I saw it on TV with my brother & parents. We had paper LEM models from Gulf Gas Station that were free with a full up. I remember all of the Charlie Brown & Snoopy Apollo merchandise. Apollo 9 or 8 h
[Edited Message Follows] I saw it on TV with my brother & parents. We had paper LEM models from Gulf Gas Station that were free with a full up. I remember all of the Charlie Brown & Snoopy Apollo mer
Fifty years ago tonight I was called off the Burlington Extra List for 3rd trick Middle Yard switchman after watching Apollo 11 land on the moon in the afternoon. Another night pulling’ pins wa
Thats awesome. Thanks for sharing. Dan On Jul 20, 2019, at 2:32 PM, qmp211 <milepost206@mchsi.com> wrote: Fifty years ago tonight I was called off the Burlington Extra List for 3rd trick Middle Yard
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What a great story!! Thanks for sharing this. On Jul 20, 2019, at 5:45 PM, D Grobe <dlgrobe@ameritech.net> wrote: Thats awesome. Thanks for sharing. Dan On Jul 20, 2019, at 2:32 PM, qmp211 <milepost2
RandyA much better story than mine. My wife and I were still in our first apartment and watched it on a tiny Munz TV It required periodic trips to Walgreens to test which vacuum tube burned out but w
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July 23, 2019 Randy and All - I was in the Navy at the time stationed at Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Force., US Atlantic Fleet, headquarters in Newport, RI. Several friends and I were sharing the ren
I was in the Army on combat duty in Vietnam fifty years ago. I happened to be on R&R in Tokyo at the time of Apollo 11 and watched the moon walk on the TV in the lobby of the hotel in which I was s
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I was working my shift in the Air Force air/ground station at Site 4, Karamursel Air Station, Turkey. There was no television and we heard it on Armed Forces Radio. Shortly after the landing, there w
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These stories are pure gold and I hope some of you will be sharing with your local historical societies. If there are any Aurora, IL, stories out there, the Aurora Historical Society would be avid to
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On July 20, 1969, my wife and I along with our 1-1/2 year old daughter were visiting the Illinois Railway Museum in Union. As the time for the landing approached, we went into town to a bar (I dont r
My memory of 20 July 1969: I was in Basic Training at the USAF Academy. After dinner, we were told to assemble on the Terrazzo. We marched over to the movie theater, filed in and waited. None of us k