On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:52:21 -0400, "Bruce R"
wrote:

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

We had a Zenith 25" B& W television that we got back around 1954 or
55. Parked myself in front of that set for the launch and most of the
significant events, including the walk. Managed to arrange my work
schedule around it all. Recorded the whole thing on the Norelco
cassette recorder I got a month or so before for a graduation gift.
Vividly remember the grainy, hard to make out in the shadows image of
Neil stepping down from that ladder and Walter Cronkite being moved to
tears as he watched it on his monitors.

I still have that tape and all the newspaper and magazine articles.
Later added some JFK recordings to it. Never had a thought of VCR's
and DVD's and all the archival stuff we have now. Back then I felt
that I needed to record as much as I could to pass it on to my kids
and grandkids, for "I was there" when history was made.

A few years later I watched a number of launches all the way up to
Apollo 17 while attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in
Daytona Beach. Unfortunately, all I had back then was a crappy Kodak
Instamatic camera! Oh! Would that I had my current Nikkon N-70 back
then!!!

BTW - that Zenith was still being used by my kids as a video game
center at my parents house until the mid 1980's. One of my brothers
had hooked his Atari to it. Many hours playing Pong on a very dim B&W
screen with my oldest daughter. Sure don't make them like that any
more!

J. W. Alger