[ExI] 48th anniversary of apollo 10

spike spike66 at att.net
Fri May 19 00:37:59 UTC 2017


 

 

 

Here are some fun photos of an event that I still remember:

 

http://www.space.com/36886-apollo-10-nasa-moon-landing-rehearsal-mission-in-
photos.html?utm_source=notification

 

I was nearly finished with third grade.  My uncle had a part time job
delivering "newspapers" (younger people among us, ask your parents (they
were hardcopy of yesterday's news.))

 

My mother, ever the entrepreneur, noted hundreds of tourists lining US1
along the Indian River to watch the launch and came up with an idea.  The
Star Advocate (Titusville Florida) had a special edition, all about the
mission (most of it fluff about the astronauts actually (which most of the
locals knew was a bunch of BS (but the tourists didn't))) so she bought
several hundred copies and took my brother and me down to the river, sent us
out to sell them for 20 cents each.

 

My sales were slow, until I realized I would have to sell my dignity and
shout advertising, like the paperboys in the old-time movies.  No kidding,
it was either that or walk away with my dignity intact and very little
profit.  So, I wound up and put some diaphragm behind it.  Almost
immediately I was surrounded by elderly tourists wanting this special
edition newspaper, and most of them let me keep the extra nickel.

 

We sold the pile of newspapers but I walked away with most of the sales.  I
made more money than my 8 yr old self knew what to do with.  Fond memories
of a misspent childhood are these.

 

spike

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