Author Topic: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago? (Read 1194 times)

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #15 on:** July 04, 2006, 10:28:37 PM »

Waiting to be born.

BTW · « **Reply #16 on:** July 04, 2006, 10:35:18 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
I was 14 and watched the tall ships sail in New York harbor on the old Radiation King color TV that Mom bought at a garage sale. I'm pretty sure that was the day I decided to be a sailor.

I remember before microwave ovens, color tv's being the closest thing to unfettered microwave !:eek:

I'd get a sun tan watching "Little house on the Prairie"

Deth7 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 04, 2006, 10:56:56 PM »

I was on patrol in the pacific on SSBN-600 Gold crew

FiLtH · « **Reply #18 on:** July 04, 2006, 11:02:50 PM »

I was 11. My mother had been divorced 2 yrs by then and we were living in a trailer park. I probably spent the day playing in the park with the other kids. Playing army or jumping bikes on homemade ramps, and then went to see the fire works up in town that night.

Widewing · « **Reply #19 on:** July 04, 2006, 11:25:05 PM »

I was in Battery Park (lower Manhattan) in my Dress Whites watching the Bicentennial fireworks with friends.

My regards,

Widewing

SIK1 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 05, 2006, 12:14:07 AM »

Celebrating the bicentennial at TAS Tehran, Iran. I was 11.

SIK1

Saintaw · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2006, 12:23:30 AM »

I was 6, so it probably involves something with toys or a swimming pool

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2006, 12:50:42 AM »

Camping at a Boy Scout celebration at Boxwell Reservation. Shooting Civil War cannons and World War II Howitzers.

SFCHONDO · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2006, 02:17:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Sixpence
I was eleven, and all I remember about that summer was collecting baseball cards, spent every cent I had on them. Managed to collect the whole set, lost them in the flood during the blizzard of '78'

How do you have a flood during a Blizzard? Thought a blizzard was a lot of snow and it would be freezing out? If there was water wouldn't it be frozen?

Just curious how this would happen is all.

MoeRon · « **Reply #24 on:** July 05, 2006, 04:47:10 AM »

i was 15 and remember my uncle came over with a coffee can full of M-80's

Slash27 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2006, 05:10:53 AM »

I was 3.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #26 on:** July 05, 2006, 08:24:47 AM »

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Originally posted by SFCHONDO
How do you have a flood during a Blizzard? Thought a blizzard was a lot of snow and it would be freezing out? If there was water wouldn't it be frozen?

Just curious how this would happen is all.

Snow eventually melts, in most places, the run off causes flooding. That's one way. Also, I've seen water mains break during blizzards, and the water from a water main won't freeze until they shut the flow off, it moves too fast and there's too much of it moving to freeze. There are other ways.

Bingo73 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2006, 08:26:58 AM »

Playin with my Tonka toys most likely.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 05, 2006, 08:37:52 AM »

I was 8. I remember thinking "I hope all this bi-centennial crap ends soon because I am tired of learning about US History".

T0J0 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 05, 2006, 08:53:37 AM »

In DC for the celebration, toured the museums all day, can still remember the Wright bros. plane hanging from the ceiling...
What a great time to be alive and 13....

TJ