20 July 1969: Where were you?
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20 July 1969: Where were you?
I was playing an outdoor park pavilion concert with the DeRosa All-Star Jazz Band. An interesting experience. A typical, muggy New York summer evening. Touchdown had already happened around 4 PM EDT. Through most of our show, at least half the audience had transistor radios up to their ears. Then as the LEM door opened, everything came to a dead halt. The sound engineer patched a radio into the PA, we in the band went backstage where someone had set up a portable TV, and we watched Walter Cronkite's coverage of that first step and Armstrong's famous garbled words. As a future linguist, I remember thinking "That doesn't make sense!" A few minutes later we were back on stage to finish the show. I'd like to remember that we played "Moon River" or "Blue Moon", but I don't think that happened.
Big Band Jazz and real moonwalking, not the fake MJ variety. A memorable night. For those too young, I guess it's hard to convey how truly exciting it was. Viet Nam raging, the US tearing itself apart. And yet there was this transcendent moment of science fiction become reality. Or at least a great NASA sound stage production.
Big Band Jazz and real moonwalking, not the fake MJ variety. A memorable night. For those too young, I guess it's hard to convey how truly exciting it was. Viet Nam raging, the US tearing itself apart. And yet there was this transcendent moment of science fiction become reality. Or at least a great NASA sound stage production.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Headed toward Fresno from Yosemite.
We pulled into a road house, parked the bikes, when in,
the place was empty, stuff on a few tables,
tv going in the kitchen....
We wandered back into the kitchen just after touchdown.
We pulled into a road house, parked the bikes, when in,
the place was empty, stuff on a few tables,
tv going in the kitchen....
We wandered back into the kitchen just after touchdown.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Sitting in front of a Black and White T.V.
Watching the evening news...
An incredible achievement .. what amazed me most was how they got them back...
Slan,
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Watching the evening news...
An incredible achievement .. what amazed me most was how they got them back...
Slan,
D.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
I was a child. I was not impressed. I had seen way better touchdowns on the sci-fi movies that my older brothers always made me watched. And besides, they found rockin life and love interests and civilizations on the planets in the sci-fi shows. The video was grainy. NASA was just going to have to do better to impress me.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
In utero. I was born the following March, so my mother was about 6 weeks along, I think.
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I was in a neighbor's horse barn, getting shoes put on my mare. They had the radio on and we stopped to listen.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
The youth of today...ha.izzarina wrote:In utero. I was born the following March, so my mother was about 6 weeks along, I think.
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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I was heading down the M1 to London in my dad's red Vauxhall Viva to find accommodation for my upcoming student life.
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I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
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I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Watch out or I'll throw my cute little 3" heel at youdubhlinn wrote:The youth of today...ha.izzarina wrote:In utero. I was born the following March, so my mother was about 6 weeks along, I think.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Making out with a girl named Cathy, who would later become my first ex-girlfriend.
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And yellow fringe
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
I was 8 years old. They let us stay home from school to watch it on the news (and yes...on a black and white TV!).
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
My brother had driven his new Porsche from Indiana to visit me in Arizona. I remember watching TV images of the moon event, looking through store windows in a Mexican border town. It is fitting that the next day we drove the Porsche through Luna, New Mexico and camped outside of town.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
In kindergarten, watching on a black and white TV they wheeled in to the class.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
At home watching a black and white TV. It's kind of a fuzzy, grainy, monocolor memory. Not much about it that's remarkable.
Odd, because I remember in vivid detail exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that John F. Kennedy had been shot.
Gonzo, that's disgusting! Eww!
Odd, because I remember in vivid detail exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that John F. Kennedy had been shot.
Gonzo, that's disgusting! Eww!
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Not being conceived for another two months.
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