When I was young, I never expected to get old. I spent 22 years in the USMC, and didn't spend time thinking about aging due to my chosen career. Well, I'm pushing 70 and, as my grandmother used to say back in the 50s, can still cut a rug. I love this channel. Brings back lots of good memories and refreshes some I had completely forgot.
My elementary school library had a poster up, written in a futuristic script. It posed the question _What will life be like in the year 2000?_ I remember thinking that is so far into the future that it doesn't even warrant thinking about, let alone making a poster about.
@@Rippypooyep, still had the ol' Magnavox Console B/W with record changer on one end and radio tuner on the other! I replaced many a tube in that hulking console!
@roberthevern6169 My folks had one of those too when I was a kid. It was more a piece of furniture than electronics, solid, heavy wood. No press board or plywood in those days! 🇺🇲👍
@KWizard__ As I said before, it was a great time except for one thing... the War in Vietnam. One of my neighbors went to Vietnam in 1969, and he changed so much when he returned home.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 I worked in the park department for a summer job and one of the guys had just come back from Vietnam. One day, a mower backfired and sounded like a shotgun. My friend jumped down flat on the ground. We told him everything was O.K. He explained that it was a reaction he learned in Vietnam.
@dwightpowell6673 I've never forget this about him. Several of us... I was the youngest one in the group, were talking to him right after he returned home from Vietnam. One guy in the group called him a "Baby Killer." He didn't say a word, he busted the guy right in the face. Before his time in Vietnam he was a very "outgoing guy." When he returned he was very quite, and did not talk much.
As a Young-in at 7 it was an exciting mixture of a child's world and Raw adulthood action, everyone my age was eager to grow up Had all the Gemini Space stickers on my lunch box and watched all the Apollo missions on T.V. Had Crystal Blue Persuasion on 45 played over and over thinking about the grade school crush I had on a girl a few houses down from me (got to say her name) Sherry Mitchell 😊 Even at my age Vietnam was a very serious thing. Even though you wouldn't know by 3 channels of T.V. Dad had a Short Wave Radio that I would listen to during the night. I recall so many nights of body counts and how brutal it was for so many of our soldiers. Thanks for letting me share. 😊
I was 7 in 1969 as well ( I turned 7 in March). The moon landing was so awesome! I watched it on TV when it happened and many times afterwards. I had a G.I. Joe Space Capsule,complete with a space suit. I also had Major Matt Mason," Mattel's Man In Space". Captain Action was still around, too. His face made him look like a man suffering from middle aged angst, but he had a great of assortment of outfits- Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Captain America, etc. The Beatles cartoon show was still on, or at least syndicated- but my parents thought the Beatles were bad because they " did drugs". We weren't forbidden from watching the show, though. I also had a Yellow Submarine lunchbox, so maybe my parents feelings about the Beatles was somewhat ambiguous. 1969 was a great year!
My brother and I went to our dad one evening and said we were thinking about enlisting. He said, "No, you're not. That war is a meat grinder and there's nothing to be gained. Go to college!" So we took his advice. I was eligible for the draft, however, for two years before they ended the draft. But they didn't pick my number.
Well, I was 5 months old in July 1969 and my mom was so inspired by the moon landing she decided to do something drastic......she got her lovely long hair cut into a pixie to surprise my dad! My dad lost his shit! The rest of 69' was dedicated to growing out the pixie!!! LoL!!😂 I've seen pics and my dad was old fashioned.....she rocked the pixie cut!!! LOL!😂 Thank you Fred!❤
As always Mr Fred I’m so thankful and very glad you are willing to share your wisdom and knowledge with all of us and bring our memories of our youth back to life for so many of us! Born in 61 here and this was such a big event in our neighborhood and changed this world for ever!! God bless you my friend and happy Independence Day!!!🇺🇸🎉🇺🇸🎉
Well Fred you have done it again. Thanks for the trip!!! I felt like I was there for a few minutes. Laughed and sang along with the commercials. I don't know how you nail it every time, but you do.
Crystal Blue Persuation, Bad Moon Rising So good! Peter Jennings every time makes me remember Valley of the Dolls. The landing on the Moon I refused to sit down and watch. I went to read in my room. 🤷🏽♀️Spinning Wheel. I looved that one. 🎵🎶🎵 And I guess that like any other 15 year old girl I watched the summer time Beauty Pageants. To fall short in comparison. Only a 15 year old can do that to herself. 🤷🏽♀️ Great upload, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟
Heck of a summer Fred, higlighted by the moon landing and Woodstock shortly after that, plus the weirdness of the Manson "family", Chappaquiddick, then in autumn the Altamont fiasco. Helluva way to end the '60s. Thanks for doing what you do!
Extra long and extra great, thanks Fred! I wish we could post photos in our comments. 2 months later, Sept 1969 my brother Duke and I wore Apollo 11 shirts on the first day of school. 😊
Oh, wow! I remember that day July 20th 1969 I was 8 and a half years old and living with my parents in Yoba Linda and I remember watching it on TV with my parents and a friend of mine. I still don't look at the moon the same after seeing the moon landing.
My earliest memory as a child was man landing on the moon. We had gone to Ft McClellan at Army Noble hospital to get our inoculations so we could fly to Manheim Germany when my dad was transferred there for the Army for a couple of years or so. I remember my arm hurting so bad as we watched the moon landing. Such and exciting and yet at the same time, scary time in my then, young life.
Oooo as an Air Force BRAT, boy do I remember those shots! When my dad became a Lt. Col. in 1962, we had six weeks to figure out what to do with our house in Colorado Springs, buy appropriate clothing, ( we had originally been told we were going to Hawaii), get shots and passports. They gave both shots series all at once, meaning four shots in each arm, including the small pox vaccination. I sat in our big swivel rocker, with my swollen arms propped up with pillows and ice packs.
Good stuff again, Fred. Bad Moon Rising was the latest addition to my 45rpm record collection along with Kick Out the Jams in 1969. Also, your Life and Look magazines are in my collection. Always look forward to your videos. Keep it up.
So cool as always Fred! I just turned four that month, and only have memories of experiencing these monumental events and great music and rising stars some years later, but the wonder of it all never fades for me, and thanks for helping to keep it that way! How surreal to hear David Brinkley's commentary today, 50 plus years later, not just contemplating that historical event, but also the horrible part of history, that would soon take place the following month, and all the events that we have all experienced in our world since that time, and realizing how much has thankfully not faded away. I've said it before I know, but one great thing now is being able to share this journey back together!🤟
I see what you did there Fred, you couldn't wait to get this one out in the first hour of the first day of the 55th anniversary month of Apollo 11. I remember watching it on TV like it was yesterday. Where does the time go? 👍👍👍👍
Thanks Fred for another great video I was two weeks from turning 18 when we landed on the moon I remember watching it on tv with my family like it was yesterday keep em coming 😊
I remember my daddy trying to keep me awake to watch that first step on the moon 😮 I was just fixing to be eight years old 😊 and couldn't understand why he was so excited about it I mean what's the big deal dad ? I just watched them land on Mars last week on shock theater and that was a lot more exciting to me ! But hey it was that important to him I'll stay awake 😊❤ memories ❤️
Thank you for this memorable collection of music and images from 1969. I was 14 and loved every song you included (still do!) Wonderful job in capturing the era’s zeitgeist. It was a wild decade but pales in comparison to today. The 80s in hindsight were a good decade but sadly there’s no going back. Thanks again for fantastic videos!
I was three years old when they walked on the moon and I can barely remember it. Or I think I remember it somewhat, but anyway another great one Fredflix. I really love these. Thanks.
We were on vacation in Sea Side Heights Jersey when they landed on the moon. All of the air raid sirens went off when the Eagle landed. Later that night we watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon on a black and white TV. Even though the country was divided about Viet Nam that was one of the proudest moments I experienced as a kid.
The moon landing was incredible. I remember looking at the moon and thinking to myself that there are human beings there. It was amazing! I was only 8 1/2 but I remember that year very well. While living in LA, I was bummed that the Helm bakery went out of business.Thier jelly donuts were to die for. Thanks Fred
I just turned 9 in June, family took an expedition in our camper, across the US. Calif. to Florida. Camped at Camp Canaveral and watched the lift off. That was quite an experience. What memories, 1969.
That's amazing, Cmon-Man. I saw Apollo 16 at the Cape. I'll never forget the sound, the vibration, the flames shooting out and being able to see the first stage fall off.
@@FredFlix Yes, when ever I see a video of any liftoff, I can still feel and hear it. It is quite a sight. Thanks for your work, it’s enjoyed and appreciated. ✌️
@@Cmon-Man You're welcome. You know, we saw something that few in this world have ever seen: A rocket carrying men to the moon. It was a rare privilege indeed.
55 years... I remember almost all of it. I was 9 and in the 3rd grade, Mrs McCrary's class. She said I read too much. What lunacy! And it caused me a few months of trouble, having to sneak to read. I'm sure she meant well, but it was foolish of her.
Thanks again, very interesting subjects on this one. I was 10, loved the space program because my dad worked on it. With a company that worked with NASA
Moon landing amazing! Was between my 4th and 5th grades. A vivid and spooky time of figuring out whats going on. The TV news was usually very bad I remember.
July 21 was the highlight of 1969 by far and maybe forever. For the first time in mankind's history, the US sent a human to and from another planet. Neil Armstrong will forever be a legend.
Didn’t hee haw debut in July 1969? One of the most important comedy variety series in history because it was really the antithesis of the show it replaced, the smothers Brothers
as a 4 year old on the 5th of july i dont recall to much of the moon landing but i had the GI Joe with space suit and lunar capsule shortly after and it opened up a kids imagination does that exist for a kid today? i cant wait for aug 69 thats gonna "rock"✌☮ !!!
So.... July 1969 was a slow news month I see. Man landing on the moon and safely returning to earth, Chappaquiddick, the ongoing war in Vietnam, yet another war in the Middle East... what was there to discuss?
I pasted newspaper clippings of the space program starting in the early 60s. The excitement surrounding the moon landing was huge. There's never been anything else like it. Bad Moon Rising always makes me think of American Werewolf in London. Ted Kennedy was a classic example of someone with power and money escaping responsibility.
Omg i was 10 yrs old,,going to the grade..i was skinny,gawking looking kid,,but has good times too..i remember when they landed on the moon..it was a very big event..we all watched it in color..
Who remembers that Baskin Robins featured Green Cheese ice cream among its flavors that summer? Dad was the only one of us who was brave enough to try it. And even he didn't like it. I remember it had a weird smell to it, too.
I’ve probably said here before that my father’s team worked on the lunar module that landed on the moon. The TRW employees’ kids were envied because we got round stickers with Snoopy dancing, captioned “Eyes on the Stars.” Another member of that team was engineer Judith Cohen, mother of actor Jack Black.
Many were taking trips in the Summer of 1969.Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon.Mary Jo Kopechne to the bottom of Chappaquiddick River.The trip taken by the 500,000 of Woodstock Nation.Topping them all were the fans of the New York Mets who rose from a depth much lower than Mary Jo and much higher than that of Woodstock.
It bows out with a Corn Flakes commercial - just as Earl Butz and Nixon were de-doing the subsidy program to turn corn into an industrial product and end the family farm as we knew it.
A lot happened that year wow, we found a crab the size of a car wheel and send it too dads work place, it scared the hell out off them, it was still alive and kicking hehe.
Wow, a paper bikini. when good ideas grow on tress. Who's 'great idea' was that? Walter Cronkite's reaction to the moon landing says so much. The day after the landing, one of our local newspaper The Sun changed their mast head to The Moon for that one day. (Still have a copy)
Summer between 1st and 2nd grade. Watched it with my Dad. I knew I was seeing history. I couldn’t get enough Apollo. I’d hazard a guess most if not all of the deniers and conspiracists were not yet born when Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins did it.
After Easy Rider came out, hippies started saying, "Hey man, let's just live off the land!" But it didn't work out very well for the commune folk. I mean, I'm sure they enjoyed it for awhile.
The announcer said, "every girl's a winner!" But that's not how I remember it. The losers had to stand there and keep smiling, while enduring the agony of defeat.
Yes they did. Drug addiction, if that's what you're referring to, was becoming a serious concern, as more and more young people in particular were experimenting with mind altering, mood-enhancing drugs such as marijuana and LSD. Many became addicted and even overdosed, or O'Ded, as we called it back then. Because of this, TV started advertising anti-drug commercials in the late 60's-early 70's.
I had forgotten about the paper bikinis, but wow, that TV commercial of Ali McGraw was the closest thing we had to seeing a nude model. Sneaking a peek at Playboy would be a few years later.
All summer long we ate a lot of cantaloupe for dessert at our house. I picked up in the ad that you could get 3 for 89 cents back then. Today I can’t afford one. Thanks to old Joe and kommie and everyone else I am FORCED to pay to do…jack crap.
When I was young and didn't even think about getting old. So many memories.
When I was young, I never expected to get old. I spent 22 years in the USMC, and didn't spend time thinking about aging due to my chosen career. Well, I'm pushing 70 and, as my grandmother used to say back in the 50s, can still cut a rug. I love this channel. Brings back lots of good memories and refreshes some I had completely forgot.
@@Dadsezso Thanks for your Service. So many things have changed since then.
My elementary school library had a poster up, written in a futuristic script. It posed the question _What will life be like in the year 2000?_
I remember thinking that is so far into the future that it doesn't even warrant thinking about, let alone making a poster about.
Even in the year 2000, I didn't think about getting old. But here I am, almost 70!
Thanks for this one. I can still remember sitting in front of the TV watching that moon landing in July 69.
Same! On a color TV no less, woo hoo! lol
@@PeterGriswald
Nope. Our TV set at that time was black and white.
And now they say it never happened.
@@Rippypooyep, still had the ol' Magnavox Console B/W with record changer on one end and radio tuner on the other! I replaced many a tube in that hulking console!
@roberthevern6169
My folks had one of those too when I was a kid. It was more a piece of furniture than electronics, solid, heavy wood. No press board or plywood in those days! 🇺🇲👍
July 1969, I was 14 years old. We had some great music. I spent many hours a day listening to rock n roll music on my little transistor radio.
That dang Rock and Roll!!
@KWizard__ As I said before, it was a great time except for one thing... the War in Vietnam. One of my neighbors went to Vietnam in 1969, and he changed so much when he returned home.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 I worked in the park department for a summer job and one of the guys had just come back from Vietnam. One day, a mower backfired and sounded like a shotgun. My friend jumped down flat on the ground. We told him everything was O.K. He explained that it was a reaction he learned in Vietnam.
@@usmc-veteran73-77how had he changed.
@dwightpowell6673 I've never forget this about him. Several of us... I was the youngest one in the group, were talking to him right after he returned home from Vietnam. One guy in the group called him a "Baby Killer." He didn't say a word, he busted the guy right in the face. Before his time in Vietnam he was a very "outgoing guy." When he returned he was very quite, and did not talk much.
Never forget I was 60 days from basic training and my 2 year commitment in the army! I made it a summer to remember!
As a Young-in at 7 it was an exciting mixture of a child's world and Raw adulthood action, everyone my age was eager to grow up
Had all the Gemini Space stickers on my lunch box and watched all the Apollo missions on T.V.
Had Crystal Blue Persuasion on 45 played over and over thinking about the grade school crush I had on a girl a few houses down from me (got to say her name)
Sherry Mitchell 😊
Even at my age Vietnam was a very serious thing. Even though you wouldn't know by 3 channels of T.V. Dad had a Short Wave Radio that I would listen to during the night.
I recall so many nights of body counts and how brutal it was for so many of our soldiers.
Thanks for letting me share. 😊
We appreciate it, TT.
I was 7 in 1969 as well ( I turned 7 in March).
The moon landing was so awesome! I watched it on TV when it happened and many times afterwards.
I had a G.I. Joe Space Capsule,complete with a space suit.
I also had Major Matt Mason," Mattel's Man In Space".
Captain Action was still around, too. His face made him look like a man suffering from middle aged angst, but he had a great of assortment of outfits- Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Captain America, etc.
The Beatles cartoon show was still on, or at least syndicated- but my parents thought the Beatles were bad because they " did drugs". We weren't forbidden from watching the show, though.
I also had a Yellow Submarine lunchbox, so maybe my parents feelings about the Beatles was somewhat ambiguous.
1969 was a great year!
My brother and I went to our dad one evening and said we were thinking about enlisting. He said, "No, you're not. That war is a meat grinder and there's nothing to be gained. Go to college!" So we took his advice. I was eligible for the draft, however, for two years before they ended the draft. But they didn't pick my number.
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Well, I was 5 months old in July 1969 and my mom was so inspired by the moon landing she decided to do something drastic......she got her lovely long hair cut into a pixie to surprise my dad! My dad lost his shit! The rest of 69' was dedicated to growing out the pixie!!! LoL!!😂 I've seen pics and my dad was old fashioned.....she rocked the pixie cut!!! LOL!😂 Thank you Fred!❤
Your dad should have played the song Hair to her, Chantelle.
I was 2 months old myself
Men couldn't figure out why their wives wanted to look up to date for their husband's back then lol.
I was beginning high school & the music was devine
As always Mr Fred I’m so thankful and very glad you are willing to share your wisdom and knowledge with all of us and bring our memories of our youth back to life for so many of us! Born in 61 here and this was such a big event in our neighborhood and changed this world for ever!! God bless you my friend and happy Independence Day!!!🇺🇸🎉🇺🇸🎉
Much appreciated, LM.
I was 8 yrs old having the time of my life on summer vacation from school.
It was a (heck) of a year. Thank you for the video.
You're welcome, Jeff.
Well Fred you have done it again. Thanks for the trip!!! I felt like I was there for a few minutes. Laughed and sang along with the commercials. I don't know how you nail it every time, but you do.
Crystal Blue Persuation, Bad Moon Rising So good! Peter Jennings every time makes me remember Valley of the Dolls. The landing on the Moon I refused to sit down and watch. I went to read in my room. 🤷🏽♀️Spinning Wheel. I looved that one. 🎵🎶🎵 And I guess that like any other 15 year old girl I watched the summer time Beauty Pageants. To fall short in comparison. Only a 15 year old can do that to herself. 🤷🏽♀️ Great upload, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟
Heck of a summer Fred, higlighted by the moon landing and Woodstock shortly after that, plus the weirdness of the Manson "family", Chappaquiddick, then in autumn the Altamont fiasco. Helluva way to end the '60s. Thanks for doing what you do!
You're welcome, Ernest.
gotta to ss in the miracle Mets too ! day baseball in october in the queens !
THANKS FRED
You're welcome, Eli.
Extra long and extra great, thanks Fred! I wish we could post photos in our comments. 2 months later, Sept 1969 my brother Duke and I wore Apollo 11 shirts on the first day of school. 😊
We all shared in that adventure, Doug.
I wrote a letter to NASA and asked them to send me some 8 X 10 color glossies. They did!
Loving the music my friend. Keep it up.
I will as long as YT allows it, Debbie. I wanted to use In the Year 2525 with this but I couldn't.
Oh, wow! I remember that day July 20th 1969 I was 8 and a half years old and living with my parents in Yoba Linda and I remember watching it on TV with my parents and a friend of mine. I still don't look at the moon the same after seeing the moon landing.
My earliest memory as a child was man landing on the moon. We had gone to Ft McClellan at Army Noble hospital to get our inoculations so we could fly to Manheim Germany when my dad was transferred there for the Army for a couple of years or so. I remember my arm hurting so bad as we watched the moon landing. Such and exciting and yet at the same time, scary time in my then, young life.
Oooo as an Air Force BRAT, boy do I remember those shots! When my dad became a Lt. Col. in 1962, we had six weeks to figure out what to do with our house in Colorado Springs, buy appropriate clothing, ( we had originally been told we were going to Hawaii), get shots and passports. They gave both shots series all at once, meaning four shots in each arm, including the small pox vaccination. I sat in our big swivel rocker, with my swollen arms propped up with pillows and ice packs.
@@judyjones5089 And we wouldn't trade those memories for anything would we?
Good stuff again, Fred. Bad Moon Rising was the latest addition to my 45rpm record collection along with Kick Out the Jams in 1969. Also, your Life and Look magazines are in my collection. Always look forward to your videos. Keep it up.
Ah, Fred, I do remember now, you did post this. Thank you, as always.
I vividly remember watching the moon landing in glorious black and white.
Being just 5, I was more excited about getting a day off from school!
July 16-24. When humans land on the moon, it was the bright spot in a very dark year.
Thanks, FredFlix. 🌕
You're welcome, Luis.
So cool as always Fred! I just turned four that month, and only have memories of experiencing these monumental events and great music and rising stars some years later, but the wonder of it all never fades for me, and thanks for helping to keep it that way! How surreal to hear David Brinkley's commentary today, 50 plus years later, not just contemplating that historical event, but also the horrible part of history, that would soon take place the following month, and all the events that we have all experienced in our world since that time, and realizing how much has thankfully not faded away. I've said it before I know, but one great thing now is being able to share this journey back together!🤟
Thanks, tigre. That Brinkley comment was eerie.
I liked Brinkley, but seeing these clips now makes him seem to have plenty of 'attitude.' I remember he smoked like a chimney, too.
I see what you did there Fred, you couldn't wait to get this one out in the first hour of the first day of the 55th anniversary month of Apollo 11. I remember watching it on TV like it was yesterday. Where does the time go? 👍👍👍👍
I even posted it before midnight, Robert, before I went to bed.
This compilation is exceptionally great! Thanks!
You're welcome, Rick.
Thanks Fred for another great video I was two weeks from turning 18 when we landed on the moon I remember watching it on tv with my family like it was yesterday keep em coming 😊
I will, Bob.
I was 15, still at school and living in Northern Ireland not America but this still brings back a load of memories.
I remember my daddy trying to keep me awake to watch that first step on the moon 😮 I was just fixing to be eight years old 😊 and couldn't understand why he was so excited about it I mean what's the big deal dad ? I just watched them land on Mars last week on shock theater and that was a lot more exciting to me ! But hey it was that important to him I'll stay awake 😊❤ memories ❤️
Thank you for this memorable collection of music and images from 1969. I was 14 and loved every song you included (still do!) Wonderful job in capturing the era’s zeitgeist. It was a wild decade but pales in comparison to today. The 80s in hindsight were a good decade but sadly there’s no going back. Thanks again for fantastic videos!
I was three years old when they walked on the moon and I can barely remember it. Or I think I remember it somewhat, but anyway another great one Fredflix. I really love these. Thanks.
You're welcome, HLJ. I was lucky I was 14 and remember it very well, plus the anticipation leading up to it.
I turned 23 in 1969 but before the moon landing 😊
We were on vacation in Sea Side Heights Jersey when they landed on the moon. All of the air raid sirens went off when the Eagle landed. Later that night we watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon on a black and white TV. Even though the country was divided about Viet Nam that was one of the proudest moments I experienced as a kid.
The moon landing was incredible. I remember looking at the moon and thinking to myself that there are human beings there. It was amazing! I was only 8 1/2 but I remember that year very well. While living in LA, I was bummed that the Helm bakery went out of business.Thier jelly donuts were to die for. Thanks Fred
You need to have a job with the
Library of Congress!😊 Great compilation!!
Thanks, Benjamin.
What a wonderful way to start my day, thank you Fred!!!
You're welcome, Bridget.
Another great video, Fred. 14 years old that summer. Thanks from the Spidey #36 guy!
The Looter!
Thanks Fred 👍
I just turned 9 in June, family took an expedition in our camper, across the US. Calif. to Florida. Camped at Camp Canaveral and watched the lift off. That was quite an experience. What memories, 1969.
That's amazing, Cmon-Man. I saw Apollo 16 at the Cape. I'll never forget the sound, the vibration, the flames shooting out and being able to see the first stage fall off.
@@FredFlix Yes, when ever I see a video of any liftoff, I can still feel and hear it. It is quite a sight. Thanks for your work, it’s enjoyed and appreciated. ✌️
@@Cmon-Man You're welcome. You know, we saw something that few in this world have ever seen: A rocket carrying men to the moon. It was a rare privilege indeed.
This was great, thanks buddy, keep up the good work!
You're welcome, TJ.
👍thx Fredflix for the post
Top notch stuff. I remember being at the grandparents watching the Moon landing. Nothing else. So very tired. Not much else to say but Thanks Fred.
Outstanding flashback 55
Thanks, Eli.
55 years...
I remember almost all of it. I was 9 and in the 3rd grade, Mrs McCrary's class. She said I read too much. What lunacy! And it caused me a few months of trouble, having to sneak to read.
I'm sure she meant well, but it was foolish of her.
It certainly was.
Thank you for another great video!
You're welcome, Jan.
What a SPECIAL time to have been alive!
Amen to that!
@@markcornish2519 😀👍
Probably the best month and summer of my life.......I was 9 years old.
8:00 Where's Peter Tork??
He quit.
Thanks again, very interesting subjects on this one. I was 10, loved the space program because my dad worked on it. With a company that worked with NASA
That's very cool, Mark.
❤❤❤ this awesome Fred thank you
Moon landing amazing! Was between my 4th and 5th grades. A vivid and spooky time of figuring out whats going on. The TV news was usually very bad I remember.
July 21 was the highlight of 1969 by far and maybe forever. For the first time in mankind's history, the US sent a human to and from another planet. Neil Armstrong will forever be a legend.
That was one small step for Fred, one giant leap for FredFlix.
"a Fred"
@@2nostromo That missing "a" always bugged me since i first heard it. lol
That's awesome, MaxStax!
Didn’t hee haw debut in July 1969? One of the most important comedy variety series in history because it was really the antithesis of the show it replaced, the smothers Brothers
We loved watching Hee Haw at my grandma's farm.
Awesome video, Fred!
as a 4 year old on the 5th of july i dont recall to much of the moon landing but i had the GI Joe with space suit and lunar capsule shortly after and it opened up a kids imagination does that exist for a kid today? i cant wait for aug 69 thats gonna "rock"✌☮ !!!
That Westinghouse refrigerator, why is the meat just in the drawer not wrapped??? lol ugh. 😮
No one would have done that in 'real life,' but then, no one had a fridge that fancy.
So.... July 1969 was a slow news month I see. Man landing on the moon and safely returning to earth, Chappaquiddick, the ongoing war in Vietnam, yet another war in the Middle East... what was there to discuss?
The Manson murders one month later.
There's a bathroom on the right
I pasted newspaper clippings of the space program starting in the early 60s. The excitement surrounding the moon landing was huge. There's never been anything else like it. Bad Moon Rising always makes me think of American Werewolf in London. Ted Kennedy was a classic example of someone with power and money escaping responsibility.
I was 4. I do remember the Moon landing.
Hmm! For just a minute I thought that sinister music in the Western Electric commercial was going to turn into one for Hai Karate Aftershave! Haha!
Omg i was 10 yrs old,,going to the grade..i was skinny,gawking looking kid,,but has good times too..i remember when they landed on the moon..it was a very big event..we all watched it in color..
I have Easy Rider on DVD found it at good will thrift store.
July 21st 1969. Watching TV in a Chinese restaurant/ bar in Vancouver BC.
11:15 good to see Mancini speak favorably about another musician.
Who remembers that Baskin Robins featured Green Cheese ice cream among its flavors that summer? Dad was the only one of us who was brave enough to try it. And even he didn't like it. I remember it had a weird smell to it, too.
I’ve probably said here before that my father’s team worked on the lunar module that landed on the moon. The TRW employees’ kids were envied because we got round stickers with Snoopy dancing, captioned “Eyes on the Stars.” Another member of that team was engineer Judith Cohen, mother of actor Jack Black.
You mean Jack Black 😂
@@rhondaeverett8284 Yes, changed. Insomniac here.
his mama would be disappointed in him..he endorses sleepy joe..
Cool connections!
@@danparker1976you also thought President Obama was an immigrant didn't you?
I was ten. Good times.
good one !!
Thanks, Dace.
I took a 300 mile trip on Greyhound. It was the worst trip EVER.
I rode 3600 miles on a Greyhound bus
It's amazing what a person can go through, and still survived.
Many were taking trips in the Summer of 1969.Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon.Mary Jo Kopechne to the bottom of Chappaquiddick River.The trip taken by the 500,000 of Woodstock Nation.Topping them all were the fans of the New York Mets who rose from a depth much lower than Mary Jo and much higher than that of Woodstock.
It bows out with a Corn Flakes commercial - just as Earl Butz and Nixon were de-doing the subsidy program to turn corn into an industrial product and end the family farm as we knew it.
A lot happened that year wow, we found a crab the size of a car wheel and send it too dads work place, it scared the hell out off them, it was still alive and kicking hehe.
55 years ago this month. I was getting ready to start third grade. My dad let me stay up all night for the Moon landing.😊
11:36 built with 40 years life expectancy.
9:00 well, no wonder she ended up in Love Story.
And she was dating the producer.
Nine years later Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings would share anchor duties on ABC World News Tonight
That was awesome..
And now that I have suggested that the lyrics are "there's a bathroom on the right..." you will never sing it properly again! 😆
Wow, a paper bikini. when good ideas grow on tress. Who's 'great idea' was that?
Walter Cronkite's reaction to the moon landing says so much. The day after the landing, one of our local newspaper The Sun changed their mast head to The Moon for that one day. (Still have a copy)
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Summer between 1st and 2nd grade. Watched it with my Dad. I knew I was seeing history. I couldn’t get enough Apollo. I’d hazard a guess most if not all of the deniers and conspiracists were not yet born when Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins did it.
Hook, line, and sinker!
Not saying there weren't any problems back then, There were. But damn I sure wish we could back and stop some things when they were in their infancy!
Cry for the past because the future you ALL have allowed is a nightmare....
Yeah, and you have nothing to do with it! Entitled crybaby!
Gee, just think the next month would be when Woodstock would happen. Far out
My Uncle Nicky Hopkins played with the Airplane at Woodstock as a guest pianst!
@@PeterGriswald Nicky was legendary!!!
After Easy Rider came out, hippies started saying, "Hey man, let's just live off the land!" But it didn't work out very well for the commune folk. I mean, I'm sure they enjoyed it for awhile.
As a kid I always thought the splash landings were rather fishy
The more things change…
For the record, I believe it really happened.
Kristin Wiig in Miss Universe 1969!
And that's even more impressive when you consider she was born in 1973!
The announcer said, "every girl's a winner!" But that's not how I remember it. The losers had to stand there and keep smiling, while enduring the agony of defeat.
Man did land on the moon. I don't get the man didn't land on the moon cult!!😮
Has a African American ever walked on the the moon?
Funny they didn’t have any drug ads back then.
Yes they did. Drug addiction, if that's what you're referring to, was becoming a serious concern, as more and more young people in particular were experimenting with mind altering, mood-enhancing drugs such as marijuana and LSD. Many became addicted and even overdosed, or O'Ded, as we called it back then. Because of this, TV started advertising anti-drug commercials in the late 60's-early 70's.
@jashary15 I was referring to pharmaceuticals
@lizadivine3785 They also had pharmaceutical commercials back then as well. Perhaps this particular video didn't feature them but they did.
I was 3 at the time of the moon landing..my mom went outside to see if she could she the astronauts on the moon
Did U-notice w/the 55-yr anniversary the media just boycotted this?
Dennis Hopper became a conservative Republican and Ali McGraw is now 85.
I had forgotten about the paper bikinis, but wow, that TV commercial of Ali McGraw was the closest thing we had to seeing a nude model. Sneaking a peek at Playboy would be a few years later.
Pete,Julie, and Link still rule in 2024.
I saw 69 spray-painted everywhere and wondered, why? I was 13.
I miss grey hounds
All summer long we ate a lot of cantaloupe for dessert at our house. I picked up in the ad that you could get 3 for 89 cents back then. Today I can’t afford one. Thanks to old Joe and kommie and everyone else I am FORCED to pay to do…jack crap.