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Where were you on July 20, 1969?

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Started 2 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey
Latest reply from Moonshadow_NZ

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Mom and dad packed the station wagon to the hilt, reserving 7 places for us to sit. We headed for our annual vacation to the (Jersey) Shore. Rented the same bungalow every year. This was the ONLY year we brought a television, in order to watch the moon landing. I was just a 5 year old pipsqueek!

Posted 2 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
I was young too, but I remember it. We were at the family cottage. We didn't have a TV there, so we went down to someone else's cottage to watch.

Posted 2 years ago by NNGM #
I was 5 also!!! But actually don't remember watching!

Posted 2 years ago by 2bpurring #
I was nine, I remember watching it at home with my 2 brothers & my mom.

Posted 2 years ago by BoogerMercurysMama #
I was 11...... I remember watching it on TV with my Mom and brother..... we wer all amazed!......and I was wearing my POW bracelet at the time......

Posted 2 years ago by AV #
I was 13, babysitting some kids down the street. We all watched it together. It was very cool but I was a little miffed at the time because they broke into the Miss Universe pageant, lol.

Posted 2 years ago by Annie R #
I was merely a twinkle in God's eye! Not yet born!

Posted 2 years ago by mollycat71 #
I was in Great Falls MT and I was 9. I remember us all crowded around the TV. My dad was so nervous that they wouldn't make it back that he breathed a huge sigh of relief once the ship came back to Earth.

My favorite aunt always said that nobody ever really went to the moon, "they done all that in Hollywood." lol

Posted 2 years ago by HuddysMama #
Oh Cool, Me & HM are the same age!!! What some good company!!!

Posted 2 years ago by BoogerMercurysMama #
I had just turned ten and my dad made me watch it on TV - I wanted to go outside and play! I remember my neighbor next door, who was a retired farmer who I am sure started farming as a boy before we had tractors and had to use horses - he could not believe that we actually sent men to the moon and was convinced that it was all Hollywood. A moon landing was just too much for this 80+ year old man to comprehend.

Posted 2 years ago by Beachcomber #
Three years away from being born. My parents hadn't even been married a year yet. :p

Posted 2 years ago by Bellantara #
Indeed BMM :)

Posted 2 years ago by HuddysMama #
Oh wow....I had just turned 18 yrs. old the day before and became engaged on same day. Ugh! Now I really feel old!!!!!

Posted 2 years ago by Karenopa #
I wouldn't come into the world for another two years -- I was born in August of 1971.

Posted 2 years ago by Vicki #
Karen, you're not old, not at all.

I was 6 months old, and as I came into the world small and sickly I think I had only been home for about a month and a half.

Posted 2 years ago by Kilroy #
I was 5 years of age (just shy of my 6th birthday in Aug) and I didn't get to watch it. We were possibly just moving to Dallas, Texas at the time (1969-1971).

Posted 2 years ago by SylMiaFelixMomma #
I was 7 months old and I have no clue what was going on then :)

Posted 2 years ago by cricketsmama #
...... awww CM! I bet you were a cute baby!.... probably looked like Abbiefish and probably were doing something like she does now!......

Posted 2 years ago by AV #
actually, I did..I was bald and chubby and driving my parents crazy :)

Posted 2 years ago by cricketsmama #
Hee hee, CM!

Posted 2 years ago by Kilroy #
I was 6...I was sitting in a rocking chair with my grandfather watching it.

Posted 2 years ago by Crazycatman - CA #
LOL @ CM.

Posted 2 years ago by HuddysMama #
I was 14... and, frankly, don't remember where I was. We may have been 'up north' where there was no TV.

Posted 2 years ago by 2 Popoki #
that was 23 years before i was born.

Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
I was almost 6 and was upset that the coverage pre-empted my cartoons on Saturday, July 19.

Posted 2 years ago by Dee #
I was a cool 14 too...Up North & watching a small black & white TV with lousey
reception...so went outside & looked up at the moon for my own view! HA Ha...its true!

Posted 2 years ago by jeankit #
Just have to ask Kotek - where did you go to high school??

Posted 2 years ago by 2 Popoki #
Sorry Popoki...did we pass each other in the halls at either Mercy HS or Pulaski HS on Milwaukee's South Side...or perhaps at a dance with our rival team's school members?!

Posted 2 years ago by jeankit #
Ahhh... you were on the south side. I went to West Milwaukee aka WeMiHi. My mom and dad both went to South Division.

Posted 2 years ago by 2 Popoki #
Watched with my lifelong friend, Daya, on the black and white TV in our den. Sitting on the orange plaid sofa. Yech!

Posted 2 years ago by lisaeylau #