For me it was a family outing. We went picnicking at a local park. My dad, brother and I were walking around the park and came across a kiosk selling various goods. The owner had a little B&W TV suspended on a shelf, the 4 of us watched in awe as the LM landed on the moon. What a moment!

But it wasn't until a couple hours later after we arrived back at home that we watched the actual descent of Armstrong/Aldrin down the ladder and onto the surface... Incredibly awesome. Even as a little 9-year old, I knew how historic it was and dreamt of someday of also going into space. Back then, everything I did was about space. I built plastic models of the SM/Capsule circling the LM, I read books and books and watched every space mission, every minute. Even though Armstrong himself doesn't consider himself a hero he was every bit of one to me.

"One small step for (a) man, One giant leap for mankind!"
- Neil Armstrong.

Note: The "a" was said by Armstrong but the mike apparently did not pick it up.

In a cot next to my mum, I was 3 months old.

In the apartment below ours watching Mike trying to finish his LEM model before Armstrong stepped out into history. Can't remember if he did.

I was almost 11, living in Ft. Hood, Texas. I mowed lawns for $1, front and back (these were the large, military, un-fenced yards!!)

I can;t remember watching the moon landing, though I probably did with my folks.

I wasn't even a project in my parents' minds. :-)

July 20,1969 Being 7(at the time)I can't recall what I was doing

Probably watching it on the TV at my Grandparents

Mike

Me too!

I still remember camping out in front of the old B&W TV set for most of a day and acting as remote control, which hadn't been invented yet, to adjust volume, rabbit ear configuration and vertical hold. Imagine that. A historic event on TV and to work the controls you had get up and walk to the TV set. Or get your kid to do it.

67 and 68 were tough years. America, and the rest of the world, were in need of some good news. A man on the moon was celebrated by virtually everyone. A real milestone for humanity.

Makes me feel a little old.

Here's a question for you: How many of you have used a dial telephone? How many of you don't know what I'm talking about when I say dial telephone?

I love old rotary phones. My parents just stopped using theirs in about 1998.

That said, in July '69 my mom was in high school, and my dad was in Navy Basic. I was a proverbial gleam in his eye.

I was 8 and on summer break from school. I honestly don't remember if I watched it live or if I have just seen it so many times that it seems like I saw it live. In actuality, I was probably playing baseball down at the school with my buddies.

Oh, and yes, I have used a rotary dial telephone.

Still have one in the basement.

Pete

i was a couple months out of the Army and in a tent on a canoe trip in Canada.i picked it up on a pocket radio with lots of static.i had and used a dial phone untill i moved into the city seven years ago..

We had a dial telephone up tell a couple years ago in the garage... no point in buying new when what ya got works.

We had a small B&W TV in the basement of my parents house with a wire going out the bulkhead window to a pair of rabbit ears nailed to the side of the house. I remember watching the landing, in the afternoon, and then having mom wake me up late at night to watch them come out of the LEM. It was around 11pm, which was waaay past bedtime back then. Still, I think mom & dad knew that this was going to be a pretty significant event, so my brothers and I were all up for it.

When I think about it today, I am amazed that we were able to do that with the technology of the 60's. A thousand years from now, it may be the most significant accomplishment of our era. It's the first time humans left our home world to explore another.

When I was a kid, we had one telephone in the house - A dial telephone at the end of the hallway. I don;t think we got a push-button until I was a senior in high school...if then. A cordless was unheard of, as were answering machines. Of course, back then we had to walk 6 miles to school.....in the snow....barefoot.... ((( )))

Tuy Hoa AFB, RVN. Watching AFVN on small b/w tv. I can remember it vividly...

I grew up in the Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield era. Test pilots and later Astronauts were SUPERMEN to me.

Was still fairly young but i do remember watching it on TV.

And just to one up Art how many people here have used a hand cranked cash register? Worked in an old time hardware store and it had a hand cranked cash register that was in daily use until 2000. People were always amazed that someone still knew how to count change without having a computer tell them how much to give back. And we also had a dial telephone until about 1995.

You forgot to add the requisite "up hill, BOTH ways!" Grandpa.

The Canadian survey system in the 1880-1910 era made sure all kids were no further than 4 miles from the nearest school so 1-room schools literally dotted the landscape! Grandpas couldn't claim they walked more than that distance.

Rotary dial, 4 digits dialling, and party lines! I think all three died in the early 70's in my local.

a grassy knoll in dallas. i was visiting my uncle who was a pigeon shooter. his rifle went off accidentally but no one noticed as there was some commotion down the street. hold on have i got the right anniversary?

QJS

I was in a BOQ in Okinawa, waiting for our flight the next day to return stateside after being in Okinawa for 2 years. Little did we know that we would lose an engine over the Pacific and have to make an emergency landing on Wake. I can still hear the roar of the room air conditioners in the BOQ.

One of the funniest things I have seen is when a friend who had never used a dial phone asked to use a phone a few years ago. I said 'sure, it's in the hall'. After a few minutes he comes back looking frustrated and tells me there is something wrong with the phone. He tells me that he tried pressing the buttons but the phone wouldn't dial.

He made his call after I showed him how to spin the dial to input the numbers. LOL.

Been a while since I have seen or used a rotary dial telephone. I used to place the handset from a rotary dial telephone into the cradle of a Hayes modem hooked up to a TSR-80 with a 8" monochrome monitor as I remember it. A real step up from the normal 6". Man, that modem was high-tech. At 300 baud it was smoking. LOL.

I was living outside a small Mississippi Village named "Moselle" and it is in the "free state of Jones County".

I was 11 and totally consumed by the Space Program. I did not leave the TV during the moon landing, except to sleep, when I couldn't stay awake any longer.

This was "powerful stuff" for a lad who barely knew what "Star Trek" was!!

I was 6 years old and living in a small house behind the soda pop bottling plant owned by my parents. I remember my father telling my how important this event was and me trying to stay awake for the moonwalk, but I do not think I did. I do remember on a later mission that I looked up at the moon with binoculars to try and see the spacecraft leave the surface, no luck.

I still have 2 functioning rotary dial phones at my current home, one in the garage and the other on my workbench.

Mike