jelbe5 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Today is the anniversary of the first moon landing . . . I had just turned 6 and recall watching the fuzzy black and white pictures on our little TV in the trailer we lived in . . . made my dad drive all over to every Gulf gas station as they were giving away a commemorative book free with fill up. I still have that book. Were you here? Do you remember? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountitallJoy Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 3 and a half, standing and grinning in front of the TV that my mom was trying to photograph. She was trying to capture history, but all you can see is my big ol' face looking like this :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeW88 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 It was the day before my 5th birthday, and I thought the astronauts had gone to the moon just for that reason. :D A birthday present for me. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Not even a twinkle in anyone's eye :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Waiting 4 years to be born . . .:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristyB in TN Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was probably asleep in my crib in our church parsonage. My dad was a pastor of a teensy little county church in Ky. All I remember is the green carpet, the concrete porch, skinning my knees and tearing my tights when I fell running to the church, and the sweet neighbor boys getting off the school bus. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 2 goin' on 3. I seem to have a fuzzy memory of my mom pointing at the B&W TV and saying "they're on the mooooon," but I could just be imagining it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyMSews Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 According to my mother, I was being conceived. ;) My dad traveled for work in those days and the weekend of the moon landing was the only time he was home that month. I was born the following April. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 3 months old. My mom said I was lying on the couch next to her while she was watching it on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 We bought our first black and white t.v. especially for the occasion. I was six years old in Japan. I remember watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnitWit Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I had just turned 4, but since we lived on the northeast coast of FL, all things space were huge. I have vague memories of the excitement in my home. I have other memories of watching rockets going up from the top bar of my swingset. :) Those were cool years to be a kid. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeefreak Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My mom had just graduated from high school so I was 6 years from being born.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My parents had been married 2 weeks.....I did not arrive for another 10 years. My mom's best friend's oldest was born that day.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diann Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was celebrating my 9th birthday. I remember my parents letting me stay up late, so I could watch the astronauts walk on the moon. Diann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My older sister was one and a half. My mom stold her in front of the tv and made her watch. And took a picture of my sister watching it so she could prove it. I was still baking, so I am sure I listened to it inside my mom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in SC Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 3 months old, on a blanket with my parents on the back patio of family friends, while they all watched on a tiny b&w set. It was very high tech, as it was plugged into an extension cord that snaked out of a window. I'm told I was completely uninterested. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 3 and living in Africa with no television. I haven't asked my parents how they found out. Probably by newspaper the following day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 not even a twinkle in my parents eyes. Mom was 10, dad was 14 they watched it on tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My dad was 8, so... yeah.... *cough* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 mmmm being conceived,, I was born March 31, 1970, my parents celebrate their 43rd anniversary July 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Sitting on the couch at our home in DC wondering why my mother was making me watch TV, I think.. I was only 21 months old but I have a strong emotional memory of being repeatedly put on the couch to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachskittles Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My mom was 5, my dad was 16 (17 later that year)....Yep, I was no where to be found...:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hthnmamax2 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Both of my parents were still in high school. I didn't exist until about seven years later. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn- Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My parents were in junior high, so not even a remote twinkle in the distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicMama Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My parents were in Elementary school...:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 9, and we were glued to the little portable TV. I have 8x10 b&w pics of the first steps on the moon somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalmia Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 6 months old and my parents propped me up in front of the TV just so I would be able to say I'd seen it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My parents were 4 and 6 years old. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Watching the moon landing on our brand-new-to-us but really straight-from-a-neighbor's-garage-sale color console TV. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Threads like these remind me that I'm actually old enough to be a grandmother instead of a mother with young children. No wonder I'm always so tired. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was born 9 days later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was sitting in our cozy little family room in our 1960's rambler-style home in California, watching the moon landing with my parents and brother and probably wearing my brother's hand-me-downs. :) I remember running outside to look at the moon to see if I could see them. In my memory, not only is the TV show black and white, but I am black and white too. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was in school - I remember them wheeling TVs into several classrooms and we watched. I think many parents had brought their TVs to school so that they could use them in the classrooms that day, since this was a small Catholic school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was ten and running around outside with my friends in the Arizona summer heat. I remember my dad calling me in to see the news on tv. :001_smile: I am not sure if I was adequately impressed but I remember how intense the adults were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linders Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 (edited) 8 years old, Angels Stadium in Californai. The game hadn't started yet and they broadcast the final moments of the Eagle's landing, then fireworks were set off (in daylight). I loved astronomy and begged my dad to leave the game so we could get home to the tv. Edited July 20, 2012 by linders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was in my mama's tummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 (edited) I was 5, and I was snuggled up on the couch with my 17yo sister and the rest of the family watching on our black and white. This thread reminds me that I am old enough to be mom to a lot of you. :001_smile: Edited July 21, 2012 by MamaT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacus2 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My parents hadn't met yet. My in-laws had been married for a couple months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My mom was 14, my dad 17, and they wouldn't even meet for about four more years, so there was no me back then. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 In the living room of the house I grew up in, while my mom was ironing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SitLongTalkMuch Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 3 and living in Africa with no television. I haven't asked my parents how they found out. Probably by newspaper the following day. I was not quite 2 and living in Africa also. My dad was stationed there while serving in the USMC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly1730 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 (edited) I had just turned 7 but have no real memory of the event. Who knows what I was doing at the time.:confused: Edited July 20, 2012 by Kelly1730 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgeTea Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 6 years old, glued to the television set in our living room, and surrounded by a bunch of neighbors that had been invited over to watch on our (apparently novel) 19" color TV. My mom loved any excuse for a party and had us all pretty pumped up about it. We were a little surprised when the pictures finally came in, though, and they were in black and white. I remember the neighbor ladies trying to get my parents to explain why our color TV wouldn't work right for the "moon pictures". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootsie Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 6; we went to our next door neighbor's house so that we could watch it in color. They had a color television set and we had only black and white. I don't know what I had thought was going to be so colorful on the moon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly1730 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Threads like these remind me that I'm actually old enough to be a grandmother instead of a mother with young children. No wonder I'm always so tired. :D Well, I'm both a grandmother AND a mother of youngish children (11) and that is exactly why I am so tired!:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamagirl Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 In my mom's belly anxiously waiting to come out and see the world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMom Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 5 weeks old. So, probably snuggled in Mommy's arms. My space crazy 6 year old thinks is super cool that I was alive during the moon landing.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 (edited) My mom wasn't even old enough to have a baby yet in 1969! She turned 13 the next month. Edited July 20, 2012 by 2J5M9K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassy Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I was 5, and do you know, I have absolutely no recollection of the event :leaving:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMom Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My parents were 4 and 6 years old. LOL Alright, that's it!! I'm technically old enough to be your mother!?! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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