Were you?

[PantyFanatic]

If the answer is yes to that, what and where were you doing 38 years ago tonight?

[IowaMan]

Nope, I didn't see it. I was about a year and a half old at the time but the story I've been told is they brought a TV into my hospital room at the Univ. of Iowa Hospitals and my folks watched it with a couple of nurses. If you're asking about what I think you're asking about....... one small step????

[jay-t]

yes I did , Sitting in the living room glued to the tube

[PantyFanatic]

Yes IM.:) My son was only about a year older than you and was sitting on my lap watching also (or being pointed at the tube) but remembers about the same as you. LOL

It WAS an "I remember..." moment for a lot of people on this planet. ;)

[Scarecrow]

At home in the living room. One Giant leap ...

[scotzoidman]

13 1/2 yrs old... I think my bro was back in Germany with his new bride, but the rest of the family was sitting in front of the big-ass Zenith in the den...my dad was a federal employee (US Customs) & Tricky Dick had given him the next day off so he could stay up & watch...I can only imagine what he was thinking (the Sarge did not wear his feelings on his sleeve), since he was born about 6 years after KittyHawk, & here he was watching guys walking on the moon, fercryinoutloud...my thoughts would return to that shadowy, almost ghostly image on the screen when I heard some assholes insisting it was faked on a Hollywood sound stage...if Hollywood had produced this, I would have expected a hell of a lot better pictures out of the deal...

[Lilith]

I was itty bitty but I have a scrapbook that an old lady from my Gramma's church made for me and it has all the clippings.

[Fangtasia]

I would have been drooling, oooing, ahhhing and making crappy nappy :D :D

[osuche]

...not born yet....


/me creeps out of the thread.

[nwnnguy]

...not born yet....


/me creeps out of the thread.
me neither

about 11 years before my time.....

[PantyFanatic]

...not born yet.....
That is the difference in this event being spectacular news and history. I think you will someday tell someone about 9/11 that will look at you like it was just something else in the book along with Bunker Hill, Waterloo and the Titanic. :cool:

[Oldfart]

I was in school, second last year of High School, sat in a hall with a zillion other kids watching one black and white TV.

History.

[BigBear57]

I was 11 and watching it at home with my Mom and brothers. I remember seeing it and hearing people say it was staged in Hollywood. LOL

[jseal]

We were on Home Leave and watched it in my Aunt's basement with the rest of the family. It was a big deal (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0720.html#article).

[LixyChick]

I thought I remembered seeing this in school (they wheeled the TV into the classroom) but with everyone's answer of being at home in front of the TV I think I'm mistaken.

Hmmmmmm...why would I have that false memory?

What day and time of day did it actually air? I gotta figure out where I was!

I take pride in remembering my childhood...way back to an incident when I was 1y/o. I related something to my mom once and she was surprised to realize I was remembering something when I was only a year old.

This throws a wrench into the mix for me!

[gekkogecko]

Watching the thing on the B & W TV. And comparing it to some of the stuff from some kids' books about how people would someday go to the moon.

[Lilith]

I was in school, second last year of High School, sat in a hall with a zillion other kids watching one black and white TV.

History.

That was me when the Challenger exploded. We could not get reception and my bio teacher kept getting kids to stand and be the antennae. All of us were in shock.

[LixyChick]

That was me when the Challenger exploded. We could not get reception and my bio teacher kept getting kids to stand and be the antennae. All of us were in shock.
Now I DO know where I was when that happened. I was at work in an optical frame warehouse and we had a little 13" TV on to watch the excitement. Man was I depressed and shocked!

[PantyFanatic]

I thought I remembered seeing this in school (they wheeled the TV into the classroom) ..... I think I'm mistaken.
...... I gotta figure out where I was! ....This throws a wrench into the mix for me!
I don't think you were at school in July or on a Sunday, Lixy. :shrug:

I remember it was about 22:00 (EDT) on a weekend evening and we had been glued to the tube for hours, but I did have to look up if it was a Saturday or a Sunday.


"...At 2:56 UTC on July 21, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon's surface and spoke his famous line "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" exactly six and a half hours after landing..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

[Oldfart]

That was me when the Challenger exploded. We could not get reception and my bio teacher kept getting kids to stand and be the antennae. All of us were in shock.

Especially the one who grabbed the wrong wire?

[IowaMan]

That was me when the Challenger exploded. We could not get reception and my bio teacher kept getting kids to stand and be the antennae. All of us were in shock.
Yep, same for me except it was physics class.

[Booger]

Sitting in my great grandparents (mother's father's parents) house waatched it on a black and white TV.


Ok I was only a month old (to the day) then so I don't really remember it at all but I've been told the story and remember my great grandparents house and their TV and have watched it.

[sodaklostsoul]

I was 3 so prolly doing what a 3 year old does.

[LixyChick]

I don't think you were at school in July or on a Sunday, Lixy. :shrug:

I remember it was about 22:00 (EDT) on a weekend evening and we had been glued to the tube for hours, but I did have to look up if it was a Saturday or a Sunday.


"...At 2:56 UTC on July 21, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon's surface and spoke his famous line "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" exactly six and a half hours after landing..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
OK...so I was 11 y/o when Apollo 11 landed. You'd think that if I could remember something from when I was 1 y/o that I would remember wtf I was doing when I was 11 and everyone else on the planet was watching TV!!! Maybe I was out looting or something...lmfao! Oh shoot...another missed opportunity!

Anyway...your PM cleared up what it was we watched in school. You are right in that it was the assassination of JFK. TY for your help hun!

[Scarecrow]

Lixy I remember being in school that unforgetable November day

[PantyFanatic]

.... We could not get reception and my bio teacher kept getting kids to stand and be the antennae. All of us were in shock.
Was that where you got your first aluminum helmet? :confused:

[Lilith]

LOL no much we did use tin foil to make antennae to hold towards the window that faced a bigger town.

[Teddy Bear]

38 years ago... how i'd love to say i was a year old or so. But lets see, i guess i was 13 years old. We used to spend most weekends at Dad's and we watched it there. I remember Dad was glued to the set. And we left to go back to Mom's shortly after it was over and missed all the commentary and stuff. It was pretty cool!! When I got out of the car at home I looked up at the moon and thought 'gee there's men up there'. I shot a prayer to God for thier safety and remember feeling very small.

[WildIrish]

My parents were gathered around the neighbor's tv set while I made a boom in my pants.

No...that was not when I learned of the Challenger! :p



For that, I was in the high school library desperately trying to finish my trig homework before seventh period.