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athelind

The Far Call: 40 Years Ago Today

Jul 16, 2009 10:52

It was a Wednesday. I was 5.

This was the fourth fifth time I'd watched one of those impossibly immense Saturn Vs lift off from Cape Kennedy. My mother insisted on watching every televised moment she could of those flights, and I was right there beside her, as much as I could. During 9 and 10, the school was dutifully notified that I was staying ( Read more... )

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pyat July 16 2009, 20:04:37 UTC

I didn't know your dad was a newspaperfellow.

And thank you for sharing. :)

athelind July 16 2009, 20:26:42 UTC

Dad and grandfather both. Granddad owned the Inglewood Daily News, a small paper in one of Los Angeles's innumerable sub-cities; Dad expanded it into a little chain of local weeklies across L.A.

If Dad hadn't sold the business when I was in high school, I probably would have gone into the field myself.

(Considering our *ahem* divergent political viewpoints, that would have been... amusing.)

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athelind July 17 2009, 05:05:39 UTC

Not according to Wikipedia.

It's been almost thirty years since we owned the paper, and I have no idea how many times it changed hands after the original sale -- or even if it survived what my father always growled was massive incompetence on the parts of the first buyers.

Heck, I think that by the time he sold the chain, the Inglewood News had shifted to a weekly.

terraluna_bat July 16 2009, 21:31:13 UTC

I also remember that time in history. I was bunched together with a whole mess of rug rats in my kindergarten school. Watching the landing and the first step on the moon. We were all bunched together in front of this monolith sized black and white TV, with aluminum foil running from the rabbit eared antenna to pretty much the length of the room, tack to the wall.

Very Cool. :)