This day 1969

[salmonchaser]

I was 15 years old, one of the older boys in my scout troop. We were spending a week in the Three Sisters Wilderness area near Bend, Oregon. Dr. Ryan, our scout master, directed me up a subalpine fir dragging a roll of copper wire to serve as an antenna. I laced it through the upper branches and Dr. Ryan affixed it to a radio he had carried in his pack. We had stopped for lunch along the Pacific Crest Trail and before long quite a group of hikers had assembled on our ridge. At about 1300 hours Dr Ryan switched on the transistor radio. It was a scratchy signal but we were able to hear the broadcast. I’ve always been grateful for Dr Ryans foresight on that day and amazed at what this nation can accomplish.
Where were you?

 

[truck driver]

Fort Dix NJ Army basic training battalion.

 

[DrMike]

Only been in Dallas a short while. Sitting in the living room of a new friend. We still didn't have television or radio as result o a trailer wreck on the Washington Beltway while moving from NYC to Houston. Injured on the job in Houston and moved to Dallas to begin studies at UTHSC. We'd been in Dallas about one month.

 

[rjm158]

3 Yrs 11months old, probably outside playing in our yard.

Ron

 

[salmonchaser]

3 Yrs 11months old, probably outside playing in our yard.

Ron

Did you turn a cardboard box into a rocket ship?

 

[RL338]

2 years before I was born

 

[JD338]

I was 10 years old so probably up to no good.

JD338

 

[rjm158]

Did you turn a cardboard box into a rocket ship?

No, cardboard got wet and soggy in the dew overnight. I did, however, tie a little metal wagon upside down behind my tricycle so I could have a tractor and brush hog like my daddy.

Ron

 

[ronco]

I was 12 years old. I was either delivering newspapers on my bike or fishing/camping somewhere

 

[AFG270]

I was 11 years old and helping my dad plant his avocado tree grove on our ranch. Plus shooting birds in our veggie garden with my 22 LR.

 

[clearwater]

Probably delivering the Spokesman Chronicle by stingray bike and drinking a rootbeer.

 

[PJGunner]

Probably at the unemployment office in Reno Nevada trying to get a job. I didn't get steady work until December 31st, 1969 when I finally got hired onto the Weather Bureau in Winnemucca Nevada. The Meteorologist in charge for the state of Nevada knocked on my door and asked it I would like to work in Winnemucca. I said yes as I'd been applying to hire on the WB for at least six years. He told me I was officially hired on January 1, 1970 and had five days to report in.
Interesting thing but on January 1, 1970 the Weather Bureau officially became the Nation Weather Service. I spent the next thirty-three years of my life doing weather.
Paul B.

 

[Guy Miner]

Summer of '69... I was a little younger and was likely at our neighbor's house bugging him to let me work on his Firebird 400 with him... He took me to the local NHRA dragstrip with him. Doggone thing ran 12's and 13's in the quarter mile and looked great cruising around. I was totally smitten by muscle cars then.

Guy

 

[Blkram]

As I would have only been almost 7 months old, I was probably crawling around most of the time...

 

[Wolfshead]

I would have been eight (going on nine in October), and was probably watching the landing on tv.
I was very much into NASA and space at the time.

 

[wvbuckbuster]

I was 11 years old and remembering watching the landing on tv. Had two older cousins that had been drafted into the Army and had and was in Vietnam, so we watched tv catching up on current events.

 

[Ralt71]

Not only was I not even a figment of anyone's imagination, my parents were only young children at the time haha.

 

[diverdown]

I had just gotten my official detachment papers from the US Navy and was busy being married and co-raising two children. I worked for the Electrolux Vacum cleaner company as a quality control technician, didn't like my job and was busy contemplating becoming a Police officer, which, in the long run turned out very well. Now retired and enjoying it very much along with a lifetime of memories both good and some not so good.

 

[Ridge_Runner]

Was my 9th Birthday, as of late all the videos coming out, not sure it happened. Too much doesn't make sense.

 

[Ralt71]

Was my 9th Birthday, as of late all the videos coming out, not sure it happened. Too much doesn't make sense.

I've said this for years now..