The summer of ‘69. I graduated from the 6th grade in June, my elementary school years were coming to an end. I had the whole summer ahead and plenty of time to brace myself and deal with the Junior High School anxiety that was gnawing in my stomach. I've seen the big kids that go there. Please summer, go slow!
The Astronauts on Apollo 11 blasted off on a July morning. This was big! We were going to the moon! This can’t be real, this only takes place in science fiction. This is great, it’s summer, I’m still a kid, no worries and we’re going to the moon. I kept track of this historical event by starting a scrap book, every day I would ride my bike up to the corner liquor store to buy the Los Angeles Times and cut out the headlines and columns of copy and paste into my book. (Can you believe I still have this in a box in the garage?) I remember watching the event unfold on our black and white television at 1:00 a.m. as Walter Cronkite marvelled. Those faint images against a snowy static background. But we were there and I guess we changed in some new enormous way.
This was the Age of Aquarius, Woodstock, Steve McQueen’s Movie, Bullit, Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy.
July turned into late summer, even the afternoon sunlight was changing, it had that orange hue to the pre-autumn air. One afternoon I walked across the street to a friends house, she was so excited about this great song she just heard on the radio. 93 KHJ. Later when it cam
e on again, she turned it up and "Sugar, Sugar" popped on and bubble gummed it’s way to the number one song of that year. Why do I remember this? I don’t know. But to this day when I hear that Archies' song, "Sugar, Sugar" I stop and listen to it like I was back in the summer of the man on the moon.
Going to Junior high in September came and went and the big kids didn’t bother me, in fact, I was a big kid myself, and it was ok.
Check out these links of 1969... it is incredible how time passes by...
http://www.si1969.com/69trivia.aspx
The Astronauts on Apollo 11 blasted off on a July morning. This was big! We were going to the moon! This can’t be real, this only takes place in science fiction. This is great, it’s summer, I’m still a kid, no worries and we’re going to the moon. I kept track of this historical event by starting a scrap book, every day I would ride my bike up to the corner liquor store to buy the Los Angeles Times and cut out the headlines and columns of copy and paste into my book. (Can you believe I still have this in a box in the garage?) I remember watching the event unfold on our black and white television at 1:00 a.m. as Walter Cronkite marvelled. Those faint images against a snowy static background. But we were there and I guess we changed in some new enormous way.
This was the Age of Aquarius, Woodstock, Steve McQueen’s Movie, Bullit, Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy.
July turned into late summer, even the afternoon sunlight was changing, it had that orange hue to the pre-autumn air. One afternoon I walked across the street to a friends house, she was so excited about this great song she just heard on the radio. 93 KHJ. Later when it cam
e on again, she turned it up and "Sugar, Sugar" popped on and bubble gummed it’s way to the number one song of that year. Why do I remember this? I don’t know. But to this day when I hear that Archies' song, "Sugar, Sugar" I stop and listen to it like I was back in the summer of the man on the moon.Going to Junior high in September came and went and the big kids didn’t bother me, in fact, I was a big kid myself, and it was ok.
Check out these links of 1969... it is incredible how time passes by...
http://www.si1969.com/69trivia.aspx
