I watched it with my grandfather. He was born in the 1890s, before the invention of the airplane, and rode the Chisolm Trail, driving cattle.
Sounds like my grandmother who was very excited to watch it - she was the second person to learn how to drive a car in her town at age 12 - just after the Wright brothers first flight. What a century!
Such a lovely memory for you. I’ll bet your gramps had some stories.
how kewl is that.
my grandfather didn’t live long enough for the moon landing....
He was a cook on a wagon train;(still have the pictures of him in his cowboy gear)
He chased Villa with Pershing;
He was in WW1 and suffered from the effects of mustard gas.
He was a hell-on-wheels Irishman - 5 foot nuthin, weighed a hundred and nothing and everybody called him “Mr.” or “Sir”.
Was working for the “real” Mayor Daley when he dropped dead from a heart attack.
I don’t think too many of the likes of those guys will come along again anytime soon...