Where were you on July 20, 1969?

[alzan]

Watching the replay of the event on the evening news with Walter Cronkite.

 

[sixone]

I was taking a swim in teh amniotic fluid.

 

[JeepinEd]

I was four days from being born.
My parents named me after Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.

 

[Drako]

Watching it on TV with my brothers and my Mom.

 

[weadjust]

I don't remember I was 6. My dad worked for NASA at the Stennis Space Center on the MS Gulf Coast. I went with him that summer to watch NASA test fire one of the Apollo rocket engines. There was lots of fire, smoke, and the ground was shaking like an earthquake. It was coolest thing I had ever seen in my short life. A month later Hurricane Camille hit and we moved away.

 

[marvdmartian]

We were actually home that summer, instead of being off on vacation somewhere. My mom dragged all us kids inside, and sat us down in front of the TV set, because she knew how historic that moment was going to be (even if we didn't). Guess her having been a school teacher helped, in that regard. ()

 

[Engineer]

Just turned 6 months old on July 4th so didn't pay much attention.

 

[bobeedee]

Lowell Massachusetts

 

[PClark99]

On July 20th I was getting ready to take a ride down the birth canal.

I was born on the 21st.

 

[nanette1985]

Watching TV with a bunch of strangers in a lounge in the Breakers hotel at Cedar Point, waiting to go onstage to perform a concert. Totally remember it - knew the date right away.

 

[AdamK47]

I'll call this the "lets see who's old" thread.

 

[rbV5]

I was 9 years old. Good year for space and music.......

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I'll call this the "lets see who's old" thread.

Well I mean. I wasn't born till 1995.

I was -26 years old

 

[thebestMAX]

I was in Philadelphia going to school for the new Burroughs (now Unisys) B-3500 mainframe as a Field Engineer having just left my QC position at Univac in Minneapolis.

Little known W C Fields Quote:
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields

 

[her209]

I was in pair of balls

Immpossibru. The average life span of a sperm is 8 days.

 

[T_K]

Existed as a statistical probability.

 

[Sea Moose]

I was a twinkle in my fathers eye while he was fighting the vietcong

 

[skyking]

I was 9 years old. Good year for space and music.......

:thumbsup:
We watched that night together.
Ruby, you crack me up. Your experiment was not conducive to watching theirs

 

[Thump553]

My father was a fairly high powered executive and was working in Portugal developing a factory. He negotiated with his employer that they would fly the family over for the summer and put us up. We were staying in an elegant, but older small hotel that only had one small, grainy black and white TV in the lobby.

It was like midnight-2:00AM when Armstrong stepped onto the moon. The lobby was absolutely packed with people (patrons and staff-very few Portugese had their own TVs back then) and the place went wild. I remember that night as clearly as if it was last week.

The other highlight was when we rented a car and drove to western Spain to sightsee. Stopping in a small town our family was the main attraction in the cafe-I swear half the town hung around outside to look at us. Eventually the police chief "invited" my father and I to the police station to get to the bottom of why we were in town.

 

[Meghan54]

Watched it on TV. Was getting ready for 10th grade. "Real" high school......

 

[Metron]

I was taking a swim in teh amniotic fluid.

Six is a young one!

I was in the waiting room at a hospital, and I clearly remember watching it live on TV. My younger sister had just been born days earlier.

 

[jupiter57]

I was 14 at the time, we had just moved to town from the farm.
I remember that the rest of the family wasn't interested, so I went into the Den & had to listen to it on the radio. (Hee-Haw must have been on! LOL)

Had I known we weren't going to be watching it on TV, I certainly would have went to one of the neighbors. (Huge Space Program fan, still am!)

 

[dud]

Assuming you were alive, do you remember where you were when Apollo 11 landed and Neil Armstrong set foot upon the moon?


And just a thought, but for something so historic an event, how many people knew the importance of July 20 without the year being mentioned?

I remember watching the landing on an old, small B&W tube. I also remember watching what I thought was a parade back in '63. It wasn't a parade ...