What Were You DOING This Month In 1969, If U Were Around Then? What Do You REMEMBER?

Most of us weren't yet born

Except for you old freaks 'n geezers

Sheesh

I was busy throwing Cheerios and other food matter at my mom, slipping out of my toddler bed in the middle of the night to steal ice cream from the freezer, and generally being a pain in everyone’s ass.

Miss those days.

Ahhh yes......the Summer of 1969, I was 15. It was the Summer of CB radios, antennas and Coffee Breaks( CB radio club ). My first radio was a Lafayette Comstat 19. Met my first girl friend at one of the coffee breaks, her handle was Lil Devil......Hmmmm yeah. I lived in Winter Park, Florida so I was intensely interested in every aspect of the space program. My favorite radio station was WLOF 95 in Orlando and it was never turned off, except when I was on the CB radio.

It was the summer after my first year in school, Kindergarten. I was 5 years old, but I remember A LOT. Firstly, I was already working, helping my Dad @ work, cleaning machine parts, along with my 2 older brothers. I would earn $4 a day, a LOT for a 5 year old.
I remember we got a new Ford that summer & drove it to Fla. that June. I remember wanting to rent a dune buggy on the beach, my older brother had just gotten his driver's license, but my Mom & Dad insisted we couldn't. I remember coming home & watching "the moon shot" with my Dad & brothers in our family room. We trusted what was being fed to us, & we took them at their word. My beloved father was a VERY proud WWII Vet & ESPECIALLY trusted the gov't., "Uncle" Walter (Cronkite) & the CB$ NEW$. They would NEVER lie to us, so we thought.
I remember it was a particularly hot August & I was allowed to steer our electric lawnmower for the first time, which I thought was thrilling. I remember listening & singing along to "Good Morning Starshine" on the radio, sung by 'Oliver.'
2nd week of August started out with helping my Dad hang flowery wallpaper in our bathroom. I very vaguely remember the manson killings being on the news a LOT then. It put a pall on the 'moon landing', for sure. Everytime I hear the Nilsson song, "Everybody's Talkin At Me," it reminds me of that strangeness we all felt that summer, the killings both domestic & in Vietnam, where things had reached a crescendo the summer before. The tv news invariably would start with the latest hero U.S. Soldier casualties & aircraft being shown napalming everything & I remember each week watching the news shows showing bloody bandaged G.I.'s being airlifted by Chinook helicopters near Saigon.




WOODSTOCK ✌️I WAS NINE