It's August 1969. What are you up to?

[bobthedrummer]

[jeff30997]

1. Playing with my own shit.

[alittlelark]

2. about 4 1/2 feet tall!

and I'm likely spending $1 on a Mad Magazine, grape soda, and whatever nickle candies I can afford!!!

[bobthedrummer]

3. Dropping lots of acid.

[HEyHEY]

26. dUDE, YOU CAN'T RESPOND TO YOUR OWN POST

[Droopy]

4. I was a yet unfertilized egg

I was born in 1972.

[jpgray]

5. Arriving in my time machine

On a mission to destroy all those who create these threads and reply to them, or their mothers if they have not yet been born.

:D

[bobthedrummer]

6. Join the bands of nomadic hippies then and watch out for narcs

[jpgray]

12. Also I would have saved Robert Wyatt from falling out of that window

So I would have stuck around for a while. :D

[NightTrain]

7. I was three years old and had my earliest memory that month.

Of course, the memory in question was sitting in front of the TV with my parents as Neil Armstrong landed on the moon!

[bobthedrummer]

8. A significant emotional event/SEE-wow...

:hi:
:smoke:

[Left Is Write]

34. That was in July.

:D

[bobthedrummer]

9. I was drumming in Milwaukee's Clockwork Orange.

[kdmorris]

10. Damned if I know

I was only 4 months old and have no memory.

[zann725]

11. What a great year! Just met my future husband.

So many social issues happening, and people being Liberal, without any shame. Who would've thunk it then, that THIS was going to happen?! That all WE accomplished would be so quickly undone...
What a waste.

[DIKB]

13. 11 years

before my birth, hmmm. I wasn't even an egg yet, completely unformed.

[mdmc]

14. Concepcion, 1st month of my mom being pregnant w/ me

[grace0418]

18. You and I are really close to the same age

I was born in April of 1970

[ghostsofgiants]

15. I was really busy not existing

[LibDemAlways]

16. I am about to start my senior

year in high school. In my graduating class will be a future US Senator, George Allen - R VA, and a future convicted spy, "Snowman" Daulton Lee. Before the year is out, one of these two will bring great shame to himself by spray painting the walls of the school with racist graffiti. Guess who?

[grace0418]

17. I was a fetus

I had a twin that my mom lost but I survived. Maybe I was hanging out with him/her at the time.

[Kire]

23. I wasn't even...

...a fetus for six more years.

[autorank]

19. College in Southern California. Trying to remember...hmmm...oh yeah...

[BansheeDem]

20. The Cleveland Indians just put the "smackdown" on ...

The Baltimore Orioles at Cleveland Stadium (2-0) So I am a very happy teenager. I just loved baseball then. A little less than a year later, the Apollo 13 accident would have all of the world's attention - including mine.

[bobthedrummer]

21. Welcome to DU, BansheeDem!

:toast:

[BansheeDem]

39. Thanks - nice to be here (n/t)

[Nile]

22. Started army boot camp. Missed Woodstock.

They drafted my ass.

[Hubert Flottz]

28. Same thing happened to me!

It Sucked!

[mr blur]

24. Listening to Zeppelin's first album

and discovering dope

[housewolf]

25. Barefoot and pregnant

in Honolulu

[mrbill]

27. was ending a summer in europe with a eurorail pass.........

Read all of Che Gueverra's books on the trains and learned how to smoke cigarettes.

Experienced the Who at a race track south of London, people were hanging around the front gate selling lsd for a pound ($2.80-us at the time). They played some of their old stuff, then went into a thing called "Tommy".

The next day or so a barber/hair stylist told me about some gnarly killings in California. Roman Polanski's wife.

Finally after a three day delay of the student charter flight, left Gatwick and flew to New York, bypassed Woodstock and continued on to Love Field. Slept thru the Lewisville pop festival.

Also first heard the Crosby Stills and Nash album in the month August 1969.

[Z_I_Peevey]

29. I'm spending two weeks

with my parents, swooping around the country on vacation. Riding in the back seat of a big green Buick LeSabre.

That was the summer we made a brief stop in NYC, but spent most of our time in D.C. I remember taking the tour of the White House and briefly touching a silk-covered wall. I remember seeing the bullet holes in the Capitol from the War of 1812. I remember being in the gallery during a routine Senate session, and being shocked that there were only a couple of people on the floor.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Just graduated from High School, playing with my friends,

and working.

[MaineDem]

42. I had just graduated, too. (nt)

[bearfan454]

31. I'm 13 and hanging out with my friends.

This was about a year before we started fucking around with dope.

[NoPasaran]

32. Spending a last few weeks with friends I would never see again

My dad had gotten new orders and it was time to pull up stakes and move cross country again. Just the sort of thing that happened every couple of years for an army brat.

[Left Is Write]

33. I was three years old. I didn't care about Woodstock then.

[BikeWriter]

35. Getting out of the Air Force after a year remote duty in Alaska n.t

[AngryAmish]

36. chugging breast milk

[ikojo]

37. Getting over my mom and dad's recent divorce

I was a very young kid so I don't remember much other than that.

[HEAVYHEART]

38. I was 4 years old

Living in the Philippines, going to school...

[MaineDem]

40. Travelling through Europe

I had just graduated from High School.

I missed a lot that summer (but gained many more new experiences) -
-The Manson murders
-Woodstock
-Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick

But there was this one place in Amsterdam... :evilgrin:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

41. Best guess? Probably trying to put everything into my mouth that I could

find in my immediate environment.

[AwakeAtLast]

43. Kickin' it around the womb.

:)

[timtom]

44. Hangin' out on the Avenue

Telegraph Ave., that is. And northside. And the UC campus. Occasionally going up to Lake Anza or Jewel Lake. Rompin' in the Berkeley hills. Taking advantage of free improv training with Del Close at the Committee Workshop.

[jdonaldball]

45. Six years old, hearing the Philadelphia Folk Festival nearby

I was six years old, playing in an old cornfield in the Perkiomen Valley, 30 miles north of Philadelphia, hearing some distant music from the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Schwenksville, about two miles away.
As far as I can see, all I can see is miles of open fields of corn and hay, and some forests and groves in between.
Pardon me for saying this so simply, as I remember:
It was Paradise. There has never been a more beautiful part of the world.
And while I ran through those fields, I heard the music of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and that just made it all the more magical!
:-)

[loudestchick]

46. I've just turned one in July...I'm learning to walk and climb the stairs..

I also have my first friend, Courtney Caroline.

[meow2u3]

47. About to celebrate my 9th birthday

along with watching the Mets on their way to overtaking the Cubs for first place in the NL East.

[RetroLounge]

48. I was 8 years old.

Running around the neighborhood with my 8 yr old friends.

RL

[Darth_Ole]

49. I wasn't born yet.

I know my dad was just drafted and in Arlington, VA. He was out with a buddy of his and had to get him back to base. So they were driving and decided to stop at a motel to watch the moon landing in the lobby. He said they couldn't tell what the hell was going on- it was just a bunch of shadows and fuzzy pictures and whatnot. Then they had to drive like hell to get back to the base.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. I'm four. My family just moved. The new house is still full of mysteries.

And my parents drag me to the TV room to see "the man on the moon". Nothing significant happens on the screen for ages, and I'm bored.

Some people are speading synteko on a room's floor. The entire house smells foul.

[rustydog]

51. Throwing a frisbee in the park, dragging the ave at night

Drinking beer and smoking weed, trying to score with chicks, riding around in a converted delivery van, a VW or a Ford Maverick! Typical 60's stuff.

[crispini]

52. Learning to walk! nt

[catzies]

53. I'm seven, my 5 year old brother and I are at Woodstock with Mom.

I got hurt at Woodstock, and David Crosby came over to help.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

54. Turning 7 and starting second grade

My favorite grade of K-12.

This is my school picture from that year:

[B Calm]

55. I'm in Valleta, Malta an Island in the Med.

[B Calm]

57. and trying to convince people of Malta we actually did land on the moon.

[LWolf]

56. I'm 9 years old.

I spent the day at a historic old ranch that was torn down in '74 to make room for more housing tracts. I arrived at 7:30 am, dropped off by my mom on her way to work. I found the ranch hands loading hay into the back of an ancient ford pick up, and climbed aboard to help throw hay; the truck drove down all the lanes, and we threw hay into corrals, stalls, and dry lot pens as we passed. It took more than one truck load; there were 200+ horses to feed.

Then, while the horses were eating breakfast, I got out some tack to clean. When breakfast was over, I got out the horse I'd been assigned to for lessons, and did an hour of work in the arena. I bathed and groomed the horse, put her away, and got out one of the horses I was assigned to exercise. I exercised horses, and did some very basic lessoning in manners, in return for free lessons and access to horses to ride. I spent another hour on my assigned horse, and by the time I was done a few friends had arrived. Most had their own horses; they grabbed their horses, I grabbed another horse that needed riding, and we hit the trail. We spent a couple of hours running over the hills, stopping to sit under trees, racing, etc., then headed back. At this point, it was hot and we were sweaty, dusty, and tired. We fixed that problem by having a water fight, then grabbed some of the ranches ponies and headed into town. "Into town" meant crossing a freeway overpass and tying the ponies up to a hitching post under a giant oak in the center of a parking lot. We left the ponies tied in the shade, and went into a small little independent pizza place for lunch. We hung out for awhile, playing the jukebox, and headed back to the ranch. At which point we made the rounds and filled up all the waterers that weren't automatic. Then we spent a little time hanging out in the tackroom, until it was evening feeding time. We all piled in to help feed. While the horses were eating dinner, we spent a happy hour in the big arena playing football. I was a great offensive and defensive line girl, and managed to sack the opposing quarterback on a regular basis. He was cute. After "supper," we all helped catch, groom, and saddle the herd of horses needed to provide the local "California Ranger" troop with riding animals; they leased them from the ranch for their lessons and drills. Then I got out another horse I was assigned to exercise, and spent another hour at that. By the time I was done, my mom had showed up to pick me up on her way home from work. While she was chatting with someone else's mom, I put the horse away, and slipped away behind the barn with a couple of people. I made sure I couldn't "hear" her calling me, and made sure she didn't find me until about 9pm.

[supernova]

58. I was 7 and we were on our annual beach trip

:D

I was playing in the surf in the morning, the pool in the afternoon, and eating shrimp for dinner! :-)

[Penndems]

59. I was fourteen years old

Living with my family in Arlington, Virginia. My stepfather, who worked for the Billy Grammar Guitar Company, was on the verge of being promoted to Manager of the Southeastern Sales Department. We would move to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in November 1969.

I was getting ready to start the ninth grade at Wakefield High School in South Arlington.

[oxymoron]

60. Masturbating.

I was 14.

[ThorsHammer]

61. Not born yet

[GalleryGod]

62. Just finished College Summer School-Off to Atlantic City Pop Festival

Having been unable to go to Woodstock because of Summer Session Finals...I never messed-up College grades again:argh:

[Not_Giving_Up]

63. I'm three years and a month away from being born

So, I'd say I'm not up to much of anything.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

64. Not born yet... my parents were eleven.

I was born in 78

[no name no slogan]

65. Being born

On the 16th. Mom went into labor around 2:00 in the afternoon on the 15th, and I made my appearence at 2:03 AM on the 16th-- which was also the second day of Woodstock, btw.

[Ivan Sputnik]

66. Mowing lawns

I was a kid. I remember that some "hippies" stopped at our house on their way to Woodstock (we lived in upstate New York) and asked me for some water. I filled their pitcher for them. Strange the things that stick in your mind . . .