And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969)
We had reached the apex of mankind’s scientific achievement, and yet there were still people who misused the possessive apostrophe S to indicate the plural. *sigh*
Wow how times have changed! Those box store employees look like white collar professionals. Not even the slightest resemblence to today's box store people.
Nice try. The US minimum wage in 1960 was $1.60/hr. They were all making under $2. A few were working on commission for selling the high-end appliances. And they still had enough sense to wear a tie to work.
The moon walk was at 10PM EDT. The landing happened several hours earlier that day (I remember watching coverage of the landing in the afternoon when it was still light out. The moon walk took place after dark were I was in SE Iowa.)
It may come as a shock, but that would be early evening to late afternoon in points west, because the U.S. actually stretches far beyond the Appalachian Mountains, since about 1800.
The sun wasn't even down on the West Coast, just for one instance.
Note also that other than a paltry pair of women, the store is devoid of shoppers. The streets were empty of traffic too. Anybody near a TV was watching this.
At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (1930-) aboard.
We had reached the apex of mankind’s scientific achievement, and yet there were still people who misused the possessive apostrophe S to indicate the plural. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteNational tragedy, thats what that is Anon.
DeleteThere's always gotta be one petty pussy.
DeleteMaybe just an English teacher Ghost, so spot on.
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When everything is capitalized then an apostrophe is correct. "TVS" would be confusing here.
DeletePut 'em right out of business that did.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is a place to unlearn English.
ReplyDeleteJuly 20 1969 moron
ReplyDeletePerhaps it was the launch??
DeleteDid the moon land safely? And if it did, what did it land on?
DeleteWow how times have changed! Those box store employees look like white collar professionals. Not even the slightest resemblence to today's box store people.
ReplyDeleteLess than 10% of box store employees make a wage that they can live on… just how professional were you expecting them to be?
DeleteIt ain't how much you make as it is in how you manage it.
DeleteThose people in the pik were making $3-4 an hour.
Nice try. The US minimum wage in 1960 was $1.60/hr. They were all making under $2. A few were working on commission for selling the high-end appliances. And they still had enough sense to wear a tie to work.
DeleteThe Eagle landed at around 10pm EDT, what are they still doing at the store?
ReplyDeleteThe moon walk was at 10PM EDT. The landing happened several hours earlier that day (I remember watching coverage of the landing in the afternoon when it was still light out. The moon walk took place after dark were I was in SE Iowa.)
DeleteIt may come as a shock, but that would be early evening to late afternoon in points west, because the U.S. actually stretches far beyond the Appalachian Mountains, since about 1800.
DeleteThe sun wasn't even down on the West Coast, just for one instance.
Note also that other than a paltry pair of women, the store is devoid of shoppers. The streets were empty of traffic too. Anybody near a TV was watching this.
At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (1930-) aboard.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.history.com/topics/space-exploration/moon-landing-1969
Probably at the tail end of a time in US history when a husband could support a wife, 2.3 children, and a dog on what they made working there.
ReplyDeleteOnce the taxes hit for the social programs and the VN war the Democrats ginned up in the '60s, making it on one salary took a hike.
DeleteWhat are those knobby looking thingies on the fron of those glass fronted cabinets?
ReplyDeleteKnobs
DeleteWe watched the landing on a Stuttgart TV station quite early in the morning.
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