Where were you when man landed on the moon 7/20/1969?

[rurallib]

Me? I was pumping gas at my dad's station on the interstate. We had a 12" B&W TV sitting on top of a freezer.
Every time someone came in I told them they could come in and watch the moon landing with us (@25 people in the end) or wait and I'd be out later.
So there we were a collection of travelers and me watching a very fuzzy B%W of one of the greatest days in history.

[JTG of the PRB]

1. I was thirteen years, seven months, and two days away from being born.

Back then, my parents weren't even married yet. Ah, to have seen it though... What a moment it would must been.

[rurallib]

4. Sit back and listen while the elders spin some tales, young un

[charlie and algernon]

5. heh, my parents were just starting high school then

[Strong Atheist]

2. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[Suich]

3. Sitting on a pool table, watching a TV

at a tavern we owned!

:)

[frogmarch]

6. I was at a little grocery store in

Kinnear, Wyoming, with my little daughter, who would one day be a scientist on the Cassini launch team. As the moon landing was being broadcast on the small black and white TV, the woman who owned the store was shaking her head and grumbling, saying it was all a hoax.

[realisticphish]

7. 17 years before birth

[Withywindle]

8. Being breastfed, most likely (though not at the Olive Garden)

I was not quite two weeks old. :hi:

[Lasher]

9. I was in Seoul, South Korea

Rotting away during a 13 month tour. :(

[MajorChode]

10. I was probably like Homer Simpson...

in the other room singing Yummy Yummy Yummy.

[DBoon]

11. Junior High Summer School woodshop

nt

[RushIsRot]

12. Sick in my bed with a summer flu in Jersey City, NJ, glued to the TV.

[Archae]

13. No one landed on the moon!

The "moon hoax" people on Fart Smell's and George Nutty's radio program said so! :crazy:

[trackfan]

14. Watched it on black & white TV in my parents living room.

I was 9 years old.

[Archae]

15. Me too.

Gawd, was I excited, though.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Me three

Summer of '69 was so wonderful-- swimming, skating, and watching the moon landing.

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"

[RoyGBiv]

16. Probably pooping my diaper ...

I was barely a month old.

[anneboleyn]

22. Snort. I wasn't even the proverbial twinkle in my father's eye.

[mix]

17. you get the idea

your experience sounds awesome, a great day for humanity
:hi:

[suninvited]

18. I was in Keflavik, Iceland

It was my eighth birthday, and that morning a Brownie scouts camping trip I was supposed to go to had been canceled because it was raining. All four of us kids sat on the side of my parents bed watching a little black and white TV and watched the moon landing. At the end of the day, I decided I was glad that the camping trip was canceled so I could see the men on the moon !

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. At my grandma's house laid out on the floor beside my brother. All

the "adults" were sitting around the perimeter of the large den either in rocking chairs, sofas or ottomans or some ladderback chair they had dragged in from the dining room.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

20. In a motel in Farmington, New Mexico, with

my brand-new husband. We were on a three-month honeymoon, camping our way across the States, up the Pacific coast, and then across Canada.

We had to hunt down a motel room, since everything was occupied. Everyone wanted to see it, but we finally found a very nice place, in Farmington, and it was lovely, him sitting on the floor, me stretched out on the bed, and, at the moment Armstrong stepped out, he reached for my hand........................

[mix]

61. what a beautiful NM/Moon story !

[Skittles]

21. I was 12 years old, in England

very proud indeed

[dana_b]

23. in pre school

where my mom taught. we watched it on t.v. but I don't remember too much

[SeattleGirl]

24. Staying with my grandparents for the summer. That day, I was glued to

the TV, watching it.

Amazing day.

[csziggy]

25. Glued to my parents' B&W TV in the Florida room

My sister had gone to the cape to watch the launch - she recently found the pictures, but did not get the actual launch, just the crowds. It took off on my 17th birthday. We could watch the Apollo launches on TV, go outside and see the plume rise over the garage across the street.

I think I watched the entire broadcast shown from on the moon non-stop. No one else in my family stuck to it full time so I was mostly by myself.

[enigmatic]

27. watching it on TV w/ my brothers

I was 6; this was amazing to watch and I remember Cronkite walking us through what was going on..

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I was at summer camp in Colchester, Vermont.

My friend and I happened to have "duty" outside that night, walking around with flashlights, so we were invited into the camp nurse's cabin to watch this historical event. She was probably the only one in the camp to have a TV. Wow. We were incredibly fortunate, as I realized much later. :wow:

And, yes, it was a small black-and-white, too. :-)

[sarge43]

29. Trafalgar Square, London about two in the morning

Huge TV screens were set up around the square. There were thousands of people jammed into that space, not a inch of standing room left. I was lucky; I had a seat on one the lions' pedestals.

During the final approach, almost total silence. When we heard Neil Armstrong say, "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." and the words "Man on the Moon" were flashed on the screens, I think they heard the roar over in Paris.

Unforgettable moment.

[Lucian]

30. That happened 13 years before I was born.

:P

[Tabasco_Dave]

31. In a crib pooping in my diapers

:-)

[dropkickpa]

32. My dad's balls.

[Inchworm]

39. hehe

:spray:

Thanks.

:hi:

[dropkickpa]

65. I aim to please!

[Burma Jones]

33. Rockville, MD, 9 years old, watching at another family's apartment

because we were all packed up and were moving to New Orleans the next day. That was a far better way to see it, with three or four families together. With my family moving and being in such a state of flux at the time, it was as though everything was new. Less than a month later, we were welcomed to New Orleans by Hurricane Camille......Which, since we only got the edge, was scary and thrilling but ultimately OK.

[Mr. Ected]

34. Kansas City, Missouri

I was 8 and my family had just moved to KC the month before, from Dallas, TX. It was my brother's 4th birthday. We were visiting our next door neighbor's pottery shop (he was an expert potter...and pothead, we later learned), when the lunar landing was broadcast. Little tiny black and white TV. Forty years later and the memory is as fresh as yesterday.

[Sanity Claws]

35. With my family at home watching on a B&W tv

We were on east coast time and I remember it happened it really late. We all stayed up for it.

[hedgehog]

36. Irony alert: my mom and friend and I were spending the week helping

out at a day care center for migrant workers' kids. We were sleeping in a converted barn.


If we can put a man on the moon.......why can't we get our food without having people living in poverty?

[raccoon]

37. At home watching it on TV. nt

[Inchworm]

38. Pooping in my diaper

chillin around the house in Michigan suckin down a few bottles.

:)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. I had to listen to it on the radio

My grandmother kept a trailer parked at a lake in northern Minnesota, and that's where we were. No TV, just a multiband shortwave radio the size of a suitcase from the 1940s. We used to amuse ourselves by seeing how many countries we could pull in. We got Indonesia once.

Anyway, on the night of July 20, 1969, we were all at the trailer. I didn't see the TV pictures till weeks later.

[RebelOne]

41. At home in No. Miami Beach watching it on TV.

Then called my mother, who always said I read too much science fiction, to tell her, "I told you it would happen one day."

[Deep13]

42. I was not quite 2 yrs. old.

I don't really remember.

[KansDem]

43. Long Beach, California. Barbecuing on the patio...

We had pulled out our portable TV to watch the moonwalk while eating. It was exciting to see it happen on the television and then look up and see the moon in the sky!

[PassingFair]

44. At a rented cabin "up north" in Michigan....

My mom and dad made us come in from
frog catching.

Mom had made jiffy-pop and we all watched
it on a tiny black and white TV with crummy
reception.

I remember my Dad being BLOWN AWAY.
We were bratty and wanted to go back
outside, but mostly I remember my father
being almost reverent about the moment, so
we quieted down and watched.

He was an atheist, so I didn't see him
in awe very often!

I was nine.

[crimsonblue]

45. who cares?

it's not like it was important. seriously.

[proteus_lives]

66. Why wasn't important?

I would be interested in your reasoning because most of the human race thinks it is one of the most important marks of the last 100 years.

[redqueen]

87. Were you high when you posted that? (nt)

[Arkansas Granny]

46. Visiting with a friend and watching on her nearly pooped out B&W tv.

It really looked like a cheap science fiction movie.

[Tikki]

47. Also, tiny B&W.....

Mr. Tikki was stationed in Louisiana...I was there with him.
We sat around the tiny TV and watched years of American
ingenuity, hard work and excellence come to fruition. Amazing..it was.


Tikki

[backtoblue]

48. an ova

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

49. On a double date,

can't remember her name, home on leave from the service, watching the movie "Goodbye Columbus" (didn't like it), going out to the theatre lobby to watch it on the little black and white set on the counter but missed the actual event. :)

[MicaelS]

50. Watched it live, I was about to turn 12.

Then I went to sleep early so I could get up in the middle of the night to watch the moonwalk. My parents woke me up ahead of time, because they pushed up the time of the moonwalk. Watched Armstrong, and then Aldrin come down the ladder.

[Auggie]

52. Me too

We must be the same age

[Crabby Appleton]

51. About 25 miles north of Saigon, Vietnam

in the Army, didn't get to see it on TV.

[leeroysphitz]

53. Smokin' dope and drinkin' wine.

[guitar man]

54. At home

Sitting in front of the TV in my family's big old farm house in rural Oklahoma.I was 5 years old. The entire family. mom, dad and four kids were just sitting there watching it on a big old RCA color console. No one said a word, we were all silent as we watched it....

[bikebloke]

55. Somewhere in Maryland

My incubator(read: mother) forced me to go to her boyfriend's house where I watched it on teevee. A year later, I stopped living with the monster, and not once did she ever try to contact me since there wasn't any money in it for her.

[yellowcanine]

56. Hanging out in a bowling alley with some buddies. Saw it on the TV there.

[Bertha Venation]

57. Six years old. Playing outside. An amusing story:

The Orange County Register solicited "where were you" stories for a special issue commemorating 25th anniversary of the moon landing. My sister submitted hers:

In short, we were all (my sisters and me) playing outside. Our mother yelled at us to come in and watch it. My sister said that more than the moon landing, she remembered how strange it was for our mother to want us all back in the house.

Okay, really mildly amusing. :shrug:

I do not remember the moon landing, and it's one of my regrets. Sigh.

[krispos42]

58. 7 years from being born.

Although I hope to see man landing on Mars before I die.

[Wapsie B]

59. Watching it on tv with relatives at my Aunt and Uncle's house.

[Arugula Latte]

60. Three years old watching on a black & white TV in a Cleveland suburb.

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. Oh, please - are people still buying that old "we landed on the moon" conspiracy?

Let it go, man.

Let it go.



on edit: spelled conspiracy incorrectly. Hmmm... was it because of the government mind control devices? :tinfoilhat:

[sakabatou]

63. Wasn't born yet

[meow2u3]

64. I was sitting in my living room watching the B&W TV

I was 8 years old back then when my mom called me in to the house; I was playing in the back yard with my brother. She made us come in and watch the moon landing, telling us, "This is history. You will not miss this!" She was not about to let me miss one of history's finest moments.

[WolverineDG]

84. My mom was like that

made me watch Nixon's resignation & take notes because "it's something you'll be talking about in school." :eyes: Um, no, everyone was a combination of sick of & embarrassed about the whole thing, so we never talked about it in school. Weird.

I even took notes the afternoon Reagan was shot, even writing down that Brady had died when Frank Reynolds say it, then he retracted it. Later someone handed him another piece of paper with something on it & he yelled "I'm not going to announce this on air unless it's been confirmed!" Always wondered what was on that piece of paper.

dg

[scheming daemons]

67. In my playpen, probably crying because mommy hadn't changed my diaper yet

..because she was too busy watching Walter Kronkite.



Oh wait... nevermind.. .that was last week.

[proteus_lives]

68. I did not yet exist

But I know my mome was watching with her family and my dad listened on the radio at his post in Vietnam.

[Common Sense Party]

69. Sitting in dirty diapers.

[HughBeaumont]

70. 8 months into me mum's womb.

Missed that AND missed Woodstock by a week. Damn.

[On the Road]

71. I Was 15 Years Old

Travelling with my parents in Europe (only time that ever happened). We saw the men walking on the moon at night in Paris, in TVs on display in shop windows.

[Frosty1]

72. In Honolulu Hawaii

My then husband was on the recovery team for the splashdown
:patriot:

[Vidar]

73. Watching it on my grandparents' TV with most the family.

[MrSlayer]

74. In utero.

Alive but only for about a month.

[MrScorpio]

75. Watching it on TV

It was on every TV in Detroit

[Fire Walk With Me]

76. I believe on vacation in Canada, 5 years old.

I remember the place and activities but not the location. It was very hot, and we let ice cubes melt upon the cement, sliding down it..

[blueknight]

77. covington, kentucky

i was 12 years old and having a great summer of 69! riding bikes, swimming, playing outside! those were the days

[Dystopian]

78. Riding around in the VW bug with friends...

Riding to nowhere smoking hash.
Didn't care.
I know I saw it...must have been after it happened or something.


peace~

[reflection]

79. I was a gleam in my Dad's eye at an Elvis concert, I think.

:shrug:

[Moondog]

80. At a party in Coral Gables, FL with a bunch of HS friends.

We watched it on TV and were, like everyone else, amazed.

[Xipe Totec]

81. In Mexico - glued to the TV

watching the event live with my whole family.

I've never been prouder to be a human being than at that moment.

[WolverineDG]

82. Age 6, At home

Dad made us watch. :) We had a *color* TV & everything. ;)

My dad was a big fan of science-fiction & the space program. I'm so glad he lived to see color pictures taken on Mars. He always wanted to travel in space. :sniff:

dg

[datasuspect]

83. i was in my mom's guts

[LiberalEsto]

85. Working at a summer job

I was a summer sales clerk at a Kresges store in northern NJ that summer. Awful job because the people were so nasty. But they gave us a few minutes to watch the moon landing in the department that sold tvs.

[Z_I_Peevey]

86. Tulsa airport

My mother and I were there to pick up my father, who was coming in from Detroit, I think, after some U.A.W. business. I caught a glimpse of the landing on a small B/W TV mounted over one of the airline counters. Didn't get to stop and watch because Dad was in a hurry. There was a crowd of about 20 people gathered around, and everyone broke out into applause when it happened.

I remember being very proud that my father's place of employment manufactured parts of the equipment used on the mission. North American, later North American/Rockwell. Even though my father, a carpenter, only made the crates in which the parts were shipped, I pretended that he had actually touched some of the "moon stuff" with his own hands.

[Sheltiemama]

88. Not quite 2 years old.

It kills me that I was alive then but can't remember it!

[redqueen]

89. I was still a good 2 1/2 months from being born. (nt)

[doc03]

90. Was in the Army stationed in West Germany

When they made the moon landing I was at Camp May near Regan, West Germany. That day the German locals had a party for us and supplied all the food and beer we could handle. The weather was beautiful that day and we had a great time getting plastered. We watched the landing on a 19" TV outside the CO's office.

[tabbycat31]

91. 11 years before birth

[velvet]

92. Newcastle, Australia

Ever see "The Dish"? Sweet movie about the broadcast of the moon landing via the radio telescope in Parkes. Australia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish

At the time I was 17, sitting on the floor of the TV lounge in the Student Union building of Newcastle University.

Yeah, and we was all in black and white back then.

[CatholicEdHead]

93. Many years from birth

[lildreamer316]

94. In a different body.

LOL.

[TripleKatPad]

95. 13 years old

Camped out at my aunt's house, with my cousins, sisters, aunt and uncle, mom and dad. It's a moment carved deeply in my memories, one I won't forget.