorkin   Jul-18-09 12:29 PM   #190 
   I am old enough, but....  gblady   Jul-17-09 10:30 AM   #140 
   I was in the Navy, on a ship, in port at Charleston, SC.  Stinky The Clown   Jul-17-09 10:33 AM   #141 
   I remember sitting on the couch and watching it on tv.  sybylla   Jul-17-09 10:35 AM   #142 
   I was five years old  doni_georgia   Jul-17-09 10:59 AM   #144 
   First time in my life I was allowed to stay up late to watch TV.  amb123   Jul-17-09 11:11 AM   #147 
   I was in Vietnam  Winterblues   Jul-17-09 11:11 AM   #148 
   I was 17 and also glued to the TV  Milspec   Jul-17-09 11:37 AM   #149 
   We had just come home from a family vacation  undeterred   Jul-17-09 11:38 AM   #150 
   At an Aunt's and Uncle's home in Ann Arbor  Kaleva   Jul-17-09 11:53 AM   #153 
   Almost 4 years old.  Dulcinea   Jul-17-09 12:18 PM   #155 
   Indelible memory--hot & humid summer Sunday in Nebraska,  Surya Gayatri   Jul-17-09 12:56 PM   #156 
   I was 16 and watching our b&w tv with two girlfriends  livetohike   Jul-17-09 01:16 PM   #160 
   Just married, watched it all on the B&W TV. Was employed doing rocket science  unc70   Jul-17-09 04:26 PM   #161 
   Watching the next door neighbour's TV 'cause it was colour  TrogL   Jul-17-09 04:30 PM   #162 
   In Kalamazoo, at my fiance's apartment.  GeorgeGist   Jul-17-09 05:28 PM   #163 
   Nope, only old folks remember it.  aikoaiko   Jul-17-09 05:45 PM   #165 
   I was 5 years old and at home--it was summer so no school (started first grade that fall)  WI_DEM   Jul-17-09 05:49 PM   #166 
   Not born yet.  backscatter712   Jul-17-09 05:50 PM   #167 
   Let's see, I was 12., and I remember my Mormon Sunday School teacher taking  Raster   Jul-17-09 05:54 PM   #168 
   I was in the hot lobby of this chintzy apartment building in Dinkytown  Hardrada   Jul-17-09 10:59 PM   #171 
   Atlanta, Georgia. At home.  Solly Mack   Jul-17-09 11:03 PM   #172 
   I was around seven.  juno jones   Jul-17-09 11:12 PM   #173 
   I was 26 years old  Individualist   Jul-17-09 11:15 PM   #174 
   Somehow the Moon seems a lot further away than in 1969...  Hekate   Jul-17-09 11:39 PM   #175 
   Watching it with my folks.  AngryOldDem   Jul-17-09 11:45 PM   #177 
   Watching it with my extended family at my grandparents. I was thirteen & trying to explain it to my  Vidar   Jul-18-09 12:33 AM   #180 
   Watching it at the farm.  texanwitch   Jul-18-09 01:49 AM   #181 
   I was in Colorado  Blue_In_AK   Jul-18-09 03:04 AM   #183 
   I was not alive at the time  fujiyama   Jul-18-09 03:50 AM   #185 
   at work...they brought in a tv so we could watch  madrchsod   Jul-18-09 05:46 AM   #186 
   I Was 13.  ProfessorGAC   Jul-18-09 06:16 AM   #187 
   I was 8...  FormerOstrich   Jul-18-09 07:17 AM   #188 
   In South Fallsburg NY- I was nine  Danmel   Jul-18-09 07:41 AM   #189 
 

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