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cooby Jul 20 2009 08:44 PM

When Apollo landed? I was in the kitchen coloring, with my parents yelling 'come in here and watch this!"

themetfairy Jul 20 2009 08:56 PM

I remember watching in my house on Long Island. I think I was watching on the little TV set in my bedroom, although I can't remember why I wouldn't have been watching such an historic event on the big set in the family room.

Swan Swan H Jul 20 2009 09:00 PM

We were at my Aunt June and Uncle Frank's house on Long Island - Babylon, I believe. We normally would have left long before that hour, but we weren't going to miss it.

seawolf17 Jul 20 2009 09:04 PM

Okay, I'll be the first to say it -- not born, for another seven years. And like many folks who were born after the landing, part of me thinks it's ancient history.

Swan Swan H Jul 20 2009 09:31 PM

="seawolf17"]Okay, I'll be the first to say it -- not born, for another seven years. And like many folks who were born after the landing, part of me thinks it's ancient history. I was eleven, and part of me thinks it's ancient history.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 21 2009 05:17 AM

I was about the same age Lunchpail is now, and I don't remember a thing. Ugh.

soupcan Jul 21 2009 06:06 AM

I was almost 5 and have no memory of it but I've been told that my parents, sister and I were at a drive-in movie watching it on the big screen. If anyone knows where The Whitestone Cinemas are off of the Whitestone expressway near the Hutch, thatks where the drive-in was. Again - so I have been told.

Fman99 Jul 21 2009 06:22 AM

="seawolf17":m25pviys]Okay, I'll be the first to say it -- not born, for another seven years. And like many folks who were born after the landing, part of me thinks it's ancient history.[/quote:m25pviys] Born in '73. metsmarathon Jul 21 2009 07:08 AM born in '77. on the bright side, i also missed the seaver trade. so i think its pretty even. RealityChuck Jul 21 2009 07:10 AM IIRC, I was in Macy's when the ship landed and in the McAlpin Hotel when Armstrong set foot on the moon. metirish Jul 21 2009 07:26 AM Even though I was born in 73 the 60's didn't get to Ireland until the late 70's so I was actually 6 when I heard about it , not sure what I was dong though. Edgy DC Jul 21 2009 07:31 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 21 2009 07:47 AM I was two. I was likely crapping my pants and singing some annoying toddler's distorted version of "Yellow Submarine." But I do recall watching a manned landing at the end of the Apollo run, maybe 16 or 17. Interesting note I learned this morning : Longtime <i>Times</i> columnist and then Nixon speechwriter William Safire was asked to prepare a note of condolence in case Armstrong and Aldrin became marooned on the moon and couldn't be rescued. I'd sure like to read that note. Wait, <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0808051apollo1.html" target="_blank">I can</a>! Along with a point that the president should make phone calls to the "widows-to-be." What a macabre job working at the White House must be. metsmarathon Jul 21 2009 07:42 AM wait... the president doesn't come up with that stuff on his own? how embarrassing it would be to reuse the same form letter in the event of multiple tragic crew losses... MFS62 Jul 21 2009 08:19 AM Watching with my wife, who was going through a close-watched pragnancy. (We had lost the first one mid-term) But I was sitting in the hospital waiting room later that year (November), waiting for her to give birth to our first child, when man walked on the moon for the second time. I watched that one, too. Gee, 1969 was a wonderful year. Later soupcan Jul 21 2009 08:40 AM ="RealityChuck":161sn9zv]the McAlpin Hotel[/quote:161sn9zv] That's where my parents wedding reception was. Willets Point Jul 21 2009 10:18 AM Wasn't born yet. All the moon landings were complete about year before my birth. It boggles my mind that something as "futuristic" as walking on the moon hasn't happened during my lifetime. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 21 2009 11:03 AM ="soupcan"]If anyone knows where The Whitestone Cinemas are off of the Whitestone expressway near the Hutch, thatks where the drive-in was. Again - so I have been told. Was the only drive-in in the city limits, I've heard. Live near there-- it's my second-closest theater. Born in '78. HahnSolo Jul 21 2009 02:19 PM Edited because I am an idiot. I was almost 2 when they landed.