History: this week it’s mostly Apollo 11
Summer slows down the history pieces from some sources, but this week everyone is looking back 50 years ago to Apollo 11. A Quebec firm played a part in design and construction of the legs of the Lunar Excursion Module.
The Gazette keeps on with its “through our eyes” feature, which has recently included pieces on Doudou Boicel and the Rising Sun, a look back at the July 1987 cloudburst which drowned the city for a day – a piece of local meteorological history almost as memorable as the ice storm – the start of the Oka crisis and more.
Michael Black 10:46 on 2019-07-21 Permalink
I still have clippings from the moon landing, including the front sections of various newspapers, and magazines like “Look” and “Life” that covered the landing.
Simpsons downtown had a space boutique on the main floor. I dont’t kniw how long it lasted. They advertised something I wanted, so I got my.mother to take me. As I recall, we didn’t go downtown much in the summer, though it wasn’t far. I got what I wanted, but have no memory of what all the boutique carried. I do remember *Aquarius” by the Fifth Dimension was playing.
The live feed from the moon was low definition, due to bandwidth, and on a small crummy b&w tv set was very grainy. Luckily the film and movie cameras were full definition.
I was nine, saw them and, took a nap, then woke to see them walk on the moon. A big event then – still is.
The movie “The Dish” is about setting up a ground station for the live feed in Australia, but it does a good job of showing the anticipation felt at the time.
I think I had a LEM model and a Saturn V model, but those memories are fuzzy.
One of the grocery stores was selling “paintings* of the three astronauts, in a plastic frame, I had that in my wall for years.
Michael