Posted on 07/20/2009 7:33:46 AM PDT by Patriot1259
It was a magically hot summer that year in July of 1969 when we prepared for the first moon walk with great anticipation. Like fables about the man in the moon or its composition being of green cheese, we likewise treated the impending news of this momentous event... only we knew it was not a fable. That did not change the absolute magic and unbelievability of that moment for us, back in our hot prairie town that summer.
We lived in a working class neighborhood and the advent of color television had just only begun to be popularized amongst our kinfolk. We, of course had a television, but it was still the old black and white model. This seemed to go along well with our second hand Dodge Dart, fully loaded, with push button transmission, manual steering and four roll down windows. Highway trips of this nature were akin to having a convertible, sans the light of the sun directly on your head... the wind blew through very well. By the way, these cars were built like tanks, talk about safety ratings.
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