Time Frame I.V.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

For years I hung on to a card I sent away for from an ad on the back of a cereal box, entitling me to a seat on the first Pan-Am flight to the moon.  Lost it during one of numerous moves.  Of course the now-defunt Pan-Am's not about to honor the card anyway.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>Sent: Dec 5, 2008 1:16 PM
>To: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
>Cc: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: RE: Time Frame I.V.
>
>
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>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. . .
>>
>>