[rollei_list] Re: OT: Where was thine, in '69?

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:13:37 -0400

I watched in Bod Gottesberg, West Germany


Eric Goldstein

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, FRANK
DERNIE<frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I watched it on TV at my parents house in Appleby, Westmorland. Very exciting 
> at the time. I regard it as a bit of a waste of money in retrospect though.
> Frank
>
>
> --- On Thu, 16/7/09, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [rollei_list] OT:  Where was thine, in '69?
>> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: NIOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thursday, 16 July, 2009, 2:24 PM
>> Where were you folks on 20 JUL 1969,
>> when man first set foot on another world?
>>
>> I had summered over in Lexington, Virginia.  In those
>> days, Lexington was a magnificently dead town when
>> Washington & Lee and the Virginia Military Institute
>> were out of session.  I had a job on a cataloguing
>> project at the VMI library, and time flowed seamlessly, in a
>> mix of reading old science fiction and going tubing on the
>> Maury.  There were no bars in town and they rolled the
>> sidewalks up at 6 PM.  Damn, but I would love to find a
>> town like that today!
>>
>> On the morning of 20 JUL, my TV blew up with a rather
>> unusual belch and snarl routine.  I mentioned this to a
>> friend, a lab assistant at W&L, and he invited me over
>> to watch the Moon landing.  He is now a Professor of
>> History at W&L and we have disagreed about everything
>> ever since but I will always regard him as a consummate
>> W&L gentleman for his kindness that day.
>>
>> I e-mailed him this morning and copied the Department
>> Chair, another friend of long standing.
>>
>> So, where was thine, in '69?
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>>
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