Time Frame I.V.

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

I was 8½ and sleeping alone in a tent in our backyard when dad woke me up.
"Heikki, man is just about to walk on the moon." It was approx. five am in
Finland. The sun was shining. We went to the living room and, in beautiful
black and white, watched Armstrong climb down from Eagle. An interpreter
translated his words. The most interesting part was to see him bounce up
and down. After an hour or so, Aldrin having joined Armstrong, I thought
I've had enough and went back sleeping.

In Finland Shell was giving away "space coins". When you filed a space
coin a bit, you could insert it into the slot of a pinball machine at a
cafe in my home town. The machine got mixed up and gave you 12 free plays.
It was great as long as it lasted.


Heikki

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Henry wrote:

> Laura, I too was at a camp that didn't let us watch the moon landing/walk.  Huh!
>
> I was supposed to be the first asstronaut on the moon, GD it!
>
> Speaking of summer camps, any other P-listers attend Ford Foundation sponsored for supposedly gifted kids SAAC or go to work-camp Lincoln Farm?
>
> Henry Mu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura
>
> My mother was a political activist, so I got taken to Ban the Bomb, Anti-war and Women's Lib demos.  Being born in '57, I didn't have any other exciting '60-ish lifestyle experiences 'til I got to college.
>
> I'm surprised no one's mentioned the '60s as The Space Age.  I was in sleepaway camp when the astronauts landed on the moon.  The damn counselors wouldn't let us stay up to watch it on TV.  I remember weeping in my bunk and fantasizing that the lunar landing would be called off at the last minute:  "Wait, we've decided there's no way we can walk on the moon without bringing along an 11-year-old girl, whom we'll pick at random..."
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Robin Landseadel
> >
> >I was born in 1955 to parents that were absolute creatures of the
> >sixties.
> >Both my mother and father were heavily involved in the civil rights
> >activities
> >of the 60's [part one], my mother got considerably freakier and was
> >leading
> >the charge to the second half of the sixties [part two.] My mother is
> >somewhere
> >between Frenesi and Zoyd [but closer to Frenesi] and continued her
> >radical
> >ways well through the nineties. So I guess I am just a po'mo boy,
> >though my
> >story's seldom told. In any case I'll get back to the Cucumber Lounge
> >and
> >enviorns in just a moment. "It's just this little chromium switch
> >here, I don't
> >know why you people are so superstitious. . ."
> >
> >On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:54 AM, David Morris wrote:
> >
> >> I too understand, Henry, but I grabbed as much of the era as I could
> >> at that young age. . .
>
>