That's sufficiently elderly for me.

-- Mal

the Dodgers where there on the same block as some of the players.

and I'm STILL a BROOKLYN Dodger's fan!!!

Some nice ones on that pic, though.

-- Mal

I had intended to use that but I accidentally deleted it and then couldn't find it

But, yes, I was alive in '48, too. As for the other one, 07-17-69, I have *no* memory/concept of it, and I'm not talking conspiracy theory of it-never-happened. In those days some 45 yrs before I ever had internet, the four years I was in the USN we had almost NO outside contact while on our ships. So there is a GAP of four years, when whatever happened largely never reached me. I think that on that particular date, my second ship was on its way from Seattle down to the Panama Canal and then on to Gitmo, Haiti, and New Orleans on our way to Norfolk, VA. Our ship was built in Bremerton, WA, yet our Home Port was Norfolk, fine.

Anyway, in years after, when "the moon landing" was talked about, I never had a fix on when it happened. It made an impression when a professor displayed the poster below and told us that the significance was its being the first glimpse we earthlings had of our planet from Out There:

I was born during the time period of the Apollo 7 Earth orbit mission, October, 1968. Plenty of Americans and Russians had seen Earth from space by then.

and no one on Earth had seen our planet from space at that time.

And 'Chinese curse' is a misnomer. Living in interesting times is a blessing.

but I was alive when the first human saw the Earth from space with his own eyes.

IIRC, I was working the day of the first moon landing.

NFL teams. And no TV. We used to sit around and look at the radio. True fact.

Can't say that I remember hearing about the V-2 rocket, though.

Okay, so it wasn't live. They had to fly the tape in and we watched it a few hours later.

the same year Sputnik went up.

ah, a History Lesson that I have not lived

challenger is one of my first memories.