Dating myself . . . where were you on this day in 1969?

[thefragile7393]

I would not be born for 10 more years.

[Lawana]

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:

Ha! It was 2 days after my 10th birthday, but I knew better than thinking it was all about me:001_tt2:

 

ETA To actually answer the question, we didn't have a TV, so we went to some friends to watch with them. One of their teenage girls rolled my hair in foam rollers while we watched.

Edited July 20, 2012 by Lawana

[Myeightkiddies]

I was watching our black and white console television. My favorite part of the moon landings was the returning home. I loved watching the capsule come out of the sky and drop into the ocean.

[BugsMama]

Alright, that's it!! I'm technically old enough to be your mother!?! :tongue_smilie:

 

I know... I know.... It's crazy. My parents had kids young, and my kids came along young. In a totally responsible, married first kind of way.... but young.

[AHASRADA]

Waiting 4 years to be born . . .:lol:

 

Me too!

 

And my mom was still in HS! Thanks for making me feel a little less old today!:D

[Lisa in the UP of MI]

My parents were 9 and 13, so they hadn't even met yet.

[AngelaNYC]

I was at 7 months gestation. Don't remember much. :D

[kewb]

I was a few months shy of 3. I don't remember the moon landing except as history.

I do remember watching All in the Family with my dad in the 70's. Does that count for anything?

[Night Elf]

I was a year and half old, but DH was 12. He said he remembers it was the first time he ever stayed up all night. :tongue_smilie:

[shanvan]

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

 

Well, I was not even a thought, apparently. Though one year later I was born! That's why I can remember the first moon landing date, but I have to stop and think about my Dc's birth dates! To be fair, Dc were both born on the same number day of the month, so I have to stop and think about who was born in which month!

[Mimm]

My mother was 11 years old that year. This thread made me text her, asking for her memories. :)

[kristi26]

I was not born yet...had to wait another 11 years for that!

[Jenny in Florida]

I was four years old. I don't remember my parents ever mentioning watching the moon landing.

 

I do remember how outraged they were when they looked at one of my third-grade textbooks and discovered it was still telling kids we hoped to go to the moon "someday."

[shanvan]

I was four years old. I don't remember my parents ever mentioning watching the moon landing.

 

I do remember how outraged they were when they looked at one of my third-grade textbooks and discovered it was still telling kids we hoped to go to the moon "someday."

 

:lol:

[Jenny in Florida]

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

 

Me, too.

 

I know, intellectually, how old I am. But I find I keep having to do the math over and over as I read posts in which people mention their parents are the same age as I am. It just doesn't compute.

[lllll]

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Edited July 21, 2012 by ksva

[Lady Florida.]

I was 13, almost 14, and was making caramel apples with my dad. It was his weekend to have us kids. I remember him saying, "Years from now when someone asks you where you were when man landed on the moon, you can say I was making caramel apples with my father". And that's what I say. :D

 

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.

 

:confused: It was a Sunday.

[kricau]

:laugh: that is to funny

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.

[Happy]

I was parked in front of the TV breathlessly watching coverage. IT was a huge family event.

 

Amazing day!!!!!!!!!

[welovetoread]

8 years before my time :)

[Spock]

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

 

I was not quite 1 year old (born Aug 13, 1968). I don't actually know, but I was probably asleep in my crib. I wish I had been old enough to remember that!

[nrg]

Watching it on TV with my parents then going outside later to look at the moon and marvel. I will never forget my father's thrill. He bought every major newspaper that day and saved them all. We could sure use a time of wonder like that today.

[vonfirmath]

Waiting 4 years to be born . . .:lol:

 

me too!

[Parrothead]

I was 2.75. Mom says I watched it on TV.

[Sparkle]

I was four, and I do have just a faint memory of watching the landing on TV.

[theYoungerMrsWarde]

In my mother's ovaries. :D

[elfgivas]

i was at Sparrow Lake camp in the dining hall having a sleepover with all the other campers, watching a teeny-tiny tv in the corner....

 

it was magical.

ann

[ChristusG]

I wasn't born until 11 years later. My mom was 10, my dad 13.

[TravelingChris]

I was six and came inside from playing outdoors. We had a small black and white tv. Then whole family watched including my three year old sister.

[Singingmom]

I was one year and one month old. I should ask my parents about their memories of it, since, obviously I have none!

[Kathy in Richmond]

I was twelve years old and camping with family and friends in the Allegheny National Forest. I vividly remember gathering around a radio outside our tents and listening to the moon landing with my best friend.

[Laura Corin]

I was six too. I remember people talking about the moon landing, and we watched it on television. I knew it was important, but I didn't understand why. We had a black and white television - we were the first people we knew to get colour, but we didn't have it yet.

 

Laura

[Miss Marple]

I would have been just a few days shy of 7 years old :). I remember gathering around the old, blonde, black & white TV (it had gold tipped legs) watching the news about the landing. We never watched TV - never seemed to miss it, but we had it for special occasions. I guess my folks thought the landing was special enough.

[momofsbandeg]

I had not been born. My mom had just finished 10th grade.

[Mommyfaithe]

I had just turned 5....and was probably being a butt head standing bright in front of our little black and white Motorola TV...so no one could see but me. I justify my position by my poor eyesight. I had to stand close....or couldn't see.:)

[Donna]

I was in my mother's uterus. She would have been two months pregnant with me. :lol:

[mamakim]

Oooo, I remember that :). We went to my grandparent's for the big event. I found the whole prelude to the actual moment excruciatingly boring, so when the landing actually occurred my parents pretty much had to force me into the room to see the actual men-stepping-on-the-moon. They told me, "You don't care about it now, but this is history and you'll be glad you saw it when you grow up".

 

I can't say my life would be much different had I missed seeing that on TV in real-time ;)

[mc26]

6 days away from being born :)

[indigomama]

Well, my mom was 9, so I was many years from being born:D

[Veritaserum]

My parents were teenagers (16 and 19). :tongue_smilie:

[Sasharowan]

In my mother's uterus!! Not born til Sept.

[melmichigan]

My parents were young teens. ;)

[Chelli]

I was hanging out in my mom's ovaries as she prepared to go to college and my dad's t*st*cl*s as he had flunked out of college waiting for that fateful day nine years later when those two little bits would meet up to make me. :D

[kalanamak]

At a bed and breakfast in Ireland. It was a family home and all the kids moved out of their rooms and we slept in them. There were snap dragons in the garden. The man stayed up all night to watch. He said, "You must be very proud to be Americans." I replied, politely, "Yes", but all the time thinking: ho hum, it is just a moon shot, like it was nothing surprising. You could see the moon, and we went there.

[OrganicAnn]

I must have been 8 and my dad woke us up to watch it on the smallest black and white TV you've ever seen. We drank Tang and other astronaut food. They had poster of various astronauts that were given away at school.

[bookfiend]

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

 

 

Also six, watching the landing on the black and white at home.

[2cents]

Myself and my sibs were all sitting under the kitchen table and the parents were in chairs. We were all glued to our b & w television watching history being made. I remember it vividly. It was so mind blowing at that time. :)

[tex-mex]

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

:iagree:

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.

For some reason, my mother was in the kitchen cooking and I sat in front of the ol' b&w watching the newscast as a toddler. I recall calling out to my mom, "Mooooom! A man is on the moon!"

 

To which she said, "Don't lie." :001_huh:

 

Years later, I asked her what on earth made her say that with the coverage on TV and newspaper. She was a high school dropout and truthfully, not a bright woman. :lol:

[Woodhaven]

I was six. We were back in the USA, in Chicago, visiting my Grandmother and Grandfather. They had a small B&W TV and the whole family was gathered around it in awe.

[Annie G]

I had just finished 3rd grade and we lived in a new apartment complex with a fabulous pool. Friends brought out a telescope and we all looked at the moon. I was disappointed I couldn't see the astronauts, of course, but it was great fun. They even turned off all the pool lights so we had lots of darkness- it was great fun for a 9 year old!!

 

I guess during the way we watched it on tv but I don't remember that like I do the nighttime fun. It was a great party.